Tom's gym habit

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.

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