After doing some interweb research last night, I'm rethinking my weight-lifting strategy. Or re-committing to a slower, safer approach to that aspect of my exercising, anyway, because it's not like I've never thought about this before. I got into a bad habit of straining to do 6-12 reps at the highest movable weight level. And that's fine within a certain phase of training. However, for my age and level of fitness enthusiasm, it's unproductive and even dangerous to do that session after session. I shoul... (...more)

I had toyed with the idea of getting my morning out of the way early so as to leave teh office early and have Cybex equipments to myself early, but that rarely actually happens. So by the time I got to the gym ~quarter to 6, there was interference at practically every station, and a stationary bike class was in session with obnoxious loud music. After one set, I decided I might as well go hit the treadmill - but then even there, the ones that aren't in need of repair were all in use. So I ended up doing a ... (...more)

(per twitter) session 85: 3.3mi / 36m54s. 1mi at 6.1mph, another 1mi at 6.0, cooldown, finished the rest at 6.1. Rawr! I'd kind of hoped to hold up that 6+mph pace for the whole course and at least finish the 3-mile base at 30 minutes, but around 2.09 miles I was just too overheated. I believe just a wee bit of airflow around the cardio area would improve my record significantly. I keep fantasizing about a small fan to clip on the flat-panel TVs in front of the treadmills. Invested in some dish soap ... (...more)

If you told me a year ago that I'd become a running hobbyist, I'd have laughed. Even when I opened my gym membership, my thinking was "I'm not looking to become a 'runner', just competent while I train my cardio fitness". Very little equipment is required; if I decided tomorrow to close my gym membership, I could still run. Then I ran a couple 5Ks, and got a pair of "real" running shoes, and now I find myself looking for meetups to connect with the local running community. There's a 5K at Tradewinds Par... (...more)

Stuff I got done other than working out and clienttiem: set up online access to my credit union account; transcribed a few pages of handwritten journals into the digital archive; vacuumed. Took a rest from working out yesterday, got into teh gym for the lifting part of the working-out ~11:45 today, with my blood sugar presumably far past the spike from a 9:45ish PowerSauce bar. Did 3 abbreviated circuits (cutting out chest press, ab crunch, arm extension and lat pulldowns) for endurance, one level be... (...more)