Ron Swanson – Uncle Vic, I Did Hear You

January 20, 2012 By: Ron Swanson

Ron Swanson

I am tired. Specifically, I am tired of not exercising. Isn’t that a “fine kettle of fish”?

Never in all of my years, and they are many, have I been sidelined for such an extended period. Sure I’ve had pneumonia and the flu, broken bones and stitches, even had my head shaved and sewn back together, and, of course, there was that nasty incident with a chainsaw a few years back. This is different.

After my first “real surgery,” I am ready to get back to normal. My body, however, isn’t so sure. After two months of balancing on one foot and lifting anything under 5 pounds, I want to get back into the gym/workout routine. The problem is that by3:00 in the afternoon I am completely played out. I go from feeling fine at 2:30 to hardly being able to drive myself home for a siesta a mere half hour later. Everyone tells me that this is “normal”. Well, I don’t like it and starting February 1, I am going to return to Brick Bodies to see if exercise can heal the post-surgery doldrums I find myself in.

Against my nature I am going to attempt to go slowly. No seeing I if I can put another 10 pounds on this machine or do 25 more reps. I will heed Good Ol’ Uncle Vic’s advice from one of his videos last summer to go slowly, very, very slowly to get the most out of an exercise. When you see someone taking 45 seconds for a single repetition on one of the exercise machines, that will be me. And if you should see me trying to do a sit up or ab exercise, please waggle a finger at me and remind me, “Not until May, Commish.”