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One of my co-workers, a retired marine who used to be a personal trainer, has offered to help me get in shape. We're going to the gym over lunch today, and I have to say, I'm both looking forward to it and a bit nervous.
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Be afraid-be very afraid. My physical therapists are torturists, so I can imagine a military trainer would be even more pain-inducing.
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Noemon, is he doing it for free? If so, *score*. That's awesome! I have a friend who is a personal trainer, but she lives too far away for me to schmooze some of her time in the gym.
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How much did you bench press? Everyone knows it's important to try bench pressing as much as you possibly can on your first day.
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quote:How much did you bench press? Everyone knows it's important to try bench pressing as much as you possibly can on your first day.
I probably bench press like 4 and a half pounds. Seriously, I have no idea how much I bench press. I don't know if I've ever actually bench pressed anything.
We did nothing but squats, alternating between doing it with a bar with 50 lbs of weight on it (for me, he used a lot more weight for himself) and doing it without a bar, and doing...oh, I don't know what he called it, but a thing where you start with the bar on the ground, dead lift it, and then bring it up over your head before bringing it back down to the ground. "Cleans and jerks", I think he called it. That and calf exercises. We did this, doing one set of each, then letting the other do one set of each, for about an hour and 15 minutes. I'd never done any of that except the calf exercises. I was pretty thoroughly exhausted afterward, but I'm feeling okay now. I'll be feeling it in the morning though, I'm thinking, although I'm told that the worst of the stiffness won't hit for about 48 hours.
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He says that it's a fantastic way to burn calories, and I can feel that it's working pretty much every major muscle group. He says that once you get things going fluidly enough it becomes aerobic, which I was skeptical of before we did it, but I think is fairly likely now. The pauses while the other person is doing a set are brief enough that your heart rate doesn't really go down, and by the end of it I was as out of breath as if I'd been running.
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The dead lifts just work the thighs, but the bit with bringing the weight over one's head takes care of the upper body fairly thoroughly. I was surprised at what a workout it gave my abs, keeping everything balanced.
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That's quite a work out for your first day. I think he probably had you doing a snatch. In a clean and jerk, you bring the bar to your shoulders and then jerk it overhead in two separate motions.
Once upon a time, I could bench twice my body weight. Of course, that was more than half-a-lifetime ago.
edit: I'm sure he's keeping tabs on you, but you need to pay very close attention to form for the snatch or the clean and jerk.
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Lots of water. Consider OTC anti-inflammatories such as ibuprofen. More water.
Careful with form, as Zan notes. I've gotten much more savvy about form when climbing stairs at work and home (we have a 2-bedroom townhouse), and it has really made a difference for my knees. Amazing, actually.
And yes, more water.
You go, Jake! It is so great to feel your body working and to have more energy.
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Yeah, on his advice I've been drinking many liters of water since the workout. I feel stiff today, but not sore. That'll come tomorrow. I just took some ibuprofen Sara--thanks for mentioning it! I'd meant to take some earlier, but I was out at home, and forgot about it this morning until I read your post.
My friend is *very* big on form, and was actually pretty surprised at how good mine was on the cleans and jerks. He was a little incredulous that it was that good, given that I'd never done them before. My form was pretty bad on my squats for some reason though. He said he'd have expected it to be the other way around.
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That's good that he's focusing on form. Doing PE in high school has made me unwilling to do any weight lifting now because I developed knee and elbow pain due to it. The teacher showed us how to do it once on the first day, but I'm sure I was doing it incorrectly, thereby injuring myself.
I hope your training experience goes well. How nice of your co-worker to help you out for free!
MPH, good luck on the shodan test. Are you doing it at a camp, or does your dojo do shodan testing?
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Back when i was wrestling, I wrestled for 9 months out of the year, after my 3 month break, it'd take me about 3 weeks to get back into the swing of things. but those first three weeks were as close to hell as I've come... but then again, wrestlers can't afford to up their water intake or any of that other helpful stuff...
Best of luck... just be happy he isn't focusing on your abbess, Marines have some fun exercises for those...
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I'm in some pain today (just muscle pain from it being about 48 hrs after the initial workout) but it isn't nearly as bad as I was afraid it might be. All that water drinking paid off, I guess.
Sara, I thought about posting something like that, but was a little scared to google for it from work!
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Moenan, glad you are feeling pretty good. I am just getting back into light hand weights after about two months, and drinking tons of water does help.
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You are a shocking woman sometimes Ms. Sasse. That's one of the things I love about you.
I just started lifting again about 3 weeks ago. I always feel so much better when I'm able to exercise regularly.
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All I know is that you said "heaving" and "breast" in the same sentence. Where's the panting smilie?
Once upon a time, I would've wondered whether you meant to do that or not. I don't wonder that anymore.
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quote:Moenan, glad you are feeling pretty good. I am just getting back into light hand weights after about two months, and drinking tons of water does help.
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Am I the only person here who goes out and creates a login for each creative misspelling of my username that I come across?
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The only one who creates such logins, I mean. Not a woman. I've been fairly convinced of my maleness for as long as I can remember.
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Actually, that's not entirely true. You know how there is kind of like a seam that bisects the scrotum? Where the proto-labia majora fused together, forming the sac? Well, I was a very paranoid child, as I've mentioned elsewhere. When I was 2 or 3 I suspected that this seam was evidence of surgical goings on inflicted on me by someone. I wasn't sure if it was my parents, ghosts, or aliens, and I wasn't sure what the purpose of said surgical goings on might have been, but a sex change seemed like a possibility.
That is the place where the proto-labia fused, but I can see where that would cause all sorts of paranoid questions. Isn't it amazing what kids think about, but adults never know?
I had a somewhat different and much briefer sex-questioning experience: coming out of anesthesia after my first heart surgery, I heard someone referring to a patient as "he." (My eyes were still taped shut, and I was on the ventilator, so I couldn't talk.) This caused great consternation in my disoriented mind, and I believe they had to resedate me.
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You know, I wonder why I was such a paranoid child? Really, I was very suspicious of all sorts of things that seem fairly preposterous in retrospect.
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