Resistance Training............

So I met with Mr.P yesterday. He is a real live athlete who has completed the Ironman before which is double of what I am doing (over 140 miles in a day) He is fantastically fit-really a person of steal (maybe in this case Iron-Ha Ha sorry bad joke!) and is also training to compete in the Triathalon season. Mr. P cares about his time-whereas I just want to finish!

Felt a tad bit silly in meeting with him as when I do resistance training (RT) I assume machines and often will wear gloves as I don't my hands get calloused (can't have that!). Well Mr. P does not train with machines-it's all core work and free weights. Sounds easy? Not!!!! Depending on how much you weigh-you got to either pull, push or get your body off the ground some how. Now I won't reveal the details of how much I actually weigh-but suffice it to say it is quite a bit over 100 lbs-and there are not many machines that I use with a 100 lb weight!

The other thing about core work is that you soon realize how good/not good you are at balancing. In my case it's not a pretty sight. My sister will recall the one Yoga class I took with her and spun around in a 360 degree circle while everyone else was able to hold their pose! Very embarassing then and very embarassing yesterday! Mr. P has confidence that I will improve-Ha!

Today I feel really sore once again-but a weird kind of sore- a core sore! This is supposed to be really good especially for things like swimming-which I would never have guessed. Speaking of swimming, this is how I spend last evening after the kids went to bed; painting my scraggly toes a seafoam green (to mimic the water), watching some trashy TV (American Idol is my fav) and then studying Youtube videos of swimming strokes. Not for everyone but it was a great night in my books!