Show Offs

Thursday 3/15/2012 - From Michelle

 

Today was deffinitely a session in which I feel like I really opened up to Nicole. My BFF, Christy, came for the beginning of the work-out. She came in with her two girls, Sydney and Hailey, to kinda see what this trainer-thing was all about! Nicole and Christy got to know eachother while I worked up a sweat! Only kidding...but I deffinitely wanted to put on a good show for Christy and I could tell that Nicole wanted to show-off for our guest too!;) Nicole and Christy would crack jokes and then I would start cracking up, thus losing my concentration and throwing my balance off! It was great that Nicole and Christy got along...not that I expected anything different!

 

So, while my BFF was there, Nicole and I did a brutal session of arm warm ups. We did the usual raising & lowering of the arms, holding the arms out and twisting the invisible doorknobs, raising the arms above the head and lowering them back down to shoulder-level...only now that I've improved so much, and because we had an audience, the repatition was endless and there were no breaks. Not that Nicole normally goes soft on me, but I could absolutely feel the intensity level kicked up a knotch!

 

With our audience still watching, I did pec/abs/bicep exercises with the resistance band wrapped around the pole in the studio. First I pulled the resistance band back towards my chest. Then, I turned my chair around, so that my back was to the pole, and I pushed the resistance band in front of my chest. All in all, I think Christy got a show and was impressed with my hard work when she left!

 

With Christy gone, Nicole continued to push me! I did about 3 rep of 25 bicep-curls with the 4lb weight. Then it was back to the resistance band wrapped around the pole. I'm gonna be buff after this!

 

Nicole and I chatted during the work-out...Girl Talk! I shared a bunch  of small talk about my BFF (Sorry Christy...you're more a part of this blog than we thought! Love ya!), and then Nicole asked me, "So, whatever happened with your boyfriend when you got sick?" Duh-Duh-Duuuhhh! I shared with her how he "disappeard" when I got sick. We chatted about how closure would have been nice and how now, almost 7 yrs later, he and I are trying to give a fresh start to our friendship. I shared with Nicole how I may not be able to forget, but I do know how to forgive.

 

Before I knew it, our work-out time was up :(. Sad story. I added an additional day of leg presses on the pilates reformer (mon.) and I've got an additional day of Physical Therapy (fri.), so I should be RIPPED by  our next session!;)