Weekly post: What did you do?

[cereta]

For those of you who weren't here last week, this would be our weekly chance to talk about what we did this week. You can go into detail, you can talk about something new you did or an increase of some kind, or you can just report time or days or whatever makes you happy.

Comment away!

Comments

[alexseanchai]

Shoved a lawnmower around a quarter of the yard on Sunday and another quarter on Wednesday, which is probably as good as pushups for my upper-body strength, definitely better than a walk around the block for my cardio, but effectively killed my motivation for the week. (Ow. I liked it better when this was my brother's job.) Starting on other half later this afternoon, but my legs still hurt from Wednesday so I don't expect much.

Speaking of pushups. I heard somewhere that people who can't manage them parallel to the floor should try at a thirty-degree angle, or forty-five or sixty or ninety, and when each angle gets easy decrease the angle. That true?

[gchick]

Yep -- start by leaning against a wall with your arms straight out, and only as much angle as you can successfully push. As you work down to lower angles, walls won't work anymore but you can try tables, stair railings, chairs, whatever looks like a good height. Almost any surface can be exercise equipment.

[alexseanchai]

Awesome, thanks! Maybe I'll be able to get enough upper-body strength to, y'know, start the fucking lawnmower by myself...

[gchick]

I solved that one by switching to an electric mower -- no pull cord, and it's infinitely quieter and cooler and less gas-fume-y. (A push mower would be even better, but the spouse gets a vote on these things too...)

[alexseanchai]

I have no input on the lawnmower. Nor am I really inclined to ask why Dad went for a gas mower after discovering that our last mower died sometime between last summer and last month.