So last night, I was feeding some more logs in the woodstove when my leather-gloved fingers got pinned under a couple of logs inside the fully fired-up stove. My fingers and lower hand were nicely protected by the gloves but the pinning pulled enough of the glove off of my wrist and the top of my hand to expose it. What do I do as a reflex? Jerk it right against the burning-hot cast iron inside of the stove and hold it there. It takes an hour-long couple of seconds for my genius self to register what exactly is wrong with this picture. Hmm. Maybe I should pull my hand OUT of the stove? Sure, but first let me re-reach in further to get the glove because, while I may heal, the glove won't, and who wants to fork over the money for new gloves? Not me, says my rocket scientist self. By the time I finally get my hand (and glove) out of the fire, I'm smelling pork chops and the back of my wrist/top of my hand, where the skin wrinkles up each time it bends, is now crispified. Yeah, I figure MENSA will be calling, just begging me to join any day now.
Today's workout with toasted, not-very-bendy left wrist:
NROL4W, Stage 1, Workout A, 2 of 8
Warmup: What? The stove wasn't warm enough??
A) Squats: 45# barbell, 2 sets of 15.
B1) Push-ups: 45 degree, 2 sets of 15. Hurt my wrist pretty bad so tried to do one-handed. *snort* That didn't work out as planned. Don't ask. Just know that I got 2 sets of 15 somethings-resembling-45-degree pushups done.
B2) Seated row: 65# (per BowFlex), 2 sets of 15.
C1) Step-ups: 10" step, 45# total dumbbell weight, 2 sets of 15 each leg.
C2) Prone jackknife: Swiss ball, 2 sets of 8. Did a harder version this time and, while it was harder, I still did fine. Wrist was numb by this point. LOL (Did butt-down tuck one for 1st workout. Butt-up tuck for this one.) Might try for the full V one next time.
Still tweaking my eating. I love being able to constantly improve things, tinkering with this and that, until I find something that fits. Let's hope perfection is never reached because I'd be so stinkin' bored then.