If you've been outside on Maui in the last couple of days you might have noticed swarms of gnats flying around. Not like Biblical plague proportions where clouds of them block the sun or anything, but enough where if you're running and breathing hard you will inahle nine or ten of those buggahs.
Anyway, the gnats were annoying but not my biggest concern today. Today I had several other things on my mind when it came to my Friday fitness routine. These concerns were:
1) It was a bastard of a workout at Raw Fitness Maui
2) I had no recovery day because I chose to do the MMA conditioning class at Elite Fitness on Thursday
3) I am the weakest sister in the freaking class
Yeah, no joke. Here's why. Today at RFM we had one of those workouts where you look at what's listed on the board and wonder how fast your gym mates will dial 911 after you collapse. First thing I saw was a sequence of numbers, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1," followed by some even more frightening words, namely "hang power snatch", "overhead squats" and "ring dips."
Now what does this mean? It means you do 10 hang power snatches, 10, overhead squats and 10 ring dips. Then you do 9 hang power snatches, 9 overhead squats and 9 ring dips. You getting the picture?
Oh yeah, then you run 400 meters, which is fine. But when you come back you do everything in reverse sequence: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10.
BUT what really really really sucked is I didn't do the listed workout. Nope. I had to scale it back to where I (1) was just lifting the bar w/ no weights, (2) only did a 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, then a 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 sequence and (3) did regular dips instead of ring dips.
Of course gym owners Bumper and Kristi were totally on target when they suggested I scale it back because I almost died doing the lesser workout anyway. Even so, part of me WANTED to die while going for the complete workout. I was watching one of our members named Derek who went all out and I totally wished I could have been there with him. Instead I scaled it back. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrr . . .
Ah well, I guess I really can't wait to write that blog about how I had the fastest time, lifted the most weight or did the most reps one day. It'll happen one day I guess. It's just that making slow but steady gains is hard for a guy with no patience.
