Going to the gym. I try to frequent it about 3 days out of the week. Sometimes it is more then that, sometimes less. Last night I was at the gym working out for a bit more than solid two hours, and I only meant to go for less then an hour. Heres how it happened.
The clocks in the gym have some set to the correct time and some an hour back. Not paying too close attention I reasoned that the correct time was on the clocks set back an hour. I left home at 7:30. No way could I have been there for an hour and a half, I must have only been here for a half hour.
Also I decided to try my hand at writing down how much weight I did, overall. For each set, how many reps were done and at what weight. I calced out the numbers an I was only 20 pounds short of moving about 30,000 pounds from this one session of exercise. Considering I was working my back I would call that a moderate session. The challenge of posting higher and higher totals drove me to work harder last night which was nice. I got a great workout in. This method of rating based on sum weight is also a good way to measure how much work was done, though to give it context you have to look at how you are working out. Arms at a total of 20,000 pounds could be a heavy exercise session, versus doing a heavy session on the chest going to around 45,000 pounds. So For the next while to measure performance in a simple manner I will be totalling up the weight done with the muscles worked
April 19th - Back - 2980 lbs
Also as a better more active way of taking and regulating my breaks, I am making it a point to walk the length of the gym floor inbetween set
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