Project Progress
Jun. 1st, 2006 10:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hrjIt being the regular housecleaning day for the office-soon-to-be-dining-room, I put in the extra effort to get all the extraneous matter associated with the rearrangement project moved elsewhere (and closer to its assorted final destinations) so I could thoroughly vacuum the area where the buffet and table will go. Several boxes are staged on the stair landing to go into one of the storage cabinets and the kitchen table is standing in the back yard waiting to go to Goodwill at its earliest opportunity. (Ideally, tomorrow after work, but I'm not sure what their donation hours are.) So the only thing standing between me and being able to assemble my new furniture is moving the last two cabinets upstairs, taking off a smidgen of height, and installing them on top of the other two cabinets. In the mean time, I'm exhausted ... but in a good way. Hey, I had to make up for not getting to the gym on Monday due to the holiday.
Since all my friends seem to be sharing their exercise routines, I figured I'd kick in with mine. Now, you have to understand that I have an uneasy relationship with exercise motivation. The times I've tried to get into exercise routines at home, something always came up to break the routine and I'd fall out of the habit again. But the times that I've been flush enough to pay for a gym membership, my penny-pinching instincts fire up and I'll stick to the routine just to get my money's worth. The flip side is that once I get into the groove, the habit itself becomes addictive and I feel cheated if something gets in the way of the routine. (And, of course, once the exercise starts showing effects, that's addictive all by itself.) I've been going steadily for about 15 months this time and here's what I've settled into:
Now if only I could convince the gym manager that I shouldn't have to damage my ears to hear my iPod over the sound of his plastic industrial exercise music.
Since all my friends seem to be sharing their exercise routines, I figured I'd kick in with mine. Now, you have to understand that I have an uneasy relationship with exercise motivation. The times I've tried to get into exercise routines at home, something always came up to break the routine and I'd fall out of the habit again. But the times that I've been flush enough to pay for a gym membership, my penny-pinching instincts fire up and I'll stick to the routine just to get my money's worth. The flip side is that once I get into the groove, the habit itself becomes addictive and I feel cheated if something gets in the way of the routine. (And, of course, once the exercise starts showing effects, that's addictive all by itself.) I've been going steadily for about 15 months this time and here's what I've settled into:
- 5 days a week (circumstances may occasionally cut one day, but unless I'm on a trip, never more than one)
- 3 days of 30 minutes on something cardio -- currently I'm doing 2 sessions on a sort of hybrid nordic/stair machine (minimum 1.5 miles, 300 cal) and one session on the treadmill (minimum 1.5 miles, 200 cal); next goal -- nordic/stair = minimum 1.75 mi., 350 cal
- 2 days of 30-40 minutes on weight machines (preceded by a 5 min. treadmill warmup and some stretching); the routine changes about every 2 months (when I fill up a record card) but the core seems to have settled as: 3 assorted machines each for arm and leg groups, hip abduction and adduction, abs, and finish off with tricep extension and bicep curl. I go with 16 reps each except for the abs which go by so fast I do 4 sets of 8.
Now if only I could convince the gym manager that I shouldn't have to damage my ears to hear my iPod over the sound of his plastic industrial exercise music.
