Replies to post #5765 on The Free Zone Board

[QuasimodoJones]

I think the reason people haven't been posting is involves having RightOn getting the link and then cutting & pasting vast amounts of our posts to the PI Alt board so the little creep could vent against us there.

Has anyone noticed how nice ALL the boards have been since he's been on vacation?

[QuasimodoJones]

Meme/Sass:About that exercise thing...

I started out the beginning of this month by working out each day on a "gravity bike" or "body jack", where you work against your own weight with food pedals and handlebars.

Since I've been laying off for a long time, I'm adding one rep a day. I figure if I can keep it up to the point where I can do 100 reps a day, I'll be doing damn well. One hundred reps would mean I'd lifted a total of 37,500 lbs. in a session!

Meme, you sound like U R BUFF, Girl! Shoulda expected it.

Sassy, don't expect your weight to necessarily drop all that much -- you'll simply be converting fat to muscle, which is denser, so you'll still lose size, but not necessarily weight.

[Meme]

Re: Sassy-meme/Seriously, I've been going to the Y and doing

Good for you about the exercising. I just got back from the hotel gym myself on the treadmill. I always look at the weight machine and figure I would either pull every muscle I have or just look like an ass since I don't know how to use it !!

Oh, I just had it, Sassy. Nothing like vanity to motivate a person, but the benefits for my blood pressure also passed my mind more than once. I've put on six or seven pounds since you last saw me and I wasn't even at what I consider my ideal weight then. Of course, I've got very high ideals. <VBG>

There is more than just one weight machine at the Y. Each machine exercises a specific area. They're really terrific there, though. You're given three free appointments with a trainer if you so desire. So the first thing I did was sign-up for instruction. (Nothing like suburban Y's) <G> I didn't want to look like an idiot or do it wrong either.

So there I was awaiting this appointment with great trepidition. What type of condescending, over-developed brute was this trainer, Lou, going to be? Well, much to my absolute delight Lou turned out to be my son's old Y-After-School teacher. Lou and my son and the entire family, really, had hit it off wonderfully in those days. Lou used to even take my son to the movies even though my son was half Lou's age. (Oh, and don't get any weird ideas, Lou is a healthy hetero, all around nice guy who just wasn't super bright while my son is, so they sorta met in the middle quite nicely. <G>) And Lou rather enjoyed our somewhat offbeat unique perspectives.

So Lou turned out to be as happy as I was and even happier to hear that my husband and son were also going to be coming.

I couldn't have been blessed with a better experience. And the hell with appointments, we now have a personal trainer without asking. ;^)

But this weekend we moved some of my honey's things to the house, including all of his exercise equipment. I told him that we are both going to lose weight before the wedding. Thank God we have a year !!!!

Well, there ya go! You've got your own built-in personal trainer now. <BG> If his stuff works anything like the one's at the Y...shoot it's freakin' easy...really. Just remember, the weight machines do their best if you get your heart rate up first.

Meme