Monday, Monday...

Here is another dose of triviality regarding my recent acquisition of a Planet Fitness gym membership.

Since Friday's foray with the weight machines, I have been in a state of over-all soreness.  I thought it might dissipate over the course of a day or so, but this morning (Monday) is the first time that I am not feeling pain.  That is good, because I have an "upper body" training session scheduled for 6am tomorrow, and I was getting worried that I might have injured myself.

I have managed to go to the gym every day since I joined.  I am trying to establish a habit, and deviation from the behavior might derail my efforts.  I got up Saturday and went, then spent the rest of the day in Lafitte at a birthday party gorging on snacks, then went again when we got back to Gulfport.  I don't think that there is any amount of cardio that can work off all that junk.  It was also my first trip with Nikki, which was nice.  However, it is also good that we are each establishing a habit of going without the other.  No need for more co-dependance.  I thought Sunday might be a bust, but then we went in the evening and did another hour of cardio.

PF offers free training sessions, which are primarily introductions to the equipment. They are scheduled classes with up to 4 students, and you must sign up ahead of time. We signed up for the 1st one this morning at 6am, and Nikki was not impressed with having to get up that early.  We were introduced to all of the cardio equipment, and we did about 10 minutes of actual exercise.  The girl wants us to use the treadmill at 15.0 incline at all times, only varying the speed for intensity.  I found that to be a bit on the insane side.  She did not demonstrate how all of the Life Fitness equipment could intelligently alter the intensity of your workout to keep you within the desired heart rate.  I have been using that for the past several days, and I find that I can go on a machine for any length of time, just watching TV or listening to music, and whenever I look, I am still within the correct range.  This is a very good feature, to me, and I think it would be worth showing to new users.  Oh well...  I just went and found the manuals online at the LF website and read how it all worked.  Very nice.

We went ahead and signed up for the upper body class for tomorrow at 6am (Nikki actually chose this.) and the lower body class Wednesday at 1pm.  I will get to find out what the correct weight levels are for me, and maybe not cause myself to be in so much soreness for so long.