Did you watch Biggest Loser last night? They are down to the final 4 contestants and they sent them home for a month to continue on their own and prepare to run a marathon. I was watching one contestant carefully. It was Daris- I get Daris. Somewhere after the first month or so on the ranch Daris got the workout bug and took his workouts (and his weight loss) to a whole new level. He lost 150 pounds and was virtually unrecognizable. He went home for his month long challenge with the intent of rocking the marathon. He trained hard, but he also started to binge at night. In the end he ran that marathon like a pro- in 4 hours 2 minutes. But he also gained 2 pounds during his month long stay at home.
How Daris am I? Do I manage to go to the posh club every day and work out like I mean it? Yes. Do I come home and not manage to resist whatever it is in the house I should refrain from eating? Yes. Is all that quality exercising outdone by what I choose to put in my mouth? Yes. Hello, Daris, I feel your pain.
Speaking of the posh club, I went in at 10:30 today thinking I was going to work out with the stretcher at 11. I hopped on the expresso bike and rocked out the wicked workout trail. I beat the pacer by 2:11!!! Drenched in sweat I found the stretcher. He was eating his lunch. My appointment was for 12. The stretcher said he could train me at 11:30 so I mounted the elliptical for about half an hour. Then the stretcher found me and I lifted weights for an hour. Then I fell asleep in the sauna but luckily my hand jerked and knocked the wall and the knock woke me up. I better sauna sitting up for a while. After I showered I came home leashed up the devil dog and took her for a half hour stroll around the neighborhood before picking up Josh. Oh yeah, some good news, I wore my old (from my last weight loss effort about 5 years ago) Not Your Mother's Jeans jeans. Well, in a world where "wore" is code for squoze myself into, but still, I got them on without popping a major artery, oh yeah!
I asked the stretcher if he had an opinion about what might be a good strategy for me and exercise next summer when I am all gymless in utopia. He thinks I should buy the strap/band of torture he makes me hang onto while doing some kind of hanging moves. It's all upper body stuff. He also suggested p90x and then he thought about it and thought that Insanity Challenge might be better for me. (Hello? Insanity? Me??) I was hoping he would say Kettle Bells, but I'm okay with combining kettle bells with maybe the Insanity Challenge. Because I want the kettle bells. I have seen the infomercial for the the Insanity Challenge and I'm not so sure about that one. I'm not exactly a fast moving intensity kind of exerciser. Also, Insanity challenge uses your body weight and that would be another one of my exercise non-strengths. So my summer plan is swimming, running, biking, kettle bells, maybe the strap of torture and maybe some Insanity Challenge. Maybe. At least I'll have options. Maybe I can find myself a boxing class.
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