Showing posts with label Dangly. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dangly. Show all posts

Saturday, 11 December 2010

Spintastic Ninja

RUBBISH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Gym Ninja is rubbish at blogging isn't she? Pfft! Have you even returned? HAVE YOU?


Well Gym Ninja has a backlog of gym fodder for you, starting with.....oh ok, your favourite type of blog. A SPIN blog!


*cue cheers from the few of you who have bothered to turn up*


Gym Ninja did two spin sessions on two consecutive days. The typical Saturday Session was a long hard painful ride, reminiscent of a guy Gym Ninja once dated: Boring, uncomfortable and carried on far too long leaving Gym Ninja with painful nether regions...... so the next day Gym Ninja was determined to select a different bike.


Dangly came in and watched Gym Ninja faffing with bikes.


"You do realise the seats are different shapes" He said, a smug look on his face.


Gym Ninja stared at the seats. She was unaware of this. True to what Dangly said, there were indeed two distinctly different shapes of seats. One seat was smooth, and the other had a small channel down the middle.


"That'll be for guys" Said Dangly, pointing at the channel.


Gym Ninja looked blank...and then twigged. 
Oh God yeh, ahem, right.


"I see" Replied Gym Ninja, keen not to take that chat any further. "Right, I'd best get a smooth saddle, what with being a girl and all..."


But no.


Dangly didn't want to let it lie.


"You know WHY it's got that groove in it don't you?" He questioned.


"Yep, yeh no need to go into detail as I know how it works now!" retorted Gym Ninja as she rapidly unscrewed the seat with the ravine in it and replaced it with a smooth seat.


"It's for the BALL SACK!" At this, Dangly beamed.


Oh. Dear. God.


Gym Ninja winced. It was a Sunday. No need to talk ball sacks with Dangly Earring man. 


But would he let it go? No. Like a dog with a bone. 
"They kind of rest their ball sack in the gap, so it doesn't get all squashed. Obviously you women don't have those so you don't need them".


NO NO NO NO NO!


NO Biology lesson from Dangly please. How terribly awkward. Did Dangly think Gym Ninja was unaware of the difference between male and females or was Dangly actually double checking?


Right..........and so the class began and Gym Ninja, having fatigued herself doing a corker of a session the day before, found the class a tad more challenging and started to flag in the last 15 mins.  The Aircon wasn't working and the whole room was sodden with other people's sweat. Gym Ninja's sweat too of course, but this is ok as she is used to it. By minute 45 Gym Ninja looked as if she'd been for a swim.


The Instructor was about to start a track to run to. That's when you stand and sprint fast and have seated rest intervals. TORTURE!


"Who's finding it hot?" She shouted.


Gym Ninja made a hot sounding noise, obviously, and the Instructor looked over.


"Here, you are always getting too hot. Come up here on the podium and use my bike. YOU can take us for run intervals"


WHAAAAAAAT?


Everyone turned around and started to nod. Oh great, Just as Gym Ninja had planned to take it easy, she would now have to climb up onto a spotlit platform in front of everyone else and lead the sprints, which of course meant extra effort.  Gym Ninja sloped towards the podium...never one to miss an opportunity to make a bad situation worse, Gym Ninja decided to make the most of it.


"I'm available to hire you know, as a freelance Personal Trainer!" 


"Do you want to wear the head mic?" Asked Instructor. Gym Ninja looked at the battery powered mic and felt how sodden her hair was. Hmm, best not otherwise death via electrocution was a distinct possibility. 


Thus began the world's longest track..or so it seemed? Gym Ninja sprinted far longer and harder than she ever had done before, and so the class copied. Oops. Gym Ninja forgot they were copying her! By the time the track ended the class were almost dead.


At the end of the session Gym Ninja got a nice round of applause that appeased her ego (ahem) & after the cool down Gym Ninja walked across the Gym with Dangly.


"You did well" He said, begrudgingly. You have to love someone so negative all the time. But no, he wasn't about to be all nicey nice!


"I noticed you didn't want to wear the head mic for fear it'd mess your hair up though!" At this, Dangly smirked. 


