CG Max Day 22/50 - isolation for hammies, quads, back, and rear delts: stability ball rollouts, sweeps, quad-focused bulgarian lunges, rear flies - with 10 minute cardio warmup and a 1 mile cooldown walk.
This was great. I woke up before the alarm at 4:50 and decided to get up and get it done. Louie has been sleeping later, so I was able to get the workout in before he was up, which was nice because he gets super excited about lifting, so barks and leaps around the whole time. I would have liked the walk to be longer, especially as it felt balmy at 21°, but it is what it is.
1.25 mile walk in the lovely falling snow. I’m disappointed in myself for getting out too late to do our whole walk. When will I learn that it’s going to take time to get both of us geared up to go outside? When will I learn that when I look at the clock and think “oh, time to go,” I cannot turn my attention back to the internet for ONE SECOND, because 5-10 minutes will disappear.
I did better this morning, so Louie and I had our 2 mile/40 minute walk. We started in the dark and it was very lightly flurrying. I probably wouldn’t even have noticed the snow without my headlamp, which made it really magical-looking. Like Hollywood Christmas Movie snow glowing right in front of my face.
Trying to get my head back in the game (“control the things you can”). Husband has been dealing with an injured knee, so Louie walks are primarily on me. We did our two miles this morning.
Yesterday I helped my son move and organize more stuff. One of the things I did was move his weights into the basement, down narrow, rickety stairs. I’m calling it a workout. All of it was, really. I didn’t carry anything overwhelmingly heavy, but there was the dog poop in the path (brother’s dog, no shovel or even stick around to move it out of the way), which had to be seen and avoided while carrying…oh, say a nightstand…and then part of the time, depending where it was going, lifting stuff up and over his brother’s booze bottles display, which is at elbow height right in front of the basement door we were accessing. On the old-house side of things, both the basement and front door needed to be closed against the dogs with every pass-through. So now I’m climbing rickety-ass stairs with a nightstand or small bookcase, wedging it into my hip to free a hand to open and then close the door, walking 10 paces, wedging the thing again and opening then reclosing the front door before carrying on to that set of steps and then slippery frozen tundra.
I enjoyed myself, though. My contribution was (inexpensive) rugs, and they arrived in time for me to help with them (9x12 and 10X14, along with a couple of smaller ones). It looked so good! And he’s great company, if a little grumbly at times.
CG Max day 23/50 - squats, lateral and front raise, rear step fwd tilt lunge, flies, banded bridge, supine row - with 4 minute cardio warmup and shower and get ready for work cooldown.
I would have enjoyed this very much if I hadn’t been so rushed. I’m having to completely rebuild my accounting records after a QuickBooks fail, and had trouble deciding which/what to focus on this morning. Sleep is poor. Today is my late ex-husband’s birthday, and my kids will all be together later this afternoon. Without me. Which is fine and appropriate but difficult.
But the clock is punched. Weight is up, but the dark chocolate covered almonds I forgot to set out at Christmas are all gone now as of last night, and so are the salty snacks that tempt me.
Not at all. I’m still having a hard time managing my feelings around the Minneapolis thing, and I was up in the night last night fretting about that along with everything else. I’m usually very emotionally separate from this sort of thing - shootings and other sad stuff - but I can’t seem to separate those two women from my close lesbian friends, who go to protests and seem so alike to those two women. The “fucking bitch” keeps echoing in my head while I picture her smiling at the guys just moments before. I read my book for a bit to stop the thought spiraling, but then the protagonist got killed and that was sad, too, so I decided to put that down and check in here, read some logs. I was tagged, so I went to the thread, and just felt sick at more “fucking bitch” stuff.
I have to be functional at work. I do not have to be functional at TN.
I did this for about 6 months with audiobooks. I couldn’t handle reality at all and consumed probably 30 books. I’m avoiding the news because I also can’t function at work when faced with the state of the world. I’m sorry that you are struggling.
I think it’s time for you and I to stop trying to solve the world’s problems and be there to support each other in our own lives and the things we can control.
CG Max day 24/50 - hip thrust, shoulder press, stability ball rollout, pushup, staggered RDL, upright row - with 15 min/1 mile cardio warmup, some KB swings for cooldown, and a good, long stretch session.
Husband took Louie for his walk, because it was 6°f/windchill -9°, so A) I didn’t want to go, and B) I didn’t have much time to get the workout in without Louie’s participation, which includes barking at nothing and running back and forth to the toy basket to get everything out. Sometimes he leaps over me, sometimes he bonks his face on a weight (pullovers are tough - he just can’t seem to understand that he’s going to have to give me an extra 8" of space). He returned while I was still at it, but happily just wanted to chill on the couch.
Good workout!
I agree. I started the men and women thread, so I was getting notifications every time there was a post. Generally I like the debate, but currently I just don’t have the bandwidth for it. I would never ignore a direct request for input from @BrickHead, because I enjoy the many-years-long conversation and have seen each of us grow from it, but I need to limit it for now.
I also need to clean up my Facebook feed so that I’m back to friends and family and funny dog vids. I’ve let my algorithm become politics-heavy, so now it’s nothing but despair-inducing footage and commentary. Or get rid of FB, which I’ve had trouble doing, in part because I’m not sure it’s not my civic duty to stay informed.
This is my only form of social media and sometimes I have to mute this forum. Or at least stay out of the off topic section. Sometimes I feel like I need to stay more informed, but right now there is too much, I lack any form of control in what is making me crazy and I have to function for my family and job.