Trials and Tribulations of a weightlifting dad!
I was down in the basement doing shoulders in my gym when my daughter (age almost 3) showed up at the door with no pants on. "Oh oh" I thought "this can’t be good". Usually when my daughter shows up with no pants she has "made an accident" or as my wife puts it "made a present for daddy". I had left my daughter upstairs to watch the Jungle Book while I went downstairs to weightlift. I was doing shoulders, traps and abs. I ran upstairs expecting to find a puddle on the couch. When I hit the top stair I was hit in the face with the most aweful smell that made me cringe. "Oh no" I thought, "it’s a number 2!!". I ran over to the couch and found it dry. Hmmmm, did my daughter make a number 2 or did the dog just cut one, the smell was comming from his direction. I went to the 2 bathrooms in a desperate hope that my daughter had used the "potty" the way she was supposed to. Both "potties" were empty. Now I had to find her pants. I looked all over the house trying to find them, but to no avail. Finally I turned to my daughter and said "Chantelle where are your pants". She brought me into her room and said "dere" as she pointed into her underwear bin. I stuck my hand in there and quickly withdrew it. She had taken her "dirty" (I use this word in its loosest sense) underwear and put it back into her underwear bin. I grabbed the "dirty" underwear and ran for the bathroom. I cleaned out the underwear while holding my nose. Meanwhile my daughter was following me the whole time asking "watcha doin dadda". I noticed at that point there was "dirt" on the toilet handle. "Oh no" I thought, I think it got worse. I looked at her hands. Ack! I Picked up my daughter and put her hands under running water and scrubbed for all I was worth. When that was all done I cleaned her up and sent her on her way. I still hadn’t found where she did the crime. Guess that will surprise me later today. Now back to my weightlifting. Man am I ever strong for these shrugs, oh yah I just took 15 minutes out to deal with "the problem". Why don’t you ever her of the pros dealing with this sort of thing. Sigh.
July 22, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Well the pros’ jobs are to lift weights and get the diet to really pop those muscles. I am sure they do not allow outside distractions keeping them from their jobs just like for the most part, we do not allow outside distractions influence our jobs and how well we do them.
Your problem stems from lifting at home, not from lifting. I would say joining a gym eliminates such distractions, but today at my gym I was totally distracted by my own sleepy mind, tired body, and restless spirit. Not a good workout today, not even a good cardio session. Oh well, I’m about to have dinner with my girlfriend!
So … there’s another distraction! lol