Gym Ninja looked at Dangly and pointed at her hair, which was by now a total mess and plastered to her head. 


"Er, I think you'll find that's NOT why. My hair is already a mess".


Dangly nodded. "Yeh, looks like Furby hair!".


WHAAAAAAT? The cheek of the man!


Gym Ninja then finished off her cool down stretches and headed to the changing rooms, walking past the marathon runner who always mooches around the changing room area in freaky flesh toned underwear that makes her look, from a distance, like a censored pair of breasts (no nipples).  Flesh toned underwear. WHY? Unless you are wearing transparent clothing, then is it REALLY needed?????


Short and sweet but at least there IS a blog today! Gym Ninja MUST try harder!!!!

























Friday, 22 October 2010

Rushed Ninja

Another Saturday (OK so it's 6 days late), another Saturday Slaughter Session.......or was it?


Gym Ninja opened her eyes......Saturday, and her alarm was yet to go off. This was good. It is good to wake before the alarm. Allows the body a bit more time to come to, wake up and.....AHHHHHHR!


The alarm clock flashed up 8.58am.


8.58am.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! 


Gym Ninja set's her alarm on a Saturday for 7.30am. This allows her time to wake up slowly, get showered, have a couple of mugs of tea, get dressed & fed/watered before packing up her gym bag & heading out of the door by 9.15am.  Then it's a 15-20 min drive to the gym depending on traffic and time to warm up before the 10am hour of Extreme Spin that starts off a typical Saturday Slaughter Session.


Firstly, HOW come Gym Ninja's neighbour, who usually has a determined streak focussed on making as much early morning noise as possible via the adjoining wall, had remained quiet today? Had she have begun with her usual 'where's the missing object from the chest of drawers against the wall' game then Gym Ninja would never have overslept! This meant Gym Ninja now had exactly 22 minutes to get up & out of the house. NOT possible for one so slow at waking surely???


This is how it went.


8.58am: Woke up. Saw time. Panicked. Leapt out of bed.
8.58am and 30 seconds:  Cat fell off the bed having been cuddled up close, fast asleep.
9.00am: Galloped downstairs, two cats running alongside Gym Ninja like whippets!
9.01am: Cat food on cats heads due to more-haste-less-speed moment. Kettle on. 
9.02am: Wheat Free Pitta in toaster, back upstairs to get ready.
9.12am: Back downstairs, hair fashioned in the drag-through-hedge-backwards style. Pitta now stone cold.
9.13am: Tea made, cold, brittle pitta filled with cottage cheese & stuffed down face whilst scooping Promax protein powder into shaker bottle. Gym bag packed.
9.14am: Cats faff at patio doors deciding whether to go out or not? Gym Ninja pushes cats bottoms out of door. Yep. You wanted to go out!
9.15am: BCAAs popped, energy drink downed, cats dish trodden in by accident.
9.16am: Foot scraped clean of cat food. Bag grabbed. Quest for doorkeys begins.
9.18am: Keys found in first place Gym Ninja looked then returned to, but after also checking 17 other places. 
9.19am: Bag in car, engine on, car reversing down driveway.
9.20am: Car stopped due to cats now rolling in path of car. Cats picked up, carried to house, stuffed through open door. One cat escapes, allows Gym Ninja to chase him for a while, then runs back into house of own accord.
9.21am: Car journey commences.
9.32am: 15-20 minute journey condensed into 12 mins courtesy of jumping a red light & following the racing line.......


PHEW!


By the time Gym Ninja reached the gym, she was more than a little frazzled.


"Where were you last week?" Barked Dangly, frowning at Gym Ninja. 


Gym Ninja wondered.
Where WAS she? Her brain was still asleep.  Ahhh right-London for the weekend with her partner in Crime 'Red' (she is named after the knitted C'Mon Corsa ad character. They have the same lips donchaknow). 






Dangly looked disgusted. 


"Pfft! Yeh right!"


He then turned away, a look of hurt in his eyes.


OMG! Since when did Gym Ninja have to report her diary to the man with the dangly earring?  Jeeeeeeez!


