Thought you should know I totally blasted my pecs today.

So there was a little hiccup in the whole “personal trainer” plan. Apparently my father misunderstood what the gym told him. The information he was given was that it was $250 for 6 group sessions. What he took that as, as well as how I took it, was that you pay $250, and a group goes for 6 sessions. Well, we got to the first session with the personal trainer, and he’s a really awesome guy, totally willing to cater to what we wanted to get out of the workout. Unfortunately, what the gym neglected to mention, is that we get separate times to do individual work, because we all have individual needs. This means that for $250, each member of my family gets a single one hour session, and then two of us would get a second session. As it turns out… you can’t do much in one session.

So as it turns out, we’re not doing the whole personal trainer thing. Bummer.

However, that doesn’t mean that Project Pec Blast has to be thrown away, I’m still able to work out on my own. So today (I guess yesterday, since it’s about 3:00 AM) I went in and started testing equipment, seeing what I like to use, and checking what my max weights for lifting are. It was an exhausting process, and I definitely got more of a workout then I’ll probably usually get once I have a routine down. I’ll probably be hurting tomorrow. On top of that, I cranked out three miles on the ellipticals. I usually just do two, but today I went up a notch. This whole gym thing is starting to become something I enjoy, which is definitely a good thing.

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I recently joined a gym with my family, the YMCA that was just built by my house. Today, we signed up for a personal trainer as a family. So this morning I woke up, went to the gym, and met with him. He’s a cool guy. My brother and I went and did some cardio while my parents talked with him, and then we switched. He asked us basic questions like what we were looking to get out of our workout, and he observed our stretching to determine what needs work. I’ll be working out HARD three days a week for about an hour, and I’m really looking forward to it.  Since I’ll be exercising quite a bit, and probably writing about it on here, I’ve decided to name it “Project Pec Blast” for reference. In fact, you’ll probably be hearing this a lot from me:

On another note, I’ve been playing a game called “Peggle” a lot. It’s one of those Pop Cap games like “Bejeweled”, and it’s delightful. You can read more about it, and even download a demo, here. I should warn you, it’s extremely addictive.

That’s all from me. I’ll write more about how the workout goes once we get going.

Catch you later.