What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,713 Member
    Of course I do not intend to compete against the posts from recovering MFP'ers, I was just offering to draft up something more literary than the super-quick blurbs I normally do in this thread. To whit:

    Overnight it snowed, which was anticipated and the reason I did not go to work today (the commute between cities involves travel through a stretch famous for piling up massive snow drifts, so my boss, who lives near me and makes the same commute, told us to simply start our Thanksgiving break a day early). What was unanticipated was the degree of snowfall at my house: Last storm I got over 18 inches of snow, but this time I had maybe an inch on the driveway. On a hunch, I set aside the shovel and grabbed the shop-broom (extra wide) and it proved perfect to sweep the snow off the driveway. Took less than 10 minutes, not enough to log as cardio.

    Weights: Lower Body

    Squat 4x10
    BB Hip Thrust 4x10
    Leg Press <<superset> Leg Press Calf Raise 4x10, 15, 20, 25
    Seated Leg Curl 4x10
    Cable Crunch 4x10, 15, 20, 25

    Increased the weight used on squats for the first time in months, felt paradoxically good as well as the body staring back at me as if to say, "dude, what the...?" I think I will stick to doing the hip thrust for a while in favor of the rack pull, since both involve the same muscles but the hip thrust doesn't require gripping the bar and wrecking your palms.

    After the gym, I went to the store and got a replacement pair of weightlifting gloves to protect my wedding ring from getting scratched to pieces by the unforgiving metal bars of lifting. My last pair wore out a few weeks ago, and I have been living with my ring removed and placed in my pocket to protect it (it's a massive fight to get it on/off my finger each time, so I've just been carrying it instead of wearing it). When I went to put my ring on after buying the gloves I couldn't, my finger was swollen a little bit, will try again later. (When my daughter found out I had bought the gloves she was NOT happy, since getting a pair for me was her idea for Christmas, and I just sent her back to the drawing board as it were.)

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