Golly, I’ve fallen behind in posting again; what a shock. OK, Here’s the rundown from the past few days of working out, etc.

Sunday: I did not get out and ride at all. It was cold and wet and the wind was gusting bad enough to blow a decent sized branch down from one of our trees. I stayed in and did some stretching instead, because riding on the trainer is as enticing as riding a porcupine without a saddle. Yeah, I know — but I get that extra time in during the week on my commutes, so I don’t want to hear it.

Monday: Back on the aluminum horse. Some moderate length high-cadence riding folowed by floats (you really have to concentrate to unload the off foot) and extremely-high cadence bursts. The cadence sensor for my computer arrived and I finally got it on the bike. I was shocked to see that my natural riding cadence is up around 90 RPM; I would have guessed 75-80. This is why I’m not a drummer. I was also shocked to see that during the super-spins I was able to hold 150+ RPM without losing control. I would have guess I’d max out around 130-135.

In other news, I weighed in a 254.5 pounds this morning (good god, I’m fat). Down 4.5 pounds from the previous Monday, and up a bit from Saturday. I really need to learn to do better on the weekends and not cave into the “snack ’cause you’re home all day” trap. I hope the weather is better in the upcoming weekeds so we can get out of the house.

Tuesday: Or as I like to call it, “I hate those damn Hindu squats-day”. Actually, the squats were a lot better than last time, however, it took me about twice to three times as long a Graeme to knock out the push-ups and bicycle kicks (stupid bicycle kicks, you’d think it would be just like kicking a bicycle, but it’s much harder). Then I moved into Body Weight Contitioning #2. Ugh.

The reverse lunges had me wobbling like a Weeble in an earthquake, and now my glutes are mad at me. However, I did surprisingly well with the T-stands and only had a slight delay when I over-rotated on my fourth one. Future sessions I’ll try to extend the time I hold the pose beyond what Graeme does in the vid. Also, the Mountain-Climbers took me back to grade-school gym class, and had me marveling at how I probably could have breezed through these workout back when I was young and played every day. Sitting down for 8-12 hours a day has been slowly killing me.

Oh, yeah, the one leg drills. I’m still kind of clunky (but getting better and really working that shoe-scraper/knee-thruster transition that’s my big dead spot), and I stared to cramp up in my right hamstring after I finished the last rep. Still, I survived and slept like a baby — A baby that kept getting woken up by dogs.

Today: Well, I haven’t worked out yet (unless you count my commute, but I treated it like an active recovery ride this morning), but I don’t expect too many problems. My second run-through of the extended high-cadence portion is looking a bit daunting from here, but I can get through it. I have to. Still I’m betting those last four minutes will feel like 40. We’ll see.