Today At Gym - 07/14

This morning started off as a tad blue, I woke up with a knock at the door realizing with a shock that it was Christo ready to head for gym and that I had completely overslept...

After he smiled at me and walked to his car I felt pretty upset with myself since I knew this meant that there was simply not enough time to go to gym before work and my routine for the day was ruined - from past experience I know that if I skip gym in the morning there is a high probability that I will skip gym for the day...

After the initial shock and disbelief I decided to calm down and do the only sensible thing which was to get dressed as quickly as possible to get to work early so I can leave a little early and go to gym afterwards.

I am very happy to report that I did not skip gym today and followed though on my morning plans. Only downside was the gym experience today was also a bit blue, but let's check the stats for the day first...

Start Time	16:25
Duration	59:33 minutes
Calories Burned	741 kcal
Session Type	Strength Training
Session Focus	Chest, Shoulders, Triceps

Like I mentioned, the gym experience was a bit less than optimal today. This was mainly due to the fact that I went at a very busy time with people buzzing all around me and all the benches being occupied the whole time.

Normally I first do my "bench work" with free weights while I am still fresh and able to lift "heavy" stuff, but today I had to start off with the other things first like the triceps exercises (which went pretty well and I could even do 10 kg more than I usually can without much effort) while waiting for an opening. This meant that by the time I got to inclined dumbbell presses, and seated dumbbell shoulder presses I was pretty much useless...

But actually, if you really think about it, today was a good day at gym: The change in routine was a good thing since I could lift more weights with the exercises I usually do last and struggling a bit more with the other exercises was perhaps worth it!

Tomorrow is cardio/squash day and I get to try out my new squash trainers, hopefully the blisters on my feet will be at an end now!

By the way, just to prevent the same thing happening again I bought a R 50 electronic clock radio as a back-up for my cell phone alarm clock. :)