I wrote somewhere recently that we are the proud new members of Anytime Fitness in Amite, our home town now. It wasn’t like we got this awesome benefit from our insurance company and we rushed right out to use it. We got the benefit effective January 2019 and thought it was nice but didn’t do anything about it. We are two old folks who have grown quite lazy and fat so it took us a year to take the big step to join! Roy says it’s 9 miles from our house and possibly best of all it is right next to LaCaretta Mexican Restaurant.
After we joined, it took us over a week to make our way into the fitness center for our first workout.
Look at me in the picture below, I am ashamed and shouldn’t show this to anyone but instead, I am showing it to all ya’ll! I am hopeful that you’ll be able to see me thinning down in the weeks to come. Why I can’t get skinny after the first workout I don’t know!
Roy has been having Physical Therapy for the last couple of months for his back. He’s been doing exercises like this so he’s got a leg up on me – get it, leg up on me, see his legs!
Yesterday morning before we left to go work out, things weren’t looking good for us. No need to share the gory details but let’s say once we got there it went really well and we were very pleased. We worked out for about an hour and a half which really surprised me. We rode the bicycles, the elliptical, used machines for arms, legs, abdomen (you can tell that neither of us need the abdomen machine!). We did a couple of machines for each body part. I started off today at the very minimum weights, Roy could handle more than I could.
Before we left the fitness center we both weighed which reinforced why we are working out! Then I got on a machine that shakes your whole body for 50 or 60 second. On high it shook my brain so I jumped off and turned it to low which was not really low but it was really cool! It is a great way to end a workout!
We are planning to go back this Wednesday and Friday and will share our progress here from time to time! When we went yesterday we left home at 1 pm and that will probably be our time to leave for future workouts. There were a few older folks there which made us feel much more comfortable about being there.
When I got up this morning, Tuesday some body parts ached a bit but not really bad. That is encouraging! I actually would like to go back again today instead of waiting for tomorrow but I think a day in between for our bodies to recover is wise at least at the beginning!
Ya’ll have a Blessed week!
BECAUSE HE LIVES 