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Much of the time, comparisons are odious. But sometimes they're a comfort: not between this workout and the one I'd like to have done, but between working out and not doing so.
To spare my knees, I went to the gym branch near my office: they don't have all the gear I'd normally want to use, but (a) they have an elevator between the two main floors, so I only had to go down four steps at the entrance, and back up four to go back to the street at the end, and (b) it's near my office, so no need to deal with subway stations and their steps. (I commute via accessible stations, but that's very unusual, and neither of the stations on my usual N/R to gym trip is accessible.)
So, I went, did a few things, and got a replacement membership card, to replace the one I'd carried on my key ring long enough that it broke. (It's just a bit of plastic with a bar code; that brings up my name and photo.)
Not all the numbers are comparable, because of some different hardware. So it goes.
Cardio, 11 minutes, top heart rate 119
Chest press, 50 pounds, 12; 55 pounds, 7
Leg press, 140 pounds, 2 sets of {15 pushing only with the right leg}. Even bending the left knee that far to climb in and out of the machine hurt a bit.
Biceps curls, 10 pounds each hand, 20; 30-pound bar, 10; 10 pounds each hand, another 10. The 30-pound bar was harder than I expected; before I switched to using these dumbbells so I could do the kind where my arm goes straight down at one end of each rep, I was routinely doing sets of 15 with a 30- or 35-pound bar. I hope this was more being out of practice than having lost strength.
Balance ~fly, 5/25 (no idea what the units are, though kg would be plausible), {15 with each foot forward}; 4/20, 15 each
A-bench assisted crunches, 2 sets of 15
To spare my knees, I went to the gym branch near my office: they don't have all the gear I'd normally want to use, but (a) they have an elevator between the two main floors, so I only had to go down four steps at the entrance, and back up four to go back to the street at the end, and (b) it's near my office, so no need to deal with subway stations and their steps. (I commute via accessible stations, but that's very unusual, and neither of the stations on my usual N/R to gym trip is accessible.)
So, I went, did a few things, and got a replacement membership card, to replace the one I'd carried on my key ring long enough that it broke. (It's just a bit of plastic with a bar code; that brings up my name and photo.)
Not all the numbers are comparable, because of some different hardware. So it goes.
Cardio, 11 minutes, top heart rate 119
Chest press, 50 pounds, 12; 55 pounds, 7
Leg press, 140 pounds, 2 sets of {15 pushing only with the right leg}. Even bending the left knee that far to climb in and out of the machine hurt a bit.
Biceps curls, 10 pounds each hand, 20; 30-pound bar, 10; 10 pounds each hand, another 10. The 30-pound bar was harder than I expected; before I switched to using these dumbbells so I could do the kind where my arm goes straight down at one end of each rep, I was routinely doing sets of 15 with a 30- or 35-pound bar. I hope this was more being out of practice than having lost strength.
Balance ~fly, 5/25 (no idea what the units are, though kg would be plausible), {15 with each foot forward}; 4/20, 15 each
A-bench assisted crunches, 2 sets of 15