Adventures With A Buddy

Tonight after work Beef and I struck out for the gym for our first dual workout. We warmed up with 20 minutes on the elliptical and it was unique and fun how talkative she was and how the time went by much more quickly than when I suffer alone!

From there we did 3 sets of 12 seated dumbbell shoulder presses (I used 15lbs, Beef was 10). She has never really used free weights but she let me try to show her how to use them as the gym was swarmed by teenage sweaty boys. 

From there Beef took the time to show me how to use some of her favorite machines  including the hip abductor machine. It was another 3 sets of 12, this time at 150lbs of resistance. 

After that we changed it up again and I showed her my favorite: Renegade Rows. I used the 12.5lbs and did 3 sets of 6 on each arm. 

We didn't find the ab swing that my  new Best Workout Buddy wanted to use, but we did see Pierre, who will be giving us our introductory training session on Tuesday. Before we cut out at 6:30 we did 3 last sets of 12 on the assisted pull up machine. The first two sets had 85 pounds of counterweight and the last set we used 100lbs as we were fatigued. 

I'm just so glad that we did that. When we left I headed back to the lab to grade some student papers and I felt optimistic for the first time all week. I am so glad that the dark stressful shit show of my life seems to has brightened a bit. 

This whole turning my life around and not being a lump thing seems to be going fairly well. 

I guess the stability ball under my desk is going to be getting a work out too!