Continental Workout

Ooh boy. Yesterday I was all about my new at-home workout, a.k.a. learning to knit Continental style. I slaved on practice swatches, which I kept ripping out and beginning again as the swatches got too large to handle easily. I tried Continental for a few rows, then Combined for a few rows, and on and on until I chose Continental, got down on one knee, and gave it a ring.

And then the pain started.

First the shoulders. I felt like I’d been pulling myself up El Capitan using only my upper body strength. (Okay, I haven’t actually been up El Capitan yet, and if I have to depend on my upper body strength, I never will.)

But hey, whenever you start a new exercise program, there are going to be aches and pains. So, as Michael Bluth used to say on Arrested Development, I put my head down and plowed through . . . .

No, wait, it’s more than that. This is a ROCKY thing. As Rocky Balboa said, “All I wanna do is go the distance . . . and if I can go that distance, y’see, and that bell rings and I’m still standin’, I’m gonna know for the first time in my life, see, that I weren’t just another bum from the neighborhood.” Yeah, that’s it.

Power

Strength

Energy drink from Ice Kube, resident trainer

and, success!!  “Adriaaann! Adriaaann!”

Workout result

However, we all know how it goes with pride and the inevitable fall. Today I woke up with pain not only in the shoulders, back, and neck but down both arms as well. NO ONE TOLD ME that learning Continental knitting would be so strenuous. I am NOT Rocky Balboa. I have my limits.

So I’m kickin’ back, baby, and cuddling up with Ice Kube, my cute spousal trainer, for a while.