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Week 5B. Thursday Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts ✅ Wednesday – Legs✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday - Walk✅ Saturday - Legs Sunday - Walk No more exercise! It's clearly not good for me! I feel so crummy, like I've been attacked with rolling pins! I'm going to find it hard to let this list of workouts deliberately lapse and not to try and add more intensity minutes to the week, but I have to listen to my body (and my watch). Less exercise, more food!

I think we start to appreciate the style we knew when we were kids. For me its the 70s and mid-century modern. My parents house had purple paisley wallpaper. A while ago I would have said that was so daggy, but now I see how bold and inventive it was. It reflected the exuberance of the age. I even quite like a yellow brick house now.

It's a lot of food, but kind of monotonous. He's been eating the same thing for 20 years!! That's where I come undone trying to follow a good diet! I agree that 34-35 seems low, but its a long time since I measured my fridge.

Week 5B. Thursday Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts ✅ Wednesday – Legs✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday - Walk Saturday - Legs Sunday - Walk So I've figured out that the "intensity minutes" on my watch refer to the US Dept of Health recommendation that everyone does 150mins of moderate or 75 mins of vigourus exercise a week and that's why the goal is set at 150. MOderate activity is 3-6 METs and vigorous is 6 or more. The watch figures it out from my HR. An intensity minute is 1 minute at 3-6 METs or 30s at 6+ METs. Well yesterday I did 236 METs giving a total 253 for the week, which means I'm almost at the upper end of the recommended 150-300 intensity minutes / week. This makes so much more sense than counting steps!! Can you do too many METs in a week? Today my "body battery" (measure of Heart Rate Variability) is at 60 and I feel like my battery is low. Yesterday it was at almost 100 when I woke up.

Week 5B. Wednesday Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts Wednesday – Legs Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday - Walk Saturday - Legs Sunday - Walk Jumped out of bed yesterday and immediately came over all woozy and spent the rest of the day lolling about listening to a feminist book about male violence written by a man. Cheery stuff. I've just realised that my groovy watch has goals for steps and intensity minutes. Since I'm never going to meet the steps goal, except on walking days, my goal will be intensity minutes which is currently 17/150 for the week.

Week 5B. Monday Monday – Chest and Side Delts Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts Wednesday – Legs Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday - Walk Saturday - Legs Sunday - Walk Aiming to catch up last weeks legs this week. Going easy on the cardio because I want my lungs to fill up so I can get a nice big glob of goop to take to the Drs next week. Yay!

Week 4B.5 -Sunday Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – walk ✅ Wednesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts+ bonus 20 mins of aerobics✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs ✅ Friday - Walk✅ Saturday - Walk✅ Sunday - Legs❌ decided to take the new watch for a spin instead of aerobics. Didn't get my legs done though. I'll try to catch that up next week.

Week 4B.5 -Saturday Another day of gadgets, I just ordered a Garmin Venu Sq Music Edition. It had been marked down since Thursday and I have lots of points on my credit card, so it won't cost much in terms of real money. My husband is very excited. Since it is pouring with rain, I think its time to break open the "Aerobics Oz Style" DVD and do some indoor cardio! 90s here I come!! Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – walk ✅ Wednesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅+ bonus 20 mins of aerobics Thursday – Arms and Abs ✅ Friday - Walk✅ Saturday - Aerobics Sunday - Legs

Week 4B.5 -Friday Its a day of gadgets. I've got a flutter device from the physio, which makes me dizzy and a pulse oximeter in the mail which says I have low blood oxygen. Hmm. That was noticed last time I was in hospital too. Didn't do a workout yesterday, so I'm rejigging/cheating the schedule again. Gee! Do you think there's something wrong with my lungs? Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – walk ✅ Wednesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅+ bonus 20 mins of aerobics Thursday – Arms and Abs ✅ Friday - Walk✅ Saturday - Walk Sunday - Legs

Week 4B.5 -Thursday Physio day today! Lets see what gunk she can conjure from my lungs. Meanwhile, I seem to have injured my right rotator cuff, so I'll have to take it easy on bench presses and pushups. Instead I'll do the exercises here https://www.healthline.com/health/rotator-cuff-injury-stretches#doorway-stretch Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – walk ✅ Wednesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅ + bonus 20 mins of aerobics Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday – Legs Saturday - walk Sunday – walk

