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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Confession is Good for the Soul

I feel I should come clean with the Blog, and its readers few though they may be. I started this blog as a way to chronicle my hobbies in the fiber arts, however, in the last year my life has undergone a very interesting shift. I have begun to focus more on making my body fit and toned and less on sedentary hobbies like knitting and spinning. These days by the time I get home from the gym I can barely manage to feed myself and squeeze in an hour of TV or XBox and my mental itch for productivity while watching TV has stilled. I don’t think this will be permanent, but I am definitely on a bit of a fiber hiatus right now. I have been quilting, so maybe I should show those fruits of my labors here as well. And it’s not that I haven’t been knitting, I just haven’t been doing much of it. I will make an effort to actually take photos of all I have done recently and post them. Truthfully, my working out has become more than a miserable chore to keep my cholesterol down. It has become a new and really consuming hobby that I am almost starting to enjoy.

I feel myself floundering in many ways, almost coming into a new personal identity of sorts that has shifted my focus in ways that have surprised me. I still read knitting and spinning blogs, but I feel strangely silent when it comes to commenting. Like I have lost my voice as it were because I am not engaging in the process right now. I need a re-boot and a re-charge. That’s going to happen over the next 2 weeks or so when I go on vacation to St Louis to visit my dear friend Anne.

If I want to continue this blog I am going to have to start talking about my pursuits at the gym and beyond, so bear with me if you want to continue to read about the journey my life is taking. I appreciate your taking time to visit me over the years and staying with me through the doldrums of my inspiration. It will come back and I will chronicle it as it does.

I started working out and going to the gym to help myself lower my cholesterol and not have to take medication for it. I achieved that, but now, after a year plus it has morphed into something I kind of enjoy and spend a LOT of time on. I’m at the gym 5 to 6 days a week and I am starting to find myself feeling REALLY guilty if it is only 5 instead of 6. It’s becoming both a lifestyle AND a hobby. I find myself thinking about exercises to do on my off time where other things would have occupied my brain before.

Currently I am in the midst of a 6 week ab workout cycle that I am doing with a gym workout partner who I will refer to as PR until I receive permission to use his first name here on the blog. We start week 4 today. The concept is to perform a certain number of reps of each exercise and continue to cycle through for a determined period of time. This week we are doing 8 exercises, 15 reps each for 25 straight minutes. No breaks. It actually a lot of fun because PR & I push each other and ourselves partially through a competitive kind of thing. I refuse to let a boy beat me, and he refuses to let a girl beat him. Honestly it’s not like that but the thought is an amusing one.

Yesterday I started seriously training to do a pull up. I did 7 negatives. 4 were good form and slow speed. 3 were well, let’s just say less than impressive. I will continue to try and do 6 of these a day, but wow are my forearms sore today! Must mean it’s working!

I wanted to take a moment here, in public, to thank my occaisional workout buddy PR for taking the time to help me and push me to do things I probably never would have. You’ve shown me that I am stronger than I think I am, and you’ve helped me grow more determined and for that I thank you. You are making this journey a lot more pleasant due to your friendship. And the fact you can always make me laugh through the pain which is key. (Don’t expect such sappy kindness very often, so enjoy it whil you can.)

So for my other readers, thank you for reading this little snippet of gym talk. There may be more as time goes on. I will understand if you decide this workout stuff is boring and bail on me. But rest assured, fiber will return to this place sooner or later.

Cheers Dears!

Posted by Lizzy B on 10/13 at 07:16 AM
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