gym and food

[redbird]

There are various ideas floating around my head, but none of them want to settle down into anything useful, so what you're getting is a very physical entry.

Hip adduction: 100 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Hip abduction: 95 pounds, 3 sets of 12

Cardio: 33 minutes, top heart rate 141. (This was on the same bike where I hit 161 a while back, making me suspect that that high number wasn't an instrument error.)

Bench press: 50 pounds, 12, 11, 7+2
Seated leg curl: 80 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Adjustable row: 100 pounds, 3 sets of 15. If I hadn't just upped the weight on the leg curl, I might have increased this. Soon.
Triceps pulldown: 30 pounds, 3 sets of 15. I asked Bob to check my form, which he did, and suggested that, as a short person, I would do well to grip partway up the rope so there would be room for my arms to swing up further.

Crunches: 4 sets of 20
Back and leg lift with exercise ball: 2 sets of 15
Back arch: 15

Biceps curl: 35 pounds, 12, 7. 30 pounds, 5. At this point, despite (or because of) leaning on the wall for support, my lower back was hurting, so I stopped. I may take cattitude's suggestion of using a biceps machine instead of the free weights, and see if that works better.

Lateral raise: 5 pounds in each hand, 2 sets of 15

Seated leg press: 140 pounds, 3 sets of 15

Stretches


Then I took the train downtown and met cattitude and porcinea at Rue des Crepes. Porcinea hadn't been there before, and wanted to try a bunch of things, so Cattitude and I had a larger and more self-indulgent meal than we otherwise would have. I had the asparagus-and-smoked salmon crepe, which is a bit of a splurge (but not much more so than having other lunches there), and two nice cups of tea, and then we shared a pot of very nice frites (thin, fried hot enough, with the skin on) and two dessert crepes. The "sidewalk" is very basic, sweet and lemon and very tasty; the brie-and-red-grape is substantial enough that I can see having it as lunch. We talked food, and politics, and travel. I got very silly and cheerful on good food, good company, and maybe the tea (I was talked out of a third cup).

Cattitude and I then walked down to Bleecker Street to get coffee at Porto Rico. They're having a sale on all tea (and tea-related products, which I think means teapots, tea balls, and such), 20 percent off this month, so I got two boxes of my default Twinings Ceylon Breakfast.

Having spent more than we had planned on lunch, we then walked up to Varsano's, and spent another $11 on fancy chocolates. Then I went home via the bakery on 181st Street, so we have rye bread, and Cattitude went up to the Bronx and got scallops and other appealing groceries.

It was a good workout, but now my arms are sore, I think because I'm not used to the lateral raise.