NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 17 – My breakfast took me exactly 65 minutes to finish – or at least 40 minutes because I really did not want to go to the gym.<\/p>\n
My body was aching, yes, but I actually like that; I was just feeling downright lazy. After my coffee, two slices of toast, and a boiled egg I walked down the stairs to my car (silver bullet) and began the long journey to the gym.<\/p>\n
By this time, I knew the drill. I picked up my locker key at the reception, headed to the dressing room and then back up to the gym for a 20 minute session of treadmill. Everything was boring, the TVs, the background music, the treadmill; but I was determined. <\/p>\n
Two minutes, five, 11 and finally I was done! I did my best to look tired as I walked to the dispenser and (Please don’t forget your water in between workouts!) decided to weigh myself to kill time because the cross-trainer was ogling me. I was 77kg!!! What?? No way…<\/p>\n
Jotham, the boss instructor, chose that exact time to come where I was to give me my programme for the rest of the week, and after I confronted him, he confirmed to me that the weighing scale had gone ballistic and was not working. The 20 minute biker session was next and for nearly ten minutes all I could think about was whether I had actually lost two kilograms.<\/p>\n
Diet, shmiet… <\/p>\n
Jotham told me that I had been doing a lot of lower body work and that I now needed to focus on my upper body. Trust me there is a lot more to the upper body than biceps and triceps. There’s muscles that are part of the chisel I was looking for whose names I shall have to Google. Actually, you probably should too so that you can see exactly where the greater pectoral, long and short palmar and serratus magnus muscles are? Good stuff.<\/p>\n
So make sure you balance your upper and lower body workouts. Warm-up first! It makes your body nimble and ready for the muscle exertions. See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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