My Momma's So Fat...

[errantember]

...that, at 63 and grossly overweight she handed me my fucking ass at the gym!

She's really been working like a rabid hamster on crack on her health and weight over the past year. She's been going swimming, which allows her to do a lot of exercises that her massive body and degenerative spine normally prevent. Then, about three months ago, she signed up at a health club and added a weight routine. She now does 25 reps of each of about 10 machines 5 times. She's already shrinking unevenly, and I tried to follow her through her routine. Without changing the weight on her machines, I was completely fucked after only two sets, and I knew that I would already be sore. To keep going was to court injury. Three days later, I'm *still* sore!

It's not every day someone hugely overweight trounces a person almost half her age at the gym. Go Mom!

Comments

[jenmarie.livejournal.com]

Yay!!! As someone who's been morbidly obese, though, I'm not as surprised as some might be. It takes a lot of muscle to haul around an excess 100+ pounds. Which makes a lot of obese people a LOT stronger than their svelte counterparts realize. Cardio stuff is a usually a different story, though.

I wish I'd started weight training at the beginning of my body overhaul instead of being so sporadic about it. That muscle advantage disappears pretty fast if it's not kept up with during the weightloss period.

[serenity-rose7.livejournal.com]

(takes notes) Good thing this place has cardio and weight equipment.