Sunday, August 28, 2005
Not a Trip Report—On Lifting Weights
I started out a couple of years ago at Pablo’s Gym, in the former train station, at that time the only gym I knew existed in Guanajuato, an enormous, dark space with aging equipment. I had worked out with weights off and on at home in
Eventually I learned of the Boss Gym, then on Calle Alhóndiga, because its owner started writing a column for the Chopper, our weekly magazine. It was smaller but with more light and newer equipment and a decent bathroom for changing in. Raúl listened to my story of back pain, probably related to doing situps on a slant board (exhilerating but very stressful), said we would work on my back, and gave me an adaptation of a list of exercises he had prepared—back first, then shoulders, then biceps and triceps, finally chest; for the abdomen he showed me exercises that I did at home because no equipment was involved, although later I discovered that little swiveling circular platform with the hand grip and started doing the fun exercise for the waist on it.
At first I decided I didn’t need to work on my legs, with all the walking I did and living up 75 steps; later on I had a bone-density test, which reminded me of my osteoporosis and made me think I should do exercise implicating the hips, so for a while I did deep-knee bends with a bar on my shoulder and an exercise on a machine. Then it turned out that strengthening my legs was interfering with my yoga—strengthening a muscle shortens it, whereas yoga is all about stretching muscles—so yoga, my first love, won out.
Then there was a crisis with the Boss Gym, when the rent was raised and Raúl was losing money, the solution to which was to empty the living room and dining room of his house and put the equipment, what would fit of it, there. His house was cute but really small; as a private gym for one person the space was adequate, but with one or two others it became quite crowded, and if I walked in and there were three muchachos working out, I had to leave and come back later, a very unhappy state of events.
What saved the situation was another bout of back pain, for which thanks to a Mexican friend I learned of a doctor who was a sports-medicine specialist, one of two who worked half days at the gym of the
All of the gyms here are designed for men, not women, much less elderly women. This means that a given barbell or dumbbell may become too light to be useful but that the next heavier one may be too heavy to lift. This then means a not-very-happy transition in which I struggle to lift the heavier weight two or three times and then continue the set with the lighter weight, until eventually, much to my relief, I can do a decent number of repetitions with the heavier.
Because of my experience with back pain, after getting my curative massage I discontinued one of the three back exercises I used to do, having found a website that told me it was quite stressful, especially for older folks. But I spend 55 minutes to an hour doing a dozen exercises, mostly three times, the ones for biceps and triceps four, with a number of repetitions that I find frequently decreases after the first set.
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