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Feb. 24th, 2009 09:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nonethefewerI don't know if people care or not. I'm not going to make a filter for this just yet. And I want to take notes.
I do note that this will have nothing to do with losing weight. I do not do diet-talk. My focus is on (a) feeling better, (b) eating better, and (c) did I mention that counterweight chinup machine, perhaps maybe omg?.
I have a sort of intro appointment with a trainerperson on Sunday, so I want to at least try to get... in... um. *researches something* Yeah no, I should be good. I'm donating blood this Saturday, I'd gotten the days mixed up. It will be about 23 hours after donation that I have this appointment, so, cool. Anyways, want to get in some exercise beforehand, even if all it is is I go to the gym and look at things.
Meh, shopping. Sneakers, sweat pants, maybe some cheap undershirts (I wear my T-shirts to work, thx), and more socks if I find it necessary. I may get a sports bra, but since I'll be focusing on weights, just my usual frumpy restrainer one should do. The roomies pointed out that I can totally find something at a thrift store, oo.
Maybe while I'm downtown Saturday, I'll stop by the library and read up on weightlifting. I remember a lot of things, but it's been a while.
http://www.stumptuous.com/what-you-need-and-what-you-dont
OH yes - I usually take a multivitamin anyhow, so if I can find a palatable daily protein shake - hell with strawchoconilla, give me gravy! - I'll do that. Oh god, food.
http://www.stumptuous.com/dont-fear-the-free-weights
I should be rethinking my free weights vs machines mentality, it seems. *considers*
Seriously, this website is what's going to keep my arms from hurting, because I'll be too busy reading to play clicky games.
http://www.stumptuous.com/rant-49-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb
All of this page!
I recall having something like this in common with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moominmolly - we'd do as much as we could, but how gauche would it be to end on an evenly-divisible-by-5 number?
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Above all, this is cheaper than therapy.
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So yeah, perhaps I should consider what I want to do. Maybe it's nothing more than "I'm going to sit over here and do arm curls that I could've done at home", but it'll be something, and I'd never do them at home anyhow.
I do note that this will have nothing to do with losing weight. I do not do diet-talk. My focus is on (a) feeling better, (b) eating better, and (c) did I mention that counterweight chinup machine, perhaps maybe omg?.
I have a sort of intro appointment with a trainerperson on Sunday, so I want to at least try to get... in... um. *researches something* Yeah no, I should be good. I'm donating blood this Saturday, I'd gotten the days mixed up. It will be about 23 hours after donation that I have this appointment, so, cool. Anyways, want to get in some exercise beforehand, even if all it is is I go to the gym and look at things.
Meh, shopping. Sneakers, sweat pants, maybe some cheap undershirts (I wear my T-shirts to work, thx), and more socks if I find it necessary. I may get a sports bra, but since I'll be focusing on weights, just my usual frumpy restrainer one should do. The roomies pointed out that I can totally find something at a thrift store, oo.
Maybe while I'm downtown Saturday, I'll stop by the library and read up on weightlifting. I remember a lot of things, but it's been a while.
http://www.stumptuous.com/what-you-need-and-what-you-dont
OH yes - I usually take a multivitamin anyhow, so if I can find a palatable daily protein shake - hell with strawchoconilla, give me gravy! - I'll do that. Oh god, food.
http://www.stumptuous.com/dont-fear-the-free-weights
I should be rethinking my free weights vs machines mentality, it seems. *considers*
Real life isn't tidy, or organized, or perfect. Real life movements don't usually happen while you're safely strapped into a contraption that immobilizes most of your body, unless you're biceps curling a 48 oz Super Big Gulp to your lips while seatbelted into a car -- and c'mon, why are you doing that anyway? Real life movements are off-balance, asymmetrical, one-handed or one-legged, moving in curves and squiggles, done in funny ways, done unexpectedly, and done all day long. Real life movements involve lifting awkwardly shaped things like babies and couches and sloshy cases of beer and Rottweilers that don't want to take a bath. Machines aren't going to help you when it's time to haul the groceries out of the car with a screaming toddler stuck to your hip, or when you need to move that load of topsoil for your petunia bed and can't find your wheelbarrow.
Seriously, this website is what's going to keep my arms from hurting, because I'll be too busy reading to play clicky games.
http://www.stumptuous.com/rant-49-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-bomb
All of this page!
Your brain being, well, smart, likes to think in terms of numbers and time and quantities. If you tell it that you expect to do only 6 reps with a certain weight, it'll cash out after 6 right on schedule. So don't approach your lifting with a number in mind. Just get in there, and when your brain says, "Well, that's six; time to stop!", you tell it that when you said six you meant eight. "Oh, my mistake!" your brain will say, and out come two more reps. Then tell your brain, "Look, I just bet some biker guy a hundred bucks that I could do TEN reps on this! Do you want to get publicly mocked??" "Fine," says your brain, "Ten reps it is."
I recall having something like this in common with
moominmolly - we'd do as much as we could, but how gauche would it be to end on an evenly-divisible-by-5 number?--
Above all, this is cheaper than therapy.
--
So yeah, perhaps I should consider what I want to do. Maybe it's nothing more than "I'm going to sit over here and do arm curls that I could've done at home", but it'll be something, and I'd never do them at home anyhow.
