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I just started reading The Turk by Tom Standage about the 18th century chess playing machine. While I’m not far into it yet, the review of automata at the time is fascinating. I had no idea such interesting devices were created, like a flute playing statue that really did the playing!

I almost completed the hour on the exercise bike with my little routing but just couldn’t keep it up at the end. Level 6 is going down next time.

After Sunday I’m not goign to have ny refined sugar until my birthday. And then not until May 19th (Star Wars) and then not until bbq (May 21st) and then not until the 4th of July. I don’t know when after that, but that’s pretty good.

Today was my first workout with both the slow reps and using the 60% of max weights. I can feel it in all my muscles now which is good. I haven’t had that all over tired from working out feeling in a long time. I also learned that using slow reps (4 counts up, 4 […]

Thank you, mo! That was a good read.

Today shortly before lunch I found a Coke cap that entitled me to a free 1-liter Coke product. I knew that a 10-15 minute walk away, the Grog Shop, was a place that not only carried 1-liter Coke product, but also honored the caps. So I set out on my walk at a good pace […]

So I was reading Men’s Health (got a free issue) and in one of the science/medical blurbs it mentions how you get the real benefit for muscle when you start your weight routine lifting 60% of the maximum you can lift in one rep. So today I went to the gym to deter mine my […]

Yesterday I took off as a rest day. I stretched my calves out since they were pretty sore, and I started trying to stretch out my hamstrings. The hamstrings have to be done every day to try and gain some semblence of normal flexibility. Right now if I need flexing my back does it which […]

I need to start taking vitamins and minerals again. I need to work on flexibility. I need to actually do stretching after exercises so I’m nto so tight the next day.

Today I hit the exercise bike, the LifeCycle 9500, for 40 minutes. Next time I’ll try to up it to an hour, but my legs were ready after 40 minutes. It was only level 6 (out of 20) and I was just thinking that I remembered when 10 was easy. The basic structure of my […]