Wednesday, October 02, 2002

 
WORKING OUT MONTH-A-VERSARY.
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I think Tuesday was my four month anniversary of going to the gym. I say that I think it was, because I started May 31, and there is no 31st of September, so I'm not really sure when it falls. I wasn't really counting, but I think that in the past month, I went to the gym every day, except for two days. Early in September, I switched my workout around. I used to do weight-lifting for one, or occasionally two body parts, three exercises per body part, three sets of ten reps per exercise, and then I did an hour on the elliptical machine. Now, I'm doing six body parts all on one day, and doing that every third day. The other two days, I do an hour and a half on the elliptical machine. It feels a lot easier, mentally, to gear up for either just weight-lifting or just aerobics. I'm now down to 177 pounds, down 20 pounds from four months ago, and the least I've weighed since I was in eighth grade. Even though I'm 20 pounds less than I was, I've also put on a lot of muscle. I don't know how to measure that, but I've got to figure it's at least 5 to 10 pounds, in addition to the other 20 pounds. I keep thinking of how close I came to going through my whole life as that chubby shlub I used to be, and it really scares me. Everybody asks me how I stay motivated, and, well, that's really it. Oh, and books on tape. That really makes it fly by.

This is The Official Record. 1:04 AM
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