I weigh what?!

So this is not a bragging post at all....ok, well maybe a little. :)

I joined Lifetime Fitness last week and had the free assessment done. They start out by asking you a bunch of questions about what activities you do. I was talking to the guy about the bike ride I do and he was pretty shocked by the mileage I put in. People who do not ride think that is an outrageous amount of miles. He also asked me about my goals and nutrition. I told him my two areas are cardio, flexibility and staying away from soda-pop.

So this is where it got really interesting.

He put me on the treadmill for 5 minutes and made me hold the bars to get my heart rate. Turns out the test failed because I never got over 100 BPM. So he asks me to do it again for another 5 minutes. Same result. By this time I'm starting to feel it bad.

He tells me that we will come back to that test later. Great! Another 5 minutes. I get on the scale and he weighs me. I come out at 141 lbs. Craziness! 141 lbs! Then does the body fat content. They do a measurement on your chest, leg and stomach. 9.3%. I have about 13 lbs of fat. Insane! I would have never guessed that I would be under 10%.

The bad news was the stretch and the bicep strength. Pathetic on both. I told him he should try a leg squat test cause I would have done much better at that. I guess you can do that test too if you want to shell out some extra cash for it.

I was really happy with the results. Now if I can just get my ass in the pool and to some yoga classes I should be able to get better at cardio and flexibility. I think the yoga classes are going to be tough for me to even get to. I know it's good for you but I don't think I'll be able to handle the music and just the general weirdness of it all. I'll probably just steal some stretches from it and try to do my own thing. Put some Metallica on a iPod and do a Lotus stretch! Rock on!

Anyway, left over tacos are calling me now. We'll see how I am in another 8-10 weeks.