Sometimes I find myself dumb struck by the kind gestures of the stretcher. Remember how once he was trying to get me to do some push up moves using TRX bands which required me to get into the push up position while supporting myself face down by holding my arms straight down with my hands gripping onto straps? And I told him I thought I was going to fall on my face so he got onto the floor crouched in front of me and said he would catch me?
Today the stretcher got out some stuff to set up a mini circuit for me. He got out the dreaded step. Especially dreaded today since I had already totally spent myself "warmed up" with 10 minutes of HIIT on the treadmill and 10 minutes of speed intervals on the stair mill followed by 10 minutes of plain old stairs (because I had to stay on long enough to see ELton John on The View. Love him!). Then the stretcher asked me to do some kind of jump while switching one leg in front of the other. I didn't think I could do it, but I did. As we moved along to the other stuff the stretcher started telling me how if I work my fast twitch muscles I will BURN MORE CALORIES and GET LEANER.
That's why when later on when the stretcher asked me to straddle the step and jump up and bring my feet together on the step, I found myself straddling the step except I was paralyzed by the thought of face planting myself onto the edge of the step. The stretcher said "You can do it, come on" in a gentle voice and I said "I'm scared" so he offered to stand in front of me to catch me, and I made a joke about his fast twitch reflexes and then he stood right in front of the step and held out his hands and said "Hold onto my hands. You can do this." And I knew that second that I had to do it, because the stretcher was so sweet and he believed I could. I took his hands, took a deep breath, and I did a few jumps. Then I released his hands and did the rest of the set and another one later on too. Now I am going to incorporate more fast twitch muscle moves int my workout, because I'll do everything exercise possible to melt these pounds, Exercise is my friend.
Unlike certain foods, which are not my friend. I had the same mid afternoon food craving lunacy today. I decided to cut it short by indulging in what I really had my mind. Sometimes I eat everything in sight to avoid eating one "bad" thing. I was lusting for some of the halloween candy I have stashed away in hopes of the majority of it being around for ten more days when the trick or treaters ring my bell. I grabbed a certain brand of fruit chews. Chomped half the package down, gave the rest to Josh and distracted myself with a shower. I think I'm past it now, though as soon as I hit publish I plan on preparing a nice hot 16 ounce cup of tea.
What a sweetie your stretcher is!
I received a huge slab of chocolate today, and boy, has it been calling my name. We don't even celebrate Halloween here, but just knowing the chocolate is in the house makes me feel all twitchy. I absolutely agree that eating a bite or two of what you really crave often works better than trying to fill that need with everything else.
But so far, I'm winning over the chocolate, haha!
Posted by: Pippa | October 21, 2010 at 05:20 PM