Rethinking

I wasn't sure if Snow Bird was going to be using the Stretch Cage after I was done with the core exercises but since it's happened at least twice, I needed a new approach. I could work out faster and get to the Cage before his arrival. Or, I could do my pull-ups right after cardio, before I even head to the Aerobics Room. I'm still sweaty and breathing hard when I get off the elliptical, but my arms and hands aren't tired so it's all good.

A lot of glaucoma specialists believe that primary glaucoma (unlike secondary glaucoma which is caused by medications or trauma) is a circulatory deficit issue, especially with normal eye pressures. The recommendation almost always includes exercise, especially cardio. Weightlifting not so much. I've cut back close to 90 percent of the weightlifting movements and I'd be lying if I said I didn't miss them. I'm toying with the idea of doing some light Rip Skulls sometime this week. Because I don't think the occasional push-up is doing much for the triceps. And my sciatica is much better although the Cat/Camel stretch still makes the arch of my left foot twang like a plucked cello string. That can't be good.

A friend in her late 70s has a type of macular degeneration, which causes central vision loss. It's frustrating to her, but not as much as her perpetually sore and stiff neck (MRI shows arthritis but we ALL have arthritis), and the fact that she'll need a hip replacement for the other side. If she gets the bad length of her "fixed" hip dealt with, she'll have to re-sole all the shoes she had a cobbler fixed to make up for the full half inch discrepancy that the first hip replacement caused. I know another woman who is recovering from breast cancer, was just diagnosed with emphysema in spite never having smoked in her life (she's blaming 2nd-hand smoke from an ex-husband), and is now looking at needing to have her knee replacement redone because it's failing after just a few years. I feel lucky to be in pretty good health but I'm still young. Or, at least I feel like I am.

I skipped the gym yesterday: too much to do! I made sure I had time to vote, took pups to the park to play with their friends, went grocery shopping, did the supremely uncomfortable mammogram (and ultrasound because even though I've got a tiny bust they're apparently very dense and fibrous), dropped off a defunct printer at Staples, took my son to his kung fu class, got back in time to go to his Troop's Open House & Halloween Party postponed from last week when we got that nor'easter and bomb cyclone, cooked him raviolis after we got home, walked the pups with my son, fed the dogs boiled chicken & kibble with beef broth. I know that for some folks, yesterday's routine is an everyday occurrence. Today, I feel downright lazy.

3 Nov 2021
Wednesday Hump

Precor elliptical
Program 2
Time: 30 min + 5 min cd (5578)
Distance: 2.84
Cal: 315
HR: 151-198

HGPU 15

Crunches 60 x 2
Piriformis/Hip/Pencil Stretch
60 Dead Bugs
Elbow Plank 60s
Quick Child’s Pose
Cat/Camel stretch 12x
Fire Hydrants 25 x 2
Bird Dogs 60s x 2
Child’s Pose
Push-Ups 25
Air Squats 25

Mild Mat stretch w 3 Eye Yoga

DB Lateral Raises
10 lbs x 15 reps x 3 sets