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Yes, people tend to look funny when you order a sledge
above 12lb, the nice little old lady clerk at "True
Value hardware" actually said "What the hell you want
that for?" when i ordered my 20lb sledge. I've always
done 2 minutes under hot water then 2 minutes under
cold water in a shower as a follow up to a good
workout. But sometimes good old Epsom salts take the
soreness out real good Lol. Yeah going to the gym can
be a real pain in so may ways...SG workouts are
great...some people do have more of a problem
self-motivating, in the case of friends of mine whom i
tell about SG, they claim they ae tired of driving to
the gym, waiting for machines/benches, walking around
people who are supposed to be working out but are
really chatting each other up,,Etc,. I ask "why go why
not try SG or a good calisthenic workout or buy
dumbells? invariably the response i get is "Well im
more motivated to exercise if more people are there
and i dont want to feel i'v wasted the gym fee. YEESH!

Sorry for the rant but the gym scene just gets me
down..I'll stick w/ home workouts.

--- Debbie Feder <deborahfederlmt@...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Hey guys, last week I was going to the gym and all
> gung ho! Then my 
> son got a cold on Friday and had glands the size of
> brazil nuts so we 
> pretty much stayed in from Friday through
> Monday...Guess what? 
> Between the little lag time, and the fact that I
> have been making 
> calls and searching the want ads for some job, since
> massage is slow 
> going to develop,,,slow I tell you!, I stopped going
> to the little 
> gym.... Okay, I was all stoked to go there four
> times a week and now 
> I'm like "Bleep" it! LOL...So I guess Reinhard, your
> SG psychology 
> of "yo yo gym hopping" is right on target, damn your
> theory! LOL
> But thank you from the bottom of my biceps
> brachialis and the top of 
> my teres minor, for thinking this home workout up! 
> I still haven't 
> flung the "widower maker" around today yet, because
> I was up 
> *again*!!!! pre 6 am!!! I think I turned into a
> groundhog or 
> something! Well it's still better than Winter,
> that's for damn sure.
> I was shocked at how quickly I fizzled out as far as
> my motivation to 
> go to the gym, simply because I had to "go to"
> it....Once I'm there 
> it's great, but it's the getting going that takes a
> herculean mental 
> effort! That's not to say I won't go back sometime,
> but there's no 
> way I will ever be able to utter the words "well
> looks like I won't 
> be home today so no SG for me" because I live
> there!!! LOL
> Oh well, one task at a time...right? :) So I guess
> when one is 
> having a "motivational crisis" SG is really the
> perfect answer...It's 
> there, you're there, so get going! :) Some more
> sblog and I'm off 
> again,,,
> I went to the hardware store, both to see if they
> would hire me to 
> do whatever... they have a lumberyard too and I
> thought maybe they 
> could hire me as a stock person or something, since
> desperate times 
> call for desperate measures, and to see whether they
> had a 16 lb 
> sledge to tinker with and imagine using in my daily
> routine...No such 
> luck... Only went up to 12... When I asked the guy
> if they had 
> anything heavier, I kid you not, his eyes popped out
> of his head and 
> his mouth just hung agape as he said "Heavier???" 
> LOL... 
> I think tonight I will ice my forearms since they
> are getting 
> pretty "ouchie"...that's a great way to flush out
> congested muscles...
> Anyone else here ever try ice? I like to use it
> when I take a shower 
> so I can 1. Not drip all over the place when the ice
> melts 2. Do 
> contrast bathing and alternate hot shower water with
> circular ice 
> massage... This method is great for refreshing tired
> muscles...It 
> pumps all the crap out....but that first minute or
> two of ice does 
> tend to make you scream like a baby....
> Yours,
> Debbie "yo-yo" Feder
> (richies "ma")
> 
> 
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> 
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> 




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