I didn’t post last week because I just did a variation of all the exercises I’ve already posted.

Today I did all new stuff. Like a barbell squat! This is significant because I went to my old gym over the weekend. My old gym, where both men and women go. My old gym where I pretty much stuck to the treadmill and elliptical. So I walk over to the weight section, grab some weights and am doing a variety of weight lifting exercises when this man using a machine next to me doing REALLY annoying, weight dropping snatches, growls “Girls don’t know how to lift weights.”

Um. Excuse me? What am I doing? RIGHT NOW?

Then he told me I was in his way because he was “seriously weight lifting.”

Ok asshole. Well next weekend he can watch me do barbell squats. Right in front of his stupid meathead face.

I also did the scariest, funnest new exercise ever: I took one of those resistance bands, looped it on a pull up bar – not the pull up machine with counter weights, just bars – and used my arm strength to pull the resistance band down and place my foot in. Then I slowly added my other foot and did pull ups. (Do not try this for the first time without having some help. You could snap the band right in your face.)

These. Pullups. Were. So. Hard. But super fun especially now that I am one (baby) step closer to doing a set without any assistance. WOO!

I only have three sessions left with my trainer, which makes me sad. But also really psyched about how much I’ve learned and especially that I have a variety of things to do and won’t ever get bored. I have a few more weeks to decide to buy another package – but right now, I am leaning towards yes. It really is one of the best investments I’ve ever made.