Wednesday (4/5/06)

Today was a great day at the gym! It started out kinda shaky because I was supposed to have Mark and he couldn’t make it in to the gym today and so that kinda left me without a trainer. But to my luck Aaron’s 10AM didn’t show and out of the total kindness of his heart he volunteered to train me today. While waiting for Aaron’s “no show” to not show up I got on the elliptical for about 25 minutes. Then stretched and eagerly went to join Aaron. He really does know how to deliver one tough workout on the fly! Today I got to enjoy my first experience at “drop and burns” – or at least I think that’s what they called it. Basically we did the very toughest weight on a leg machine that I could handle until I couldn’t do one more then he dropped the weight 10 pounds then I did that till I couldn’t do anymore and then he dropped it again 10 pounds….and so on for what I think was about 4 times straight. No resting just driving it out till failure. Just when I thought I would never use my legs again, with the cutest smile he could muster he said, “stairs”! I went to jog up the stairs and actually tripped up the first 2 or 3 because my legs really weren’t working. My brain thought I was going up the stairs. I really wanted to go up the stairs – but my legs just wouldn’t take me. I’m sure they would say they were laughing with me, but I’m pretty sure that Aaron, Tyson, and Jack were laughing at me. We got to do this whole routine 2 or 3 times with my legs and then I had the pleasure of doing 10 stairs! Then we did the whole “drop and burn” routine with the arms. Tough day! Afterwards I got back on the elliptical and Jack and I joked at how tired we were and then just to push myself as far as I could I jogged 7 laps around the track. It was only half a mile – but it was all I could do. I probably would have stayed for some killer abs but Paul Wyman was nowhere to be found! :)