Week 4B.5 -Wednesday Despite my resolution to out-walk whatever scary thing is living in my lungs, I didn't do a workout on Monday, so I did two yesterday, so I'm rejigging my schedule . I did today's workout + bonus 20 mins of Aerobics Oz Style, making 1 hour altogether. I should suck my powerbreathe after dinner too and do some more stretching. Monday – Chest and Side Delts ✅ Tuesday – walk ✅ Wednesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday – Legs Saturday - walk Sunday – walk After all the walking I did in the previous 4 days, I think I coughed up so much yuck that my VO2Max increased! My average heart rate over the same route and walking cadence decreased dramatically. I'd like to get a fitness tracker so I can track those sorts of things better but its against my principles to buy electronic toys. How many HRM have I owned in my life? Hmmm? Mood image of the day

Week 4B.5 The Plan Same as last week. Trying and failing to eat less sugar because on top of scarey nodules, my fasting blood sugar is high, apparently. Monday – Chest and Side Delts Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts Wednesday – walk Thursday – Arms and Abs Friday – Legs Saturday - walk Sunday – walk

Well, Bummer! Week 3B was left hanging with no leg workout and then I get a lovely report from the radiologist with scary words like "neoplastic pathology", nodules and other gross words. And of course, of course, you can't get to see a respiratory specialist because they're busy with ani-vaxxers and smokers. So all I can do is focus on my exercise until I know more. so Thur 1 hour walk 120bpm ✅ Fri 1 hour walk 120bpm ✅ Sat legs + 10 mins walking ✅ Sun 1 hour walk 120 bpm ✅

Week 3B The Plan Same as last week. The goal is still to get that weight gradient heading in a negative direction!! At least it's heading a less positive direction now. Monday – Chest and Side Delts✅ Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅ Wednesday – walk✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs✅ Friday – Legs Saturday - walk✅ Sunday – walk✅ Day 1 Woke up this morning with a big jiggly blob of what I hope is water on my tummy. I'm gonna see what happens if I drink a boggins load of water today. Day 2 Almost didn't do my workout but then put on some ELP playing Fanfare for modern man and aced it! .^_^. Day 4 Well there we are. Still on schedule to finish this weeks workouts. Enjoying my workout play list. .^_^. Weight still going up at 2.8g/day which means I've gained 180g since I started this battle log. Sigh! Day 7 All but one workout done, which means I'll have to carry it over to tomorrow. I've got a CT scan tomorrow and booster on Thursday, so what's the bet I feel crummy for most of the week?

Oh I see! So, just like you said, it's similar to what I'm doing.

So do you do 3 days of legs and 1 of arms?

Oh cool! We can't get them here because we're supposed to do PCR if we're sick, but the testing stations are bedlam at the moment! We're all very nervous because we haven't had covid in this state, pretty much, for 2 years but just as omicron arrived the premier decided to open the border. All very stressful.

Hope you and ROTDJr are doing well. Do people use rapid antigen tests where you are? In the next state over from us, according to the news, hosts are going to be asking people to do RATs before coming to Christmas lunch this year. A sign of the times.

So umm... I don't actually know what that means. What's a weight split? I just follow the workouts on the musclestrength page. I have a feeling that what I'm doing is really a "man's" workout, since it emphasises arms over legs. I hate leg day, so that's OK with me. Anyway, at my level, any workout is a good workout.

Week 2B The Plan Same as last week. Since the silly virus has stopped us going interstate to see my family, even Christmas won't be an excuse for not working out. Still gonna try for a -ve gradient on my weight! The goal is to get that weight gradient heading in a negative direction!! Monday – Chest and Side Delts✅ Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅ Wednesday – walk✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs✅ Friday – Legs✅ Saturday - walk✅ Sunday – walk✅ Christmas Day Doing well this week! I think I've got into the mindset of working out everyday. Today I have to do a walk and tomorrow legs and a walk and that's week 2 done! Maybe I'll cross a threshold where my muscle mass increases enough that I just suddenly start losing weight without changing my diet. That's a thing, isn't it? Boxing Day Well, look at me! For the first time in I don't know how long I did a week's workout in a week! Actually, 6 days because I cheated last week. Weight's still going up but not as quickly. I hope one day I'll pass some threshold where I've made enough muscle that I start losing weight without changing my diet. That's a thing, right?

