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This workout was shorter than usual because my left elbow is bothering me again; once again, it's fine when I'm not using it, hurts a little with some uses, and some weight-lifting things hurt enough that I shouldn't do them. Nonetheless, when I got home I called my doctor's office and cancelled my Thursday morning appointment: it was follow-up from a month ago, but I'm basically better and, most important, my weight is stable, so we don't need to investigate possible problems of which a sudden weight loss could have been a warning.
After the workout, I got lunch in Chinatown, then went out to downtown Brooklyn for a handful of things from Sahadi: lemon curd, dried cranberries, duck pate, that sort of thing.
Cardio, 20 minutes (plus 1:30 cooldown), top heart rate 153
Chest press, 70 pounds, 2--this is where I realized the elbow hurt enough to be a problem.
Calf raise, 77.5 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Tricep pulldown, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Leg press, 300 pounds, 3 sets of 15
~Fly, 50 pounds, 8 with each leg forward (trying to spare the elbow while still doing some balance stuff)
Crunches, 2 sets of 30, 10--I stopped because in the third set the top of my head hurt when my head was off the ground. A scalp pain of some sort, and it went away as soon as I stopped.
Back arches, 2 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each leg}
Balance lateral raise, 2.5 pounds each hand, 3 sets of 15 (another case of trying to spare the elbow while still doing some balance stuff)
Bicep curl, right arm, 12-pound dumbbell, 2 sets of 15
Stretches
After the stretches I tried an exercise I'd just seen some of the trainers doing, and showing to another gym member, involving lying on my back and raising my legs in the air, and then my buttocks off the ground. They said it's good for the hips. I wasn't doing it well, though: I wasn't staying up well, or coming back down smoothly. I think for the hips I get to keep using the hip adduction and abduction machines, which I haven't been doing regularly. I could blame their location in the gym, but mostly I don't like them much, and it's easy to skip them either because I've already done a lot, or on days like this when I've accepted that it's a truncated workout.)
After the workout, I got lunch in Chinatown, then went out to downtown Brooklyn for a handful of things from Sahadi: lemon curd, dried cranberries, duck pate, that sort of thing.
Cardio, 20 minutes (plus 1:30 cooldown), top heart rate 153
Chest press, 70 pounds, 2--this is where I realized the elbow hurt enough to be a problem.
Calf raise, 77.5 pounds, 3 sets of 13
Tricep pulldown, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Leg press, 300 pounds, 3 sets of 15
~Fly, 50 pounds, 8 with each leg forward (trying to spare the elbow while still doing some balance stuff)
Crunches, 2 sets of 30, 10--I stopped because in the third set the top of my head hurt when my head was off the ground. A scalp pain of some sort, and it went away as soon as I stopped.
Back arches, 2 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each leg}
Balance lateral raise, 2.5 pounds each hand, 3 sets of 15 (another case of trying to spare the elbow while still doing some balance stuff)
Bicep curl, right arm, 12-pound dumbbell, 2 sets of 15
Stretches
After the stretches I tried an exercise I'd just seen some of the trainers doing, and showing to another gym member, involving lying on my back and raising my legs in the air, and then my buttocks off the ground. They said it's good for the hips. I wasn't doing it well, though: I wasn't staying up well, or coming back down smoothly. I think for the hips I get to keep using the hip adduction and abduction machines, which I haven't been doing regularly. I could blame their location in the gym, but mostly I don't like them much, and it's easy to skip them either because I've already done a lot, or on days like this when I've accepted that it's a truncated workout.)