Today I'm starting with a haiku:
My stiff ankle stops
me from squatting parallel
Flaws are frustrating
Oh, I don't even know if the problem is my ankle. I'm sort of freaked out by the ankle mobility drill. I can touch the wall with my right knee when my foot is about 5" or 6" from the wall, but on the left side my foot needs to be about 2" from the wall to do that. I might have the inches wrong, but the difference is considerable. I can feel the part of the ankle that won't move. It makes my foot pronate inward to compensate. I struggle to keep my foot flat on the floor.
But my trainer seems to think, if I understand correctly, that my big issue is weak glute on one side. I'm sure that's part of it, but I'm not sure if it's all of it. And I'm not sure if I understand the trainer, anyway -- sometimes his answers are pretty murky. I think I posted one here -- I asked about the reason for the balance boards and he said something like, "To help you reach your goals." If he were one of my students and laid that shit on me, I'd slap him with an F for not answering the question. I guess I'm sort of intimidated by him. That's not his fault, it's all me. He's the first trainer I've ever worked with, in the first commercial gym that I've ever belonged to. I walked into his office the first time and I figured he was thinking, "Another fat, middle-aged woman who's pretending she wants to lose weight." He's never acted like that to me, he's really been nothing but encouraging -- but that's what I'd think about me if I were him. Well, I think everybody thought that if they noticed me at all -- which was a prime motivator for getting in shape. I feel like the hottest creature on the planet when I'm at a size I like, and I feel like an invisible blob when I'm fat.
I don't know why this entry is taking such a negative turn. I'm actually in a good mood and pleased, overall, with my progress. I mentioned already, I think, that the jeans I bought 2 weeks ago are so baggy now that I've moved them to the charity bag. And today, I tried on a bathing suit that I haven't worn in 2 years (haven't worn *any* bathing suit in 2 years) and I felt pretty good about what I saw in the mirror. I'm going to a friend's annual pool party this weekend, and I won't be spending the whole time sitting in the shade drinking. No -- I'll be in the pool drinking.
Today was a light workout because I was low on time. Here's what I did:
Bridge abductions - 3x15 with blue xertube
Step-ups -- 1x5@bw, 1x5@8 lbs
Wobble board -- 60 sec
Single-leg stand on wobble board -- 60 sec each foot
Ankle mobility drill -- 1x5 + tennis ball rolling
Squat using low pulley -- 4x15@40
Single-leg adductions -- 3x15 with blue xertube
Foam rolling -- IT band, hamstrings
Pull-ups -- 3x6
Push-ups -- 3x6 off weight bench
Tricep dips -- 3x6
I don't like the UB exercises the PT assigned because they involve changing around weights and moving the bench a lot, plus I find them boring. So the UPWO tends to get truncated or cut out entirely when I'm in a rush. I do like the bodyweight exercises. I don't know why -- I think they make me feel strong. They suit my vision of the person I want to be. For instance, when I try to do pull-ups, I picture myself hanging off a cliff and needing to pull myself up. Now *that* is something that could come in handy one day.
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