Well, indeed. But I can't be bothered counting calories and definitely can't be bothered counting macros (been there, done that) and I don't want to eat the same things over and over again. The meat plan, if you could call it that, works, as long as I stick to it. That would be the same for any plan. But I'm open to suggestions!

Let's call it week 1B The Plan The plan was to continue with my 200g / meal regime, even though it is not working, and start a new musclestrength workout, highly modified to fit my equipment. Also, I will not be doing 90sec, rests between sets or it will take me all day, so I'll be doing 2 minute rests at the end of each circuit. The goal is to get that weight gradient heading in a negative direction!! Monday – Chest and Side Delts✅ Tuesday – Upper Back and Rear Delts✅ Wednesday – walk✅ Thursday – Arms and Abs✅ Friday – Legs✅ Saturday - walk✅ Sunday – walk✅ Day 4 4 days in and I've only done one of the weight workouts and there's no sign I'm going to do Tuesday's workout today (Thursday), which means I'll have to do a double workout tomorrow. I'm so silly. Day 5 Still haven't done those workouts, but have been on another walk. Day 7 Done! Well done me! Although it did take a day more than I had planned but, oh well. Weight is still going up at 2.5g per day But I actually feel a bit excited about doing exercise now. I should make the most of it while it lasts.

There's a bit of overlap with my favourite anime, so I'll chime in. Have you seen Steins;Gate? And you might like Princess Jellyfish is you liked Paradise Kiss...maybe. My favourite anime is Nodame Contabile, but you might think it's too old. Oh no, my favourite anime might be Eccentric Family! It's weird and sweet and funny it will make you want to go to Kyoto (again if you already have). Here's a review https://kotaku.com/the-eccentric-family-is-a-truly-magical-anime-1447545821 That pretty much covers all the notification sounds on my phone. Oh! Silver spoon.

Week....gazillion The Plan The plan was to continue with my 200g / meal regime and the last week of the musclestrength workout but then the intense Japanese course I was doing for the last three weeks got in the way! How on earth did I use to work and keep fit. Well, the answer is that I prioritized workouts over just about everything else. So here I am restarting the week from three weeks ago. Sigh! I actually only have 3 workouts to go from the 6 week plan, which has taken me way more than 6 weeks, so the rest of the workouts will be walking/aerobics. That should be doable. I've just rediscovered "aerobics oz style" and I think aerobics is unfairly maligned. As general fitness, I don't think there's much that can beat it. Sat: Core✅ Sun: Walk✅ Mon: Core✅ Thues: Walk✅ Wed: Walk✅ Thur: Legs✅ Fri: Walk✅ Day 1 Starting the week as I mean to continue, that's a good sign. Day 2 Just did a gruelling Japanese test but came home and had a walked as scheduled, no excuses. Now I'm zapped but still need to make dinner! Day 4 Didn't do my workout on Monday. The house was full of D&Ders but did tidy up the house and walk to shops to get food for D&Ders, so that counts as Tuesday's walk. Today, went to see the lovely Timothée Chalamet in Dune. So many booms and zaps and giant things flying about, I came home quite exhausted, so tomorrow must do walk and workout. Day 5 Went for a nice walk with little D and did my core workout, like a good girl. And I ruled up a new workout diary in anticipation of starting a new routine next week. Day 6 A leg workout seemed too much after a day of doing translation exercises, so I skipped to Friday's walk. Tomorrow I must do my legs and then the whole regime is finished. Day 7 ... or 9 Finally finished the putative 6 week workout regime. Did all my workouts for this week, but the week seemed to take 9 days, somehow. Weight is a disaster, although it might have gone up today because of all the salt I'm eating. According to google sheets my weight is going up 3.14g/ day or 1.146kg/year or 11.46kg / decade. That is unacceptable. I have to fix that! New fitness goal, change that gradient to a negative one, even its only -3.14g/day. Is it coincidence that I'm gaining weight at the rate of pie?

I just googled the app and found its been taken down because the dog-in-the-manger owners of the word "Mordor" had threatened the developer with legal action. What a bunch of killjoys!!