Thursday, March 31, 2011

Must...Learn... Conversion

Living here and not knowing the metric system conversions will be the end of me soon.  I joined a new gym last week, Virgin Health Club, and my first day back in to my weight training was yesterday.  The gym is awesome and has everything- pool, bikram yoga, spinning with the fun TV monitors that make you think you are actually driving through a forest, beach, etc, and an awesome cardio section.  It's like the gym of all gyms.  Except that all the weights are in kilograms, not pounds.

It was "leg" day for me yesterday and I made my way over to the Smith machine to do some squats.  I had a new playlist on my iPod, new gym gear on, heart rate monitor strapped on and feeling like a rock star.  I put on relatively light weight, about 45 pounds as a warm up, and hoisted that bad boy up in the air and subsequently nearly broke my back.  45 kg equals 99.2 lbs.  Rock star status was immediatley revoked.

2 comments:

  1. Oh...I don't mean to laugh. But I did....just a little ;)

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  2. Another good thing about that iPhone of yours is... "there's an app for that"! :-)

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