So sat back on her usual spin bike of choice (Dangly was quick to point out that the girl who stole Gym Ninja's bike the other week had now taken a bike at the furthest away point to them since Gym Ninja had done a Kevin The Teenager act when she took it one week), Gym Ninja prepared for an hour of Extreme Spin knowing full well her body had no only barely woken up, but was still digesting breakfast. Should make for an interesting session? 


Uhh!


One hour later, Gym Ninja stumbled out of the session, half dead and still not 100% awake.  Great. Fantastic start to the weekend.  Passing a row of treadmills hiked up to 15% incline with about 5 women hanging on for dear life, Gym Ninja was too tired even to contemplate un-peeling their fingers from the treadmill handles to stop them cheating. Yep. THAT tired and asleep. 




Now, there was much MUCH more to this blog post than is now typed up. However Gym Ninja currently has the brain of a goldfish, so when new things come into the front of her brain, the older stuff falls back out of the other side, lost forever Possibly it's just as well? This will allow Gym Ninja to ensure she types up her blog in a less tardy manner in future.  There is a vague recollection of a few things that did happen or catch Gym Ninja's eye, such as the man with the dimply deltoids, the girl who runs like a horse galloping (Gym Ninja needs to decide if she has a plastic leg (well, Ok so no 'plastic' but you know ...er..prosthetic that's it!),  the PJ Boys & something about a very old lady bending over naked in the changing rooms....hmm, maybe Gym Ninja didn't 'forget'? Maybe her brain blanked it out due to trauma??????? 


So with great apologies, this blog post now endeth abruptly.  Pfft! 







Friday, 20 August 2010

OK, OK

OK, so you all came back the next day but Gym Ninja didn't. Forgive GN please.


Just for the record, Sunday Slaughter followed Saturday Slaughter, all again with the aid of a well chewed piece of Buzz Gum. Sunday was the last Spin Session with the good instructor that would happen for 3 whole weeks, as she was off on her jollies, leaving sub-standard Spin Instructors to babysit the group.    Pah!


As Gym Ninja was setting up her usual spin bike, a voice broke the silence. The voice came from the row behind & was aimed towards Gym Ninja...


"Does your coccyx hurt?" 


Gym Ninja looked up and noticed that this sentence came from a woman sat motionless on the bike behind her. 


"Excuse me?'" Questioned Gym Ninja. After all, it's not your usual conversational opener is it?


"Does your coccyx hurt from doing Spin? Mine does. Not all the time, but lately it does."


The woman beamed at Gym Ninja whilst rubbing her lower back and doing a fake comedy grimace.


Gym Ninja shook her head. "Sorry no, mine doesn't."


Not sure why GN felt the need to apologise for this fact? Maybe she hates to disappoint people? But nope. No coccyx rubbing necessitated here.  Now, you'd think there would be nowhere to go with that conversation? Indeed there wasn't, but that wasn't an obstacle for Coccyx Lady. Oh no. 


"I like your skin!"


*Ohdeargodpleasedonotletthisbeacrazycannibalisticwoman*


Gym Ninja did a forced smile. 


"Where are you from? You're tanned right?


Gym Ninja then explained about the benefits of gradual tanning body lotion and the fact she is English born and bred. But no. No. This was not enough for Coccyx Woman.


"Really? You are? Oh."


*cue disappointment and a small silence from Coccyx Woman*


"What about your parents? Where are they from? You're not foreign at all? Really? Oh. Oh well you look Egyptian!" 


At this, Coccyx Woman then diverted her gaze, leaving Gym Ninja free to continue her pondering as to why she always attracts oddballs?


Talking of which, as if by magic, Dangly appears.


"You were quick to bin me off yesterday when that guy came over to talk to you eh? EH? Did you go to the wedding with him? Surprised you even made it in!!!!!"


OMG.


How to be chastised by someone you  barely know and haven't even reason for the chastisement. After much questioning it turned out that Dangly felt he had been cast aside in favour of Lanky the day before. Gym Ninja had to explain that she actually did know Lanky already, he was not just a random who had walked in and started talking to her, that technically it was DANGLY himself who had swanned off in a huff for no apparent reason and also that the wedding Lanky had invited GN to attend Saturday night with him was NEVER gonna have been an option. 


