Saturday, January 15, 2011

Day Five - Don't run Up Spiral Stair Cases

So day five.  I wake up a little up a little later than I usually do.  Yay for days off !!!  So after a call from my brother (thanks by the way for that) I get my butt up and get ready for my workout.  I come downstairs.  Look at the book and its legs and back day. Lets just say I didn't get to this point last time.  At least my legs aren't as sore as they have been.  So it begins.  Warm up goes better.  I hope this trend continues.  Then it's back to the shaking legs.  Oh how I do not like this.  But it is going okay.  Then he says it's time for pull-ups.  No no no.  That is for Monday, not today.  Crap so I pause it to decide how I am going to do pull-ups.  Last time I wrapped my bands around my spiral staircase.  I didn't like that.  I kept feeling that the band was going to snap and smack me in the face.  I can just see the headline "Man horribly injured working out in basement."  I have three doors in my basement.  I cant put my pull-up bar on any of them.  One the celling is too low. Another is under the stairs.  And the other is too wide.  So I finally decide to put my pull-up bar upstairs onto one of my doors upstairs.  So now with my workout I have stairs to do too.  And it's a legs day.  So the first time I go up stairs everything goes just fine.  Same thing with trip two, but then trip three comes.  And I trying to get a better workout and that little bit extra calorie burn I run up the stairs.  Mistake number 1. I get to the top and boom! I slip and hit the ground.  Good thing there was no one there to see that.  But of course I am telling you now so it kinda defeats the purpose of keeping it secret.  Jump up and go do my pull-ups.  and then back down stairs and continue the workout.  Next trip I run again and Bam. Faceplant.  Man, again?  Up and more pull-ups. Oh my arms.  Run back down stairs.  Mistake Number two.  One step from the bottom and oh no there go my feet.  Luckily I catch my self.  Back to workout.  It is time for wall squats.  Oh yeah I used to do this all the time.  I start, and here is where I learn that screaming at the tv kinda helps.  Wow I couldn't make it very far at all.  I love little breaks.  So that workout ends. Time again ladies and gentlemen for?...... Ab Ripper X.  I really hate this workout.  My stomach feels like I have gotten kicked by a mule.  And today I have a special treat while doing it.  My brother shows up.  He becomes my personal cheering section.  (Note the sarcasm.)  As I continue screaming... I mean my workout,  my brother urges me on.  Well kinda jeers me and makes fun of me.  But I finish.  Pretty good day I must say. And I learned that it's really not a good idea to run up or down a spiral staircase.            

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