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I try to go twice a week, and to do something like the set of activities below the cut. I'm not quite sure what I'm aiming at; I'd like not to weigh a hundred kilograms, but abstention from chocolate puddings seven days a week is more the way to do that than gym twice a week; I'd quite like to be able to pull myself up by my arms, and there are moments when I feel it would be very cool to be able to do back-flips, but I don't think anything short of wizardry can convert me to a body shape capable of doing back-flips.

While on the arc-trainer and cross-trainer I read books on my iphone; currently a late-19th-century history of geography from Aristotle to Henry the Navigator. I didn't know that the Arabs had trade down to Madagascar, run by essentially a single family whose attempts to put their head on the Caliph's throne had not met with success and so had decided to do something else somewhere very far from Baghdad, starting as early as 800AD.


Row vigorously for 5 minutes; 80 cal, 1232 metres
30 situps
Overhead press 60lb x20
Leg press 250lb x50
Biceps curls 15lb x20
Cross-trainer, 20 minutes, 'weight-loss' program; 197 calories reported
30 situps
Biceps curls 15lb x25
Leg press 250lb x50
Shoulder swing 15lb x 15
Arc trainer, 20 minutes, 'weight-loss program'; 334 calories reported
30 situps
Biceps curls 15lb x30
Shoulder swing 15lb x10
Overhead press 60lb x10 (I couldn't quite manage this; 40lb x10 was fine, but I couldn't get the 60lb weights much above my shoulders more than once or twice)
Row as vigorously as I can, which by this stage isn't very, for 5 minutes; 67 cal, 1130 metres

Date: 2009-09-01 09:01 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] bugshaw.livejournal.com
What you are obviously in need of is a 60lb chocolate pudding :-)

Date: 2009-09-01 10:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [identity profile] jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com
Leg press 250 lb? Grief, but you have awesome leg muscles. I know you cycle quite a lot so shouldn't be surprised by this, but that seems a remarkable mass.

The whole routine is very impressive!

Date: 2009-09-02 07:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] fivemack.livejournal.com
Bear in mind that I weigh 220lb, and leg-pressing your own weight is not that different a movement from getting out of a chair ...

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