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I'm honestly not sure whether this was just one of those things, or whether skipping one workout makes a real difference. (I was at the gym last Thursday, but not since, and I normally go twice a week. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
adrian_turtle and I walked some while I was in Arlington, but not huge amounts or at high speed.) Or maybe it's just one of those random things: I woke up with a bit of backache, I think from sleeping wrong, which affected some things.
There are a lot of Marks in the world, and in my social circles. This one is my younger brother. He lives in Texas, has basically since graduating from college and getting a job there, and his current employer sent him to New York as part of his latest contract/assignment. We met at a semi-random Puerto Rican lunch-counter called Cabo Rojo selected largely on the basis of geography (the people he's working for this week are on Twelfth Avenue at 26th Street, and there's not much there), and talked fairly idly. Friendly, but not at all deep. Expecting some version of "Who's Adrian?" (because I'd mentioned in response to his first email that I'd be away visiting her until [this past] Tuesday, all I got was a question about which Arlington I'd been in, and some brief discussion of Greyhound vs. both Amtrak and the Chinatown buses. If they send him back in two or three weeks, we might have lunch together again.
Gym numbers:
Cardio, 13 minutes [I ran out of newspaper], top heart rate 145
Chest press, 65 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Calf raise, 82.5 pounds, 7; 72.5 pounds, 12. My right calf felt tight almost throughout this, so I stopped there.
Bicep curl, 7.5-pound dumbbells, 2 sets of 15; 5 pound dumbbells, 15. (This is the 180° curl the trainer showed me last week, not the 90° one I'd been doing with the barbell.)
Leg press (way down), 90 pounds, 3 sets of 9. Yes, 9. Not sure where the energy went, but I was pushing for those ninth reps.
~Fly, 50 pounds, 15 with each leg forward
Tricep pulldown, 50 pounds, 10
Crunches, 3 sets of 30
Back arch, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each leg}
Balance lateral raise, 5 pounds per hand, 3 sets of 15
Hip adduction, 110 pounds, 13, 11
Hip abduction, 90 pounds, 2 sets of 13 (and I did better than recently on these two)
Leg extension, 60 pounds, 7; 50 pounds, 3 (not a machine I'd used in ages, the weights were pretty much a guess)
Adjustable row, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 15 (almost left this out, but my back felt better late in the workout, so I went for it)
Tricep pulldown, standing on balance pad, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15. By the end of two sets, I was feeling that in my forearms, much more than my upper arms. (I'd done 50 pounds, without the pad, earlier because both the equipment with the five-pound increments and the balance pad were in use then.)
Nautilus/ExpressLine leg press machine, 240 pounds, 12 (another semi-random number, 340 was clearly too much, so went for 240. I hadn't used that machine at all in at least a year, and I think I just wanted to see how I was doing with that, after doing poorly by my recent standards on the plate-loaded leg press.)
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adrian_turtle and I walked some while I was in Arlington, but not huge amounts or at high speed.) Or maybe it's just one of those random things: I woke up with a bit of backache, I think from sleeping wrong, which affected some things.There are a lot of Marks in the world, and in my social circles. This one is my younger brother. He lives in Texas, has basically since graduating from college and getting a job there, and his current employer sent him to New York as part of his latest contract/assignment. We met at a semi-random Puerto Rican lunch-counter called Cabo Rojo selected largely on the basis of geography (the people he's working for this week are on Twelfth Avenue at 26th Street, and there's not much there), and talked fairly idly. Friendly, but not at all deep. Expecting some version of "Who's Adrian?" (because I'd mentioned in response to his first email that I'd be away visiting her until [this past] Tuesday, all I got was a question about which Arlington I'd been in, and some brief discussion of Greyhound vs. both Amtrak and the Chinatown buses. If they send him back in two or three weeks, we might have lunch together again.
Gym numbers:
Cardio, 13 minutes [I ran out of newspaper], top heart rate 145
Chest press, 65 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Calf raise, 82.5 pounds, 7; 72.5 pounds, 12. My right calf felt tight almost throughout this, so I stopped there.
Bicep curl, 7.5-pound dumbbells, 2 sets of 15; 5 pound dumbbells, 15. (This is the 180° curl the trainer showed me last week, not the 90° one I'd been doing with the barbell.)
Leg press (way down), 90 pounds, 3 sets of 9. Yes, 9. Not sure where the energy went, but I was pushing for those ninth reps.
~Fly, 50 pounds, 15 with each leg forward
Tricep pulldown, 50 pounds, 10
Crunches, 3 sets of 30
Back arch, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each leg}
Balance lateral raise, 5 pounds per hand, 3 sets of 15
Hip adduction, 110 pounds, 13, 11
Hip abduction, 90 pounds, 2 sets of 13 (and I did better than recently on these two)
Leg extension, 60 pounds, 7; 50 pounds, 3 (not a machine I'd used in ages, the weights were pretty much a guess)
Adjustable row, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 15 (almost left this out, but my back felt better late in the workout, so I went for it)
Tricep pulldown, standing on balance pad, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15. By the end of two sets, I was feeling that in my forearms, much more than my upper arms. (I'd done 50 pounds, without the pad, earlier because both the equipment with the five-pound increments and the balance pad were in use then.)
Nautilus/ExpressLine leg press machine, 240 pounds, 12 (another semi-random number, 340 was clearly too much, so went for 240. I hadn't used that machine at all in at least a year, and I think I just wanted to see how I was doing with that, after doing poorly by my recent standards on the plate-loaded leg press.)
Stretches