the burn (changes, part 2)

Some of you may or may not know that after my wife died 3 years ago one of the changes I made to my life was joining a gym to lose weight. I lost 60 pounds in about 5-7 months total and the difference was amazing for me, health wise and looking in the mirror. I have since gained back about 25 pounds of that weight, due in part to moving away from the gym I belonged to and because of Terry's great cooking.
So last week I joined a local gym that is only two blocks from my house, and signed up with a personal trainer who is kicking my ass big time. Last Friday I had my first session and by Sunday I felt like a Mack truck had hit me...
Yesterday, my second session left me feeling somewhat the same, but to a lessor degree. I will be working out three days a week until I get this weight off, then I figure two days each week to maintain. This trainer believes in using your own body weight to create muscle mass that will in turn burn calories, very different from my past trainers who set me up on resistance equipment. So we'll see how this new approach works out, I can tell you that he's got me exercising a whole different set of muscles that haven't been worked in a very long time.

I've missed going to the gym, feeling the burn as they say. Once I get through the first month of reconditioning, it's going to be gravy, and I'll be enjoying watching those pounds come back off.
And the name of the place always makes me laugh: Oz Fitness. They have little kangaroo signs everywhere...