session 62: 3 sets on the cybex circuit, shooting for higher reps at lower weight settings.
leg curl: 20x 50#. Started at 70# but I could feel right away that I wasn't going to make 20 reps of it.
leg press: 16-20x 190#
arm curl: Yeah, last session wasn't just a fluke; I started off the upper-body part of the routine at the arm curl station and even being fresh in the arms and shoulders, 50# was just not workable. So I dropped down to 30#, and even at that weight, I could feel 12 reps would only b...
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Damn, Bruckner. Long symphony is long.
Something woke me at ~7AM... there's a motorcyclist or 2 in the 'hood and they're out with their loud tailpipes every morning at the same time. Coffee, vitamins etc. by 7:30, spotted and disposed of my first cockroach here (it was inevitable, wasn't it? I guess 1 in 3 weeks isn't too horrible, compared to Casa Cucaracha), dressed and out by 8AM. Scoped out the McD's a bit south on the other side of 441 to see if they have wifi, but I didn't see any wifi or McCafe signage. I suppose I could have hooked up ...
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I didn't traumatize anything with Wednesday's record-time treadmill session, but my inner thigh (adductors) sure felt it all day Thursday. Googling reveals that the adductor is the muscle involved in the sort of injury commonly known as a "pulled groin". I'm sure that's not as sexy as it sounds.
I'd been frustrated and feeling stuck on the wrong side of the 40-minute "wall". Intellectually, I knew my session times weren't a fair or relevant measure of progress, because I'd been focusing on pushing throu...
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