Fitness..

Yesterday, it became official.. YO BITCH!! YOU ARE NOW ABOVE 150Lbs.. Who da MAN!?!?! That's right, for the first time I am celebrating a weight gain milestone! Yes!! I think about 15 more lbs, and I should be a walking mutant Charles Atlas. Maybe even 20. The reason I am posting this, is because in the last two years, a lot has changed, and the main change was a change in my gym. I went back to my old haunt, the World Health Club. Got back in touch with my first personal trainer. And went back to 5 days a week. New equipment, new focus equalled a new goal, and one that I think is what I have been thinking for a long time, but never having received encouragment for it from the right people. I needed some people in the industry to give me some input. This they did. I actually got in touch with a very prominent work out person, who is an acquintance of my personal trainer Dean Somerset, and asked him for advice after giving my background. Their response was a resounding yes. Do so, get to that market that we can't get into because we are normal. I love how the normals feel so out of whack when they deal with us cool folk. You know us, more structural issues than a derelict house. More plumbing problems than my toilet received this morning after my increase in ginger intake. You know what I mean? So after some sage advice from these two gurus of the glut, lamas of the lats and barons of the biceps, I thought sweet, this is a good thing. But, the final affirmation was from one of the hottest trainers I have ever seen in existence. Sweet Latino lady, with deadlier curves than a fully tricked out baseball pitcher. I was checking her out, I ummm... I was also checking out this particular exercise she was doing. A single arm Lat pulldown on a cable pulley. It was what I had been after in a lat exercise for ages. So I went over, after having a mental cold shower, and started chatting to her about it. We got onto the subject of why I was looking for a change of exercise, and then she asks "what is the degree of scoliosis you have?" It was like this girl is good. I replied with something around 59 degree kyphotic curvature. So she then followed up with the question that made me realize I was on the right thought of job change: "SO, as someone who has back issues, I am wondering what exercises you do to keep yourself active? My cousin has just had back surgery at the age of 17." After the initial, shit I feel for this poor kid, she was suffering moreso the worst part of back problems, the neuromuscular and neurological disorders that came with scoliosis. So, I told her my basics, and then thanked her for affirming that I was on the right path for my job change. Then had a nice cool shower...