The Mission Statement and the First Week

Of late, I have been feeling uneasy walking around with a tummy.
Finally, the decision was made. Inspired by images of a middle aged superstar with six packs of abs ,crooning with pretty girls less than half his age made it easier. I enrolled myself at the gymnasium in the office. The only point for consideration were the timings. I wanted a time schedule that would be un-interrupted under any cost. Morning was an obvious choice..

13-Nov-2007-Day 1:-
Reached the gym at quarter to Seven. Pensive mood. The instructor asked me the routine questions on medical history. My left shoulder is a worry for me these days. So I mentioned to him the weakness of my left shoulder. I stated my mission to him: Convert my one sack (of tummy ) to six packs ( of toned muscles). The first stage was getting into shape and getting fit.

Goal – reduce weight by 10 kilos
Target – 6 months.

Tough target, but can be achieved with regular work out and diet control.

Started off with warm up exercises ( in sets of twenty )and a 20 minute run on the tread mill.. 2kms in 20 minutes.. 5 minutes of stationary cycle.

Not a bad start I thought.

Shower , breakfast - 2 Idlis and a Vada. Felt heavy after the breakfast



Day 2:-


Work out Schedule same as the previous day.

Hot Shower after a workout feels good..

Dropped the vada from the menu and stuck to 3 Idlis.

Day 3:-

The trainer had warned me the previous day that the target for the next day would be thighs. Warm up exercise, treadmill and ‘stepper’ ( need to figure out the equipment name). Then started the fun.. lots of exercises to strengthen thigh muscles.. At the end of it I was weak , but not tired. Found it difficult to walk.. Funnily though I found it easy to climb stairs than walk down… For the first couple of hours I had difficulty in walking.. but got better as the day progressed.

Added a fruit bowl for lunch.

Day 4:-

The pain which I was warned about did not hurt me much…. The focus today was on abs.. did 60 curl ups..as a stretch target did another 15.. Push ups were much tough.. Found it difficult to lift my own weight.. Did about 15 in three stages.. Miles to go before I can do these without much stress.. Did a 15 minutes walk on the cross trainer- something in between a treadmill and a cycle.

Day 5:-

Saturday.

Felt much relaxed on the cross trainer today. I guess it was a little easy for me , so the trainer ( whats his name ?? need to figure out tomorrow) added more resistance and incline.. Burned 50 cals on a “rowing” maching.. All this felt nice..

Next was a different kind of workout for Abs.. that was killing.. Lie down and lift both legs perpendicular, bring it down slow. Next bring it up a little less that 90 degree and bring it down slowl. Do this till you cant do it anymore....

Next was simple one , lie down , left upper torso and try to tough the feet. The simplest one was the most difficult. Muscles were hurting.. I was advised to drink more water to make muscles relaxed and more flexible.

So far so good..