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captainsblogDays of cardio since last post (elliptical): 5
Days of cardio since last post (beating back entire back yard with reel mower for well over two hours): 1
Children moved 70 miles away with much weight and cardio functions involved: 1
Meals eaten out due to foregoing, court cases and general stress: way too many
Weight change: up a pound, not surprisingly, still down about five from when I started keeping weekly track
Other things of note:
After misfiring at trying to arrange it all week, I finally got in time late yesterday afternoon for a half-hour upper-body workout with my trainer, my first in well over a week. My, how I've missed those, and my did I hear from the muscles and joints involved after it was all over. (I'm fine now, but at the 6 a.m. animal feeding frenzy I virtually had to trip over little picket signs being carried by my tendons. I also fell back to sleep after that and stayed that way until almost 11, which I never do.) We resume two-a-weeks in the days after Labor Day, and they, like yesterday's return-to-reality session, will now be mostly later-day classes rather than 8, 9 or 10 in the morning. That's going to take some getting used to, although I did push after it to do a full 30-plus minutes of cardio, and got through it okay. I saw someone at the El Cheapo Gym who I also remember from the BAC; I need to get Sally to pass along some cards so I can give them to people I see there, whether from the old gym or church or whatever, so she can claim responsibility for the results, however slow, I'm getting from all of this.
Also, I treated myself today to two talismans (talismen?) for the effort being made. Last week, Eleanor hit a Buy-One-Get-One sale at Payless, one of which was a pair of Champion sneaks which she raved about for keeping her comfy during both her standing-up Wegmans job and the move-in at RIT this week. (Emily, on the other hand, complained of how tired she was afterwards; some, surely, was her doing more, but some, just as surely, was that she shlepped the whole thing in flip-flops.) I had a coupon from the office supply store for $5 off a Payless purchase, and I had the perfect- for me- Guy Shopping Trip to get the same thing as Eleanor in my size. Walk in to the store (in a strip mall, not a mall-mall), find my size at the end of the aisle closest to the door, find the exact thing I was looking for at eye level, try them on, pay, get the hell out. Five minutes tops (no, they're not hightops).
Flush with luck and savings, I then headed back down Transit to a fitness-equipment store another fellow cardio-logist at the gym had recommended, for the one essential piece of fitness equipment lacking at either of my current venues:
That may not look like much to you, but without something to read, I wouldn't last ten minutes staring at Tweety on MSNBC during my evening elliptical runs, and I'd bail even sooner during that network's lavishly-produced ::koff:: Women in Prison weekend segments. The elliptical I use holds a book, but unless it's either spiral-bound or something really light (like Jewish Sports Legends, and shaddap, I stole that joke from guys named Abrahams and Zucker), the pages flop all over the platform if the whole damn book doesn't wind up on the floor, or worse, within a minute. I've tried using my glasses as a clip (reasonably effective for the book, not so good for the glasses), binder clips from the office, bungee cords from the garage- all with limitations. These plexiglass critters, about the only thing I missed about the BAC, hold just about anything nicely in place without any extra geegaws, and now this one is mine, all minnnnnne!
I wonder if it will lose weight or get thicker at the top as this goes on;)
Finally, just for giggles, I did look at some of the cardio equipment on the G&G selling floor. Sally wasn't kidding about the cost of having one of those in your very own home: if I wanted the LifeFitness model they had that was closest to what I use for $10 a month, I'd be looking at a cool four grand. For that kind of scratch, I'd expect not just a reading platform, but windshield wipers and a trunk.
Days of cardio since last post (beating back entire back yard with reel mower for well over two hours): 1
Children moved 70 miles away with much weight and cardio functions involved: 1
Meals eaten out due to foregoing, court cases and general stress: way too many
Weight change: up a pound, not surprisingly, still down about five from when I started keeping weekly track
Other things of note:
After misfiring at trying to arrange it all week, I finally got in time late yesterday afternoon for a half-hour upper-body workout with my trainer, my first in well over a week. My, how I've missed those, and my did I hear from the muscles and joints involved after it was all over. (I'm fine now, but at the 6 a.m. animal feeding frenzy I virtually had to trip over little picket signs being carried by my tendons. I also fell back to sleep after that and stayed that way until almost 11, which I never do.) We resume two-a-weeks in the days after Labor Day, and they, like yesterday's return-to-reality session, will now be mostly later-day classes rather than 8, 9 or 10 in the morning. That's going to take some getting used to, although I did push after it to do a full 30-plus minutes of cardio, and got through it okay. I saw someone at the El Cheapo Gym who I also remember from the BAC; I need to get Sally to pass along some cards so I can give them to people I see there, whether from the old gym or church or whatever, so she can claim responsibility for the results, however slow, I'm getting from all of this.
Also, I treated myself today to two talismans (talismen?) for the effort being made. Last week, Eleanor hit a Buy-One-Get-One sale at Payless, one of which was a pair of Champion sneaks which she raved about for keeping her comfy during both her standing-up Wegmans job and the move-in at RIT this week. (Emily, on the other hand, complained of how tired she was afterwards; some, surely, was her doing more, but some, just as surely, was that she shlepped the whole thing in flip-flops.) I had a coupon from the office supply store for $5 off a Payless purchase, and I had the perfect- for me- Guy Shopping Trip to get the same thing as Eleanor in my size. Walk in to the store (in a strip mall, not a mall-mall), find my size at the end of the aisle closest to the door, find the exact thing I was looking for at eye level, try them on, pay, get the hell out. Five minutes tops (no, they're not hightops).
Flush with luck and savings, I then headed back down Transit to a fitness-equipment store another fellow cardio-logist at the gym had recommended, for the one essential piece of fitness equipment lacking at either of my current venues:
That may not look like much to you, but without something to read, I wouldn't last ten minutes staring at Tweety on MSNBC during my evening elliptical runs, and I'd bail even sooner during that network's lavishly-produced ::koff:: Women in Prison weekend segments. The elliptical I use holds a book, but unless it's either spiral-bound or something really light (like Jewish Sports Legends, and shaddap, I stole that joke from guys named Abrahams and Zucker), the pages flop all over the platform if the whole damn book doesn't wind up on the floor, or worse, within a minute. I've tried using my glasses as a clip (reasonably effective for the book, not so good for the glasses), binder clips from the office, bungee cords from the garage- all with limitations. These plexiglass critters, about the only thing I missed about the BAC, hold just about anything nicely in place without any extra geegaws, and now this one is mine, all minnnnnne!
I wonder if it will lose weight or get thicker at the top as this goes on;)
Finally, just for giggles, I did look at some of the cardio equipment on the G&G selling floor. Sally wasn't kidding about the cost of having one of those in your very own home: if I wanted the LifeFitness model they had that was closest to what I use for $10 a month, I'd be looking at a cool four grand. For that kind of scratch, I'd expect not just a reading platform, but windshield wipers and a trunk.