Two weeks to go!
What is it about exercise that is both a pleasure and a pain? I am quickly discovering that while I do have a decent level of cardio endurance, I have no strength. At all. Zip. Zero. Zilch.
Wednesday night's practice probably humbled all of us on different levels. Some of the people couldn't paddle for 10 minutes straight, I had no problem. However, as good as I was keeping pace, for the life of me I couldn't do one single, solitary chin-up. Our coach makes all the exercises look ridiculously easy so I really thought that I might get one off at the very least. Never have I been more wrong. Our coach helped me get into the position and then said "OK - Lift!" and I just sorta hung there. If there had been a breeze, I would have been swaying in it. Anyway, not able to lift myself an inch. No matter how hard I tried I couldn't budge. But I did try. Three times. Because humiliating myself once wasn't quite enough, I had to do it three times. Aieeeee ...
Will I ever be able to do this? I don't really know but it will be interesting to see what I can do in six months.
3 comments:
The blowing in the breeze reference made me laugh out loud. Chin ups suck.
I laughed too! Which is ironic because had I been there (but of course I'm too lazy too even try) I would have been doing the same thing.
Ok, but chin ups are hard. You're lifting your entire body weight with no starting momentum with only your arms. That's not easy.
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