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

[emmainfiniti.livejournal.com]

I am very impressed. It is so intimidating to go to a gym and work out with the "beautiful people;" it is even harder when people stare at or overtly harass heavy people. "Go Mom" indeed!!

[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.

[errantember.livejournal.com]

She is truly amazing. She's the patron saint of determination!

[bramblekite.livejournal.com]

That is excellent news. Good to hear about your mom taking better care of herself.

Had a similar experience a couple of Thanksgivings ago when the whole fam damily went to Enchanted Rock for the day. We're climbing the rock, my mom is truckin' along ahead of us, about half way up the rock. My stepdad and I stopped to sit on a boulder and huff and puff and rest, and my stepdad, in an apparent complete lack of irony said "I'm worried about your mother's health,"

[serenity-rose7.livejournal.com]

My sweetie is the same way. He's overweight by lots, but during this move he's hauling around stuff my 16yr old whines about. I see some healthy competition coming along nicely between the two of them.

[serenity-rose7.livejournal.com]

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

[oracle-tx.livejournal.com]

jenmarie has it right, packing around all that extra weight all day long does build muscle. I have considered strapping on weights and wearing them all day to see how that affects my body. I wouldn't expect to beat an overweight person on weightlifting, but they shouldn't expect to beat me in a sprint either.

Still, go mom!