Phew! Sunday Spin hadn't even started yet and already Gym Ninja felt like she'd been through it! Not sure when various gym members decided that they owned the rights to Gym Ninja, but apparently this was the case. Gym Ninja instead decided to distract Dangly with a question...


"I was talking to Lisa yesterday, the woman who sits on that bike there? She says she always thought I was married to a rich man!" Gym Ninja then cracked out her wide-eyed 'can you believe that' look. 


Good conversational changer huh?


Dangly stared back at Gym Ninja.


"Well you are aren't you?" He replied. "That's what I heard too."


OK, so now Gym Ninja then had to explain that this was not true, before deciding it was now best to focus on the upcoming spin session and quit talking to other people before she goes insane....




After Spin Gym Ninja went to peer down on the hydropool to double check the type of person sat in there before she made the decision whether to spend 10 minutes in there herself. A quick glance through the window and Gym Ninja's head snapped straight back around again at what she THOUGHT she had seen.


Was that really a topless woman in the hydropool?????


Looking again, Gym Ninja realised here eyes had been playing tricks on her and it was merely an ample chested man with moobs.  Nearby were a tubby couple who were using the hydropool as some sort of chlorinated foreplay. Tubby Guy was standing with his back to the edge, arms stretched outwards along the side whilst Tubby Girl bobbed up and down in front of him in some sort of tubby dance of the seven watery veils.....occasionally Tubby Girl would then bob towards Tubby Man, rubbing herself on him, before bobbing backwards again to continue her seductive hydropool mating ritual.  Please God let that be foam from the bubble jets that is turning that water so white....


Er..........


No hydropool today thank you!


That'll be your lot today Ninjarettes. Do not be greedy. It is best to return to this blog in small manageable bites rather than to gorge yourself silly on reams of ramblings. We don't want you getting stomach ache now do we?


Gym Ninja x









Saturday, 14 August 2010

Death Stare

Gym Ninja had a devil of a job to get into the 'Saturday Slaughter' mode today. Perhaps this was in some way related to the fact she'd managed to rack up all of 3 and a half hours of sleep before the alarm blared out?

Desperate times call for desperate measures. The usual Pre workout Diet Emerge Enegy drink may well fail, so for a back up, Gym Ninja scoffed a piece of the aptly named 'GoGo Guarana Buzz Gum'.  Now of you look at the link you will see it states it is 'fresh mint'. Gym Ninja would like to point out that the fresh mint flavour lasts all for 11 seconds, only to then be replaced by wet dog taste. However, persevere as it is indeed a non-jitter-inducing buzz.  At that, Gym Ninja went to the gym with her big wide bushbaby eyes.......wired.com!

Heading in to the Spin Studio, GN was pleased to see that Dangly had saved her the usual bike. He nodded hello and then berated Gym Ninja for not attending last week.
*sigh*
WHY?
Dangly KNEW Gym Ninja was training clients last weekend. Pfft!    Much chat the occurred, quite possibly due to  Buzz Gum. Gym Ninja is not kidding when she says it perks you up people!

Dangly was busy gossiping about last week's sessions & how he'd moved to 'The Dark Side' and sat with Team 1. Mouth the loud mouthed woman with the big....lungs... *ahem* is on Team 1. She welcomed him as per usual into the fold. Dangly loves how she won't come near when Gym Ninja is about, as if GN's invisible force field protects them, yet when GN is not about, Mouth is all over him like a rash.

"It's because she probably thinks you are Team Two leader" He Surmised.
"You're Gary Glitter!"

Gym Ninja then cracked open her Death Stare.

Gary Glitter.
Hmm.
That'd be the notorious pedophile leader of the gang yeh?

"He was a pedo" Pointed out Gym Ninja, the Death Stare boring a hole in between Dangly's eyes.

Dangly looked sheepish.
"Er, yeh ok point taken, bad choice of words..."

The lights went down, the music cranked up and off everyone went. Buzz Gum fuelled, Gym Ninja's legs went like the clappers. GoGo Ninja!

