Saturday, December 03, 2005

I'm back..sorta..kind of :-)

Activity: weights with Satan
Time: 10.30am
Duration: 30mins
Mood/energy: a little low
ITB report: fine

Satan had a relatively speaking easy upper body session planned for me today. T'was a circuit consisting of:
* assisted chin ups (with a variety of grips)
* dumbbell shoulder press standing on disks
* reverse flyes
* bicep curls,
repeated 4 times. I felt good during the session, though I did tire a little towards the end (to be expected I suppose). My knee has been good for the last week or so we will get back to working on my lower body next week.

My RHS TLF is tight and a bit tender today after I tried a new ITB strengthening exercise that a CR pointed me in the direction of. I had planned to spend 20mins on the exercise bike after the session but my (easy) 5min warm-up left my breathing feeling constricted/limited so I don't think it's time to return to cardio just yet. However the upside was that it was my first time on the bike in close to 2 months without any complaint from my knee. Yes, it was only 6mins but that was more than enough to upset my knee not so long ago!

A few hours in the office now (including printing off a stack of stuff for the 'new' CR structure), then I'm off to Parramatta to meet Go Girl for the trip up to The Entrance this afternoon. How do I feel about heading up to The Entrance ? Dunno. Numb. Sad. Driven to overcome this injury and get back to 100%.

3 comments:

Katie said...

Yeah!!! That is great news that your getting back into things! Any step forward is one to cheer! Just enjoy tommorow and let it motivate you for next year! I felt so jealous cheering the marathon this year, but also let it feed the desire to get there next year! It was HEAPS of fun cheering though!
I am glad the knee behaved... even if only 6 mins!

CJ said...

Have fun this weekend!

Cirque said...

Good on you for supporting the others Jen. You'll be back to 100% in no time.