h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

OK... First day 'at work' today... so up a bit earlier than useual, and into my gym gear, and off to the gym.....

First thing of note. - seriously?!- the cake one of the trainers bought in.... at about 10 AM, and then he, and the other main trainer, demolished?! - I refused to have any - I've been doing the gym to get fit.... lose 1/4 of my starting body weight, so far, and I didn't do that by eating massive hunks of choc cake

So, as we're in 'training' we were 'shadowing'. this got boring after the first ten minutes... as the two clients he had in, had been coming for years, and more or less just got on with it, themselves... so after speaking to the trainer we were shadowing, he suggested we havfe a bit of a workout, whilst we're there.... - the advantage to today, was that we'd get a rest from working out... my shoulders and arms, are really quite painful after last week (6 days of just arms (OK with some squats/legs thrown in, but mainly arms; averaging 6000 KG per day, X 6 days)).

So... I get on the cross trainer.... after half an hour I'm boared, so I turn round, by 90 degrees... and do the cross trainer sideways......

My useual personal trainer is in... on the treadmill.... - he is running sideways... then backwards....

Next thing I know, I'm on the treadmill, running sideways (really tricky), and backwards (rather easy).... then with incline.... then faster... then faster Ok, so that's enough of that....

so we shadow a little more... get boared again.... and get a bit of a trip round some equipment we've never used, ourselves, with the personal trainer I normally use.... a weird bending over leg raise thing... - might have to start using that myself, works the quads and hamstrings in a different way to anything else I use.....

Then to the cable pull (I've used a bit before), but, getting to see all the stuff you can do on it... more or less self-explanitry, but good to know I'd worked it out right... bicep curl, tricep curls, and overhead triceps, etc.... and some other pull-up bars I hadn't noted were there, sort of above the cable pull machine....

So much for a 'rest day' from the gym

home, and then set apon by a friend who was nearby... who came round for tea - I chatted to him a bit, but HAD to get in the shower, at that point... so did - got to speak to him a bit after I showered too and changed back into something more comfortable... I.E., a T-dress

had a salt overload lunch, of bacon sandwiches

cooked cod and chips with baked beans for dinner - helped raise the protein for the day between them, and my sodium input too

got blood results back today, from Friday just gone.... Testosterone down to 13.2, from 14, last week, and sodium up to 138, from 136 the Friday before - serium and urine osmolality more or less the same, cept serum was a bit higher; which makes sense if blood sodium is raising up kidneys still functionjing at over 90% which I assume is good FSH/LH still low, as is expected Potasium was a tad lower, which makes sense, as it does tend to move in an opposing direction to sodium levels

Off to hospital Friday for another electrolight and testosterone blood test; shall push to not* have the testosterone injection this week, and a week Friday will be week 16, which is the aim for having the injection - still no symptoms of low Testosterone, energy seems high, and no obvious signs of hot flushes/mood changes

Back to gym tomorrow, for an actual* workout with my PT - feels like I had a long session with the PT already today.... - tomorrow we're 'doing arms' and, more running backwards - well I can do the cross trainer sideways, and backwards, and I've done the stair treadmill backwards (not tried that sideways yet), so time to master running backwards I guess; well, I guess its a useful 'life skill...'

Went to the pub last night, just for the last hour, to hear the band they had on but kept fluid intake down to just two pints probably not doing to the pub tonight, though tempted; its been unseasonably hot here today; about 25 degrees C; more like a summer temp, rather than an autuminal one

no otter news... well, not that the otter's have told me about