Weight: 213, 4pm
Warmup: 10m elliptical
Intro to Pilates: 60m
Misc chest/shoulder work + stretching
Soak: 10m
Steam: 10m
Pilates rock. Great for conditioning core, aligning bod, getting straight.
Didn’t eat most of the day, challenging work day, fatigued. Gotta stay positive!
Life intervened this week, didn’t get to ride or the gym for four days. No energy at all today, but couldn’t let five days pass without doing something, so I just alternated the steam room and hot-tub for a half hour tonight.
Ride scheduled for tomorrow: an easy cruise downtown and back…
Weight: 211
10:15 am
Assisted pull-up & dip Supersets: 5
Bent-knee raises: 3×15
Plank: 2x1min
Steam/Hottub: 5 min
Total calories: -400
Low energy day so just hit chest and back to balance out the cycling a bit
It’s been a good week. Settling in to the new gig, catching up on all the stuff that’s been postponed too long. Cleaning house (metaphorically and physically) signing new clients, hiring peeps, bookkeeping, lions, tigers and bears – oh my! Gettin’ shtuff done.
Commuting by motorcycle roughly two hours each day has been my recent mode of exercise – just holding on can take considerable effort when I twist the wrist. After a glorious ride to work yesterday morning, I returned home in the late afternoon after taking a 20-minute side trip up Lookout Mountain.
That was the first time I’d driven her in the mountains. Wrestling through the generally slow, tight turns, while not going fast took significant effort. The ride down proved to be a great pec and thigh adductor workout, riding in general is a great core stimulant.
Riding is my version of kinhin (walking meditation) – feels good to be doing it regularly again.
Next up: Pedalling the dam loop!