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Yes, I'd hoped to do some freelance copyediting work (and doubt I will get to it before bedtime), but any weekend day on which I go downtown to the gym and do a proper workout isn't a lazy day, even if I spent the morning doing not-much other than getting myself scratched while medicating Julian. (That boy is definitely an advanced cat, not suited to be anyone's first cat: in fact, I'm wondering if he's too advanced for me.)
I was partway through the workout and thinking that I'd lost ground by not doing anything except the same few exercises, and even those with a fortnight off, and then I thought again and realized that no, I was pushing myself, and it wasn't surprising that I wouldn't do as many repetitions as I'd hoped for if I left the weight alone, or increased it, on something I hadn't done in ages.
Also not entirely surprising, I seem to have stressed my left shoulder, and possibly my left knee. With luck, ibuprofen will help.
Numbers:
Cardio, 30 minutes, top heart rate 150
Leg press, 380 pounds, 8; 375 pounds, 10 (probably more than I "should have" done, given that this is the Xpressline machine I normally do a total of 12 reps on, and that my previous weight was 370).
Calf machine, 75 pounds, 13, 9+3--and then my right calf cramped so I stopped, and decided to go easy on lower-body stuff for a bit.
Adjustable row, 90 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Seated leg curl, 100 pounds, 12, 95 pounds, 9--and then the right calf started to hurt again. (Yes, I'd intended to go easy on it. I lost track.)
Triceps pulldown, 50 pounds, 15, 10; finished that set with 5 at 45 pounds, and then did a set of 15@45
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 20
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}: this is one where the weeks off, and its not being part of the Xpressline, means I have lost ground. When I do crunches at work, I rarely do the yoga bit.
Lateral raises, 7.5 pounds in each hand: the easier kind (just up and down), 15; the trickier kind (up, in, down) 12, then another 15 after my bicep curls. (I'd grabbed these weights because there wasn't a 40-pound barbell free when I got to the free weight area: four people there, counting me, and three of us wanted 40-pound barbells.)
Bicep curls, 40 pounds, 2 sets of 15 (with some difficulty, and a short pause or two); 35 pounds, 15
More Xpressline machines: chest press, 55 pounds, 12 (made a note on my chart to increase that weight)
Leg extension, 80 pounds, 12.
Stretches
[If anyone is wondering why I annotate certain things as Xpressline, it's because the weights on those don't seem commensurable with the weights on the machines in the free weight room, even when the names are the same and the exercise feels very similar.]
I was partway through the workout and thinking that I'd lost ground by not doing anything except the same few exercises, and even those with a fortnight off, and then I thought again and realized that no, I was pushing myself, and it wasn't surprising that I wouldn't do as many repetitions as I'd hoped for if I left the weight alone, or increased it, on something I hadn't done in ages.
Also not entirely surprising, I seem to have stressed my left shoulder, and possibly my left knee. With luck, ibuprofen will help.
Numbers:
Cardio, 30 minutes, top heart rate 150
Leg press, 380 pounds, 8; 375 pounds, 10 (probably more than I "should have" done, given that this is the Xpressline machine I normally do a total of 12 reps on, and that my previous weight was 370).
Calf machine, 75 pounds, 13, 9+3--and then my right calf cramped so I stopped, and decided to go easy on lower-body stuff for a bit.
Adjustable row, 90 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Seated leg curl, 100 pounds, 12, 95 pounds, 9--and then the right calf started to hurt again. (Yes, I'd intended to go easy on it. I lost track.)
Triceps pulldown, 50 pounds, 15, 10; finished that set with 5 at 45 pounds, and then did a set of 15@45
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 20
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}: this is one where the weeks off, and its not being part of the Xpressline, means I have lost ground. When I do crunches at work, I rarely do the yoga bit.
Lateral raises, 7.5 pounds in each hand: the easier kind (just up and down), 15; the trickier kind (up, in, down) 12, then another 15 after my bicep curls. (I'd grabbed these weights because there wasn't a 40-pound barbell free when I got to the free weight area: four people there, counting me, and three of us wanted 40-pound barbells.)
Bicep curls, 40 pounds, 2 sets of 15 (with some difficulty, and a short pause or two); 35 pounds, 15
More Xpressline machines: chest press, 55 pounds, 12 (made a note on my chart to increase that weight)
Leg extension, 80 pounds, 12.
Stretches
[If anyone is wondering why I annotate certain things as Xpressline, it's because the weights on those don't seem commensurable with the weights on the machines in the free weight room, even when the names are the same and the exercise feels very similar.]
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