D122: 11.21.21

Workout: Strength
Equipment Used: Bodyweight
Duration: ~20 min
Driver: N/A
Calories: ???

Quality Level: N/A
Observations/Intel: After spending some time thinking about how much I do not want to have free weights around cluttering up my newfound space, I decided that working biceps in isolation was out, which meant working triceps in isolation was similarly out. I elected then to go with a compound exercise that works everything from the waist up, namely the push-ups. I moved a bunch of boxes around this morning, as warm-up, and I still retain a good degree of natural strength, but...the exploratory push-ups went like this:

Incline push-ups, BWX14, BWX16
Flat push-ups, BWX4, BWX6
Decline push-ups, BWX2

So, pretty much trash. I was hoping for at least 25 rep count, but part of this was finding a good place to actually do these in. I used the couch for the Inclines, which was...not great. I tried various places before settling on my bedroom floor for the Flats and Declines (using my bed). That seemed to work alright, so I will probably use my bed for the Inclines as well. 

Now, what does all this mean? It means that the more I try to recruit my core (abdominal muscles), the harder the exercise becomes. My core is frankly pathetically not great, so I added in the following also:

Flat crunches, BWX25, BWX25

This is the bodyweight workout I will be sticking to until I get to 25 reps in all of the various push-up positions AND 4 sets of the crunches X 50 reps each. If I can figure out a good place to do it, I might try to move to hanging crunches, but the exercise ball that was formerly here (and that I never used) is gone now and I do not have wish for exercise equipment beyond the Air Dyne here. 

I am going to go move boxes around some more for a while, though, not for exercise, just more to wrap up that project...

Before I forget, I also got in a weigh-in this morning, which was 240, no change from last time. Not really surprised to see a stall and definitely need to clean things up a bit more. Part of the challenge there is when I'm doing spicy video content for a YouTube channel I do, which is infrequent, but can often throw a wrench into the rhythm of things, which is probably the cause of the stall this time.