I was so proud of myself last week! Hardly sore at all after class! I mean, after two days of not being able to walk after my first MA class, the fact that I could get around without much soreness after my second class felt great! And then I had that third class, where we […]
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Got to class again last night, and signed up “for real” (which involved paying money! That I sort of had!). Master T. asked about my med ID braclet, and I babbaled on about having type 1 and how I test before and after class, and I keep my emergency sugar right there by my water…
In addition to having class knock the crap out of every muscle in my body on Tuesday, I also had a sparring partner knee me just below my bellybutton on my left hand side. This also happens to be the side where my IUD, when it does pinch, pinches. If she’d kneed me full force,
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I held out the hope of hitting MA class tonight right up until about 4pm, when I discovered that I was still hobbling around the office like an old woman. Stephanie saw me painfully shuffling around the kitchen this morning and said, “Boy, I bet you’re sore.” “I hurt like hell.” “Didn’t you take any
Starting tomorrow, this will be my new MA school. Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!
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Well, the collective effort of three moderately active people finally made the old elliptical I carted in from Chicago go kaput. Me and the roomies spent the entirety of Sunday afternoon looking for a similiarly compact and reasonably priced machine, to no avail. We’ll eventually get a new one, but not this week. This means
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… to find a dumbbell squat that doesn’t *feel* to me like a dumbbell squat, so I may fool myself into thinking that I LOVE squats. Tonight’s variation looked like this (trendy work-out gear not included): But with, you know, weights like these: And it all ended up something like this:
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Especially in 80 degree weather. After six days off. I hate squats. Have I mentioned how much I hate squats? Yeah, these aren’t getting added to the new nighttime weights routine.
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In my continuing quest for a better workout, I started formulating a new before-bed routine. I already have my morning weights routine down, and increasing the number of exercises in the morning just means I’m less likely to do them because it takes too long: the solution is to break the workout into two 15
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