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ianukWednesday was busy. I was appalled at some things I found on wikipedia about what I work on. Hmmmm...interesting. But it was also neat to hear the podcast from How Stuff Works on the uses for Wikipedia and how you shouldn't use it for research papers. I'll have to put that in my class handout. I got more tasks in the new job and that makes me happy. I'd rather be busy than bored and that is a good thing.
Got done and headed for the gym. I use an assist machine to do pullups, dips, chinups and I've decreased the amount of assist last week and I was able to complete a full set of 1-4. I'll explain. You start with 1 pullup, 2 dips, 1 chin ups and then hop off of the machine, do 3 pushups and 10 no weight squats, get back on the machine and do 2, 4, 2, 6, 10 and keep going. I did up to 4 pullups and then reversed the sequence to end that portion of the work out. I've never been able to get through all of that and I had decreased assist. Go me. I've increased my weight on my snowman crunches and then hit a new high on my leg curls and leg lifts which hurt but made me happy. I followed that up with 11 mins of interval cardio on one of the machines and felt great.
Got talking with Bob about how the scale and me are not good friends right now. He agreed I needed to increase my cardio per workout to burn the flub. He commented I'm looking much better and much stronger than when I started and its noticeable to him. He also understands women and scales and said he'd work some more on thinking of more leaning down stuff for me but we both agreed. I need to increase my cardio to probably 20mins after I lift. I can do that...its just gonna take longer to work out and I'm okay with that. He's right, the scale doesn't really matter if I'm happy where I'm at and with how my clothes are fitting. Though they are fitting, oddly right now. The pants are slipping and my flub that is getting smaller is muffin topping cause my pants are sitting on my hips versus my much trimmer waist. Sighs. Its okay. I understand...its just annoying.
Knit night was fun and Ari luved her t-shirt and new coffee mug. I got her a "I knit so I don't kill people" shirt and a "knitting genius" mug. I thought it was apropos. She brought in still warm red velvet b-day cake. Nummy. I had a piece. I cast on for my new sock while at knit night. And I'm pretty happy with it so far. I got about 1/2 of the cuff done last night. Zippy and Reynier were over working on projects. Things looked like they were going good for them. I put aside my history book and started reading Changes by Jim Butcher. Wow. Uhm. Wow. Must resist going home and only reading. I have packing to do for the weekend and more baby projects.
Well, work continues...lots of meetings today and a dept BBQ. It will make things go quickly though and that is good.
Got done and headed for the gym. I use an assist machine to do pullups, dips, chinups and I've decreased the amount of assist last week and I was able to complete a full set of 1-4. I'll explain. You start with 1 pullup, 2 dips, 1 chin ups and then hop off of the machine, do 3 pushups and 10 no weight squats, get back on the machine and do 2, 4, 2, 6, 10 and keep going. I did up to 4 pullups and then reversed the sequence to end that portion of the work out. I've never been able to get through all of that and I had decreased assist. Go me. I've increased my weight on my snowman crunches and then hit a new high on my leg curls and leg lifts which hurt but made me happy. I followed that up with 11 mins of interval cardio on one of the machines and felt great.
Got talking with Bob about how the scale and me are not good friends right now. He agreed I needed to increase my cardio per workout to burn the flub. He commented I'm looking much better and much stronger than when I started and its noticeable to him. He also understands women and scales and said he'd work some more on thinking of more leaning down stuff for me but we both agreed. I need to increase my cardio to probably 20mins after I lift. I can do that...its just gonna take longer to work out and I'm okay with that. He's right, the scale doesn't really matter if I'm happy where I'm at and with how my clothes are fitting. Though they are fitting, oddly right now. The pants are slipping and my flub that is getting smaller is muffin topping cause my pants are sitting on my hips versus my much trimmer waist. Sighs. Its okay. I understand...its just annoying.
Knit night was fun and Ari luved her t-shirt and new coffee mug. I got her a "I knit so I don't kill people" shirt and a "knitting genius" mug. I thought it was apropos. She brought in still warm red velvet b-day cake. Nummy. I had a piece. I cast on for my new sock while at knit night. And I'm pretty happy with it so far. I got about 1/2 of the cuff done last night. Zippy and Reynier were over working on projects. Things looked like they were going good for them. I put aside my history book and started reading Changes by Jim Butcher. Wow. Uhm. Wow. Must resist going home and only reading. I have packing to do for the weekend and more baby projects.
Well, work continues...lots of meetings today and a dept BBQ. It will make things go quickly though and that is good.
