I felt super motivated to go to the gym today... once I was in the car with Sara. Before that I did my usual moan and groan about going, lol. The dog was very sympathetic. We dropped Sara's kids off at her sister-in-law's house, and then scooted over to my school's gym. Despite it being mid-semester break, there were actually quite a few people there.
We walked two laps around the track, then stretched and hopped on the ellipticals. The half hour didn't feel as bad as it normally does, which I think was because of having company, even though we weren't chatting at all. Let's face it, I don't have enough extra breath to chat, lol! I did play around with my incline and resistance, turning both up by one notch today about halfway through. At the twenty minute mark, Sara challenged me to go as fast as I could for one minute, and we did that together. I had to turn the resistance up because it felt weird to go fast on such a loose setting, but it really wasn't that bad! I sure was glad to stop going so fast, but I felt like I was going faster for the rest of the remaining time. She said that was the point... tricky devil!
We did three cooldown laps, and then went downstairs to do some weight machines. I did NOT want to do these at all, mainly because I'm weak, I know that I'm weak, and there are always a bunch of strong people down there. Me being the fattest person in the gym has yet to change, but I humored Sara because she really wanted to use the weight machines. Once we were down there, it really wasn't that bad. I actually enjoyed myself because it felt more like screwing around with my friend and less like working out. Sara is one of those people that gets really excited and goofy after working out, and it was pretty infectious. I did 20 reps on each machine I used, mostly upper body. The two that I was best at were pec press and rowing. No surprises there! In order to carry around this sort of uh... pectoral equipment... I've always had to be good at pec and chest exercises, lol. The rowing one isn't really chest, but I've always thought that it is pretty fun.
After the weights, we didn't really want to leave, so we went upstairs for another two laps around the track. We ran for a very short amount of time together, and then Sara ran a bit more later on. I'm just really not down with much running yet. I find it very uncomfortable because my breasts hurt my chest and feel like they're choking me.
Overall, we spent nearly two hours at the gym, and I'm definitely feeling the weights in my upper arms. I had a really fun time, and even though I could tell I was working out, it wasn't really a problem. I'm going next either tomorrow or Saturday (most likely Saturday) and I plan to increase my elliptical time by at least one song, or five minutes. I'm also going to increase my laps. I hope to be doing a full mile and 40+ minutes by the end of next week.
Goal update:
Weight: still 270 lbs, no loss yet, which is discouraging
Next goal mark: 265 on October 20th, which I'm not sure is going to happen at this rate
Second goal mark: 250 by Christmas
Ultimate goal: 100 lbs of weight lost, with no definitive date set
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