I am mighty and muscular

[redbird]

Well, moderately so.

Cardio, 20 minutes plus two cooldown, top heart rate 159. I accidentally took the resistance level from 8 to 10 when I was aiming for nine [I normally start it at 7, and go to 8 after a few minutes, sometimes with intermittent 9 or even 10], and by the time I noticed, maybe 2 minutes later, the heart rate was at 159. And stayed above 150 until I was into the cooldown (at 4).

I did some of the weights at the low end of my range, because I'd skipped a couple of workouts and because the muscle aches that led me to do so aren't entirely gone.

Chest press, 65 pounds, 10, 5
Leg press (Nautilus machine, to spare my back schlepping the 45-pound weight plates): 260 pounds, 2 sets of 15; 240 pounds, 15
Balance ~fly, 50 pounds, 2 sets of {15 with each leg forward}
Calf raise, 70 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Biceps curl, 10 pounds each hand, 8. At about the fifth rep, a muscle on the right side of my back that had been bothering me intermittently for a few days started to hurt a little; by 7 it was significant, and during 8 I said "for best results" and stopped doing what was, at that point, a stupid thing. Fortunately, stopping seems to have been sufficient, and I was able to do my mat work without a problem.

Crunches, 3 sets of 30
Back arches, 2 sets of 17
Tree, 5 sets of {3 on each leg}

Balance lateral raise, 2.5 pounds each hand, 2 sets of 15
Balance squats, 15

Stretches

Comments

[redbird]

That's because the purple-hair photo is a few years old. I haven't been coloring my hair now that I'm growing it out. All the pictures of me I have as userpics are a few years old, in fact; I should see about getting a decent current photo, with the longer hair. The one attached to this comment is six years old (!), taken in Hay-on-Wye the weekend of papersky's wedding there.

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I've been considering getting a newer one like this one so I can see if I've really lost all the fat between my chin and neck. It feels like it, and interestingly, my scar is much much more obvious now.

[redbird]

The odd thing is that I haven't noticed any change in how my face looks, probably because of some combination of gradualism; the episode of Bell's Palsy a year or so back, after which a face that behaved "normally" in the sense that all the nerves were working was what I was noticing, not exact shapes; and that there are no issues of clothing possibly fitting differently. (The glasses fit on nose and ears--which are cartilage--and around the skull itself, which is bone.)

[mjlayman.livejournal.com]

I first noticed it because of the scar (from when the otolaryngologist tried to fix my partially-paralyzed vocal cords) -- it had been hidden in a dip between two bits of fat and all of a sudden, it was there. Then I realized that I have less fat between my chin and neck. My left ring finger is back to 3.5, which is what both ring fingers were before I got sick (my right hand knuckles are too swollen with gout and osteo to tell). Apparently changing from Gatorade to the Sqwincher Lite for electrolytes is really making a difference.