COMMUTE 2 miles a day, in/out of FoPa to work and back. That's it.
So nothing to say except all the shit that rolls around in my head. Friday got a fucking delish burger with bacon and cheddar thanks to LA, then on Saturday STEAK with same, and JFC I'm going back to my carnivore ways. Because I actually enjoy this food, it's good, and so the fuck what if it's not good for me?
Worked all through the weekend, long time course on Saturday and more on Sunday.
But also on Sunday I visited a gym in Soulard to learn more about personal training/boot camp classes they offer. I was all ready to sign on until I learned it's a yearly membership, at $167 a month for 3 visits a week. Any combination of 3 boot camp or 'rent the gym' options. Yikes. Let's do the math: $2000! Plus the $50 set-up fee. No way, and I said I can't do that without knowing if my heart and hip can handle. Monthly not available, but he offered 3 months at $200/month. That would get me through the year, seemed good!
I went to the class Monday and my first question was - what if this sets off the injury, can I delay the 'start date'. Answer seemed to be "no". WTF. So I got a workout last night, a Legs Day, haha, sort of as a test without payment.
It was just me and one other younger woman, who didn't seem anything much like me. She's been going there 2-3 months and ah...how to say....it doesn't show. We went through the routine, a WU then stations of deadlifts, squats, single leg squats, etc, and sprints on a stationary bike. The belt squats were on this ARX machine that provides a constant and controllable pressure against which the user does work against. I tested it Sunday, it's odd but learn-able. I watched the other woman go through her reps so I could learn, watched her numbers. I didn't which numbers mattered so I stored them all in my head. My turn, and I was double her "intensity". The units are kinda vague. The PT guy said it's a strong squat, even though for me it felt odd and weak. I moved steady through the other stations -- a band-based deadlift squat, a TRX single leg squat, a banded hip flexor thing -- and I was focused on form and counting and the PT would try to talk and I was to into it to reply. He noted that I don't talk when working,...ah....that's the idea?! But I hear him talking to the other woman, who was complaining about how hard this was and how tired and how hot and how sweaty and oh for fucking christ's sake THAT'S THE GODDAMN IDEA so Stop Your Bitching.
Hmmm....
By the time I was done, my legs were shaky. I ended on the single leg squats and I used the little white chair as little as possible. It brought back hip PT memories, doing squats and lunges. I left with a rush of happy-dopamine and post workout wonderfuls. The just-past-new moon was a sliver in the west sky. I watered plants (as per SO) and enjoyed a quiet calm night.
This was also my first day of October Opt Out -- no news or nextdoor at all, minimal surfing to what's needed -- and it felt good. Also first day no M! I'm now 100 days of the Devil habit broken. So much to feel good about.
But my sleep has been bad the last few nights, why, I dunno. But I need the diphenhydramine to fall asleep and even then it's a slow process. But as I lay there in my pillow pile I could feel my right hip injury talking, quiet, but there. And some mild chest pain, a low dull ache at the sternum. Now that could be just muscular, activated some chest muscles in the TRX reverse planks in the WU? The hip pain though -- as before a sharp and defined pain. Not intense, but there. I meditated on these, listening. Injuries, tweaks, issues, or nothings?
That's what kept me up last night.
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