<p>To the basement for me. After a couple days rest, the workout felt strong. Good goblet squats. And went with 2 x 40lb DBs on the bench press again. Step ups to the weight bench with two 30lb DBs continue to be a tough exercise.</p>
<p>I’m going to get cabin fever if we don’t get some halfway decent winter weather to get outside. All day rain today. I keep reading the trail reports and they have just been abysmal.</p>
<p>No rain here. Just lots of single digit temps and blowing snow. Brrrr…</p>
<p>Thanks sabaray!</p>
<p>I tried making mashed cauliflower for dinner today. I’ve been meaning to try it for a while now. It was really good.</p>
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<p>While you’re waiting you can work on Al Kavadlo’s double clap and triple clap pushups. ;)</p>
<p>(starts around 2:11 on his All Kinds of Push-ups video)</p>
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<p>Hah. I can barely do the single clap version, and not very many of them. The landing doesn’t feel like something an almost 60 year old guy should be doing. Middle-aged bones don’t like those jolts. I don’t jump off rocks when I’m hiking, either…</p>
<p>Just watched the push-up in part 2 with each hand and foot on a separate medicine ball (4 balls total). :eek: Egads.</p>
<p>Ah my loot. What I brought home. Two dumbell handbars that you screw weights onto. (For some reason there were three of them.) Got 4 3#, 4 5#, 4 10# and 2 25# that will all fit on them in various combinations. I also got the big long bar, but it weighs so much I don’t know if I will use it. If I decide I need to do the deadlifts from the New Rules for Lifting for Abs I’ll need a smaller bar, at least to start with. For it I got some 10’s and 25’s. And I got a bench. I don’t really have room for any of this until we remove the oil tank from our basement and/or put the addition onto the back of the house. Both are projects I intend to do this spring. But this will give me a lot more flexibility with weights and more incentive to add on weight.</p>
<p>Perfect. Without using the 25s, you can go up as high as a pair of 40lb DBs. That should cover it all the bases.</p>
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<p>The empty olympic barbell with no plates is 45 lbs. That’s challenging, even empty, for a lot of the exercises you might do with it. If you ever feel the need, you can always buy a cheapo 1" barbell that will fit the DB plates. WalMart sells them. To be honest, I don’t see much reason to use a barbell.</p>
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<p>Was it something like this?</p>
<p>[Fifth</a> Gear change a light bulb - YouTube](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCZ2v-nIF4]Fifth”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXCZ2v-nIF4)</p>
<p>^lol. I wonder, though, why it was so easy in that video to change the volkswagon bulb by comparison. I have an Audi and the bloody bumper has to come off to change a light to the tune of $400 and according to my mechanic, there’s def some yoga involved. Since its the same mfg, couldn’t the engineering geniuses have extended the vw logic to the “luxury” line…or was that the point, i wonder ;)</p>
<p>My pm workout time this week is receiving major interference from the floor installation project. I guess that’s to be my version of “practical yoga.”
I am, however, looking forward to the hill this a.m., since an early meeting yesterday made it a dark-dreadmill day.</p>
<p>Idad, I’ll say hi to the trees and the sky for ya!</p>
<p>60 degrees in NC yesterday. I got in 5.33 sweaty miles. Followed up with jumping jacks, push-ups, dips, planks.</p>
<p>4.19 miles on the treadmill + #plankaday. </p>
<p>Spent several hours in the basement/crawl space yesterday. I’m definitely too old for this! My knees may never forgive me. I did find a couple things I’ve been missing since May, but not H’s trickle charger. BUT, there are still boxes to go through. I’m going back in today …</p>
<p>Science and Spotify work together to create the perfect workout playlist. 
I do happen to have a couple of these songs on my current Spotify playlist!</p>
<p>[Katy</a> Perry, Eminem, Rihanna: Ultimate workout playlist fitness gym | TIME.com](<a href=“http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/15/spotify-and-scientists-teamed-up-to-create-the-ultimate-workout-playlist/]Katy”>Katy Perry, Eminem, Rihanna: Ultimate workout playlist fitness gym | TIME.com)</p>
<p>Thanks for the encouragement! It really helped when I thought about the ice cream in my freezer last night. Went to the gym yesterday and today I substituted raisens with blueberries in my oatmeal. I also visited the crockpot thread and have a lentil, curry, eggplant and chicken thing going so hopefully when I get home a delish dinner will be ready :)</p>
<p>I should read that crockpot thread. </p>
<p>Just swimming today. Last night I made it to spin, though. I am trying to up my game without overdoing it right now.</p>
<p>3.4 mile treadmill run</p>
<p>Inverted rows, flexed arm hangs, pallof press, face pull, one arm standing cable pull, bicep curls, military press, tricep kickbacks, goblet squats, reverse lunges w/arms up or rotation, T-pushups, reverse fly, bench press, 3 pt row, stability ball toe touches, stability ball jackknife.</p>
<p>Regular pushups when I returned home.</p>
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<p>Ha. Great video!</p>
<p>Yes. Exactly like that, except the hatch cover in the wheel well is held on by a screw and only a very short screw driver will rclear the tire. Actually, the access to the bulb is not too bad through the hatch. The problem is that, once you get the bulb out, you have to remove the wires/plug from the bulb. The plug has locking clips that have to be pried open with a screw driver while pulling on the plug – obviously a two handed operation. The problem is they don’t give sufficient slack on the wire to get the bulb out of the rats nest of steel brake lines (the ABS unit is located behind the headlamp), so that has to be done reaching in from two directions! With gloves, because you aren’t suppose to touch halogen bulbs…</p>
<p>The drivers side is easy. You just have to remove the air intake tube from the engine and reach in from above.</p>
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<p>I would rather die of a heart attack than have to listen to Eminem or Rhianna while exercising… :)</p>
<p>And “Monsters” is one of my current favorites (a Rhianna/Eminem duet)!!! Guess idad and I won’t be working out together!!!</p>
<p>I don’t see how you all remember every exercise you did when you come here to post! I’ve been home less than an hour from working with my trainer, and I probably couldn’t remember half if I needed to!</p>
<p>Great idea on the gourmet cupcakes. They were delicious and now I don’t have to worry about excess bad calories laying around the house. H loved his present - I got him a two-hour private flying lesson - got it off Groupon for $99 - he’s never done it before, and in the past has mentioned that he’d like to do that. My South Beach Phase 1 crockpot recipe from yesterday was a hit. Will be my leftovers tonight, as H is still finishing off the stuff I made Monday that I will not touch with a ten-foot pole (way, way too hot). Yesterday, did all my PT exercises and a half hour on the NuStep.<br>
Motivating song (s): DMB - My Grace is Gone; Bartender
Did water class this morning before working with the trainer. Water was the warmest I’d felt yet… too warm! I kept moving toward the shallow end so more of my body would be out of the water, than in. I really, really don’t like this class, but I do it because I know it gets me moving, and it’s good for my hip. The only other ‘younger’ woman in there (you know most the ladies are old when I refer to myself as a younger woman) summarized (to me) that lot of women were going to be falling asleep around 10:30 today after being in that warm pool for so long, which might have included me had I not already had a 11AM appt with my trainer. The music is NOT motivating, nothing from this century, and some days, nothing from the last five decades! But I know it’s meant to appeal to the majority.</p>