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cattitude asked if I thought I wasn't seeing enough of him. And I realized that no, the problem was that I wasn't seeing enough of other people.
So yesterday I went to the gym in the afternoon, so I could conveniently go to the NYRSF meeting afterwards. We read manuscripts, we tossed spelling questions and similar manuscript-related questions at each other, and we had delightful absurd digressive conversations based on those questions. I suspectwomzilla was disappointed at how little work got done, because we were too busy having fun talking to concentrate, but the camaraderie is all the pay we get. Well, unless you count the galley of the new John M. Ford collection, Heat of Fusion and Other Stories that pnh handed me after I poked my head into his and tnh's offices to say hello. Oh, and the first five people I saw in the Tor office--including both T and P--commented favorably on my hair before saying anything else.
I had a pleasant dinner withdrcpunk and mnemex at Khyber Pass: the food there is still good, but they've raised their prices significantly in the few months since I was there last. stakebait was going to join us, but it got late enough that she decided to head straight home. But at least we got her company for the walk.
I had some odd pains in my knees (okay, those are all too familiar) and the front of my left calf and other bits of my legs, so I decided to focus on upper-body work. My cardio is an exercise bike: I figured I'd set it for the usual time, and could quit sooner if necessary, but I needed the warmup. In the end, I did the full time. The only lower-body machine I did was the one for the calf, and I lowered both the weight and the number of reps from my usual.
Cardio, 33 minutes, top heart rate 150
Calf machine, 60 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Bench press, 60 pounds, 12; 70 pounds, 5; 65 pounds, 8: this was an experiment with raising the weight after the first set, rather than starting high and lowering it if/as necessary.
Adjustable row, 100 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 30 pounds, 3 sets of 15. Doing this right after the adjustable row, 3 sets at that weight took me to the point that I could feel it afterwards, and had to push through the third set, which I hadn't felt at this weight when I did the exercises in other orders. Since the original purpose of this one was to help with my grip for the adjustable row, this makes sense.
Triceps pulldown, 50 pounds, 2 sets of 15; 45 pounds, 15
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 17
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}; I didn't feel as well balanced here as lately, and didn't even try resting my foot on my thigh instead of calf.
Bicep curl, 40-pound bar, 3 sets of 15. In the third set, I kept having to rest briefly, with the bar on my calves, in order to keep going.
Lateral raise (full), 5 pounds each hand, 3 sets of 15. I tried the 7.5 weights for a couple of reps, could do only straight out-and-down-again, and put them away.
Stretches, but not the final standing stretch for the quads: it hurt in a "this is wrong/might cramp" way when I tried it.
I hope my legs are happier tomorrow: I've given myself about an hour to exercise in the morning, and will probably focus on what I didn't do yesterday.
I'm used to the breaks/rest of my usual workout, where I try to alternate upper and lower-body exercises; it was, unsurprisingly, harder to do certain things without those pauses.
cattitude asked if I thought I wasn't seeing enough of him. And I realized that no, the problem was that I wasn't seeing enough of other people.So yesterday I went to the gym in the afternoon, so I could conveniently go to the NYRSF meeting afterwards. We read manuscripts, we tossed spelling questions and similar manuscript-related questions at each other, and we had delightful absurd digressive conversations based on those questions. I suspect
womzilla was disappointed at how little work got done, because we were too busy having fun talking to concentrate, but the camaraderie is all the pay we get. Well, unless you count the galley of the new John M. Ford collection, Heat of Fusion and Other Stories that pnh handed me after I poked my head into his and tnh's offices to say hello. Oh, and the first five people I saw in the Tor office--including both T and P--commented favorably on my hair before saying anything else.I had a pleasant dinner with
drcpunk and mnemex at Khyber Pass: the food there is still good, but they've raised their prices significantly in the few months since I was there last. stakebait was going to join us, but it got late enough that she decided to head straight home. But at least we got her company for the walk.I had some odd pains in my knees (okay, those are all too familiar) and the front of my left calf and other bits of my legs, so I decided to focus on upper-body work. My cardio is an exercise bike: I figured I'd set it for the usual time, and could quit sooner if necessary, but I needed the warmup. In the end, I did the full time. The only lower-body machine I did was the one for the calf, and I lowered both the weight and the number of reps from my usual.
Cardio, 33 minutes, top heart rate 150
Calf machine, 60 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Bench press, 60 pounds, 12; 70 pounds, 5; 65 pounds, 8: this was an experiment with raising the weight after the first set, rather than starting high and lowering it if/as necessary.
Adjustable row, 100 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 30 pounds, 3 sets of 15. Doing this right after the adjustable row, 3 sets at that weight took me to the point that I could feel it afterwards, and had to push through the third set, which I hadn't felt at this weight when I did the exercises in other orders. Since the original purpose of this one was to help with my grip for the adjustable row, this makes sense.
Triceps pulldown, 50 pounds, 2 sets of 15; 45 pounds, 15
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arches, 3 sets of 17
Yoga tree, 4 sets of {2 on each leg}; I didn't feel as well balanced here as lately, and didn't even try resting my foot on my thigh instead of calf.
Bicep curl, 40-pound bar, 3 sets of 15. In the third set, I kept having to rest briefly, with the bar on my calves, in order to keep going.
Lateral raise (full), 5 pounds each hand, 3 sets of 15. I tried the 7.5 weights for a couple of reps, could do only straight out-and-down-again, and put them away.
Stretches, but not the final standing stretch for the quads: it hurt in a "this is wrong/might cramp" way when I tried it.
I hope my legs are happier tomorrow: I've given myself about an hour to exercise in the morning, and will probably focus on what I didn't do yesterday.
I'm used to the breaks/rest of my usual workout, where I try to alternate upper and lower-body exercises; it was, unsurprisingly, harder to do certain things without those pauses.