Sore From Housework

I woke up with unusual tenderness just below my ribs, repercussions from spending two hours yesterday scrubbing the green copper film off our jacuzzi tub. Even though I was lying on a towel placed over the tub edge, there was apparently enough pressure generated to cause some tissue damage. And my arms and shoulders are sore too. All that from scrubbing the tub down to the ceramic. I even bought SoftScrub® just for this job, although some of the stubborn soap scum required a dash of baking soda. It's a big deep tub. And, unfortunately, even though we have a water softener, the hard water is eroding the hot water pipes and depositing them on the tub. It's a good thing I skipped the gym yesterday, but I went today. No cleaning today other than the usual laundry and dishes... Yes, my house is a pit. I admit it. I'm not housewife material.

I feel exhausted when I do my first leg of cardio, and not much better with my first set up pull ups. Facing the mat to do push ups had me grimacing through most of it. My abs are sore and the jiggling and jostling from pedaling the cross-trainer didn't inspire any confidence. However, crunches and planks were fine. I don't feel like dragging the smaller flat bench through the maze of equipment to bring it to the Smith, so I just use what's already there: the oversized Adjustable Inclined Bench. And I do a few sets of Inclined Benching. And a few sets of DB Laterals superset with Reverse Flyes. I'm just too dang tired.

I don't even want to do Rip Skulls. Instead, I kill some time with the Torso Twist machine. I'm waiting for creepy PJ Pants to leave the adjacent machine. He's gotten slovenly and fat again. (Gosh, that decline was quick! But I've noticed this a lot at my gym where someone will start to look really good, and then a week goes by and Poof! they've put on 20 lbs overnight and lost everything. Weird, but not unusual.) I do a set of pull ups before the last leg of cardio, and I'm surprised that this is easier. I don't really feel tired anymore either. Yep, weird.

Cardio starts off hard but feels easy by the time 30 minutes is done. I guess I'm just super slow to warm up. I'm wearing my new raspberry Asics, and although I'd love for them to be a skosh wider, they aren't bad. Afterwards, I stretch and then manage another set of pull ups. The last rep was hard, but I got it done. Yaaaay!

Tuesday Workout
(6.28 miles cardio; 18,564 lbs moved)

Cross Trainer

Warm Up

Calorie :   135 CAL
Distance: 3.75 mile
Speed :    7.5 mph
Duration : 00:30:02

Hammer Grip Pull Up

205.33

Set 1 : 112x25

Seated Flat Bench Leg Pull In

50

Set 1 : 50 Lap/Rep

Wide Hand Pushup

100

Set 1 : 100 Lap/Rep

Bird Dog Plank

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
Set 2 : 50 Lap/Rep
Set 3 : 50 Lap/Rep

SidePlank

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

Smith Machine Incline Bench Press

112

Set 1 : 30x20
Set 2 : 50x15
Set 3 : 70x12
Set 4 : 80x12
Set 5 : 50x25

Dumbbell Lateral Raise

28

Set 1 : 20x12
Set 2 : 20x12
Set 3 : 20x12 SuperSet with

Dumbbell Reverse Flyes

33.33

Set 1 : 20x20
Set 2 : 20x20
Set 3 : 20x20

Toros Twist Machine

Set 1 : 50x25
Set 2 : 50x25

Hammer Grip Pull Up

227.73

Set 1 : 112x31

Elliptical Training

Prgm#1

Calorie :   284 CAL
Distance: 2.53 mile
Duration : 00:30:00

Hammer Grip Pull Up

227.73

Set 1 : 112x31