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Footballguy
I can’t stress this enough. Don’t hurt yourself. Go light. Stop early. Do one set less. Don’t listen to that 25 year old inside of you. Wait until at least a month of regularly working out before you start pushing the envelope. You really don’t want to hurt yourself. It’s easy to do and the set back is really hard to overcome.Ok.... so, I got my fat rear to the gym today.
It has been my next goal step that I wanted to do. It is a little hard to figure out a good time because the only real 'good' time for schedule and life is early morning and I am very much not a morning person. Even when I was healthy as a kid, trying to consistently wake up early to work out never worked.
But then I am sitting here and go into this thread and I am thinking.... ok, there is no schedule issue for me going now.... so what is your excuse? So, I got up and went.
The plan was to get a 'light' workout in just to basically get back. It started out decently but by the end of the workout, my arms were basically at muscle failure. Apparently I don't know how not to push myself when I am working out (I guess that is a good thing as long as I consistently go).
It has been a while since I have been in the gym really and I have seen a hundred plus of those "Joey Swoll" videos. I am naturally a people watcher and when I am working out there isn't much to do with yourself but people watch.... but I know that is creepy. It hasn't been a problem much in the past because the majority of the people at my gym are elderly (meaning even older than me) so I am self conscious about happening to glance over at them or looking in their general direction. I just don't think Grandma is going to turn on me and accuse me of creeping on her. However, I go in and there is a very fit, very attractive Asian girl (I have a weakness for Asians) wearing basically a bra and yoga pants working out on a machine doing hip thrusts that is just a little over to the right of where looking straight from my machines would be. I think the harder part of the workout was trying to look anywhere else other than in her direction. Awkward. For me.
So, one down.... now to make it a habit. Tomorow will be challenging to figure out a time to go but I want to make it a priority.
Signed a guy that hurt himself over and over until I got a personal trainer to stop my dumb *** from hurting myself.