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I have been to the eye doctor for a checkup. I must say, I like this modern high-tech approach. The glaucoma test is comfortable, with no puffs of air, just looking at a red dot on what looks like a picture of a highway. The eyeglass measurement (minor change to my right eye, worth filling the prescription mostly because I want new glasses anyhow) was also quick, and didn't require looking through 23 slightly different lenses: it turned out that it had been done by the nurse, who measured my existing glasses, put up screens with rows of numbers and letters, and had me read the smallest I could make out with each eye. At one point, the doctor needed to put drops in my eyes, before looking at my retina; he did a visual field test (more high-tech stuff) while the drops were taking effect, and then I sat in the waiting room for a bit. I assume the drops did what they were supposed to, but I didn't notice any change, which also meant no discomfort after the exam.
I also like my eye doctor, but I knew that already. When I came back in after the eye drops, he said "Tell me I lied and it hurt" I told him "You've never lied to me." And he told me a story about how he'd lied about something in fourth grade, and felt so bad about the consequences (which involved homework not being done) that he hasn't lied since.
Since the eye doctor is on E. 40th Street between Madison and Park Avenues, I walked down to Scandinavia House and had lunch at the AQ Cafe. A herring plate--four different kinds of cold herring, plus a small boiled potato, a few onions, and some mustard--with bread and flatbread, and a bottle of lingonberry soda. The latter was good, though I'm not sure how much of that was the lingonberry and how much was the cane sugar.
Then I went to the gym. I had a good, thorough workout, despite a somewhat irritating chatty person on the cardio bike next to mine--he kept asking me questions about myself, while I wanted to read my paper after telling him how to use the equipment. In the weight room, I saw two of the trainers using machines with a lot of weight, including bits where one was on the equipment and the other would add a (45-pound) weight plate after each rep, do that four or six times, and then remove one after each rep.
I'd hoped to be at the gym closer to 1, rather than getting there at 2, but it was very pleasantly uncrowded, and I didn't have to wait for any equipment, nor yet mat space.
Numbers:
Cardio, 26 minutes, top heart rate 155
Calf machine, 75 pounds, 13, 9; 70 pounds, 4, 13 (I had to take five pounds off during the second set, but paused as little as possible in so doing)
Leg press, 280 pounds, 12; 270 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Triceps pulldown, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Leg curl, 80 pounds, 15, 10 (haven't used that machine in a while)
(Nautilus) vertical chest press, 65 pounds, 12, 10
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arch, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each side}
Adjustable row, 80 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 30 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Hip adduction, 110 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Hip abduction, 80 pounds, 2 sets of 12 (Don't take that up any further for a while, since I'm not sure quite what was hurting before and don't want to (re)injure it.)
Bicep curl, 20-pound bar, 25, 25, 20
Stretches
One side effect of going back and tagging old posts is seeing that the color-coding for improvements or declines works with my current color scheme, so I'm trying it again. All the changes so tagged are minor, and they're all relative only to the immediately previous workout, or at most the one before if I didn't do that exercise the previous time; thus, the red for the seated leg press, though it's very slightly down from last week's personal best, and the green for the cardio even though at one point I was routinely doing 33 minutes.
I also like my eye doctor, but I knew that already. When I came back in after the eye drops, he said "Tell me I lied and it hurt" I told him "You've never lied to me." And he told me a story about how he'd lied about something in fourth grade, and felt so bad about the consequences (which involved homework not being done) that he hasn't lied since.
Since the eye doctor is on E. 40th Street between Madison and Park Avenues, I walked down to Scandinavia House and had lunch at the AQ Cafe. A herring plate--four different kinds of cold herring, plus a small boiled potato, a few onions, and some mustard--with bread and flatbread, and a bottle of lingonberry soda. The latter was good, though I'm not sure how much of that was the lingonberry and how much was the cane sugar.
Then I went to the gym. I had a good, thorough workout, despite a somewhat irritating chatty person on the cardio bike next to mine--he kept asking me questions about myself, while I wanted to read my paper after telling him how to use the equipment. In the weight room, I saw two of the trainers using machines with a lot of weight, including bits where one was on the equipment and the other would add a (45-pound) weight plate after each rep, do that four or six times, and then remove one after each rep.
I'd hoped to be at the gym closer to 1, rather than getting there at 2, but it was very pleasantly uncrowded, and I didn't have to wait for any equipment, nor yet mat space.
Numbers:
Cardio, 26 minutes, top heart rate 155
Calf machine, 75 pounds, 13, 9; 70 pounds, 4, 13 (I had to take five pounds off during the second set, but paused as little as possible in so doing)
Leg press, 280 pounds, 12; 270 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Triceps pulldown, 45 pounds, 2 sets of 15
Leg curl, 80 pounds, 15, 10 (haven't used that machine in a while)
(Nautilus) vertical chest press, 65 pounds, 12, 10
Crunches, 4 sets of 20
Back arch, 3 sets of 17
Tree, 4 sets of {3 on each side}
Adjustable row, 80 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Wrist curl, 30 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Hip adduction, 110 pounds, 3 sets of 12
Hip abduction, 80 pounds, 2 sets of 12 (Don't take that up any further for a while, since I'm not sure quite what was hurting before and don't want to (re)injure it.)
Bicep curl, 20-pound bar, 25, 25, 20
Stretches
One side effect of going back and tagging old posts is seeing that the color-coding for improvements or declines works with my current color scheme, so I'm trying it again. All the changes so tagged are minor, and they're all relative only to the immediately previous workout, or at most the one before if I didn't do that exercise the previous time; thus, the red for the seated leg press, though it's very slightly down from last week's personal best, and the green for the cardio even though at one point I was routinely doing 33 minutes.