Going to look into total hip replacement. I took everything I had to dump myself out of the bed onto the floor this morning.
Really worked on trying to come up with a good reason not to go workout this morning. I hurt. I will work harder tomorrow. Who cares if I am fat and weak? That’s what men over 50 are suppose to be like, right? A world of Pillsbury Doughboys. Pale, weak, lots of give when poked. It’s not my fault, it’s society and movies and TV. Oh, and all the fast food places, they are really the ones to blame.
I must have just gone on auto pilot because I found myself at the gym, ready to attempt a Kettlebell workout. Dave wrote three new workouts for the week.
Tuesday
Core Circuit
Circuit – Repeat for 6 total sets with 1 minute rest between sets
Kettlebell Slingshots 32kg – 12 each
Snatch/Overhead Lunge – 16kg – 6 reps each side
Assisted Neutral Grip Pullups #14 – 12 reps
Somehow I did complete everything except for the Crab Walks for the core circuit. Now I am faced with the choice of feeling good for everything I did, or feeling like a failure because I could not push out the Crab Walks.
My hips hurt so bad that it truly took everything to just keep going. I wonder if this is how some people start on the road to ending up in chairs, when you have trouble getting stuff moving in the morning and just decide to not move, to stay in the chair. The next day comes and you do the same thing till that becomes your life and you turn yourself into a prisoner in your own chair.
Pain is an individual thing. We can never really know the amount of pain someone else is experiencing. That’s why I don’t talk about pain. That does not mean it is not there, it just means I don’t talk about it. Of course, except for now.
As I was in the locker room, moaning and groaning and feeling sorry for myself a guy came past me and made a comment about how I was really swinging the kettlebells around this morning. That really came as a shock. In my opinion my workout was a failure. I had not moved as quickly as I should have and I was whining to myself the entire time but in his eyes I was really doing a good job. This guy had seen me workout a hundred times but this was the first time he had ever said anything. That was just interesting to me.
Debbie and I had dinner with Marlene B. from Georgia last night. We had not seen her for years. She was in town visiting family. It was great to visit with her.
Terry,
Boy, do I relate to your Pillsbury Doughboy analogy. I look around work and the gym and I see bunches and bunches of 40 and 50 somethings that look so “comfortable” as they waddle around. Sometimes I think this very same thing. Why am I doing this to myself? I should just let it all go. As long as I am taller than I am wide, it will be acceptable. I guess what stops this reflective B.S. is I don’t want to be AVERAGE. I want to be far above that.
U know?
Sheree
I think the fact that guy commented on your workout after all this time is very interesting too. Maybe you just needed to hear it right then so the angels pushed him over to you.
It is funny because you read my blog post about how I wanted to go on the waterslide but no adults were up there. Well, last night a woman came up to me in the locker room and said “I saw you up there on the slide with all the kids! You looked like you were having so much fun!” I asked her if she ever did it and she frowned and said “Oh No!”. I told “You should! It is a blast!!”