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Six hours of solid sleep, two hours drowsing to podcasts. We're still in a cooldown period. No temperature in the nineties for the rest of the week. As low as 64: good sleeping weather. Body fat: 23.3 (fairly hydrated).
Eight minutes first thing out of bed on the Air Walk Trainer to burn up glycogen; 23 minutes of leg exercises on the chair with 1 1/4 pound ankle weights: hip abduction, toe, knee, and leg raises; 21 minutes of leg work on the mat with ankle weights: leg and knee raises, hip abductions. Thirty minutes on the air walk trainer.
I'm off Creatine loading and now doing maintenance. Today is a down day (500 calories). One advantage of the alternate-day diet: you save a lot of time on meal preparation. I'm taking a hint from Lifehacker and I'm going to organize the food in my freezer with containers. Right now, a lot of it is in bags and it keeps falling out and I keep having to rearrange it so it doesn't.
Checked on the status of my activity tracker at UPS. After a week of promising to deliver, UPS says it doesn't have any status to report. Live chat with UPS and they suggested getting in touch with Amazon. I called Amazon and they're sending a replacement by tomorrow.
I'm still working on building out my home gym. I ordered a pair of Fat Gripz on an Amazon deal to put on dumbbells, particularly while doing wrist curls. Fat Gripz are supposed to strengthen your grip - one of my problem areas - and distribute the weight better, but I'll have to downshift to a lighter weight. One reviewer wrote, "I kept going around the gym, snapping these things on anything I could. One awesome exercise was thick handled rowing! You think your hands are tired from a regular 1000m row, try these out!" One possibility would be to put them on the Sunny Air Walk Trainer handles.
"Thick bars shift the stress off the joints and onto the muscles because a thick bar spreads the weight over a larger area of the hand (just imagine bench pressing with a thick bar compared to a standard skinny bar). It also makes the forearm extensors (the muscles on the top of the forearm) and forearm flexors (the muscles on the bottom) both work equally which helps avoids imbalances, weaknesses and injury... Training the grip, hands and forearms has often been relegated to an afterthought. Most trainees have thrown in a few wrist extensions or grip exercises after a training session. With thick bars, you are training your grip and forearms the whole time and you don't even need to do any extra exercises." - Fat Gripz
Woot has the Lifeline Fitness Bands again - this time without the workout DVD. I decided to go ahead and order the DVD from Amazon now rather than wait until it was no longer available. I did order a Lifeline Power Wheel. I have an Ab Wheel, but it doesn't have a foot strap, which means I can't do a lot of the exercises in "Ab Wheel Workouts: 50 Exercises to Stretch and Strengthen Your Abs, Core, Arms, Back and Legs" by Karl Knopf. It's $20 less than Power Wheel on Amazon.
One source I read online suggested that Pilates is good for hernias. I'm not going back to an hour a day of Pilates, but I'm going to look into the ten-minute Pilates videos DVDs. I'm definitely staying away from the sumo squats and the rowing machine. Once I get room cleared out, I may try dedicating a space to the rowing machine and try shorter sessions, rather than the longer sessions I was doing up to an hour. I figure I can still do the leg strengthening exercises, as well as posture, flexibility, and balance. Not as sure about dumbbells: I'm thinking about using lighter weights. I set up a Google alert for hernias.
According to one of my Facebook friends, you do get five free rides from Uber before August 21. They just don't charge you. There's no promo code.
I've been keeping a gratitude journal by way of email. For the second time, a service has gone down on me. I started using a gratitude journal and today that was acting out. Maybe I need to start an ungrateful journal. I may just have to tack the gratitude journal onto my regular journals - simplifies things- and also tack on achievements for the day, rather than track them separately in Google Keep.
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443 kcal
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Vet: 15,50g | Eiwit: 20,00g | Kolhy: 60,19g.
Ontbijt: Celestial Seasonings India Spice Chai Tea, Kroger Lactose Free Fat Free Half & Half, Sugar, Fiber Choice Sugar Free Assorted Fruit, Planters NUT-rition Heart Healthy Mix. Lunch: Chobani Nonfat Blueberry Greek Yogurt. meer...
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