the gym is history

I finally actually cancelled my gym membership yesterday. I can go for the next month, thanks to their silly "processing time" what-what. I might even do that. Anyway, yesterday I did an all-out, lift as much as I felt like kind of workout at the gym, because when will I get to see a squat bar again??? fully expecting to be sore today, but apparently I didn't push myself as hard as I might have, because I wasn't sore this morning. I even felt like I'd pulled a muscle yesterday, but no. And I didn't even hit the ibuprofen! (cause we ran out.)

So today I got started on the hard-core home workouts. I went to the crossfit site and the workout of the day consisted of 3 rounds of a 400m sprint, 21 kettlebell swings and 12 pullups. Well, I can't be running 400m down the street while the child's asleep, I don't own a kettlebell and I have no pullup bar. (Let's leave aside, for the moment, the fact that I cannot actually DO a pullup. Heh.)

But - I have a stepstool, a pedometer, an empty big-ass laundry detergent container, and a table. So, I filled up the laundry detergent container (LDC) with water and found that it weighed 25 lbs - all good - checked to make sure the pedometer sort of worked, and did 3 rounds of 400 stepups (as measured by the pedometer, I wasn't up to *counting* to 400), 21 LDC swings, and 12 table pullups, wherein one lies under the table, grabs the edge, and pulls up. It's sort of more a reverse pushup than a pullup, but it's still sufficiently hard and in the spirit of honesty I will say that I did not do 12 in a set. Oh, and the child awoke just as I was finishing the 2nd round so I never really finished the workout either - according to my spiffy timex, about 13 minutes had elapsed. 13 minutes is better than no minutes!!!

It was bloody hard though, definitely had me sweating and puffing, and if I can get my act together to work out before the child is likely to wake up, it'll be all good.