Now all get yourselves down to Holland & Barrett and stock up on this stuff, as GN had the best spin session in a long time. All on 3 and a half hours sleep too. Remarkable!  After the session Dangly insisted Gym Ninja walk a circuit of the indoor running track with him so he could continue his gossiping. After 10 minutes there was a..

"HIYA!!!!!!!!!!!"

Wow. How loud. Gym Ninja turned to see who was interrupting and lo and behold it was Lanky. Do you remember Lanky? Tall lanky guy (obviously the clue is in the name) who did the old 'I breathe through my ears *wink wink*' line?  Dangly curled his lip and stomped off.

"How ya doing matey? Not seen you for ages! How's the job?"

Gym Ninja explained about the firing (or fondant fancy as it was referred to if you recall?) & Lanky nodded his head sympathetically.

"Tell ya what I'd do!" He began, his eyes all big.

Hmm, maybe he too had tried Buzz Gum?

"When I was in Ibiza there was a yacht with the son of a Prince on it. Big fat guy he was, who's dad gave him £50k per month to spend. Every day there'd be 2 or 3 girls go on board. They'd stay, shag him and then the next day get paid £1500 each. Do THAT! That'd be great. You could retire in 5 years!"

At this, Lanky beamed.

Gym Ninja wondered if Lanky could hear the whirring sound of The Death Stare locking into the target? Nope. No, he didn't see it coming.


*fires Death Stare*

Making her excuses, Gym Ninja returned to the changing rooms, and spent a good 2 minutes trying to ram her key into the lock. After 2 minutes Gym Ninja concluded that her lock was actually the one 2 doors down, moved across and opened the correct locker. Turning around, Gym Ninja narrowly missed a Death Stare from a butch girl who was glaring at her. Ooops. Gym Ninja had been trying to open HER lock by accident!  Damned Buzz Gum was now confusing Gym Ninja. Time to quaff her Promax shake, hit the shower and make a swift exit....

Back here tomorrow Ninjarettes. No excuses (unless of course it is Gym Ninja making the excuse!). Sunday Slaughter Session is gonna be Buzz Gum Fuelled too!!!!!!

Gym Ninja

Sunday, 18 July 2010

iNinja

Uhhr!
Gym Ninja is seriously out of the habit of a daily blog eh? Probably as she is still sorting out her new regular 'routine'.

So you can catch up, allow Gym Ninja to regale you with some past happenings since we last talked about her!

Gym Ninja has a dodgy iPhone. The 3GS is playing up something chronic and moreso since the new software update, to the point that the battery would rain by 50% within a couple of hours. Eeek! Do not drain Gym Ninja's 'world'. GN cannot cope without the iPhone, so with this is mind she booked in to the Genius Bar at Apple. Surely a real live genius would help?

Friday dawned and Gym Ninja walked into her local Apple store, trying to look directly ahead and not be drawn to the iPads to her left. Gym Ninja has a Mac, a MacBook, and an iPhone so obviously an iPad which is near identical yet sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo different is essential for her life. *ahem*

Once seated at the Genius Bar, she was met by a Skateboarder who happened to be a 'Genius'. Who knew? Looked like a Skateboarder to Gym Ninja!    Gym Ninja then explained the problem of the ever draining battery whilst Skaterboy listened on. He then took Gym Ninja's beloved iPhone and rammed a couple of probes into it, like something off the Sci Fi 'Alien Experiments With Probes' genre...

"Water Damage!" Announced Skaterboy.

"The probes have turned pink which is a sign that water has gotten into the iPhone and is causing it to short circuit. I'm afraid water damage isn't covered by the warrantee"

Gym Ninja did a big 'O' shape with her mouth. WATER damage? Gym Ninja hates water. How can this have happened........and then......ahhhh.

"Ahh, It's SWEAT damage, not water damage." Confessed Gym Ninja.

"I sweat all over my iPhone when I'm training at the gym you see as I stash the iPhone down my top."

*cue cute innocent smile*

Never has Gym Ninja ever seen anyone want to drop an iPhone as fast as Skaterboy did. He managed to stop himself, yet adjusted his grip on it so only the tips of two fingers were now holding it.

"Er, I'll go and speak with the Manager. Like I say, it's not normally covered by the warrantee but I will see what he says".

