I still haven't recovered enough to do more than a dozen pull-ups, but at least it's still a dozen pull-ups for every set instead of diminishing returns. I'm surprisingly tired by the time I get to the step machine, and I worry that I won't be able to make it through the entire 10 minutes. Thank goodness the machine drops down to speed 2 at minute 9 and then to speed 1 by the last minute. Yes, using the timer function has benefits, notably the automatic cool down program. I look around the free weight area and see a few vaguely familiar faces; people who haven't been around for years are back again, wondering where everyone else is. But it's mostly kids, although the Odd Couple are back with him doing muscles-ups and her staring at her phone most of the time.
It's the end of the week and I've been trying to touch base with the mattress delivery company. They've called the past two mornings but my phone never rings and instead sends the call to voicemail directly. Weird and annoying. It also means I've had to order the bed frame (put it on a wish list on Amazon so I'd have all the info handy). I'm hoping to get them to both arrive within the same week. My house is tiny so there's no place to store anything. The mattress delivery service is supposed to remove the old mattress and box spring.
Those things are a royal pain to dispose of otherwise. The town offers to pick up mattresses if you schedule it, but there's literally no place to prop the huge items up where they won't fall into the road. I've seen rain-soaked mattresses out in driveways for weeks waiting for the rubbish hauler. If I put my old mattress in my driveway, I'm not getting my car in or out. It's one or the other...
The Aerobics Room is unpleasantly warm even though there was a Senior Class there earlier. Apparently, those old bodies just don't generate enough movement to sweat. I skip the exercises that make my sciatica unhappy, or I interrupt the position with ankle flexing and limb stretching to keep the tingling at bay. It seems to work with the Hip Bridges and Bird Dogs, but there's not a lot I can do when I'm in the middle of push-ups except to get the reps done as quickly as possible. Otherwise, the tingling grabs my hip and radiates down the leg into my foot while clenching my calf. Disturbing but not as painful as oh, let's say, shingles. But I worry about nerve damage as I assume the tingling means nerves are compressed and complaining. No one needs that!
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