Hair of the Dog That Bit You

yesterday

I'm a bit upset that my sciatic pain has become chronic and nagging. It's not horribly painful, but just enough to get my attention an awful lot. I've read that repetitive motions can make it worse. Oh, like running or pedaling on the elliptical? Well, at least I'm not seated like on an exercise bike. So maybe I'll take tomorrow off and take a lot of ibuprofen, something I'm loathe to do when I'm working out. I did it when we in Florida, and I spent a lot of time walking around, but by the end of the week, I was fine. This is going on the 2nd week now, and it's a persistent dull ache in the ball of my foot, in two of my toes that used to curl up a bit in a pesky hammertoe fashion. It's the threat of my hamstring suffering a muscle spasm when I'm on the bench to press. Ugh.

Today do a full body workout, but make concessions to my inflamed sciatic nerve. No Bird Dog planks because they really seem to make everything feel worse. I curl my knees up to my torso when I do pull ups because hanging straight also seems to exacerbate that nerve. Pedaling on the cross-trainer always makes my toes a bit numb. I don't have that issue on the elliptical. And pedaling backwards seems to make everything feel better. I've limited my stretches as well. Added some benching back into the routine, only did a set of push ups as a sort of warm up. And added Drag Curls too. Only one set of RG BB Curls though... forearms don't quite feel right lately. Of course, all on the right side.

I see a lot of regulars. The Mayor has his adolescent son, a skinny blonde kid, trailing after him. At the Cage, an elderly couple walk up to me and the man says with a smile, "Can I do that?" "Do what?" "Get my leg up over my head?" "Sure, go ahead," I say to him, looking a bit perplexed. "Oh I don't think so," he says cheerfully. Well, okay now... I guess they're just making conversation?

I'm going to take tomorrow off because I have things to do, like pick up the wood rack that the stray cat has toppled over. It's full of wood, but it's only a half rack. However, that's likely to take some time. That'll be my workout for tomorrw. That and scrubbing the kitchen, bathroom... all those mundane household chores that need to get done...

Wednesday Workout
(6.53 miles cardio)

Cross Trainer

Steady State

Calorie :   139 CAL
Distance: 3.95 mile
Speed :    7.89 mph
Duration : 00:30:00

Hammer Grip Pull Up

187

Set 1 : 110x21

Wide Hand Pushup

50

Set 1 : 50 Lap/Rep

Crunches

50

Set 1 : 50 Lap/Rep

Plank

Regular/Elbow

Set 1 : 00:00:30
Set 2 : 00:00:30
Set 3 : 00:00:30
Set 4 : 00:00:30

Crunches

50

Set 1 : 50 Lap/Rep

Plank

Side

Set 1 : 00:00:30
Set 2 : 00:00:30
Set 3 : 00:00:30
Set 4 : 00:00:30

Smith Machine Bench Press

140

Set 1 : 30x15
Set 2 : 50x12
Set 3 : 70x12
Set 4 : 80x12
Set 5 : 90x12
Set 6 : 100x12

Dumbbell Lateral Raise

35

Set 1 : 20x12
Set 2 : 20x12
Set 3 : 20x12
Set 4 : 25x8
Set 5 : 25x12
Set 6 : 25x12 SuperSet With

Dumbbell Reverse Flyes

37.5

Set 1 : 20x15
Set 2 : 20x15
Set 3 : 20x15
Set 4 : 25x12
Set 5 : 25x15
Set 6 : 25x15

Barbell Drag Curl

77

Set 1 : 40x15
Set 2 : 45x12
Set 3 : 50x12
Set 4 : 55x12

Barbell Reverse Curl

83.33

Set 1 : 50x20

Hammer Grip Pull Up

187

Set 1 : 110x21

Elliptical Training

Prgm#1

Calorie :   292 CAL
Distance: 2.58 mile
Duration : 00:30:00

Hammer Grip Pull Up

187

Set 1 : 110x21