And with that, Skaterboy and Ninjaphone departed (with Skaterboy still barely touching the iPhone).

5 minutes later Skaterboy returned.

"We'll replace it just this once. We'll have to order a new 3GS in & will ring you when it's ready to switch".

Skaterboy handed back the sweat damaged iPhone to Gym Ninja as she beamed at him.  Perhaps stashing a few bikini pictures of herself (taken to help her decide on which bikini to purchase btw) on her iPhone pays dividends when a Store Manager is deciding whether to help out a customer or not? Top Tip ladies!!!!

Saturday dawned... (yes Ok so GN has skipped regaling you with a few workouts but she's forgotten what happened ok?)...Saturday SLAUGHTER Session time!!!!!!

As Gym Ninja bounced through the turnstile she managed to wedge herself inbetween the prongs. Ooops! Too much Diet Emerge Energy Drink making her a tad too fast for the turnstile operation. Also made her look like a spaz....

For once in MONTHS Gym Ninja had time for a 10 minute run prior to spin. Just like the 'old days'. Excellent. If Gym Ninja recalled, the run prior to Spin really helped with the energy levels believe it or not?

The run was 'effortless'. Woohoo! Must be the combination of Diet Emerge and the fact that Gym Ninja is once again sleeping OK.  Next stop, the Spin Studio. Gym Ninja bounded into the room and started to set up her bike, chatting to Dangly her 'bike neighbour' as she did so...

'What's all of that on your neck? That water?" Asked Dangly.

"It's sweat! I just did a quick run" Replied Gym Ninja.

Dangly eyed her nervously, before muttering something about Gym Ninja being a tad too bouncy today.

Chatting about regular attendees, Gym Ninja ended up realising that one ofthe regulars to Spin hadn't been for ages.

"Bike Man hasn't been for ages has he?" Said Gym Ninja to Dangly.

Dangly stared at Gym Ninja.

"Are you joking? He was sat in front of you LAST WEEK!"

WHAT?
REALLY?

Looks like Gym Ninja isn't observant.

"Are you sure?" Asked Gym Ninja as she crossed the room towards the door to throw away her empty can of energy drink.
"The guy with the glasses who is obviously a cyclist? HIM?"

The words were barely out of Gym Ninja's mouth when the very man walked in through the doors in a high viz yellow cycling top.

Dangly looked at the man, looked at Gym Ninja and threw her a 'See-told you!' look across the room. What WHERE The chances?

Bang on 10am the class began, and Gym Ninja pedalled away. Today however Gym Ninja didn't find it as tough. Yes, Gym Ninja broke a sweat, but not to the 'been for a swim or head stuck in a bucket of water' level l she normally sports after the hour is over. Remarkable what sleep and a warm up run can do. According to the Polar Heart Rate monitor the workout was pretty much as intense as it usually was too.  Great stuff.

After Spin was Lower Body work. and Gym Ninja planned on super-setting her legs to a pulp!   High volume and medium weights...

Barbell Squats with Straight legged Deadlifts
Sumo Squats with barbell cleans
Bulgarian Split Squats with one legged dumbbell deadlifts
Then, just to be on the safe side (it does the legs good to be beasted like this once every month), Gym Ninja super-setted frontal plane lunges with Romanian deadlifts.

OOOOOH! Job well done. Yet STILL Gym Ninja had some bounce in her. Let this be a lesson to us all....SLEEP is the best energizer ever. Not only that, it helps regulate appetite as it controls ghrelin levels (that increase hunger levels & fat mass), reduces cortisol & promotes rest and recovery in the body. That, plus a can of Diet Emerge and you're Tigger for the day! ;-)

Until next time (whenever that may be)

Gym Ninja x

Monday, 12 July 2010

Sunday Slaughter!

No no no no no. NOT Saturday Slaughter Session people. Gym Ninja has been suffering from lack of sleep lately, and as a result very nearly slammed into the back of another car the other day, so taking this as a rather inappropriately named 'wake up call', GN  had decided that to put her body through the usual Saturday gym session would do more harm than good, so instead slept in and went to the gym later on that day.  Cardio and weights as per usual.

