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January 23, 2006
Biking and Lifting, Lifting and Biking
Nothing too exciting to report on the exercise front today. After work I hit the Pitt gym where I biked (45 minutes) and lifted. I did 3x5 minutes of increased resistance while maintaining the same RPMs on the bike. I did this, of course partly for the fitness benefit, but mostly to keep myself from being bored out of my mind. Lifting was fine. I was able to do my 2x15 sets of 65# on the bench press, but it was harder than last time. I almost asked some random guy to spot me on the 2nd set but decided I could get through it by myself, and indeed, survived.
I've started to notice a rather odd character at the gym lately. I first saw him on Saturday - he caught my eye because he was running on the treadmill in spikes - the kind of spikes that are rubber on the bottom but you can put spikes in if needed. Cross-country spikes - a pair of which is hanging in my closet right now. Anyway, I saw him again today, this time biking, and then lifting, in the same spikes. He wears a shirt (same both days) that says New York City Democrat. What would one make of that? He's fun to watch. Keeps things interesting anyway.
In other news, my low-fat diet is going pretty well, in case anyone was wondering. My only change has been to not eat ice cream but cereal instead. I'm still living to talk about it too. :) I'm going to go to my PCP in a couple months and ask for repeat blood tests. If nothing changes I'm going to chalk my high cholesterol up to bad genes, accept the fact that I'll eventually need a statin and go back to eating all the cookies and cream I want. :)
And finally a class update. I got my paper done last night. Let us just say it's not my best work. It will do though. This class is a lot of work and that's something I just do not like. But what can you do? Roxy is doing VERY well in her class. She now knows how to sit, heel, stay and give her paw. Of course she doesn't know how to do these activities quite as well when you are not holding a piece of string cheese in your hand, but again, what can you do? :)
Posted by beth at January 23, 2006 7:33 PM