Workout stuff

[helen99]

Whee! A weights workout with animated diagrams.

I can add the ones I'm not already doing. Probably not the dead lifts shown on that page, because that looks hard on the spine (mine is in good shape and I would like to keep it that way). The half-squats and lunges shown are better for that kind of lifting, and everything else has the spine in a good position. I'll be going to 7 pounds with the right and 3 pounds with the left by the end of this week.

Comments

[miss-adventure.livejournal.com]

If you haven't checked it out yet, I highly recommend stumptuous.com. Best lifting site on the 'net, IMO.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Interesting articles, thanks!

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's actually really useful. I had a pretty good one with descriptions, but the animations help a lot.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

They do. Now if I could only get my stupid Suse box to stop triple-timing. It did that with Ubuntu too, so it's not the OS. There's a glitch in the motherboard that causes the clock to go at warp speed (it's now reading August 24th, over a week in the future). We reset it every so often (have to reset the motherboard physically), but it always goes back eventually. So because of that, the animations are going very rapidly which makes them hard to see... I can still see them ok though.

It may be about time to get a new motherboard (which probably means the processor and memory have to be replaced also, since it's been a while).

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

Check out some of the deals at Microcenter. Sometimes you can pick up one of their refurb systems for less than it would cost to upgrade what you have.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

That does sound tempting. I can probably get a bare bones for $250 or something.

[rhiannasilel.livejournal.com]

I think that's about what we paid for Rab's -- $250-$300. It comes with Vista, but we dual booted his as soon as we brought it home. He likes to keep Windows around for gaming.