Thursday, February 23, 2006

My first experience on the TREADMILL

Today i started using the gym here.The gym is decent and compact.No hydraulic machines and fancy stuff.But good,well oiled chain and puley stuff.quite safe.There are also a few exercycles,one stepper and 3 treadmills.To add to all this.There is a trainer 5 days a week morning and evening(3+3 hrs).I met the trainer.He taught some stretches which were deceptively simple to look at but proved very efficient.Before he had come i tried the treadmill myself.I was so baffled by the options.There were too many options.It was more complex than a computer say(thats a bit too much only..kindly adjust;-))..So tried all options at all levels like incline degree,speed,traction etc etc..
I must agree with one thing.Having seeing people jog on treadmills only on TV,I was prejudiced against it.i thought only stupid people would jog indoors when there is so much nature out there to jog thro.But when i joined that set of stupids, I felt, it was not really that bad at all.It feels just like running on the road.Only difference here is that u end up going nowhere in the end.But u had to decelerate slowly to a walking speed and then alight it seems.I just was running at full trot,decided i had had enough and just pressed the pause button and got down(typically arrogant of me to do so.. but i can plea for ignorance).I felt a bit giddy but not so much to stagger around.Just stood still for a few minutes and proceeded to do some light weight training.
Then played billiards with my trainer for sometime.My game seems to be improving.I played decently well y day.Hope to continue the form today too..Lets see..Overall this first week at oracle has been satisfactory except for a few cosmetic concerns like not finding too many attractive female collegues around etc etc.talking abt collegues.Lots are tamil here and lots are iyengars.Surprisingly most iyengars here sport a bright gay namam here.Surprsing in this so called modern world na..Hope next week is even better..Lets see..

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