300 Workout!
No, not the one the was used to build Spartans. This weekend I had my 300th workout. Wow. I swear it doesn’t seem that long ago that I was a bundle of nerves walking in the front door of the gym for the first time. At first I had the mindset of "Just make it through this workout." Before you know it you’ve got a couple of workouts under your belt. Then suddenly it’s a few weeks, a few months, and then a long time. I can’t believe I’ve walked in that front door 300 times already.
My 300th workout was an arm day (my favorite). I haven’t done barbell curls in a while. I used the ones with a fixed amount of weight. I curled with the 60 pound one and then the 70 pound one. I felt really good so I tried the 80 pound one, which I’ve never tried before. Bam, I got it with no flailing. That felt great. As I was looking at myself in the giant mirror on the wall while I was doing it I couldn’t help but think "I still can’t believe I’m doing this." The skinny, completely clueless noob that had walked in those front doors wasn’t in that mirror. I wasn’t referring so much to the amount of weight I was using, but that I was lifting at all. For so long I wondered what it would be like to be in shape, to have muscles, to be active, etc. It took me long enough but I finally forced myself to do it.
300 down and a lot more to go!
May 10, 2009 at 11:01 am
Congratulations, you have accomplished a lot. I liked your comment about your thoughts. It’s funny that our minds can lag behind. I’ve caught myself thinking "that’s me?"
May 10, 2009 at 7:33 pm
Congrats on the huge accomplishment! I am just now kind of getting to the looking in the mirror part and thinking, "Hey, this sh*t really works!" And that’s an AWESOME avi you’ve got up right now… man, look at those pecs, delts and arms!! No question that you’ve been working hard and have 300 workouts to your credit!! Major props, guy.
May 10, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Curling 80 lbs is a great way to celebrate your workout milestone. Congrats on graduating to the 80’s.
May 11, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Great job, man! Next stop… 500! Keep it going STRONG!
May 12, 2009 at 12:41 pm
Now that you’ve accepted the fact that you are a buff guy, will you now be less stressd and remove the "Stress" from your screen name, thus becoming just palin "monkey"? We’ll still love you.
May 14, 2009 at 2:22 am
I am just sitting here wondering…….you count your workouts?? That’s more motivation than I have ever seen! Congrats on the 80!
May 24, 2009 at 9:06 am
When I was working with a trainer I had to make sure not to miss our sessions so I would put a quick entry into my calendar. Workout #3, 9pm. I just got into the habit of doing that and never stopped.