May 2021 – Page 4 – Life of an old goat

Fully vaccinated and all that…

Yoga class. I was awful…I’ve done some stretching but overall my body is too tight.

Swim: somewhat tender right shoulder but managed to mix drills and off strokes to get 1000 yards in 26 minutes or so. My zoomers died..ordered new short-blade fins.

This was my first swim since 2018 and I have not swam regularly since 2016.

This was my workout: 2 rounds of 50 free, fins: 3 of 25 drill, 25 free, 50 free (500) 3 sets of 25 free, 25 stroke (back or breast), then 200 alternating pull/free.

Other note: picked up my Chiefs tickets! My eyes teared up a little…

Last day

Ok, grading…lull, grading…

I changed my routine up and lifted today and will do yoga and swimming tomorrow. I haven’t swam since April, 2018, and that was after a long hiatus (2016). We shall see…won’t be pretty.

shoulder: some mild night pain. the routine: mostly pain-free.

pull ups: I did several sets of 5, singles, and included one “on the 10 second) set of 15.

push ups: 30, 30, 20, 20 went ok; got a pump.

I didn’t try bench; I did rows (3 sets of 10 x 134), curls (3 sets of 10 x 50) and several sets of shoulder presses with the multi-grip bar:

2 sets of 10 x 75, 1 set of 10 x 80 (last rep was shaky), and 10 x 65 close grip.

Not quite drowning

Well, finishing kick for the semester; spent much of the day writing up a final exam and grading an exam 3. I SHOULD be caught up by Tuesday or Wednesday.

This semester: has had its challenges and some degree of suck. But it has had some upsides too.

Walking: yep; my piriformis is torched; I have to make an appointment and have to bite the bullet on laying off of walking for a while and maybe getting PT.

Friday: 2.1 at 13:59 but, yeah, the piriformis actually hurt toward the end (1.6 onward)

Today: easy 19 minute mile walk; got tingles..not quite pain but …but..the silver lining is that stretching afterward made it feel better.

If I walk at all, I have to think of “rehab” rather than “training”

Today’s weights: shoulder tolerated it well.

pull ups: rough (after eating lunch?) 2 sets of 10 singles, then 5’s to get to 50

push ups: 29, 31, 20, 20 for 100: these were a challenge and got that chest burn.

shoulder presses: 10 x 75, 7 x 75 close grip, 5 x 75, 5 x 75 close grip, 5 x 75, then 5 x 80, 3 x 80 for video. These are working well

curls: 3 sets of 10 x 50 strict

rows: 4 sets of 10 x 134

Message to readers

I intend to use this blog as a type of open diary to talk about what is on my mind. I will post workouts, my thoughts on political, social and news issues of the day, outings with family and friends and games that I attended. I’ll also talk about footraces (runs and walks).

Discussion is fine, even if your views are contrary to mine. Fact checking me or pointing out what you think are holes in my arguments is fine. “Shouting slogans” or name calling is not.

Encore posts are posts that I’ve taken from my previous blog, which I’ve decided to shut down for a while, for personal reasons.

Note: I will avoid using my name on this blog, though I will have photos of myself here. Reason: I do not want to be found by someone putting my name into a search engine. Therefore, anyone who comes to this blog must have either had a link (available to Facebook friends), came for a given post OR must have done at least a little work to get here deliberately. I have reasons for that.