My NROL Experience

[stingo]

Warmup: 5 min Rowing

Barbell Bench Press - 2x10@20/15 + bar (see below)

Deadlift - 2x10@45/25+bar (see below)

(Stairs)

Reciprocal (Lat Pulldown/Shoulder Press Combo) 2x15@Plate 7/12

Straight-arm push down - 5 plates 2x10
Medicine Ball Throw & Squat 2x15

Stairs

T-pushups - AMRAP

Notes:

Barbell Bench Press - Today's twist was partly using uneven weights to create a different stimulus for the body to adapt to. To do this, he put 20lbs on one side of the barbell and 15lbs on the other. Just enough to make the difference noticeable.

Deadlift - This was fhe first time I'd used a hex bar to lift - it was pretty cool. Here also the wieghts added were different on each side - 45 on one side, 25 on the other. I think I felt this modification most in the upper abs, I suppose for balancing and holding the weight in place.

Stairs - I listed these twice, because the second time was when they were officially done for my workout, but the first time I'd listed them was for having to get from the basement to the fifth floor on the stairs. So while not part of the official workout per se, I decided to count them as exertion on my part.

Reciprocal (Lat Pulldown/Shoulder Press) - Went lighter on these so as not to piss off my wonky shoulder. Might have gone a little heavier but didn't want to take any chances.

Straight-arm pushdown - a new variation to me. Rather than keeping the upper arms down and just moving the lower arm, here I used my whole arm for the pushdown. Pretty fun variation.

T-pushups - these were difficult due to my shoulder - apparently the left chest muscle has decided to play the same games. I should do better with these once that area is healed.

Overall - Another challenging, interesting workout. If nothing else, he (Tim, my trainer) seems to have a pretty good grasp on what I can do, since I've yet to find something so hard as to be not able to complete it. Which of course is not to say that it was easy, but I did it. I'm glad I decided to stick with him as I think it's going to be an interesting ride.

[RebeccaC]

Hey Stingo, why did you pick that Shakespeare quote?

[stingo]

Originally Posted by RebeccaC

Hey Stingo, why did you pick that Shakespeare quote?

If you know the reference, then this will be redundant... But... the context is Exeter speaking of Henry V, who had a dissolute youth, but suddenly and completely did a 180 to become a serious, competent ruler. The message being to the French Dauphin (and King) that Henry is not the immature boy he once was, but a force to reckoned with.

The reference to me: I liked this quote from the moment I heard it... If ever transformation were encapsulated in prose, this would be it. My 180 was in May 05 when I started working out and eating healthier, and have since become an altogether different person. Those days prior were my greener days, and those after are the ones I master now.

Edited to add: Kenneth Branagh's film version of Henry V is absolutely top notch. Brian Blessed plays Gloucester and delivers this speech really well.

[SpacecityPaula]

Just stopping in to get caught up.

[Lost Dog]

Ever make chapatis? I used to make a chapatis a lot.

[stingo]

Originally Posted by Lost Dog

Ever make chapatis? I used to make a chapatis a lot.

Yup - pictured with the chicken vindaloo in my kitchen adventures link. Recipe link on previous page in this log.

[Lost Dog]

That's weird. I read that post and saw the pic, too. I totally missed the chapati reference.

The only suggestion I have is to use a spatula to firmly press the chapati to the hot pan while it cooks. The bubbles burst and it creates a subtly different texture. It takes longer, since you can only make one or two at a time, but really, how many are you going to make, right?

[tkinsley]

Originally Posted by LisaS

let me consult my "world of bread" book (aka Flatbreads and Flavors) ... Injera? Ambasha?

Yes! Injera! Thanks Lisa!

It's like a little sour sponge-y piece of heaven.

One thing I don't like about Ethiopian food though... the lack of utensils. Not my bag.

[DanceDiva]

I like the avatar.

[bigDman]

Nice benching and pulling keep it up

[Cynic]

Originally Posted by stingo

If you know the reference, then this will be redundant... But... the context is Exeter speaking of Henry V, who had a dissolute youth, but suddenly and completely did a 180 to become a serious, competent ruler. The message being to the French Dauphin (and King) that Henry is not the immature boy he once was, but a force to reckoned with.

I've never fully read the play, but isn't scumbag Jack Falstaff in that one? He made a couple appearances in Shakespeare plays, but he had a rather poignant role in one of the King Henry plays, in which he is trying to convince the Prince-soon-to-be-King Henry that he wasn't his sins are common to the world and was begging Henry to grant him place in Henry's new kingdom.

It was a great line and I'll have to pull it out of my book when I get home. It was form that line that I made my spam drop box address.

[Cynic]

Ok, home and found it (should have just googled). It's from Henry the IV Part I: Act 2

FALSTAFF
But to say I know more harm in him than in myself, were to say more than I know. That he is old, the more the pity, his white hairs do witness it; but that he is, saving your reverence, a whoremaster, that I utterly deny. If sack and sugar be a fault, God help the wicked! if to be old and merry be a sin, then many an old host that I know is damned: if to be fat be to be hated, then Pharaoh's lean kine are to be loved. No, my good lord; banish Peto, banish Bardolph, banish Poins: but for sweet Jack Falstaff, kind Jack Falstaff, true Jack Falstaff, valiant Jack Falstaff, and therefore more valiant, being, as he is, old Jack Falstaff, banish not him thy Harry's company, banish not him thy Harry's company: banish plump Jack, and banish all the world.

PRINCE HENRY
I do, I will.

So many good things from Shakespeare, some now cliche', some people never heard.

[Victoria]

ARGH.....I'm having flashbacks to my highschool lit class and trying to figure out what the HELL all that sheakspearean gobbledygook means!

[dillytl]

[Cynic]

Originally Posted by Victoria

ARGH.....I'm having flashbacks to my highschool lit class and trying to figure out what the HELL all that sheakspearean gobbledygook means!

I understand Tracey. It sounds like borderline nonsense from a crazy man, but I rememeber finding a site that showed how to interpret Shakespeare's style of writing his plays.

It also proved that Shakespeare's English is actually modern English, albeit Early Modern English, it's just written in verse.

If you like, I can try to find it again.

[LisaS]

I remember HS English classes and the class as a whole not really liking either Shakespeare or Chaucer - until they figured out how bawdy and irreverant some of it was - and then it was a treat to see and understand all of the put downs and such in such high-sounding language when it really wasn't