Exercise for today
Jul. 7th, 2010 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hani_backupI worked out after the Germany-Spain semifinal game. Had to get my frustrations out. I forgot my water bottle back home, and the vending machine in the Student Center ate my dollar bill when I tried to get water. It gave me back a quarter, which is the correct change. However, it didn't give me the water bottle! I was so pissed off. Thankfully the vending machine in the Sports Center worked though a bottle of water there costs $1.00. ARGH. Wasting money, stupid machine in Pearson's. Well, it's originally my fault. If I hadn't forgotten my water bottle, I wouldn't have needed to buy another bottle. :-( Bad forgetful Izzy...
When I went to the College Health Center yesterday I got weighed by a nurse before my therapist appointment. It irked me how different the two scales in the gym were, so I asked her to do that. I was right in thinking I gained back all the lost weight during the school year and some. Right now I don't care about my weight if it'll mean I can take pride in my body as a part of me I've worked hard at maintaining and keeping healthy instead of somewhat abusing it as I have in the past with lacking nutritional meals and physical laziness. (I think I'll still be sleeping in, though...)
If I jump back on a consistent every-other-day-ish gym schedule again (the last time was Thursday, though Matt visited last weekend), I can hopefully move to heavier. I tried doing 1x10 of bicep curls with the 8lbs weights, and ohmygod, that was so difficult. I'm going to stick to my 5lbs free weights, though I added small weight increases to some of the machine exercises I did. I also did the machines before my free weights instead of the usual way because there were several people already in front of the free weights bar. Too crowded and I'd hate to be accidentally hit by someone doing a side raise with a 30lbs weight!
I know people probably aren't interested in this, or will read the log all the way through. I still like posting it online in case I can't access my Word document keeping track, and need to refresh my memory on what weights and repetitions I'm doing. Today it made me feel good to see I'm not the only one in the gym with a sheet of paper/a notebook of exercises to do and checking them out. Two other people had them, and another girl had flashcards of yoga/stretching exercises to do.
I went back to doing a mile before my strength workout because I haven't gone to the public library in a long time. The walk to the public library takes me about an hour, and it's 2.8 miles to and fro. I just did my usual elliptical run. I think I'd go crazy if I walked on a treadmill for half an hour with no goal in end.
July 7, 2010, Wednesday
One mile – normal track field terrain – 9:13
Machines
Torso rotation – 6x10 (3x10 each side) – 10lbs
Abdominal crunch – 3x10 – 15lbs
Chest press – 2x8 – 10lbs
Shoulder press – 2x8 – 10lbs
Triceps Press – 3x10 – 15lbs
Seated leg curls – 2x10 – 10lbs
Leg press – 2x10 – 10lbs
Leg extension – 1x10 – 10lbs
Back extension – 1x10 – 10lbs
Pulldown – 2x10 – 10lbs
Pulldown – 1x10 – 15lbs
Free Weights
5x10 – Alternating Bicep Curls – 5lbs
1x10 – Alternating Bicep Curls – 8lbs (ouchie)
1x10 – Dumbbell Rows (each arm) – 5lbs
2x10 – Dumbbell Triceps Extensions – 5lbs
1x10 – Dumbbell Triceps Extensions – 8lbs (I about died)
1x10 – Shoulder Shrugs – 5 lbs
2x10 – Alternating Front Raise – 5lbs
2x10 – Calf raise –5lbs
2x10 – Alternating lunges – 5lbs
When I went to the College Health Center yesterday I got weighed by a nurse before my therapist appointment. It irked me how different the two scales in the gym were, so I asked her to do that. I was right in thinking I gained back all the lost weight during the school year and some. Right now I don't care about my weight if it'll mean I can take pride in my body as a part of me I've worked hard at maintaining and keeping healthy instead of somewhat abusing it as I have in the past with lacking nutritional meals and physical laziness. (I think I'll still be sleeping in, though...)
If I jump back on a consistent every-other-day-ish gym schedule again (the last time was Thursday, though Matt visited last weekend), I can hopefully move to heavier. I tried doing 1x10 of bicep curls with the 8lbs weights, and ohmygod, that was so difficult. I'm going to stick to my 5lbs free weights, though I added small weight increases to some of the machine exercises I did. I also did the machines before my free weights instead of the usual way because there were several people already in front of the free weights bar. Too crowded and I'd hate to be accidentally hit by someone doing a side raise with a 30lbs weight!
I know people probably aren't interested in this, or will read the log all the way through. I still like posting it online in case I can't access my Word document keeping track, and need to refresh my memory on what weights and repetitions I'm doing. Today it made me feel good to see I'm not the only one in the gym with a sheet of paper/a notebook of exercises to do and checking them out. Two other people had them, and another girl had flashcards of yoga/stretching exercises to do.
I went back to doing a mile before my strength workout because I haven't gone to the public library in a long time. The walk to the public library takes me about an hour, and it's 2.8 miles to and fro. I just did my usual elliptical run. I think I'd go crazy if I walked on a treadmill for half an hour with no goal in end.
July 7, 2010, Wednesday
One mile – normal track field terrain – 9:13
Machines
Torso rotation – 6x10 (3x10 each side) – 10lbs
Abdominal crunch – 3x10 – 15lbs
Chest press – 2x8 – 10lbs
Shoulder press – 2x8 – 10lbs
Triceps Press – 3x10 – 15lbs
Seated leg curls – 2x10 – 10lbs
Leg press – 2x10 – 10lbs
Leg extension – 1x10 – 10lbs
Back extension – 1x10 – 10lbs
Pulldown – 2x10 – 10lbs
Pulldown – 1x10 – 15lbs
Free Weights
5x10 – Alternating Bicep Curls – 5lbs
1x10 – Alternating Bicep Curls – 8lbs (ouchie)
1x10 – Dumbbell Rows (each arm) – 5lbs
2x10 – Dumbbell Triceps Extensions – 5lbs
1x10 – Dumbbell Triceps Extensions – 8lbs (I about died)
1x10 – Shoulder Shrugs – 5 lbs
2x10 – Alternating Front Raise – 5lbs
2x10 – Calf raise –5lbs
2x10 – Alternating lunges – 5lbs
