Plus Size Win….

Workout notes I didn’t feel great this morning; it is almost as if I am coming down with something. My throat is sore and my eyes burn a bit and I feel tired. Also I had some mild shoulder ache last night; shoveling snow? Is it from the half marathon plus half-blood donation? Or do I just suck?

Nevertheless the workout went ok:

Weights: rotator cuff (pulley plus dumbbells)
Rows: 2 sets of 10 x 230 with standard grip, 1 set of 7 plus 3 with the narrow grip (Hammer Machine)
pull downs: 3 sets of 10 x 160
curls: 3 sets of 10 x 47.5 (pulley)
sit ups: 5 sets of 30 at the highest incline (made an effort to touch my head the whole way and mostly succeeded)
pull ups: 4 sets of 6 (2 regular grip, 2 shoulder friendly)
bench press: 10 x 135, 2 sets of 4 x 170 (pleased)
incline press: 6 x 135, 5 x 135
military press (seated): 2 sets of 15 x 40 lb. dumbbells.

I stretched a bit and then ran:
3 miles on the track (9:11, 9:05, 9:18 for 27:34), that tired me. Then 1 mile cool down on the treadmill at 10:40.
I have to remember that the 3 mile workout I described is a de-facto tempo run, given my previous 5K running races.

Professional I got a “revise and resubmit; we like your work but you have to fix it up” on a paper that I submitted so I have something to work on. I’d rather work on something new, but this will take priority…and I really want this paper to appear in the journal that I submitted it to.

Plus Size Win
This size 12 lady doesn’t look “plus size” to me, but here we see the contrast between her and a normal sized model

And here we see her “touch your toes” pose:

Click on the thumbnail to see the full size photo at the source. The idea: today’s models are unrealistically skinny. Don’t get me wrong; there is nothing wrong with a sexy “greyhound” if they are naturally that way. But “rounded” can be very sexy and very athletic too.

Example: these two women are very comparable athletically and are in the same age group…and vastly superior to me (low bar, I know)

Very different body types, and very comparable results. The lady in the top photo just walked a judged 50K racewalk in 5:16 (10:10 per mile, WALKING) and the one in the bottom has walked a 1:56:24 20K (12.4 miles of judged racewalking at a 9:24 mpm pace…(equivalent to a 2:04 half marathon…WALKING).

So “accepting one’s body” does NOT mean “accepting athletic/fitness failure”; not at all!
Of course, one might not be as good (or in my case, as bad) in one sport as another sport.

Update I got permission to use a couple of other photos; they are both fun:

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