Behold my fitness

I am now a person who goes to the gym. I am a gym-goer. Me.

At first I was forcing myself to go a couple of times a week, and now I'm up to four or five weekly visits. I am sad if I have to miss it. How could this have happened? I used to stand outside the gym, peering in the floor-to-ceiling windows, watching all those people running to nowhere while I ate my donut. I wiped powdered sugar off my cheeks and wondered why people would do that to themselves. Then I went back to the donut place and bought four more. Then I would sit outside the gym because standing was too much work. Finally I would lie down, waving dollar bills at passersby and asking them to bring me more donuts.

Okay--there was no powdered sugar. I prefer a classic glazed. And don't even mention sprinkles. I don't want to HEAR IT about the sprinkles. Do not sully my glaze.

Moving on.

I have this trainer, as I have mentioned, and he's making me do all sorts of weights and push-ups and activities with medicine balls, most of which feels comically old-fangled, like I should be wearing a woolen unitard and sport a handlebar mustache. As silly as I feel, I can't deny that there have been, well, results.

I have progressed, for instance, from being completely incapable of performing a single push-up to sort of doing a modified push-up without crying. Actually I can do three sets of (knee) push-ups (uh, on an incline) without crying or throwing up or anything disgusting at all. If you don’t count sweating. Or swearing. This is serious progress for the likes of me. My trainer keeps saying things like, "When I see how far you've come from before" and "You’re nothing like you were in the beginning..." And then he gets this haunted look in his eyes. He's also stopped comparing me to his clients who have had strokes and related brain injuries! I've really come far!

I can now see how strength training sucks you in. It's like gaining a superpower. When a weight you couldn't lift before suddenly becomes comically easy? It's like you've just traveled to this new planet and a car fell on you but the car is made of TIN FOIL so you can toss it aside but why is everyone so shocked? Why can't they lift it? Because. Because you are the strongest person in their world.

They're also very impressed when you do your girlie push-ups on your slight incline, on this planet. They are residents of the Planet of the Very Weak. But no matter. You are like a god to them.

Comments

[LIB]

You are an INSPIRATION!

[Alyssa Carter]

I love this post. Great job! I also used to be a non gym goer; I would eat brownies in front of my dieting friends and talk about how I didn't need to work out. Then, I started going, and now I'm hooked. I hate missing it, and I'll go instead of having social plans.

I wish I could afford a trainer, keep it up!

[Calamity Jill]

*high five*(during which I clench my arm muscles so you don't notice my wings in the wind.)

[Alexandra]

thanks a lot....as I sit here, with the powdered sugar on my cheek.

[Erin@TheLocalsLoveIt]

Way to go! It's a wonderful feeling isn't it!

[repliderium.com]

I am morally allergic to exercise. My doctor said donuts are fine though. Honest. I have a note.

[Kelsey]

I have to say I am truly impressed that you have graduated from near suffocation by donut to bonafide gym-goer! On this continuum, I'm in preschool with my bucket of KFC as a snack.

[karim]

Very thoughtfull post on fitness. It should be very much helpfull

Thanks,Karim - Mind Power

[Beth]

Dang it. Now I want a donut.

[Mrs Embers]

I'd be all over the whole gym-going thing if there was a place around here that would take my children while I worked out. Not because I enjoy exercise, mind you- far from it. I'd do it, though, if it meant a break from the darlings for a while!

[Eneida]

You are freakin' hillarious. You go girl!

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~Eneida

[Cait]

I find it easier when you join groups in classes its so much fun and you can have a laugh with people especially when you are doing kick aerobics!!

[rbiggs]

You are quite inspiring. There is nothing that I hate more than sweating unless I am on a beach or by a pool, so to inpsire the likes of me is not as easy feat.

[Dana]

you're funny. stay at it.

[maggie may]

i am asking for a gym membership from my family for my November birthday. i used to have one and went for years and did weights and cardio and LOVED it. i would have NEVER thought i would have, either, but it made me feel disciplined and i loved what i did to my curves. i felt hawt.

[Meredith]

Oh god this made me laugh so hard, thank you. It also makes me feel slightly better about my four-year-old kicking my butt on the Wii Fit this morning. I, like you, shall persevere. I WILL master that hula hoop game.

[elaine]

In my town the donut shop is just a few doors down from the treadmill gym on the same side walk. I wish the sidewalk to the donut shop was a built in treadmill, set to a very strong clip. We would never get there but it would always be in sight.

[the Elephant Assassin]

I was a gym rat once upon a time. Before the baby. I loved it. And BONUS! It helped me stick it to my treacherous PCOS body and get knocked up.

Now I am all squashy in the center. Jiggly squashy shishiness. I was going to make up a schedule and get my lazy butt to the gym. That was before I read this post. Now I choose to count reading about your workout adventures as exercise. I mean, you have a trainer! I can't afford that. So reading about yours is the next best thing. Better then actual exercise.

[Chelsea Talks Smack]

CONGRATS, it isnt easy turning into a "gym goer"

[Renee]

Good for you.

When I think about working out, I think about sleeping in. One day I'll get over my laze, but for now I'm just too comfy in my bed and pjs.

I think it's great that you've stuck with it, and are taking care of yourself.

[Belle]

Wow! Impressive. I've many times attempted to force myself into become a gym goer. I just can't get past the forcing and into the enjoying...

[Tamara]

Rock on! Just you wait until you can do a set of 10 "real" push-ups. Believe me, I certainly didn't think I would ever do it (when I started strength training a year and a half ago) but now I can and its amazing. Go you.

[Supreme 90 Day]

This is a great article about your experience in getting fit. Hopefully, people reading this will become inspired to live a healthier lifestyle as well. Thanks for sharing.

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