It's Fun To Stay At The....

     Well, I went and did a thing. I got us a family membership to our local YMCA. It's 10 minutes from our house and has every weight apparatus we could want. 

     There's no hope for our basement to be used as anything but storage for the foreseeable future. Frank's dad passed away this past December, so we have tons of stuff from his house now residing in our house, which was already full to begin with. There was no way anything was getting done in that basement. 

     I finally got fed up and marched myself into the Y and used my tax refund to take a major step. I figured the cost would be a major incentive to me yo actually go. Plus Frank will benefit from it too as well as Emily. 

     I was nervous as all heck and my anxiety was through the roof because I've never been to any place like this. You have to remember that the gym I went to was small and old school. The only machine it had was a treadmill lol. When I went for a tour of the Y, the guy told me I could schedule an orientation to get a feel for all of the machines but when I called the fron desk to set it up, the girl had no idea what I was talking about. I emailed the guy I talked to and he never got back to me so I was losing my mind. But Frankie came to my rescue and said he would show me what to do.

     Tonight was our first visit and it went very well. It wasn't too structured because we were just getting a feel for the place, but we focused on upper body and got in about 30-40 minutes of work. I dare say that I actually enjoyed it. It was a great time of day to go - not too many people there at 3pm on a Friday, so if we can figure out the slow times of day like that, I think it will be fine. 

     I don't have a log to share because as I said, we were just breaking it in. We did a wee bit of bench, some dumbbell flys and rows and we hit the machines for pecs, triceps, abs, shoulder press and I think that was it. Next visit (hopefully tomorrow) will be lower body. For that, I'll surely be wearing my braces. 

     In regards to my lovely knees, I'm trying to stay as active as possible without the braces to see if I can strengthen them a bit. I was out working in the garden yesterday for about 4.5 - 5 hours and they held up fairly well. They were sore and swollen at the end of the day, but nothing crazy. I'm not going to attempt any leg day at the gym without the braces though; for now at least. 

     I'll be back to keeping my notebook in my bag with me, having people side eye me lol. Oh well, I feel good about this. It was not an inexpensive investment, but our health is worth it. We don't want to die.