Monday 25NOV2018

Today I got out for the somewhat typical Broomstock loop that gave me 8.7 miles (with some strides).

I headed over to the gym at the school afterwards, and did some weight work for about 40 minutes.  That probably means I did about 15 minutes of actual pushing of weights in some sort of exercise fashion, and the other 25 was considering the universe between sets. 

I tried to focus on legs, doing squats and lunges of different types, including using that hex bar thing and the inverted weight sled thing.  I have come to believe that my leg strength has really waned in the last couple of years.  There is a few things that I consider as evidence of that, including a visible loss of muscle mass in the quads, a thumping I create when I come down stairs, and the struggling with even body weight exercises like lunges. 

My work so far is pretty simple.  I’ll probably not bring in dead lifts or cleans until I gain some “strength confidence” after being regular with this type of work for a while.  And while it was simple today and will be for a bit … I can tell I am gonna be sore tomorrow.

It seems silly to say that I am not really sure what has driven this weakness, since I have done nothing but run for exercise of that body part.  I’ll look to see if I can make a regular habit of some gym work on this a few times a week.  If I see it exercise as a fixed time investment, that does mean I’ll need to cut back some miles (see yesterday’s post). 

Off to DC for a couple of days this week so I had to do what I could to get some lights up.