Vacation! (also some gym notes)

[redbird]

I am now on vacation through January 2nd; somehow, after having been worried I would have no time off left by the end of the year, I wound up with enough to do this and carry one day over into 2011 (which must be used by March 31).

Also, having been worried that I had Far Too Much to do this week, to the point that I was wondering if I'd need to go in tomorrow (which is a holiday), I was able to leave early. Around noon, Wendy came around to say that if people had finished what we needed to by 3:00, we could leave then. I had my doubts at that point, but the last bits of what I needed to get done came together faster than I had expected, after lunch. I even got to do one small task that is only tangentially related to any of my current projects, which could have waited, but which fit conveniently into five spare minutes.

So, I left work at 3, went to the gym and exercised some, then stopped off for a cup of tea (rather than waiting until I got home for more caffeine) and to pick up my bus ticket for next week. I'd bought it online a couple of weeks ago for a significant discount, but wanted to have it in hand ahead of time; I also paid an extra $5 for priority boarding.

It occurred to me, in the course of working around the latest configuration of taped-off areas and machinery and trying to find things at the gym today, that while next month may be crowded with people who make New Year's resolutions remember their gym memberships, the upside is that people are unlikely to sign up at this branch right now. (The gym has different levels of membership, and all-branches-all-times costs extra, so a lot of people stick to one branch.)


Cardio, 14 minutes, top heart rate 125
Tried a shoulder press machine, then stopped because of shoulder pain; I'm hoping that when they finish this renovation they'll bring back the machine I like, which has me push straight forward, not upwards, and doesn't have me using my foot on a lever to put things into position. Maybe I'll ask Emilie, or even one of the other trainers, to show me how it should be used.
Row on ball, 35 pounds, 15, 15, 2: stopped because my right shoulder hurt.
Squats with ball, 2 sets of 15
Calf raise with ball, 2 sets of 15
[I couldn't find a ball of the size I really wanted, so used an over-large one for the row and one smaller than I wanted for everything else.]
Some standing on the foam roller. It turns out that if I'm not holding on to anything, looking in the mirror makes it more difficult, not easier, even though that gave me a wall in reach to balance against. It also meant I needed the wall.

Hamstring bridge, 7, 7, 4
Some balance stuff lying on the foam roll. My right shoulder went yowch when I leaned toward it at one point, but having the right arm and both legs in the air, with the left arm down for balance worked okay.
Roll into bridge and then knee dip, 5
Crunches lying on ball, feet against wall, 10
Stretches
Biceps curls on ball, 10 pounds each hand, 15 (the great big ball again, the little one really didn't work, but that wasn't great either)
Balancing on the blue foam pad, standing on one foot, twice on each foot, both brief

Comments

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

Priority boarding? First in the line on the bus? I wonder why Metro hasn't thought of that. They need a lot more money and there's definitely people who would buy that.