Today's lesson

Workouts make you sore.

What makes the soreness go away?

Working out.

Workouts giveth, and workouts taketh away.

Thus ends the lesson.

How weird is that?

Cloudy with a chance of pushups

As I've said in a previous post, given enough time, even the densest Neanderthal will notice a pattern eventually.  Well, I've noticed a pattern of workout styles.  I'd love to be able to forecast what's coming each day I go, but on the other hand...sometimes it's best just to be surprised.  Ignorance can be bliss.  But, as I said, there are different workout styles, where all the exercises on one day have something in common but are completely different than the exercises on another day.  Not having formal education on the subject, I can only hazard a guess as to the rhyme and reason of it all, and (the best part) make up my own names for the styles.

The Shock-and-Awe:  the first day.  What doesn't kill us makes us really, really scared to come back the second day.

The Wheezy-Breezy-Cover-Girl:  lots of cardio.

The Wolfpack: lots of weights (owwwwww, get it?)

The T-rex: lots of arms and shoulder work.

The Labor-and-Delivery: lots of ab work

The Shotgun-Blast: some of everything, designed to make you weep like a child and wonder what you ever did to make God hate you this much.

The Widow-Maker: when your trainer thinks you're progressing and raises the bar.  Always a fun day, that one.

I know there's a plan and that all this works together, but I haven't the faintest clue as to why it's designed the way it is, or how to predict the pattern.  Good news is, with good trainers, I don't have to know why; all I have to do is trust and not give up.  Ours is not to reason why; ours is just to try not to die.  Or something like that.