My site and email was down for about 4 or 5 hours today which I wasn’t very impressed about, but that is a whole lot better than 3 weeks, like happened a few years ago.
Training
I’m now a member of 2 of the 3 gyms in our town. The one Jodie and I used to go to has opened back up again – they had a decent opening special so I thought ‘what the heck’ and joined. Damien and I both joined, but we were away at the time and you had to actually buy the memberships before a certain date. We had a friend put a deposit on for us. When we got back we went in to pay the rest of our $ and have a look around. I was a bit disappointed to be honest. I was hoping to see the infamous hack squat machine, and the T Bar Row machine, and a lying ham curl. None of those. Apparently the ham curl is coming, and so are the dumbbells in the ladies gym – at the moment they have lovely coloured mini dumbbells to work with 
The super duper cable machine thingy that you can do everything on was not there either. No mirrors in front of squat racks in main gym which is really weird – I doubt I could squat heavy weights without being able to check on my form. They only have one moveable incline bench in the entire gym and none in the ladies gym. There wasn’t even (that I could see) a v grip handle that they used to have apart from a really old rusty one. So, I ordered my own V Grip from my sponsor. Now I have my own rope attachment, ab wheel, resistance band and soon, v grip! I’m like a walking portable gym! Lucky I have a big gym bag.
To the good bits – they have lots of GF classes – whilst the other gym now has bugger all. Simply not enough instructors (good, bad or otherwise) to go around this town. Their seated ham curl is better as the padding goes across your quads instead of your shins – though it hurt my quads as I must have had some deep muscle soreness, it was still more comfy on the back and I felt it worked my hammies better. I’m sure there are other good things but I can’t seem to recall what they are at the moment! Oh yes, the 45 degree leg press. Jodie’s and my favourite leg press. I did 3 sets on this after drop sets and progressing overload sets on knee extension, followed by 3 sets of 10 squats at 50kg. It is such a good machine. I then did 3 sets of 20 long jumps (plyos) followed by hammies. I am very sore. In fact I must have pulled something when squatting or pressing as my right hip is giving me some grief. The right side of my lower/mid back is also really sore in spots. It hurts to walk and so I can’t do cardio today. I did manage some yesterday – it was fine to start with but by the time I got home it started to get sore. The good news is my groin has been really good since my guru of a chiropractor worked on my rectus abdominus muscle which he said was somehow causing my adductor muscle to be pulled out of place. Ouch, it hurt when he was doing it but within a day I had no groin pain.
Ok, well I have a busy day ahead so I best get to it. I’ve decided to train tonight since I can’t do cardio. Chest, bis and calves. Jodie and I trained last night, shoulders and tris.
It’s raining and it’s lovely!!! Having a barbie tonight on our new barbie – finally got one. I will have a piece of salmon, see how it turns out as bbq’d rather than grilled.
So, it has to wait for another day. I’ve almost forgotten what to do in the gym! Not really. Anyway, it is actually feeling much better now. I did feel like the Elephant Man for quite some time this morning however.
