Post Turkey

It's been four days since I went to the gym so it was overdue. And it's been four days of overindulgent eating with nary any exercise, with the exception of filling and lugging a three cubic foot wheelbarrow of firewood. The gym wasn't very crowded but filled up as the morning progressed. Taking time off usually has a negative impact, and I'm lucky I was able to squeeze past 2.8... Not great but not horrible. 

The weather is unseasonably mild with a high of 52F, overcast skies and a damp wind that makes you keep your jacket zipped up. A storm in the Midwest promises to drench us mid-week. Some folks have opted to go for a run/walk outdoors and only return to the gym to pick up their car keys...

I did manage to do two sets of pull-ups. I felt my abs when doing crunches and Dead Bugs. Planks and Bird Dogs were easy. Maybe I should do more of them? Or hold them for longer? I have enough time for 10 minutes on the stepper and the final set of pull-ups. Rates vary on the Step Mill because even though the speed is set at 6, which should translate to 60 steps per minute, the dashboard shows a rate that arbitrarily varies between 52 and 55 steps per minute.

The husband is away for the week on business and I'm relieved to have quiet uneventful nights where I don't worry about terrified dogs amid the chaos of drunken incoherence. The problem with addiction is that the addict doesn't think there's a problem. Legal woes are just bad luck necessitating a need to be extra careful. But not the need to seek to treatment, to seriously consider quitting drink. Alcoholism is like being controlled by a parasitic infection, (which oddly enough, seems to convert wolves into pack leaders and ants into zombies)... go figure. Could this have been the basis for Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde? It sure feels like it.

28 November 2022
Balmy Monday post Turkey


Precor elliptical #1
Program 3
Time: 30 + 5 (5510)
Distance: 2.81
Cal: 311
Avg Hr: 145, 186-80

HGPU 23

Crunches 60
Piriformis/Hip/Pencil Stretch
60 Dead Bugs
Elbow Plank 60s
Quick Child’s Pose
Cat stretch 12x
Fire Hydrants 25 x 2
Bird Dogs 60s x 2
Child’s Pose
Push-Ups 25
Air Squats 25
Upper body stretch
Eye yoga x 3

StepMill (L)
Manual 10 min
Speed 6 (52-55)
Steps 537
Floors 33
Cal 79
Hr 147

HGPU 20