Planet fitness...or planet torture??

Made it to the gym this evening an hour before they closed, so I managed to have enough time for a full workout there. Investigated a few more upper body machines, and then, to ensure my legs would hate me tomorrow as much as my arms will, decided to try their version of the stairmaster--the "arc trainer." This thing is a cross between an elliptical and a stair machine. I thought it would be easier--a nice, smooth, gliding motion that also went kinda up and down didn't sound too bad. I set a program for 30 minutes, bumped the level up a bit till it felt like I was doing something, and then started in.

Holy crap is all I have to say about that. You know how your legs feel after you've bounded up 10-15 steps or so? Yeah, imagine that feeling continuing for a solid half hour. At least on actual stairs you can slow down and give your legs a break. This torture device is set up to move your legs in an elliptical pattern as well, so that by pushing down, you're also pushing the thing back around back at you to do it again. There is therefore no "taking it easy." I could slow my pace a little bit but found that almost felt worse than going faster, and was pretty much locked into a narrow range of steps per minute regardless of what I did.

I am not going to want to walk tomorrow, I can already tell. And I was planning on running. After softball practice. I am going to require a prize for completing a run of any length tomorrow night, after all this. (And a mystery prize, at that, because if I know what I'm rewarding myself with, I'm just going to say screw it and go buy it anyway.)

Oy.

Overall I think I did something like...
- Pulldown machine, 30 reps at 40 lbs, 2 x 15 at 50 lbs, 2 x 10 at 60 lbs (woohoo!), 2 x 15 at 50
- Arm curl machine, several-ish sets of 10 reps at 30 lbs (3 sets? 4? I lost count)
- Overhead press machine, another "holy crap" moment, effectively the same thing as the pulldown I thought but WOW, did 5 reps at 30 lbs and had to go back down to 20 lbs, where I barely managed to push through 3 sets of 10 reps on that thing. (Incidentally, this is probably why I fail at pushups...)

And there may have been another machine in there but I forgot. I did enough to use up nearly half an hour though because they were closing up the gym as I was finishing my 30 minutes on the Arc Trainer of Doom.

And now, because evidently I want to die, I am about to go battle the lawn. Front and back. With a push mower. It was nice knowing you...