Mom at the Gym

So i've been a member of this particular gym for 2 years now. I am one of those people that will be extremely dedicated and go every day and then.....well you know how it is, visits become less frequent. Anyway, i've been quite good recently back at it lifiting weights and on that damn elliptical machine. My mother has often complained that she needs to start working out and get in shape. What better birthday gift then to give her a one month membership to my gym. I figured we could go together and motivate one another. Well, let's see, her membership began on September 1 and is up September 30 in 2 days. She has gone a grand total of 4 times. The usual excuses ensued "i'm very busy" "tonight is not a good night" "i'm tired" ...you get the idea.

So last night they had a hip hop class which i thought would be fun...arrived at the gym with mom in tow of course wearing all of her makeup. Turns out the class was cancelled so we decided to hit the weight room, first time for mom. Well let me tell you, i think my tummy had more of a workout than anything from laughing so hard. I showed her various exercises with the free weights, shoulders, biceps, triceps. She used the 5 pounds weights as her arms shook on about rep #7 "ohhhh my upper body is so weak" I then decided to show her some of the machines. My favourite part of the evening was when i introduced her to the squat machine, showed her the excercise and then it was her turn. We don't put any weights on the machine, just want her to get a feel for it first. She pulls the handles out and glides down to a squat position at which point she starts laughing and says she cannot get up. I tell her to just push up from her legs ... "i can't" she's laughing even harder and i'm in hysterics. I have to push the machine up with my hands while she tries to help with her legs. Oh man...enough with the weights. We decide to work on some abs before we go. I show her an exercise and she does quite well at it. Then the ball comes out. I sit on it, put my feet on the wall and show her a different ab exercise tell her to position herself where she is comfortable and steady. Mom gives it a try and repeatedly rolls off the ball laughing some more and declares " i hate that stupid ball" Clearly we are finished for the evening....on the way out she tells me that i should have showed her all of these weight exercises at the beginning of her membership. Gee if you had come to the gym more often i could have LOL.