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jaeleslie at 03:48pm on 28/06/2004
jaeleslie at 03:48pm on 28/06/2004Now that I have finished reading that 700-page tome on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, I think I need to say the words Energy and Power about three thousand times each to counteract the bad word repeating in my head. This occurred to me while I was climbing the stairs from the gym floor today, feeling little better than usual, but not hearing the same inner remarks as I have the last few weeks.
Someone had set the chest-press machine (again)(as usual) so that in the resting position one extended the elbows too far back, very bad for the shoulder joint, I don't know why anyone would want to hyperextend that way, and it makes me crazy. So after my first set (at 60 pounds) I changed it. Then during the second set it occurred to me I was rather slacking off on my weights if I could do that exercise in such a bad position. I had read somewhere (the muscle magazine that comes into the house periodically for the whey-protein consumers among us actually) that one trains for Power lifting with 70 or 80 percent of one's maximum (one-time) weight. I have not actually tried to find my maximums as I am just a sick old lady trying to maintain some remnants of mobility... So then I put on 90 pounds and lifted that half a dozen times. Hmm, must raise workout weights. What is it, the weather?
Or Unbreakable? I think not.
Someone had set the chest-press machine (again)(as usual) so that in the resting position one extended the elbows too far back, very bad for the shoulder joint, I don't know why anyone would want to hyperextend that way, and it makes me crazy. So after my first set (at 60 pounds) I changed it. Then during the second set it occurred to me I was rather slacking off on my weights if I could do that exercise in such a bad position. I had read somewhere (the muscle magazine that comes into the house periodically for the whey-protein consumers among us actually) that one trains for Power lifting with 70 or 80 percent of one's maximum (one-time) weight. I have not actually tried to find my maximums as I am just a sick old lady trying to maintain some remnants of mobility... So then I put on 90 pounds and lifted that half a dozen times. Hmm, must raise workout weights. What is it, the weather?
Or Unbreakable? I think not.