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Interview with Grant Imahara, my fictional geeky TV boyfriend.*
Also, some time after biking for 40 minutes yesterday, I went back to the Hundred Pushups website. I'd done the program a year or so ago, and got about halfway through before getting distracted by something shiny and forgot to get back to it.** They've since added a program for pull-ups (which I have zero interest in at the moment, not having anything to pull myself up with), and a squat program. Which sounded interesting. So I took their test, which consisted of seeing how many good-form squats you can do, and I did far more than I expected, which was good, but of course today my legs are protesting this!
And, naturally, today is one of the days that the elevator is malfunctioning*** so when I went upstairs I had to -- *gasp!* -- use the stairs. Going up the stairs wasn't particularly tough, just slow as my legs are protesting.
Going down was a whole other matter, as my thighs felt close to failure with each step. :) They're not hurting yet - that'll come this afternoon in the normal course of events.
My immediate goal here is to strengthen my legs and lose enough weight to take the stress off my knee - I knew it was time to get back into the biking and watching my eating habit when my knee problems started coming back as I re-gained weight. And I rather like having the ability to walk, so!
Still not going overboard - I still have the ultimate goal of 20 minutes a day on the bike, every day, and the promise to myself not to exercise more than an hour a day unless I'm training for something specific.
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myrialux is my nonfictional geeky real-life boyfriend. What can I say: he gave me a desktop onager for my birthday, and even put it together. I know his real motivation: he needed an excuse to buy a Dremel tool.
** I also did push-ups against the wall, instead of on the floor: my arthritic foot won't let me do real ones, my RSI-riddled wrist won't let me do knee ones, but I can do knuckle pushups against a wall without causing either my foot or my wrist to spasm in pain. I have to pad my fists with oven mitts, however, which just adds to the dorkitude.
*** We shut it down overnight as only part of the building is open. It's got a fault somewhere in it that occasionally means that in the morning, it re-settles and trips something which keeps it from moving, so they have to come re-set it. Nobody's particularly happy about it.
Also, some time after biking for 40 minutes yesterday, I went back to the Hundred Pushups website. I'd done the program a year or so ago, and got about halfway through before getting distracted by something shiny and forgot to get back to it.** They've since added a program for pull-ups (which I have zero interest in at the moment, not having anything to pull myself up with), and a squat program. Which sounded interesting. So I took their test, which consisted of seeing how many good-form squats you can do, and I did far more than I expected, which was good, but of course today my legs are protesting this!
And, naturally, today is one of the days that the elevator is malfunctioning*** so when I went upstairs I had to -- *gasp!* -- use the stairs. Going up the stairs wasn't particularly tough, just slow as my legs are protesting.
Going down was a whole other matter, as my thighs felt close to failure with each step. :) They're not hurting yet - that'll come this afternoon in the normal course of events.
My immediate goal here is to strengthen my legs and lose enough weight to take the stress off my knee - I knew it was time to get back into the biking and watching my eating habit when my knee problems started coming back as I re-gained weight. And I rather like having the ability to walk, so!
Still not going overboard - I still have the ultimate goal of 20 minutes a day on the bike, every day, and the promise to myself not to exercise more than an hour a day unless I'm training for something specific.
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myrialux is my nonfictional geeky real-life boyfriend. What can I say: he gave me a desktop onager for my birthday, and even put it together. ** I also did push-ups against the wall, instead of on the floor: my arthritic foot won't let me do real ones, my RSI-riddled wrist won't let me do knee ones, but I can do knuckle pushups against a wall without causing either my foot or my wrist to spasm in pain. I have to pad my fists with oven mitts, however, which just adds to the dorkitude.
*** We shut it down overnight as only part of the building is open. It's got a fault somewhere in it that occasionally means that in the morning, it re-settles and trips something which keeps it from moving, so they have to come re-set it. Nobody's particularly happy about it.
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(Also, Grant is very cute. =D)
and lose enough weight to take the stress off my knee
Yesssss... I have found my knees are much better now but I could still stand to lose another twenty or so.
*CHEERS YOU ON*
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My routine in 2007 worked quite well, but an enforced 4-week break from it (3 weeks in Japan, 1 week recovering from the Martian Death Flu afterwards) broke all the habits that I'd built up, and it was difficult to get back in, especially after I moved. And then Toby moved up here, so my time alone to work out grew shorter, and we went out to eat a lot more, which messed with my eating style. :D I had to re-think my rules for the new situation, but it seems to be working so far!
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I know his real motivation: he needed an excuse to buy a Dremel tool.It's the gift that keeps on giving! Win-win. XD
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Isn't that a very small antelope? XD
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Speaking of catapults, here's Grant Imahara testing out one.
Mythbusters: Catapault (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xs1CY_eXpNs)
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