However this meant that Gym Ninja was missing a Spin Session from hell, hence the rising of the focussed Ninja that dragged herself out of bed Sunday morning and was determined to get that Spin high.

Admittedly not as tired as the previous day, it takes more than one night to catch up on the sleep deficit Gym Ninja is currently rocking, so she looked around for a pre workout boost. In the cupboard was a sample of 'pre workout formula' that Gym Ninja had  received when at the BodyPower Expo...

'Reflex Pre Workout' powder.
Fruity (ahem) and designed to be mixed with water and quaffed prior to a workout. Mmm, sounded good. Nice silver packet too. So Gym Nina mixed it up and took a swig.....

*Bleurrrr*

You know that metallic chemical taste you get with some supplements? This unfortunately was one of those. Gym Ninja persevered and yet after 5 gulps decided that there was no way this was continuing down into her stomach, so instead poured it down the sink.  Gym Ninja is certain she heard the plughole gag........

Gym Ninja arrived at the gym with 15 mins to spare before the hour long Hill Climbing Spin Session. Gathering her stuff together it was only when she reached to get her much needed (and compulsory apparently) Sweat Towel that Gym Ninja realised she'd forgotten hers.

AHHHR!

Gym Ninja sweats like a pig in Spin Class. The Sweat Towel can barely cope, so to NOT have one? GN may drown! Also, it adds to the whole annoyance factor knowing that back at home there are 5 gym towels all in the drawer, lying around, not mopping up sweat....Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!

Once in the Spin Studio Gym Ninja grabbed half a miles worth of paper tissue from the dispenser on the wall. That'd have to do.  Taking up her position on the usual Spin Bike, Gym Ninja chatted to Dangly her Spin Buddy who informed her that the day before, the people who sit on the right hand side of the room had travelled across and sat on the Lefties side!

*gasp*

You miss ONE Spin class and things change!!!!

Wrapping the half mile of tissue around the handlebars, Gym Ninja settled down and prepared to sweat.......

And sweat she did! The tissue was hopeless. Gym Ninja had to use small tufts of it to ensure it lasted the whole hour. By the end of the class the floor space around Gym Ninja was littered!!!!!

A quick ab session later and Gym Ninja headed to the changing rooms to get a shower. Two girls were stood chatting...

"It gets boring on your own doesn't it? You know, coming to the gym and working out" Said one girl.

What?

Listen. If you are actually bored at the gym then you are either NOT training hard enough (as if you are then there is constant change in what you are doing so no time to get bored), OR you have been doing the same old thing for too long and need to get a PT or Gym Instructor to work out something new. The body is designed to find the least path of resistance and will adapt quickly to save energy to what you do. This is why you do not just pick one exercise programme and follow it forever as your body will adapt and progress will grind to a halt (assuming you haven't died of boredom yet)

After the post workout protein shake (choc mint Maximuscle Promax of course) and shower, Gym Ninja headed to the supermarket to stock up on cottage cheese, organic veg and eggs. Obviously other things too but thanks to forgetting the day before (which resulted in a tin of tuna as GN's evening meal) veggies were needed!!!!!!!!

As Gym Ninja shopped she again saw lots of people slumped over their supermarket trolleys. You know the way-whereby they rest their chest and arms all over the handles and then almost body surf through the store? Needless to say their trolleys are usually full of processed nonsense and carb-heavy (which would explain their listlessness).  As Gym Ninja was packing and paying for her shopping, a really REALLY large man in yellow stood behind her in the queue said,

"Come on Skinny! You're giving me a complex here! I'm nursing a beer blister!"

At this, the Yellow man smiled and patted his incredibly large belly.
Yeh, like you needed to point that out.

"It's OK, I'm a Personal Trainer. Hire me!" Retorted Gym Ninja, seeing the panic in the Yellow Man's eyes as he suddenly thought he may be press-ganged into a workout!!!!!!


OMG, Gym Ninja must end this blog post now. Tiredness has just made her accidentally hit the delete button and it's taken GN ages to figure out how to get all this typing back!!!!!! NO WAY would there have been another attempt at a post!

Toodle pip

Gym Ninja x