Inspired

I had to do a 6-mile run at the gym today so I took up my usual treadmill facing the free weights section. I like this machine because A) it is one of the few treadmills that has a built in fan (every little bit helps) and B) watching people do weights is way more interesting that watching the cardio folks.

Anyway, I tend to see the same people doing the same things, the usual suspects so to speak.  There’s the old lady who always does like 15 sets of this weird ab exercise on the incline bench and nothing else. There’s the man with the beach ball beer belly that can bench press a gazillion pounds. There’s the really, really old man on the recumbent bike who is moving so slow that I think he’s fallen asleep. The usual suspects.

There are a few women in there though that have really great bodies. I watch them with a bit more interest (well as much interest as I can while doing 8:20 min miles LOL) because I want to know what they doing to get such good definition. These chicks are few and far between unfortunately.  There’s a lot of people who are either working hard to lose weight or super skinny chicks with no definition whatsoever just messing around.

Today a new person, Oxygen girl, came through. I call her that because she looked like an Oxygen magazine cover chick. I was so inspired to see someone look like that in real life. She didn’t look like a bodybuilder, more like a fitness/figure chick.  You could tell her body was the result of working out and a good diet (or amazing genetics).  I admire hard work because I know how hard I work at this stuff and I am just scratching the surface of true dedication.  I seriously wanted to go up to her and say “Good job! I want to look like you when I grow up (and can eat clean and stop stuffing my face so with junk)!”

She worked that floor – hard.  I don’t know what the exercise is called, but you put your feet on a stability ball while your upper body is a plank position.  Then you use your core to roll the ball in and back out.  I can handle that exercise and I know it is no fun.  She flipped it though and after the rollout did a full pushup before repeating.  Perfect form, no wavering, no falling off the ball.  I wanted to applaud LOL!

In any case, Oxygen girl was just what I needed to see this morning to remind me of my goals.  I can do this and the results of hard work can be awesome!  After this wedding madness is over, I am going to start re-reading Burn The Fat, Feed The Muscle again.  I really want to refocus and lose this last 10 pounds that I’ve been trying to lose for the past 6 months.  I’ve come a long way and rather than sitting around congratulating myself and slowly losing ground – I need to finish what I started.