Congratulations, Fitness! You win.

Today Amanda F. and I hit the weight room at our hotel. We made the wise decision to not go out with the work crew and head home after the Pittsburgh Pirates game to get a reasonable amount of sleep. The Pirates game was great and the view from the ballpark is beautiful:



Amanda was doing chest and arms, and I was doing a light full body set. This is my first (and only) workout in Pittsburgh, so I felt like I should do *something*. Here's my routine:

Leg Extensions: 3s x 10 reps @ 92.5 lbs
Lying Leg Curls: 3s x 10 reps @67.5 lbs
Lat Pulldown: 3s x 10 reps @55 lbs
Row: 3s x 10 reps @50 lbs
Shoulder Press: 3s x 10 reps @50 lbs
Chest Press: 3s x 10 reps @50 lbs
DB Bicep Curls: 3s x 10 reps @15 lb DBs

For the dumbbell curls, Amanda was using the 20 lbs (which is what I normally do), but I was not incredibly motivated so I grabbed the 15s. I told her I was alternating. She said she was too! We were joking at how adorably nerdy we were lifting in sync. Since my laptop was down there to check in online for my flight at the appropriate time, we set up the timer and took a photo:



Adorable. I know.

While I was on the row, Amanda was on the chest press (dominating it...) next to me. She was commenting how she must have packed on a couple pounds with all the carbs on this trip because she could see her little tummy. I commented that I had as well. And then started laughing in a sense that Amanda thought I was crying while I exclaimed: "Why is the weight loss struggle so hard??!!? CONGRATULATIONS, FITNESS!!! YOU WIN." We laughed for a good bit, then kept lifting...

Next workout: maybe cardio tomorrow...maybe not. ;)

Pre-Math Trip Post: #3

Math Pick-Up Lines Day! (::hint, hint:: ::wink, wink::, available men...)

My love for you is like a concave up function because it is always increasing.

How can I know so many hundreds of digits of pi and not the 7 digits of your phone number?

You and I would add up better than a Riemann sum.

Hey baby, what's your sine?

I am equivalent to the Empty Set when you are not with me.

Being without you is like being a metric space in which exists a cauchy sequence that does not converge.

My love for you is a monotonically increasing unbounded function.

If I were a function you would be my asymptote - I always tend towards you.

Your beauty cannot be spanned by a finite basis of vectors.

My love for you is like the derivative of a concave up function because it is always increasing. we're going to assume this concave up function resembles x^2 so that slopes is actually increasing.

Pre-Math Trip Post: #2

Lame Math Jokes Day!!!! Enjoy...

Something for the non-math majors:

Q: What does the little mermaid wear?
A: An algae-bra.

Ok, now you may need to dig deep for some high school math skills:

Q: What is the first derivative of a cow?
A: Prime Rib!

"What is Pi?"
A mathematician: "Pi is the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter."
A computer programmer: "Pi is 3.141592653589 in double precision."
A physicist: "Pi is 3.14159 plus or minus 0.000005."
An engineer: "Pi is about 22/7."
A nutritionist: "Pie is a healthy and delicious dessert!"

Math AND Jesus! It's like it's my birthday...

One day, Jesus said to his disciples: "The Kingdom of Heaven is like 3x squared plus 8x minus 9."
A man who had just joined the disciples looked very confused and asked Peter: "What, on Earth, does he mean by that?"
Peter replied: "Don't worry - it's just another one of his parabolas."


A sad reality:

Q: What does the Ph.D. in math with a job say to the Ph.D. in math without a job?
A: `Paper or plastic?'


Random musing:

Do greek cows say: "μ"?


Indisputable fact:

It is proven that the celebration of birthdays is healthy. Statistics show that those people who celebrate the most birthdays become the oldest.

Two functions meet in a narrow street. The first functions says: "Clear the way!" The other function says: "No, I won't." The first function says: "Move over, or I will differentiate you!" To which the second function replies: "Ok, try it, I am e^x."


Oh snap! And now, for the shortest math joke ever. Drum roll please...

Let ε < 0.

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Miss you all!!!

Pre-Math Trip Post: #1

Today I went to Pittsburgh to go to MathFest. I'll be here until Sunday. The upcoming posts will have nothing to do with dieting, working out or weight loss.

