Day four and still at it…

I didn’t get the exercise related body ache as bad as I’d imagined I would ! Each day I dread the next since I think that if my body didn’t have an ache that bad today then tomorrow is going to be terrible. Yet, nothing happened for four days. So I guess I’m good now :)

Yesterday N and I had a small talk. She told me that she’ll be going away on vacation to her hometown Candy in Sri Lanka for twenty days in April. She’ll make a workout card for me and I should follow that when she’s not around. I told her that I’d like to swim on alternate days. So she agreed. She said that I should do a whole body workout in the gym on alternate days and swim on alternate days. Presently for the next ten days though we have decided that we’ll alternate between upper and lower body workouts. 

Yesterday as soon as I reached home from the gym, I demonstrated all the lower body exercises to TH. He laughed…said my demonstrations and descriptions were funny :)

Today morning we did the upper body workout. Today N had made my workout card. It is much better to know the sequence. There’s just a slight problem – understanding the vocabulary and knowing how to operate the machines without breaking something :) Sigh ! Eventually…

Yesterday N had told me to check my weight. I didn’t. “What difference will three days make ?”, I thought. Today she asked me if I had. I told her why I hadn’t. She said that I should. At the optimum exercise level, there could be a difference of up to 400 grams before and after the workout. So after I finished the workout, I checked my weight. I have reduced 230 grams in four days. I wonder if that is good or not. I felt a bit disappointed. Probably this was also the reason why I didn’t want to check my weight this early. I wanted to check it after a long time and be pleasantly surprised with a weight loss of a couple of kilograms. Sigh again ! Eventually…

Today while I was on the treadmill, N came up and said, “Just be regular and you’ll be back to normal fast”. Before that, while doing warm-ups, she asked me, “Is it aching a lot ?”. I replied, “It is aching, but not much.” Then she said, “Don’t worry. It will reduce now and go away. But if there is a gap of 4-5 days, then it will again ache.”. When I left the gym, she called out after me, “Come tomorrow”. Thrice in an hour there was reference to consistency. I’m taking it as a signal and I’ll be doubly alert so that I don’t fail on that.

N is a really good trainer…warm, encouraging and appreciative. At least that is what works with me. With me, a little motivation and kindness goes a long way. I am willing to push myself a lot when the other person shows even a tiny bit of consideration for me.

I too am a good (determined?) student. For example even when she asks me to do ten iterations of something and I feel that I could do more, I tell her that let’s do some more.

It might seem that I am speaking too early. After all it has only been four days. But honestly, I’ve seen my previous patterns and I am observing myself this time. It is starkly different this time. Today, I got up at 5:45 a.m. without TH having to coax me to. I will become fit and achieve my ideal weight this time.