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I DID sleep well. I went to bed at... somewhere between 19:30 and 20:30? And I did wake at 22:30 for some stupid reason and had to force going back to sleep. That probably took an hour. Then I slept until half past 10:00, give or take an half hour. I had the alarm set for... 7:00? Then when it finally woke me at 8:30 I reset it for 10:00. When it went off then, I actually reset it for 11:00, but... was not able to get back to sleep, or more I was finally able to wake shortly after the alarm sounded. I needed that sleep.
But sore? Oh holy cow. I went looking for that horse liniment my mother bought and used while here. From swimming with my legs crossed to my torso, and that new kick style, two stripes of muscles on my back are outrageously sore. Well, and my upper arms, and arm 'calves', are sore from the PowerBall device, if that didn't even need liniment. Actually, my legs too, from using muscles I hadn't been using in my kick up to now, those are a bit sore. All good. And, actually, I don't think it is that bad. I should be able to get back in the pool tomorrow. My muscles have an odd way of... adjusting to stresses, at least if my heart is kicking out enough gunk to service them, or... something? All I know is I am doing enough better that... I might be able to handle this. Oh, and the crosswise swimming is working my midsection quite well too. Holy schmoly though! A few Anacin will go down the hatch too, if I am saving those for just once, maybe twice, a week. I've seen way too many people start out with otc pk's and end up in really bad places. If I "need" painkillers more than that, then what I actually need is to back off or change things up. I learned that when I was young, if too I learned my threshold for pain is, or was,... almost inhuman. I should be fine.
Yeah, you guessed it, today is a day of rest and relaxation, if that doesn't mean I want to just sit. Dishes, perhaps. A little bit more straightening, maybe. Oh, I best order some medicine. I think the water pill and at least one other is running a bit low. I had planned to get cracking on getting online banking going again, but that, finally, has been solved, through various upgrades and updates. I checked it when I finished the first serious batch of those and it still wasn't working... not sure what finally got it to work.
Get to it folks, time is ticking. Well, actually, not for you. At ease. Just enjoy your life, most of you, I suppose.
I had been concerned that regular situps on the exercise ball, then situps with 20 lb weights held at shoulder level, were failing to stress my stomach muscles enough to facilitate improvements.
ReplyDeleteI tried something new today. With two 20 lb weights held over my head, I draped back across the ball as far as I could comfortably go, then did my situps (to about 45 degrees up) with the weights held steady overhead. *That* finally stressed them enough to feel it. I can just increase reps for a while, then switch to heavier dumbbells.
I'll be getting a ball this month, if it is probably the only extra I buy until I figure out my finances again. I am guessing it might take a bit just to be able to sit the thing for very long.
ReplyDeleteYou are way ahead of me, physically... for now. I'm catching up fast, for a dead guy, though! Although if I remember anything about calculus, it is that no matter if two lines intersect, at some rates it doesn't essentially matter! *ssllooww*