Notes: I'm just learning the power clean. I'm having a hard time getting my elbows up when racking the bar and a hard time jumping. So that's all this was - practice racking with fast elbows and practice jumping the bar with straight arms. Meh. It made me tired at least. The press was harder on my wrists than I would have thought - but the right wrist was bothering me today at work - like the mouse was out of position or something, so that might be why. It was also hard to do a strict press and leave the legs out of it. The tensing of the quads seemed to help with that on the last set.
Should have done this Friday night but I fell asleep sitting in the chair watching the deadlift DVD before dinner. One of those hard sleeps for no good reason. So I moved it to tonight.
Squats were really: 4 @ 85, 4 @ 85, 2 @ 85, 5 @ 80 - so I called it 3x5 at 80. Guess I'll move up by 2.5 for awhile and see how that goes.
The other lifts were fine.
I love this plan. It goes really fast, I am completely gassed at the end but in an hour I'll feel refreshed.
I'm getting really bad at keeping this updated.
Workouts over the last week or so have been TRX rather than SS as I had a tweak in my low back and the TRX squats seem to relieve it so I just did a whole TRX workout in the evening since I was doing the squatting anyway.
Generally I'd do the squats, then some balance lunges, sprinter starts, rows, chest press and one of the core/ab type moves or else just regular planks.
In other news, I had a really nice afternoon yesterday. I worked until about 12:30 and then took the afternoon as comp time. And went shopping.
I got a new laptop (Dell) to replace my desktop at home. It wasn't the be-all end-all choice, but it was in my current price range (rather than waiting more months) and has a reasonable set of features. I'm using it now. I still have more stuff to find and install though and then I need to figure if I can salvage anything from my old hard drive - I suspect the desktop had motherboard issues and I should be able to get data off the disk but you never know.
I also bought my (late) birthday present - a bicycle. Because it has been 25 years or so since I was a bike rider, I don't know yet what kind of riding I'll commit to and what features/components I might want in a road bike so I bought a lower end hybrid/commuter/comfort style bike. Took it for a ride yesterday afternoon to rabbit for the dogs & scooter and I had fun on it, so that's a good thing. Even though it has one of those padded tractor seats and not a normal saddle my seat is a little sore today. Feels nice to be sore.
Even if the motherboard is toast you should be able to get the data off the hard drive. All you need is a serial ATA (or IDE) connector that goes to a USB on the other end. If your power supply on the desktop is working you don't even need a powered one (ie. cheaper). Considering Canadian prices are usually higher, you could probably easily pick one up for under $20. Just an option if you want/need stuff off the old machine.
oh i know how i just have not tried yet and not 100% sure what died on desktop - disk or mb
when it died i had an alternative to use work notebook for basic access so i never debugged the failure as my long term goal was to upgrade/replace it anyway. i am just now getting around to figuring out the root cause and then get what i can
I understand that. When my desktop started marking a funny noise last winter I just turned it off and ignored it (was around Christmas time). Having the laptop handy made it easier to avoid dealing with it. Turned out it was minor, but if it had been my only machine I'd have likely dealt with it faster.
Bike ride after work/before dinner. 45 mins. Uphill both ways except for the terrifying downhill stretch. Still getting used to biking, traffic and speed again - soon my interpretation of an adrenalin rush will be "fun" but right now it is still "terror".
lolz
that's kinda how I feel riding around here. When I was riding all over as my transport in HS I knew no fear, nowhere was unsafe… now I know how crazy drivers are and it scares the bejebuz out of me.
Bike ride after work/before dinner. 45 mins. Uphill both ways except for the terrifying downhill stretch. Still getting used to biking, traffic and speed again - soon my interpretation of an adrenalin rush will be "fun" but right now it is still "terror".
That's the fun part!!! (Except the traffic, then I'm with you.) I prefer trees, they're more stationary.
must be the week for new computers. I finally bit the bullet and got a new one for photoediting.
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Congrats on the new computer - now you get to apply service packs, updates, get the AV going and find and install all your software. And apply updates for those.
Fun!
yeah I know.... I installed 45 updates last night. and will probably have more tonight.
__________________ It all starts with the mind, but the thoughts, the intention aren't enough. Action needs to come next. Dream it, believe it, plan it, execute it, celebrate it. - Wendy
Congrats Lisa on the bike purchase decision. I did the same thing about 3 seasons ago and felt equally as terrified. It is like second nature now. Keep pressing and the bike riding thing will get lots of fun. Of course that is how I ended up with my current (ahem) condition.
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it's funny - I had no fear as a kid - but now, wow.
I was riding with a friend on a medium downhill, in a pretty wide bike lane, but I have ZERO confidence that I can hold my line - he comes up on my left yelling "wheeeee!!" - my body was totally taking the adreneline rush as FEAR and not FUN and the added "pressure" of now having to not suddently veer left for no good reason - not a good combo - I could have totally smacked him. And my brain knew it at the time but couldn't make it change gears from fear to fun.
It's hard when our brain realizes our body is mortal and fallible... I used to ride horses as a teen - I'd ride bareback, jump anything, ride anyone's crazy beast for 'em... then I realized the ground was hard. Not a good moment.
But then, years later as an adult, I was competing in combined training (jumping cross country, among other things). And I was always scared, until one day a friend said "stop being scared, take a breath, look at the scenery." I thought she was nuts, but in the next competition there was a LONG gallop across a field... and I was tense, and then I recalled her words... and suddenly I smiled and realized this was pretty darn fun.
I wish I could say I never had fear again... but for that moment, in that competition, galloping across the big open field towards a big solid jump, I relaxed and enjoyed the moment and had fun.
I hope you find that same moment on your bike and just enjoy the beautiful scenery...
I'm thinking of a bike next summer (or the one after that if I'm out of the province). Although the city I'm in doesn't have tons of easy access walking trails, we have a fair amount of bike trails. Well, technically they're bike/walking paths, however they aren't much good if you can't park near them. At the end of my street though, on the main thoroughfare there's a bike path next to the sidewalk that connects with the main bike path.
True. I can't remember at what age I suddenly realized that I wasn't indestructable. I do know that it was a near miss with a bus one night. The bus driver's fault, but it was a night when I should have been drinking (work party) but wasn't. I'm pretty sure my sobriety is the only reason I'm still around. However, I lost that feeling of 'nothing bad can happen' at that moment.
true confession - I'm hooked on So You Think You Can Dance - and have been for several years. Now, "I can't dance ... don't ask me" was written with me in mind but I had a dance major for a roommate in college one year and she taught me a bit about the dancer mind - and I find that watching the show actually I can learn a bit about the various styles and what makes a good dance performance.
and to make it fitness-y - some of those moves in Contemporary and Jazz styles are amazing and the lifts can be very demanding on both parties. Really interesting sometimes.
and I can do a quick TRX cycle during commercials or critiques so as to not feel like a total waste of time
Hai...another So You Think You Can Dance addict here! They make it look effortless don't they? And then when they stop they're so out of breath, you have to remember how much it took to just pull that off!!
exactly. The desktop is 3-4 years old so I won't be surprised at whatever it turns out to be.
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