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I feel like I’m on a wonder drug.

I am one third of the way to my weight release goal for Christmas; this makes it highly likely that I will be opening my one size smaller Christmas gift parcel of three new pairs of Jeans, (my gift to myself) J, on Christmas day.

 
Aside from and more important to me, than the weight loss, goal, I am
                                             feeling fantasticJ

How I am getting on this  ‘high’?

I am doing the resistance training workouts using the equipment in the fabulous gym room at Aquamoves Gym, in Shepparton, Victoria.  Something I have done before, but I am noticing that things are different now to when I have started, stopped, and stop started with a gym in the past.

When I arrive at gym these days I feel like I’m getting the benefit of having a personal trainer for part of every gym session that I attend.  I recognize the trainers, they come past and observe how I work out, give me extra tips on how to perform the sets.  They sometimes suggest I change to a new resistance routine that will be better for me, and always they have encouraging words.  They weigh and assess my total fat % and encourage me to achieve my fat percentage goal and are keen, the same as I am that my weight loss is a healthy one, of excess body fat, not lean healthy muscle or bone.

At the Aquamoves gym they don’t high pressure on sell you a gym program and then leave you confused by the equipment or over extended and likely to injure yourself, nor feeling lost and fending for yourself as I have felt in the past, at other gyms and even this one, before I made the effort to ask the trainers for instruction and encouragement, instead of trying to ‘do it alone’.

I am thrilled by the results and the service I am getting at this gym and find myself actually enjoying the weight resistance work out, something that I never thought would ever be more than a to do list, chore, I was giving myself, as part of my action plan  in order to achieve a goal.

Fancy that, J this once morbidly obese and  invalid thinking,  senior, is now  loving doing weight resistance training, J Almost unbelievably, lol, J and I can hardly wipe the grin of my face at how great this feels. J

On a personal level, what can give a 63 year old plump lady more of a thrill than to follow a fit 20 year old around the gym circuit and have to add 20 kilo or more weights to those the younger woman was pushing, pulling or lifting, lol, J, it does wonders for the moral.

Another thing that always thrills me is to see the very fit, senior, slender proudly grey haired ladies working out; it gives me a gray pride and belief in a sensational seniors, fit and active future. These are the people I want to mix with; these are the people who inspire me to be at my best.

Next evidence that I’m definitely ‘on something ‘ ;-) lol J is how well I am sleeping, how energetic I am waking in the morning, and how easy thing like housework become once your able to do leg presses of 200lb weights, pull downs at 60lb and chest presses at 50lb.  Lol, OK, these are still, beginners weights, but they are a huge improvement for me and I can feel the benefit these along with the superman exercise I can do here at home and the stability ball squats, all designed to strengthen my core muscles and back muscles is making my back pain, a thing of the past and the chances that I will injure myself doing everyday tasks, is becoming less likely as I develop my core strength.

From the ‘Fit Seniors’, web site: -One of the best ways to reduce stress is to exercise!! Exercise increases your overall health and your sense of well-being, which puts more pep in your steps every day. But exercise also has some direct stress-busting benefits.

Exercise pumps up your endorphins. Physical activity helps to boost the production of your brain’s feel-good neurotransmitters, called endorphins.

To read the full text, go to Fit Seniors
 

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