The Good Gerbil

After bleating quite a lot about the horrors of the gym/gerbil cage, I've done my last couple of PCP sessions there and I will go back again tonight. And I'm actually quite enjoying it (sharp intake of breath from the audience!). I quite like the range of resistance levels and proper machines to do some of this stuff where the edge of the table or the back of a chair would be normally trying to split my hand in two.

The other major advantage is that, well, lets face it PCP isn't very friendly to the knees and being a bit of a cripple myself, the gym presents a whole world of alternatives to pistol squats and skipping. I went through a couple of weeks of not quite knowing what to do to keep up and have developed a mountainous guilt complex. But since then even just a couple of hard sessions in the gym have left me feeling a lot better about my current progress and I've been able to do a lot of extra stuff on low impact cross country machines, squat machines etc. which give me more control over what my knee is doing (but doesn't give me the full range of movement I might get the PCP way). I know this isn't quite in the spirit of the PCP, just as Rocky trained down at the abattoir while his Russian foe trained on all the latest hi-tech equipment, but at least I'm working mostly the right muscle groups and walking out of the place completely drained and that's good enough for me.

Have found it very hard to get up the last few mornings and slept through the alarm yesterday which is very dangerous - absolutely can't be late for work. More protein??