Cat in the Garden

Got my new gym programme, had alex bring me through it last night. Chris has kept her promise about adding more free weights to the prog and less cardio. She only wants me to do 20mins now. But i'll comply cos by the time i'm done with all the weights, i'm beat.
Walked in to the gym bout 3mins late for my appointment at 6. Found alex standing outside the box with his hands crossed watching music on V. He turns to say, "Hello kimberly" as i walk in and looks back to the screen. I timidly walked up to him and said, "err.. Hello alex, i've got an appointment at 6, i think, sorry i'm late..." Then he looks back at me and says, "Yeah, thats right, come in..." Takes out my prog from the cabinet and says, "you can leave your stuff in here". I thought i'd actually messed up my appointment. hah. He got me there for a moment. So i undressed and bounced out to where he was standing near the weights. My prog is 3 pages long and its a two day thing. Day one's for shoulders and arms. Day two concentrates on lower body and chest. Walking to the first weight in the programme, He insists tt i should be using 20kgs for dead lifts, upward rows, bicep curls and well just all the weights i hold should be 20 for barbells and min of 5kgs for dumb bells which include, lateral raises, shoulder presses, that sort of thing. And finally for abs, i've got bicycle crunches and leg raises. I hate Bike crunches. hah. this conver quite funny and abit insulting, but since, i'm me, and i like sharing, i'll tell you
Me: i hate bike crunches.
alex: yeah? why?
me: cos its odd and everyone looks funny doing it.
alex: err... you know tt bike crunches has nothing to do with a bike right?
me: .... (thinks to myself* damn it! do i look tt dumb?)
So we get on the mat and he demonstrates how to bike-crunch and asks me to do it and 3 crunches later he says, "yeah you do look abit funny doing it..."
Thanks for the vote of confidence....
End of day 1s prog.

So we move back to the weights section for day 2. For bar bell squats i've got the 20kgs i have to lift on my shoulders again. And i was complaining to alex about how Ramon told me tt i was doing my squats wrongly and how ever since i was concious of doing squats and now i'll feel even more vulnerable if he comes and tell me my technique is wrong when i've gt a 20kg barbell on my back. alex to the rescue had me perfecting my squats. Something about pushing my hips back to a sit down position and as i go lower, i should push my knees outward and wiggle my toes. then he made me get the bar. So, I must tell you, men are usually the ones in the weight section and so the height for the barbell resting position is actually at my ear. hmm... so its either, i've got quite abit of growing to do or i've got to develop psychic abilities to get the bar to come to me. While it would be cool to have a tall strong guy by my side just so i can use his strength to bring the bar to me. Whats gonna happen when i'm in there alone? How am i supposed to get it down. well, Alex had me carrying the bar out from its craddle and putting it on the floor till i got used to the weight, after 5 times, he asked me to bring the bar over my head to rest on my shoulders to do squats. When we were done with tt, we moved on to the hack squat machine and this machine really had me worried cos i'm a very short person and so if someone who was tall like say, Lahiru were to have used it b4 me i would not be able to bring the bar down. And to make it worse, i think i've got a longer right leg cos everytime i squat, my right leg moves up to tip toe. haha. He had me doing other exercises like flyers which i call crucifixion, AB pulley and the roman chair. I quite like my new programme its very challenging and alex says i should increase my weights every 2 weeks min. All this weight lifting has got me wondering how much i'll be lifting by the end of this year. hehee.. Well, stick around and find out.


Red cross just called and i've schedueled a Blood donation on Monday at 1110. See, i'm so nice right? I should have enough frequent goodness miles to get me a free ticket to heaven now.

hmm....

Back to the skeletal muscle board.

tata...