My First Day of Training

Today was the big day!

I survived! (and to be honest….I think I could get addicted) I woke up at 3:57 am, before my alarm clock, and decided to lay there for the next 30 minutes. I got up at 4:30, brushed my teeth, got dressed, laced up my tennis shoes and jumped on the treadmill to warm up. I walked on the treadmill for an easy 20 minutes and then gathered the rest of my stuff and headed out the door.

Linda was already there (I was even 7 minutes early) with her clip board in hand. She had me warm up (again) for 10 minutes on the elliptical. The 10 minutes went by pretty quickly because we chit chatted about her vacation and about our trip to the fair. Today was just an evaluation of where I am at phsyical wise, so we did a mix of exercises, just to get a baseline. First, we started by doing squats, lunges, and push-ups. Can I tell you how much I despise push-ups? They suck, and I suck doing them.

Next, we worked on my arms by doing Lat pull downs, shoulder press, bicep curls, and tricep extensions. During these exercises I told her how my calves have been bothering me lately, so we detoured and we did calf raises. Finally, we ended by working with the stability ball. First we did crunches, and I really liked it, but then it got bad. She wanted me to roll over and do back extensions, and everything was fine and I got to the 6 rep and it hit me, that horrible nauseous feeling. Thinking it would just go away, I continued to try and finish my 15 reps. With each rep it got worse and worse.

Sooo…yes….I ran to the bathroom and gagged. I hadn’t eaten, so there was nothing to really come up, but still, it was just as nasty. I was so embarrassed…leave it to me….

All and all, it was a really great experience, when I was done I felt like jelly, and I can’t wait to back on Wednesday!