The Painful Truth
Mar. 8th, 2006 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfs"The truth, Steve, is that Knight Rider is a kid's show."
"Can't be! Can't fucking be!"
I thought of that bit of dialogue between Binky and Steve Dallas in Bloom County this morning while I resumed the workouts I have been neglecting for the past four months. I did 40 Hindu squats, 15 yoga push-ups (illustrated here), along with a brace of more traditional exercises, these concentrating on my abs as the others are leg/arm exercises mostly, putting in a full 20-minute workout.
It didn't suck. I managed to get through the whole thing without suffering too much. The new weight set is nice, although I wish I had clips instead of spinners for the weights. Programming the electric radiator to start up a half hour before I awoke and having water already present in the room where I do my routine also helped me get on my way. I would have liked music. Note to self: buy a real jumprope.
I'm learning to do other things, like leaving a couple of delay scripts running the night before to switch my laptop over to "daytime" mode automatically (gathering email, RSS and NBZ feeds, mostly, while shutting down BitTorrent), and setting out my clothes the night before.
But what reminded me most of that quote was the fact that I could still do the "hard" exercises without too much pain. Which meant that I am not out of shape. I've lost a little tone around the middle, but the Truth, Steve, is that it's probably not sessility but consumption that's contributing to the now noticeable spare tire I seem to be developing. It should take me about three weeks to get back up to a full calesthenic circuit, and hopefully I'll be able to maintain it. Adding a little muscle wouldn't hurt.
"Can't be! Can't fucking be!"
I thought of that bit of dialogue between Binky and Steve Dallas in Bloom County this morning while I resumed the workouts I have been neglecting for the past four months. I did 40 Hindu squats, 15 yoga push-ups (illustrated here), along with a brace of more traditional exercises, these concentrating on my abs as the others are leg/arm exercises mostly, putting in a full 20-minute workout.
It didn't suck. I managed to get through the whole thing without suffering too much. The new weight set is nice, although I wish I had clips instead of spinners for the weights. Programming the electric radiator to start up a half hour before I awoke and having water already present in the room where I do my routine also helped me get on my way. I would have liked music. Note to self: buy a real jumprope.
I'm learning to do other things, like leaving a couple of delay scripts running the night before to switch my laptop over to "daytime" mode automatically (gathering email, RSS and NBZ feeds, mostly, while shutting down BitTorrent), and setting out my clothes the night before.
But what reminded me most of that quote was the fact that I could still do the "hard" exercises without too much pain. Which meant that I am not out of shape. I've lost a little tone around the middle, but the Truth, Steve, is that it's probably not sessility but consumption that's contributing to the now noticeable spare tire I seem to be developing. It should take me about three weeks to get back up to a full calesthenic circuit, and hopefully I'll be able to maintain it. Adding a little muscle wouldn't hurt.
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Date: 2006-03-08 07:32 pm (UTC)I myself am back on the exercise circuit after several weeks of shirking(nasty cold, wedding cake, and laziness, respectively), and I am still woefully out of shape.
*sigh*
I'm doing traditional ballet, and floor work a la the NYC Ballet workout, and the old routines are strangely comforting.
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Date: 2006-03-08 09:12 pm (UTC)(The two phrases from Bloom County that I use on a weekly basis are "Alert Ted Koppel!" and "More skin on 'Love Boat'.")
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Date: 2006-03-08 11:15 pm (UTC)