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flexagonAside from doing far too much in the way of dishes/mopping, I had a good weekend. No website updates because my laptop is going all wacked on me again. Did some yoga at Baron Baptiste on Saturday, which I hadn't done for a long time, but Sunday was really the more interesting day.
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rumgirl, I'm talking to you! Basically, Operation Butt Squeeze is working. I've been really focusing on squeezing my butt while I do leg presses, and am now (rather suddenly) up to almost double my body weight on them. I also got up to half my body weight on dumbbell squats, and oddly enough it was pretty easy. I think I could have gone even heavier but decided a 20% increase was enough for one day. It's going to be annoying if it keeps improving beyond the weight I can grip dumbbells, because then I'll be stuck with the Smith machine... but that point has not yet been reached, so I'll worry about it then.
For lats, I tried warming up on the pulldown machine, then doing a set of narrow-grip supinated pullups (10 but need to work on form) and a set of wide-grip pronated chinups (more like 2.5). I did some more wide-grip negatives, but felt kind of weird and out-of-control doing them. I may try trading off next week and doing the wide-grips before narrow-grips--I think that would let me do a bit more.
and I got to see LLF again (although since he's not lost anymore, and prefers lowercase acronyms, I hereby rename him kfb). We had a pretty interesting talk over dinner, not that I succeeded in steering it where I wanted it. Then I took him home, he politely got permission from HLM to keep "dating" me, and... he ended up talking to HLM alone for about an hour because my good college friend V called me from Cali and they seemed to be getting along well anyway. Apparently it was a good talk, because HLM really wants to see him again. :)
After kfb left, I lay in bed thinking again about career-type issues. I'm starting to clarify the next step in my head a little bit, finally, which feels nice. And I refuse to think I've screwed the pooch just because I'm not off on my own trying to revolutionize the software industry. Just because everyone else seems to be doing it... bleh! Must... resist... peer pressure. So that was good. All this thinking did me no good in terms of dreams though; I had this long awful dream about being held against my will in an insane asylum, and another about some weird simulation system that I can't even explain, but it was bad, and I dreamed my kitty S was a software expert, and through every single dream I kept losing and finding my engagement ring, my brass rat and my wedding ring. I was pretty glad to wake up and be in the real world.
I know at least one of you will want the details of my workout--hi
rumgirl, I'm talking to you! Basically, Operation Butt Squeeze is working. I've been really focusing on squeezing my butt while I do leg presses, and am now (rather suddenly) up to almost double my body weight on them. I also got up to half my body weight on dumbbell squats, and oddly enough it was pretty easy. I think I could have gone even heavier but decided a 20% increase was enough for one day. It's going to be annoying if it keeps improving beyond the weight I can grip dumbbells, because then I'll be stuck with the Smith machine... but that point has not yet been reached, so I'll worry about it then. For lats, I tried warming up on the pulldown machine, then doing a set of narrow-grip supinated pullups (10 but need to work on form) and a set of wide-grip pronated chinups (more like 2.5). I did some more wide-grip negatives, but felt kind of weird and out-of-control doing them. I may try trading off next week and doing the wide-grips before narrow-grips--I think that would let me do a bit more.
and I got to see LLF again (although since he's not lost anymore, and prefers lowercase acronyms, I hereby rename him kfb). We had a pretty interesting talk over dinner, not that I succeeded in steering it where I wanted it. Then I took him home, he politely got permission from HLM to keep "dating" me, and... he ended up talking to HLM alone for about an hour because my good college friend V called me from Cali and they seemed to be getting along well anyway. Apparently it was a good talk, because HLM really wants to see him again. :)
After kfb left, I lay in bed thinking again about career-type issues. I'm starting to clarify the next step in my head a little bit, finally, which feels nice. And I refuse to think I've screwed the pooch just because I'm not off on my own trying to revolutionize the software industry. Just because everyone else seems to be doing it... bleh! Must... resist... peer pressure. So that was good. All this thinking did me no good in terms of dreams though; I had this long awful dream about being held against my will in an insane asylum, and another about some weird simulation system that I can't even explain, but it was bad, and I dreamed my kitty S was a software expert, and through every single dream I kept losing and finding my engagement ring, my brass rat and my wedding ring. I was pretty glad to wake up and be in the real world.
