Wednesday, May 20, 2009
There were push-ups!
Not only that, but I also seem to have lost inches all over, according to my "personal challenge" measurements tonight.
I do, however, fail to make it beyond low intensity exercise on the jumping jacks test (mainly because they're too painful to do for two minutes - thirty seconds is about as long as I can last) according to my heart rate. And then there's the strange case of my biceps - my left biceps contain 4 inches of extra floppiness than my right biceps. This probably has something to do with my shoulder. Still, I'm taking this all as pretty positive, particularly the fact that I managed eleven (count 'em!) modified press-ups. Okay, so my form is not very good, but I'm working on that.
Not only were there push-ups this evening, but there were a number of episodes of The Big Bang Theory. Now that is amusing. In many ways it's like a weekend at the caravan with added Sheldon-ness. Breakfast conversations with five or six of us at the van used to be equally, ah, eccentric. :) I've now finished season 1 and am definitely going to have to pick up both extant seasons on DVD at some point soonish.
The other major occurrance of the day was a new set of tyres for the car. Ouch. I've been running on studdies longer than I really should have (it now being May and all that) but I've been putting it off because last month was an expensive month. Now all I have to do it take it for its MOT on Friday and hope that it doesn't need too much doing to it.
I do, however, fail to make it beyond low intensity exercise on the jumping jacks test (mainly because they're too painful to do for two minutes - thirty seconds is about as long as I can last) according to my heart rate. And then there's the strange case of my biceps - my left biceps contain 4 inches of extra floppiness than my right biceps. This probably has something to do with my shoulder. Still, I'm taking this all as pretty positive, particularly the fact that I managed eleven (count 'em!) modified press-ups. Okay, so my form is not very good, but I'm working on that.
Not only were there push-ups this evening, but there were a number of episodes of The Big Bang Theory. Now that is amusing. In many ways it's like a weekend at the caravan with added Sheldon-ness. Breakfast conversations with five or six of us at the van used to be equally, ah, eccentric. :) I've now finished season 1 and am definitely going to have to pick up both extant seasons on DVD at some point soonish.
The other major occurrance of the day was a new set of tyres for the car. Ouch. I've been running on studdies longer than I really should have (it now being May and all that) but I've been putting it off because last month was an expensive month. Now all I have to do it take it for its MOT on Friday and hope that it doesn't need too much doing to it.