Saturday, June 21, 2025

Keeping It Real

Put in another shift at the gym in the early afternoon and did not enjoy it at all. Which is making me wonder if I'm setting the resistance too high on the machines I've been using - varying the trainer of choice today. The sense of the effort required to get the wheels turning feels similar to the setting for my usual machine (which is the highest resistance available for that version of the elliptical  trainer) but after a time keeping going on these different machines takes quite some doing. I don't mind the idea of making an effort in the interest of keeping reasonably in shape, but I'm not sure it should feel quite so forbidding. Indeed, I'm sort of surprised I've managed a full one hour session today and Thursday.

For the last fifteen minutes today I kept myself going by visualising myself slurping down epic amounts of cold water as soon as I got back to our room. And I can assure you the water tasted especially good when I was able to make the fantasy real.

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