New Gym Program

Today my enthusiasm has quickly left my body.  In fact, I’m not sure if it was ever there this morning. Normally after a bout of cardio at the gym, I’m energised and ready to take on the world. Unfortunately, I quickly came to the realisation that my new gym program which is mostly made of weights so that I can tone up simply squeezes the life out of me even before I’ve made it to work. The cardio that I did do 15 minutes on the cross trainer and 5 minutes on this weird arm machine thing had me sore.  The arm machine was 5 minutes but I was struggling.  Then following on to the weights, I realised that my abs are stronger than I thought but also I rule at bench dips.  The constant squatting in some exercises left me nearly unable to walk down the stairs at the gym after the 1 hour routine.  And to think I’ll be doing this workout 5 days a week.  I’m hoping to stick with it for no more than 3 months.  I’m hoping to get to the stage where I can just do weights 2-3 times a week and not 5.  But at least if I’m doing it 5 days a week, I will see results a lot quicker.  I’ll just keep telling myself that when it hurts.  A massage would be nice right about now!