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Since I'd been feeling off-balance, literally, I didn't touch the free weights. That still leaves quite a bit of workout.
Cardio, 33 minutes, top heart rate 153
Bench press, 50 pounds, 12, 12, 11
Triceps pulldown, 40 pounds, 3 sets of 15 (there's room for this one to get out of alignment, but it's low-risk, because I'm using a rope handle, and if I'd dropped it the weights would have hit the rest of the stack, not me or anyone else)
Lat pulldown, 48 pounds, 3 sets of 15 (time to take this up to 60, I think)
Hip adduction, 115 pounds, 13, 13, 12
Hip abduction, 100 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Seated leg curl, 80 pounds, 2 sets of 15; 75 pounds, 15
15 crunches using the A-bench, but I wasn't sure I had the positioning right, so moved to the mat after that:
Another 3 sets of 20 crunches
Back arches, 3 sets of 16
(Skipped the tree, for aforementioned balance reasons)
Dual axis row, 80 pounds. 2 sets of 12. Partway through the second set, I took a closer look at the instructions and realized I was doing it wrong, leaning back instead of pressing my chest against the pad and moving only my arms. So about 8 reps of doing it right, and I probably need a lower weight, if I'm going to stick with this.
Skipped the stretch machine, because of the same balance issue--I know that the tradeoff on that machine is that if I slip badly, my wrists take the damage instead of my head or back. Better not to have that happen.
I'm actually feeling considerably better balanced than I was yesterday, but I didn't want to push it. Vases are expendable; I'm not.
I paused partway through the last set of back arches to write a few sentences that either get tucked into the current work-in-progress as dialogue, or are a new start for it, at a different point in time and in first person instead of third.
Cardio, 33 minutes, top heart rate 153
Bench press, 50 pounds, 12, 12, 11
Triceps pulldown, 40 pounds, 3 sets of 15 (there's room for this one to get out of alignment, but it's low-risk, because I'm using a rope handle, and if I'd dropped it the weights would have hit the rest of the stack, not me or anyone else)
Lat pulldown, 48 pounds, 3 sets of 15 (time to take this up to 60, I think)
Hip adduction, 115 pounds, 13, 13, 12
Hip abduction, 100 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Seated leg curl, 80 pounds, 2 sets of 15; 75 pounds, 15
15 crunches using the A-bench, but I wasn't sure I had the positioning right, so moved to the mat after that:
Another 3 sets of 20 crunches
Back arches, 3 sets of 16
(Skipped the tree, for aforementioned balance reasons)
Dual axis row, 80 pounds. 2 sets of 12. Partway through the second set, I took a closer look at the instructions and realized I was doing it wrong, leaning back instead of pressing my chest against the pad and moving only my arms. So about 8 reps of doing it right, and I probably need a lower weight, if I'm going to stick with this.
Skipped the stretch machine, because of the same balance issue--I know that the tradeoff on that machine is that if I slip badly, my wrists take the damage instead of my head or back. Better not to have that happen.
I'm actually feeling considerably better balanced than I was yesterday, but I didn't want to push it. Vases are expendable; I'm not.
I paused partway through the last set of back arches to write a few sentences that either get tucked into the current work-in-progress as dialogue, or are a new start for it, at a different point in time and in first person instead of third.