I call it Mean Gene’s Report because Gene was asking me where the daily report was yesterday. Here it is.
Yesterday was my day off. I was simply hurting too much. I ruined my shoulders. Take your arms. Bend them like you’re going to flap your wings like a duck. Now try to get your elbow higher than your shoulder. I couldn’t do that yesterday without my shoulders spasming so I figured I’d give myself the day off.
I was going to take today off too, but my guilty conscience told me I’d lose my motivation if I took two days off (since I’m planning on taking weekends off too), so I went today in the morning for a change instead of the evenings.
Started on the elliptical. BAD MOVE. Should have warmed up on the bike. I don’t know whether I picked a different program on the elliptical or whether I mighta bumped the level up a few notches by mistake (or maybe I just didn’t exagerate my age by five years this time) but it just KILLED me. I couldn’t even finish the 15 minute program.
I’d noticed those little plaques on the machines but never really paid attention to them before. Nice of them to show you which muscle groups each machine works. I looked for the little picture of the man with the body part highlighted that wouldn’t move yesterday and avoided it. I had a feeling I knew which one it was, and indeed, I was right. Don’t know the name of it, but it’s the one where you start with your arms out to each side and bring them around to the front fully extended. I think I was doing about 60 lbs on that (don’t laugh, it was my second day) and like I said, it just killed me.
So today I worked more on legs. Legs have always been my strong suit anyway - no pun intended - but I figured I’d give the arms a bit of a break. Did about 30 reps of 175 lbs in the leg press. Felt pretty good about that. Dicked around with a few other things, then went back to my old faithful bike - I call her my Harley - and finished the morning on that. Remind me to empty my pockets next time.
Figured out the CD system at the gym today. It’s really neat. People who have been to gyms before have probably seen this, but I haven’t. They have TV’s all across the front of the cardio lounge. 12 of them. You bring your own headphones, plug into the jack and pick the channel you wanna listen to. I think it’s cool. But there were CD players there too, but I couldn’t figure out how to access the audio for them because there were 12 audio channels and 12 TV’s. I never realized (because the room is so huge) that the TV’s are doubled-up. One through six, and then one through six again. The other six channels are CD channels. So today I brought the CD I’ve been meaning to bring since Day 1 and it was neat to be able to bring my own music. I’m not sure whether they use some sort of LCD audio transmission or what the deal is, but it doesn’t seem to be 100% reliable. You get the odd squawk or squeak. I was bopping away to that Michael McDonald CD and a few people actually asked me what channel my CD was in. LOL. I had quite the little cult following by the time I left, and actually left the copy of the CD there because they didn’t want me to take it. LOL.
My arms feel pretty good today. I should be mobile for the weekend.