Monday, August 18, 2014

The Jam is in the Peach

This summer seems relatively short so we've begun jarring home-made peach preserves, cutting the sugar to 1/5 of what recipes call for, and eliminating the pectin altogether. Our foray into wineberry preserves was disappointing because the pectin muted the flavors. A one to one ration of berry to sugar was also too heavy on the sugar. Now wineberry season is over and we're looking at local farm peaches and Jersey blueberries instead.

This is also the last week of camp for my son and he's only there three days. Today I do my split cardio routine as well as Chest, Delts and Biceps. I don't even look at the Breaker benches as I drop my towel on the bench under the Smith Machine. It's also an oversized Matrix adjustable bench that sits too high and too wide. I can't reach the yoga blocks on the floor so I keep my knees bent and my feet on the bench and I'm flipped around so that my head is over the narrower portion, the bottom of the bench. That gives my shoulders and elbows better mobility.

I'm not benching as heavy, but I feel more in control. Better yet is the ability to adjust the bench upward so I can do Smith Inclined Benching immediately afterwards. I get a better chest workout here. I'm going to stick with the Smith machine much to the chagrin of The Mayor and his posse. Afterwards, I find a different Inclined bench to do DB Flyes, keeping my arms bent at the elbows but getting a decent chest pump for my efforts. I don't like to monopolize equipment if it's not necessary unlike Island Jerk who is still draping his towel over benches with loaded bars and then disappearing for 20 minutes at a stretch.

Teenagers show up and I grab my DBs to move to another mirrored wall away from the DB rack where everyone seems to be congregating. Delts are done. I stay at 25 lbs because 30s are doable but not pretty. I make up for it by doing sets of high reps. Lastly are biceps and I almost forget to do them. Good thing I check my phone app before hitting the elliptical. I'm still annoyed that the Jefit app doesn't include Dive Bomber Push Ups or Pistol Squats in their exercise database. I have to manually edit the log to add these exercises in. It's not in my log but I do 5 Pistol Squats per leg.

I need to do a full Mat stretch since I've been fairly inactive all weekend. Going to the NY Renaissance Faire doesn't really count although my husband kept plying me with mead so I'm not surprised that the gym scale reads 112.0 lbs even. We also went to Round Up Texas BBQ for dinner. Again the brisket and ribs were excellent and I can't rave enough about the fried okra. But not everything is worthwhile there. The pulled chicken was dry even with sauce. I wouldn't bother with their sausage either. My son likes their mac & cheese. I used a gob of the cheese on the garlic mashed potatoes. The corn bread is too cakey in texture. The beans are watery with a ketchup vinegar aftertaste. Nope, the only things worthwhile are the ribs, brisket and fried okra.

Tomorrow will be some Tabata cardio and a few rounds of kickboxing the Nexersys. Then off to see Ninja Turtles. The 3-D movie is showing at 11:15. I don't think we want to wait around for the 2-D movie at 12:45 since we're off to the Mall afterwards to find a used Pokemon X&Y 3-DS game for my son's "new" electronic device. Yay summer! But I've got that song from Guardians of the Galaxy running through my head all the time. I might just have to see it again!

Monday Workout

Exercise Name
1 RM
Lifting Logs

Calorie :   96 CAL
Distance: 2.26 mile
Speed :    6.71 mph

Duration : 00:20:00
154
Set 1 : 30x15
Set 2 : 80x13
Set 3 : 100x12
Set 4 : 110x12
Set 5 : 110x12
Set 6 : 90x20
126
Set 1 : 30x15
Set 2 : 70x12
Set 3 : 80x12
Set 4 : 90x12
Set 5 : 90x12
Set 6 : 90x12
35
Set 1 : 25x12
Set 2 : 25x12
Set 3 : 25x12
Set 4 : 25x12
Set 5 : 25x12
35
Set 1 : 20x15
Set 2 : 25x12
Set 3 : 25x12
Set 4 : 25x12
Set 5 : 25x12
Set 6 : 25x12
37.5
Set 1 : 25x15
Set 2 : 25x15
Set 3 : 25x15
Set 4 : 25x15
Set 5 : 25x15
28
Set 1 : 20x12
Set 2 : 20x12
Set 3 : 20x12
56.25
Set 1 : 15x15
Set 2 : 37.5x15
Set 3 : 37.5x15
Set 4 : 37.5x15
N/A
Calorie :   311 CAL
Distance: 2.84 mile
Speed :    --
Lap/Rep :  --
Duration : 00:35:00
N/A
Set 1 : 00:01:02
12
Set 1 : 12 Laps/Reps
Set 2 : 12 Laps/Reps
Set 3 : 12 Laps/Reps
50
Set 1 : 50 Laps/Reps

No comments:

Post a Comment

The Start of a Scorching Week

Saturday's drive down to Point Pleasant NJ took almost 3 hours in the rain. We had a good time seeing relatives in celebration of my bro...