The first 10 million years were the worst...

I know that I'm not finding out something new and I know that nothing worth doing was ever easy but after my first resistance/weights session yesterday I can truly say that parts of me that I didn't know I had hurt.

Through conscious effort I managed to ignore the "fit" people at the gym including the lady who was smaller than me but able to lift more weight etc. and just concentrate on doing what I was there for. Something that I learned a long time ago but still have to remind myself of is that 'most people don't care about what anyone else is doing and they are not all looking at you and laughing'.

So my weights program involves:
Push ups
Assisted Chin ups - Counter balance takes 47kg at this stage.
Seated Row
Standing Row
Bicep Curls - 4KG dumbells (yeah you can say it. That's not much is it!)
Tricep Pull downs
Leg lifts
Calf raises
Fitball hamstring curls
Core work

2 Sets and 20 reps of each with various light weights.
I didn't manage 2 sets of 20 for everything but that's why I'm going.

At 2.00 this morning the cat went off. She's 18, nearly completely deaf and a fair bit senile. She comes in the house during the day, looks straight at you and howls REALLY LOUD. Sometimes she does this at night such that we refer to her sometimes as alarm cat. As in the alarm cat went off twice last night! I got up to see her/reassure her and found that my left calf muscle was not happy with yesterday's efforts. Happy to say that with a bit of stretching and walking around today its more or less back to normal but glad that today I'm not planning on any gym or pilates work.

The Coke Zero lasted until last Sunday night so since then it has mostly been water (even when I went to the cinema to watch Les Miserables) and I can't really say that I miss the Coke or even particularly want it. I don't drink coffee or tea so that makes me caffeine free again which if this link is any indication should help me to focus better and thereby achieve more even if I'm not a spider.

So nearly through my first week of this process and I'm happy to say that I have been able to meet my micro goals to keep me on track for the larger ones. Writing it down and telling people about it is helping to remind me to stay honest about it so thank you to the early readers out there.