Yes Pain , No gain!
Exercise, the famous nightmare of a fat man. Some people exercise a lot for fun and to stay fit, while other people do it not for their own amusement, but because they can no longer fit in the frame of their mirrors at home. I actually exercise to stay fit, I play many different sports to keep my cool-guy sha….Okay so I only play one sport once a week, so what? But the point is that I do them so I can stay in shape, not so I can finally catch the bus once in a while.
Now, this week I’ve been having a terrible time with my body because after my first American football training session of the season, I came to realize that my body had been in a long post-season break, I had muscle injuries everywhere (I still have some now ), it hurt to walk, to move and even walking to toilet was mission impossible. I really felt like a 143 year-old for two whole days.
My mum who I adore and who I love spending time with, said that if I wanted to get rid of my injury, I had to do even more exercise so that way my body could get used to this level of regular exercise, thinking that what my mum said made sense, I agreed for her to help me exercise, so she suggested we should do some cardio workouts! I was happy with that because I really liked doing those types of exercises since little. Early warning though, whatever is said on this blog stays on this blog.
Once we were equipped and ready to move, my mum inserted a DVD and what came up was a video that looked as if it had been filmed in the early 50s due to the quality of the picture, and mainly because of the instructor’s hair. At first everything was going well, the workouts were simple, me and my mum were focused and my brother was at least trying to pretend he was taking part. However, at one point during the video the instructor quoted something that changed the workout for worse: ”Now for these next parts of the session we will have to do a lot of weight exercises, so get those heavy weights out and lets go”
Heavy weight training? Was that even cardio anymore? The only equipment I had was one pair of light weights which are not heavier than my cat! I’m just 15 so the probability of my arms falling off seemed very likely. From that point onwards the video turned into the workout for people who could bend and stretch to all kinds of positions, while I was still struggling to bend my leg without screaming words unsuitable for little kids. That was no cardio workout for beginners, that was Mike Tyson’s advanced street fighting routine. In the end my mum just stopped and asked ” It’s getting a bit boring isn’t it?”, but what I think she tried to say was “If I do anymore of this inhuman stuff, my legs will walk out on me!”
Long story short, if you ever ever want to improve your exercise, buy modern workout routines strictly for beginners , I don’t know whether our bodies these days have adapted to the empire of technology, or it’s just the fact that people 50 years ago had a lot more time on their hands, but whichever it is the sofa and my 42-inch TV seem like the easiest easiest cure for me.