Imma get my geek on. Get ready.

Sometimes *I* Don't Understand Myself

Unfortunately for those in a 6 mile radius of me, Ms. Crankypants Grumplestiltzkin was still here. In full force. To top it off, ABD is really ticking me off. There have been emails exchanged. I'll leave it at that.

I had to do cardio and I went because: 1) I have not lost ALL grip on reality yet; and 2) I wanted the opportunity to shun ABD if I saw him. :) I'm totally serious. It's sad. It's pathetic. And it's true.

I didn't feel like doing cardio. I didn't feel like running. I didn't feel like walking. I didn't feel like ellipticalling and I didn't feel like cycling. So what did I do? Well, my friends, I did 60 minutes on the cardio machine I hate the most: the stepmill. I don't get me. Here was my underlying inner dialogue:

Me: Ugh. I don't feel like working out.
Me: I know. Tell me about it.
Me: But what should I do?
Me: Run?
Me: Noooo.
Me: Elliptical?
Me: Ugh. No.
Me: ...bike?
Me: Hmmm....no.
Me: Well, you hate the stepmill. Maybe you could do one full hour on the stepmill. That will show them.
Me: Great plan! Who's them?
Me: No idea. But do it.
Me: Okay. I'm doing it. I'm gonna step the crap out of that stepmill.

Here are my stats:

Time: 60:00
Calories: 491.1 (according to the machine, no HR monitor)
Floors: 172
Average Pace: 46 steps/min

I'm off to Pittsburgh. Probably won't be blogging, but still not sure. I may set up some scheduled posts like last time.

I am not asking Devon for workouts. I will do what I feel like doing and see what that looks like as it unfolds.

Just Call Me Crankypants

I am a crankypants today! I did NOT want to lift. I wanted to go home and curl into a ball and sleep. I have no idea why but I am EXHAUSTED. Sleep sounded wonderful. So what was the problem? Well, there were several:

1) I hadn't lifted since Tuesday. The rock climbing was a sub for lifting on Thursday...but not the same;
2) I've been eating like crud, needed to check in at the gym; and
3) Planned on hooking up with Holly Holly at some point and lifting then catching up since she's been gone for TWO WEEKS!!!

So I went. And lifted. All crankypants. I went early, like 3:30 pm so the gym was not crowded, HOWEVER, EVERY machine I needed was used. The entire time. If it were busy and that happened I'd probably shrug it off, but it wasn't busy!!! And crankypants was all grouchy. But I got it done in a random order (except the planks--because crankypants did not *feel* like doing them and apparently crankypants like to talk about herself in the third person).

The lifting:

Squat Press x 3s x 10r @ 270-300lbs (300 lbs)
Seated Leg Curls x 3s x 10r @ 90-100lbs (100 lbs)
Seated Rows x 3s x 10r @ 50-60lbs (60 lbs)
Flat DB Press x 3s x 10r @ 25-30lbs (25 lb DBs)
Lat Pulldowns x 3s x 10r @ 50-60lbs (60 lbs)
Standing BB Shoulder Press x 3s x 10r @ 40-50lbs (50 lb BB)
Seated Machine Triceps Extension x 3s x 10r @ 50-60lbs (50 lbs)
Standing BB Cable Curls x 3s x 10r @ 27.5-37.5lbs (32.5 lbs; I did the first 8 at 37.5 lbs but it was too heavy)
Plank x 3s x 10r @ 5 second hold (None. I didn't want to.)

Next workout: tomorrow. Either rock climbing or cardio. Still deciding...

International 8 Mile Run

I think 8 miles may be my preferred distance. It's a fairly easy distance for me (I cannot believe I just wrote that...it's crazy how far I have come in a year). I feel good after I run it.

Anyways. Today I ran with Simon the Brit. STB is an excellent running partner. He can run fast, but dialed it back to do my slow, slow pace. I originally set out to see how 13 miles felt. STB had to go 18 for his training plan. When we completed the 8 mile loop, Simon was going to pick up his pace for the second loop. I thought about running 5 miles by myself. Then decided to call it a day. :)

The stats:

Time: 1:35:48
Distance: 8.05 miles
Calories Burned: 1013
Average Pace: 11:54 min/mile
Average HR: 169

Next workout: lifting tomorrow???