Having not trained very much in the last 6 months, I'd been putting this off for 3-4 weeks, but I finally decided yesterday to take up Grizzly's offer to come out & train with this strength training crew at a local gym (about 1.5 miles from me). I'd been putting it off because I was self-conscious, knowing that I really have no strength to speak of anymore, and thinking I'd likely embarrass myself.
I got there right on time (8am) and was one of the 1st people. Met the gym owner & filled out some waiver paperwork, and shortly thereafter, one of the guys who I used to train with (I'll call him RD for now) showed up. I haven't seen him in maybe 3 years? It was cool to catch up with him. Grizzly showed up a bit after that, and we eventually got started.
Their workout today consisted of 3 'events': Continental Clean & Press, Car Deadlift (not us, but this type of setup), and then grip work indoors. I actually did alright with the 1st event, even working up to the weight I was using back when I was training regularly (just not for reps). My hamstrings gave out about halfway through, so I just watched everyone else. I tried the car deadlift, but it was way too heavy for me, just getting back into it, so other than my initial try, I didn't do any of that. For the grip work, we did 'Dinnie Stone' ring pickups, and vertical pin pickups. I did alright with those, but overall, I sucked today, and my back was starting to bother me a bit.
I left a little early, but everyone was really nice and supportive, and I was invited to keep coming back, so that's going to be my plan, as long as I can heal up/recover fairly well. The first few weeks getting back into it are always really rough on my spine, and I always question whether or not I can continue, but I'll just take it slow & hope everything works out. It was fun though, and I hope to keep doing this. Maybe it'll help motivate me to get back into lifting in the garage, and cut down on the drinking too.
Not looking forward to how I'm going to feel tomorrow though...
10:58 a.m. - 2021-07-03
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