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Feb. 21st, 2019 02:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynToday was leg day. Did the Darebee Brute Leg Day workout. Ten pound weight in each hand for the squats, 14.5 pound barbell in each hand for the others. Started sweating in earnest somewhere between the lunges and the side lunges. I hate lunges. And I can't replace side lunges with cossack squats if I'm using weights- cossack squats being my preferred alternative to side lunges.
Managed the forty-seconds-at-one-go one-armed plank, although I'm not sure if I was supposed to space my feet that widely. My arm was shaking like anything when I was done, I know that.
Thirty seconds of wall sit, on the other hand, were easy. Even with legs and specifically quads tired from the Brute workout I can do that without making a fuss. Thirty seconds is the time from the start of Hammer to Fall to the end of the line 'Lady Mercy won't be home tonight'. I've been doing enough leg work overall for that to be bearable.
Tomorrow will be climb-the-stairs day. I will also have to do some lunges and some more wall sit time, as I am doing the wall sit challenge in the hopes of working my way up to serious thigh strength and the Gladiator challenge in the hopes that it'll help me move towards being able to punch someone in the face who desperately deserves it.
Petty, I know. But after reading Reuters and BBC News for any length of time, the urge to do something is strong, and when phoning politicians and leaving messages with their staff, or marching in protests, or donating to charities so that they can sue to protect things and people that are important to me just isn't enough, then I start wanting to punch somebody who deserves it. And I know that punching is neither as easy nor as painless as the action movies make it look. And I also know that if your first punch is sad and pathetic and you hurt yourself throwing it, you are going to get punched right back, and it will be much worse. And you won't get to throw a second punch after that.
So it's probably good to lay a nice solid foundation now, just in case I ever get the opportunity to punch someone really deserving, and hope that the actual punchening never comes to pass.
Managed the forty-seconds-at-one-go one-armed plank, although I'm not sure if I was supposed to space my feet that widely. My arm was shaking like anything when I was done, I know that.
Thirty seconds of wall sit, on the other hand, were easy. Even with legs and specifically quads tired from the Brute workout I can do that without making a fuss. Thirty seconds is the time from the start of Hammer to Fall to the end of the line 'Lady Mercy won't be home tonight'. I've been doing enough leg work overall for that to be bearable.
Tomorrow will be climb-the-stairs day. I will also have to do some lunges and some more wall sit time, as I am doing the wall sit challenge in the hopes of working my way up to serious thigh strength and the Gladiator challenge in the hopes that it'll help me move towards being able to punch someone in the face who desperately deserves it.
Petty, I know. But after reading Reuters and BBC News for any length of time, the urge to do something is strong, and when phoning politicians and leaving messages with their staff, or marching in protests, or donating to charities so that they can sue to protect things and people that are important to me just isn't enough, then I start wanting to punch somebody who deserves it. And I know that punching is neither as easy nor as painless as the action movies make it look. And I also know that if your first punch is sad and pathetic and you hurt yourself throwing it, you are going to get punched right back, and it will be much worse. And you won't get to throw a second punch after that.
So it's probably good to lay a nice solid foundation now, just in case I ever get the opportunity to punch someone really deserving, and hope that the actual punchening never comes to pass.
