No Content, No Fuss: Category gym

Core stability exercising

anil@recoil.org (Anil Madhavapeddy) — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 21:57:00 +0100

It's been a wierd exercise year; I went from hard-core powerlifting (go 220lb bench!), to playing a lot of badminton and tennis, and then ending off the PhD era with breaking my knee (details not suitable for blog publication).

As anyone it's happened to knows, a knee injury is really annoying to recover from as it feels really "wobbly" for ages and can't quite be trusted. I've been doing physio on it myself for about half a year now, and can finally run around for 5km or so without too much discomfort, although yoga and Capoeria are perhaps a few more months away.

But then, the Forrest Gump-class runner and ex-officemate Alex Ho pointed out these amazing exercises by the captain of the CUH&H running team in Cambridge. They all emphasise smooth movement and core strength without the need for heavy weights, so can be done while travelling as well. So highly recommended, that even little Ajay (right) is trying them out!

This is the life...

avsm — Tue, 03 Dec 2002 16:40:00 +0000

Went to the gym this morning for a hard workout with Scottie and the usual crew. To top it off, I then wandered down to the Cambridge Regional College for a full body massage.
A friend of Eva's is doing her final-year exams as a masseuise, and she needed some vict...volunteers to lie still while she treated them under supervision. I could really get into this massage thing ... all the pains from the gym have magically vanished!!!

Friday! Woopy!

avsm — Fri, 15 Nov 2002 15:49:00 +0000

Off to London for the weekend to hang with Seb, Tino and Nick, and perhaps play a spot of Warcraft. My back feels a hell of a lot better today, and the injury has got a good side - my posture has improved dramatically since it hurts to slump!
Rich, Dave and I have a cunning plan for writing a paper to publish at HotOS. More details as we figure it out...

Ow...

avsm — Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:40:00 +0000

Went to the gym with Dave, Rich and Sal, and ended up straining my lower back doing a dodgy deadlift. After a brisk cycle ride to the local hospital (punctuated with gasps of pain), it turns out not to be that serious, just pretty damn painful for the next few days.
I'll be back! (ha ha)

And so it staggers on

avsm — Mon, 11 Nov 2002 13:18:00 +0000

Scribe seems to getting a bit more stable - I spent some time hax0ring on the OpenBSD Unicode ports and GD (a nightmare of freetype library linking). The stats page should be up soon.
In other news, I bench-pressed 70kg for the first time, blowing Dave out of the water after he failed due to his weak pec^H^H^H... lack of caffeine.
Last step to getting scribe working is figuring out how the communities are created.