Maintenance and Exercise

Well, my last week recommitment to blog was fleeting, obviously.  I think it is another side effect of feeling rundown and uninvolved in my life right now.

I haven’t felt like exercising the last two days, but I made myself do it anyway.  I figure I’ll be sore later, because I know I pushed the weight training I did yesterday past where I should have pushed.  I need to learn to listen to my body when it says stop.  I’m not great at that.

I’ve been uninvolved at work.  I have a to-do list a page long, several are quick and easy tasks I just haven’t done yet.

I need to clean house and wash laundry desperately. Have I done it? No.  More uninvolved.

I’ve got to pull back up and focus or I’ll fall off plan, and I don’t want to go into Christmas behind the ball…

Okay, rant over.

So I started this blog in October with the fancy idea of putting in my exercise and discovered after a few days that even I was bored with it! So I never came back.  Starting today, I’m going to use the space to journal my progress with maintenance, and life around it, maybe list the exercise as an aside.  We’ll see if I do better with that!

No exercise today.  I had a physical scheduled for 8:30 and couldn’t eat after 10:00 pm last night, so figured I would be dying by the time the doctor was finished if I exercised.  We have my stepson tonight, so no exercise tonight either.  Have to get back on the horse tomorrow…

I did find out today that I have a heart murmur.  Don’t know any details, have an Echo Cardiogram scheduled for two weeks from now, so we’ll see what is up then.

On 10/6 I did a little over an hour of work on the Weider, working on arms.  I totally lost track of time and this ended up being my only exercise for the day.  DH came home from work much earlier than I expected, so my bright idea to exercise in the afternoon while he was gone didn’t really pan out…

I realize in typing this that I’m probably doing way too many exercises in each muscle group, and I wonder if I need to combine areas in a given day instead of segmenting them the way I have… I’ll probably post that question on 3FC and see what I find out…

1) Hammer Curl: 40/12, 30/12, 20/12

2) Reverse Curl: 30/10, 20/10, 20/10

3) Standing Bicep Curl: 30/10, 20/10, 20/10

4) Tricep Pushdown: 50/12, 60/12, 60/12

5) Reverse Tricep Pushdown: 60/12, 60/12, 60/12

6) Bicep/Tricep Combo: R: 30/12, 30/12, L: 30/12, 30/12

7) Tricep Kickback: both sides: 60/12, 60/12

8 ) Seated Overhead Extension: 40/12, 50/12, 50/12

9) French Press: 50/12, 60/12, 60/12

10) Ab twist: both sidesL 60/12, 80/12, 80/12

11) Seated Crunch: 80/10, 80/10, 80/10

12) Seated Oblique Crunch: both sides: 80/10, 80/10, 80/10