Just A Little More

When I set out for my first hour of PT on Wednesday, I had no idea that I would not finish. After an hour and 20 minutes (20 minutes of warm-up), I had only done arm super sets. Yes, super sets was a new term for me. What that means is, 1 set of this type arm exercise and immediately go to another type of arm training. You start off with 15 reps at the lowest weight, then decrease reps by 2 while increasing weights. Got that? Anyway, once all the arms' work was done, I went to the leg press and perfect squats. Let me be the first to tell you, there is nothing perfect about the perfect squat. It may very well be the most dreaded exercise machine ever invented. After doing 1 set of not-so-perfect squats, I nearly passed out. It wasn't because I was out of air, it was because I ran out of strength, literally. Does muscle failure sound like a good thing? My husband who has been working out since before Noah built the Ark, told me to always quit before muscle failure. I didn't know muscle failure was lurking in my body, otherwise I would have said to J. STOP!
Today, I will be looking for that sneaky thing and will breathe through my nose, not my mouth as I did on Wednesday and try very hard not to look like I'm ready to keel over. Here I go!

Personal Training

As one of my Christmas presents, I received a gift certificate for 3 sessions of personal training. Today will be the first session. Apparently, there is a special, so since I have the 3 sessions , I will get a 4th one free. Oh Boy! (said with no excitement) It is part of my daily routine to workout. I will run one day and lift the next. The personal trainer part is what is different. I have had 1 shared session with J. and toward the end, I turned a shade of grayish-green as the amount of weight he had me lifting was way more than what I would normally do.
There are many trainers out there. Some of them just say, "Great job, you're doing awesome!" When if the truth be told, you're not really doing much. They are just there to encourage, yet not really push you to your limits. J. is not one of these. He pushes his clients to be all that they can be and that's not an Army slogan only.
If I don't work very hard today, he may just say some things which I won't want to hear but are necessary words to "motivate" me.
So, what am I saying about the upcoming torture hour? I am saying, I know I won't die (at least not from this). I know what he has me do will make me stronger. I will be sore tomorrow. Let's get this over with, at least until next week.

Bob

My brother-in-law Bob died on Tuesday.I will miss him. Just like his name, Bob was uncomplicated. If he had on a plaid pair of pants and a striped shirt, that was just fine. They are clothes. If his belt was undone, so be it. Some of his favorite songs were, "The Bird Is The Word" (uncomplicated lyrics), "I would Walk 500 Miles" and "Do It Anyway", by Martina McBride. The words are here:


You CAN spend your whole life buildin'
Something from nothin
One storm can come and blow it all away
Build it anyway

You CAN chase a dream
That seems so out of reach
And you know it might not ever come your way
Dream it anyway

God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
I do it anyway

This worlds gone crazy
And it's hard to believe
That tomorrow will be better than today
Believe it anyway

You can love someone with all YOUR heart
For all the right reasons
And in a moment they can choose to walk away
love em anyway

God is great but sometimes life aint good
And when I pray
It doesn't always turn out like I think it should
But I do it anyway
Yeah I do it anyway, YEAH,

You can pour your soul out singin'
A song you believe in
That tomorrow they'll forget you ever sang
Sing it anyway
Yeah sing it anyway, YEAH, YEAH

I sing
I dream
I love anyway, yeah.

He was a suppportive brother-in-law. When my husband, his youngest brother would tease me about something, I would say, "I'm calling Bob." I knew he would be on my side.

Bob loved to play golf,fish, watch TV sports and teach Sunday School. Everybody liked Bob, yes everybody.

See ya, Bob.

2010

This is the first blog for me as we begin 2010. I took down the Christmas tree today. Well,it's still standing, naked though, as my husband has to carry it outside. We still get a fresh tree every year, unlike many others who seem to be going fake more and more. We will always have a real tree because that is the way it is! Even if I should outlive my younger by a year and a half spouse, I will drag a smaller one in (tree, not husband) and decorate it. I put the yulelog away that he made in junior high school. The rest of the decorations are in boxes but not stored in the attic just yet. I seem to always forget one or two Christmasy things around the house, so I will finish the storing part tomorrow. I went to the Y and ran my usual 30 plus minutes on the faithful treadmill. This was my second time to run in the new year and today was a lot easier than Saturday. New year's resolutions? Well now, let me see.... I think I will pick one and hope to keep that one. Even though we are 5 days into this new decade, I haven't settled on that one. For now, I will endeavor to keep putting my random thoughts down and enjoy each day!!