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I saw Emilie last night, for the first time in two weeks. She spent a bunch of time on massage, after I told her my shoulder had been hurting, possibly from pulling the wheeled suitcase. I also did some exercises.
I got to the gym in time to do a reasonable amount of cardio first: 19 minutes, top heart rate 142
Then the assortment of massage, including to the sternum and then other muscles that connect to that. After a while, I said I wanted to do something myself already.
We tried some ab work; I did a few lying mostly flat but on something, with a towel behind my head, and that got stressful, so I asked to go back to the one lying on the physio ball with by feet against the wall. (I don't know why a variety of ab stuff gets stressful; the knees and the right shoulder are the known physical problem areas. But it does.)
Soaz muscle stretches, just once on each side.
Hamstring bridge, with my foot on the roller a bit differently, so it was closer to my body: fewer than on Monday, because first the left calf started to cramp, and then after I got Emilie to massage that, a few reps later the right calf cramped. *sigh*
Squats, leaning against the ball. To go easy on my legs, because I told her I thought I might have overdone those on Monday, the first set was only 8. The second I sneakily took up to 15 while Emilie was carefully guiding me in form/posture, and not counting.
At this point I decided I deserved some fun, so did the balance exercise where I stand on a foam roller. We're still working on fine points of the one-foot version: in particular, to keep balanced with ab muscles, not by waving the other foot in the air. But somewhere in there, I wanted to do something, and was standing on one foot, holding on with one hand, and when Emilie commented on being impressed my reaction was that this was easy, I was holding on, so two points of contact. I tend to assume that if I can do something physical, it's easy. Especially the balance-related stuff. This isn't true of other things: for example, I know I'm better at math than many people, and I'm probably somewhere in the middle of the range for learning languages.
From there, rowing while sitting on a ball: 35 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Calf raise, leaning on ball, 2 sets of 15
And that ended the hour. I may have forgotten something in the middle.
I got to the gym in time to do a reasonable amount of cardio first: 19 minutes, top heart rate 142
Then the assortment of massage, including to the sternum and then other muscles that connect to that. After a while, I said I wanted to do something myself already.
We tried some ab work; I did a few lying mostly flat but on something, with a towel behind my head, and that got stressful, so I asked to go back to the one lying on the physio ball with by feet against the wall. (I don't know why a variety of ab stuff gets stressful; the knees and the right shoulder are the known physical problem areas. But it does.)
Soaz muscle stretches, just once on each side.
Hamstring bridge, with my foot on the roller a bit differently, so it was closer to my body: fewer than on Monday, because first the left calf started to cramp, and then after I got Emilie to massage that, a few reps later the right calf cramped. *sigh*
Squats, leaning against the ball. To go easy on my legs, because I told her I thought I might have overdone those on Monday, the first set was only 8. The second I sneakily took up to 15 while Emilie was carefully guiding me in form/posture, and not counting.
At this point I decided I deserved some fun, so did the balance exercise where I stand on a foam roller. We're still working on fine points of the one-foot version: in particular, to keep balanced with ab muscles, not by waving the other foot in the air. But somewhere in there, I wanted to do something, and was standing on one foot, holding on with one hand, and when Emilie commented on being impressed my reaction was that this was easy, I was holding on, so two points of contact. I tend to assume that if I can do something physical, it's easy. Especially the balance-related stuff. This isn't true of other things: for example, I know I'm better at math than many people, and I'm probably somewhere in the middle of the range for learning languages.
From there, rowing while sitting on a ball: 35 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Calf raise, leaning on ball, 2 sets of 15
And that ended the hour. I may have forgotten something in the middle.
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