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brightbluegirlI'm wearing a belt today. The last time I wore this belt was during shooting for The Stink of Flesh.
My belt has fake blood all over it. Woohoo!
I didn't get as much sewing done last night as I wanted to, by virtue of the fact that not 5 minutes after Andrew left, the sewing machine when KERCHUNK and stopped working. Andrew fixed it first thing this morning, though.
I won't be sewing tonight, either. Although the course I was going to has been postponed, I still have to work late tonight. Deadlines, and all that. Bug testing, yay. No, really. Yay.
At least I'm banking hours for later. I really do like having some extra hours if I need them. And I'll need them as we get nearer to our whatzit.
I did, however, do my legs workout, including the cardio and stretching. I tried doing the lifting first, and pulled a muscle. Not too bad, but still. I admit, I like doing the cardio first because I know I'm warm for my workouts.
I remember a conversation with my brother the personal trainer and power lifter, and he said "it doesn't matter which you do first, as long as you always do it that way", about not only cardio, but also about what order you do your lifting in.
Sometimes I really hate consulting people before making my decisions, because I feel it makes me look weak, unintelligent, unknowledgable, or otherwise incompetent.
But what I really hate is having to point to "experts" to explain why I have chosen to do a certain thing, so that people will leave me alone.
Sometimes, I really feel like people think it's ok to question me, my actions, and my decisions far more often than they would question other people. Or worse, feel it's ok to just tell me what they think I should be doing, assuming that what I'm doing is wrong, and that I have no good reason for it.
That's really not cool.
Don't assume that because I'm a woman/young/insert-other-reason-here I don't know how to take care of myself, how to research things before making a decision, or am otherwise incapable and need your help.
Don't assume that because I ask questions I am somehow inferior or unknowledgable, and that I am opening up the rest of my life and all my other decisions to you. Last I checked, making sure I have all information before making a decision was intelligent.
Ooooh guess I'm a little pissed off about that.
I spoke to my brother yesterday and he told me that I have taught him so many great things over the years. I thought that was really sweet. This time, he was talking about being yourself. He said I taught him not to be an actor, but to just be who you want to be, and to find your personal style, and wear that come hell or high water.
It all started because he said "What do you want me to wear to your whatzit?" and then said "nevermind, I know what I'm going to wear - whatever I want!" which is, of course, what I was going to say. I mean, dress up if you want, don't if you don't, it's all about feeling good!
It's really nice hearing nice things like that. Funnily enough, I feel more like an actor nowadays than anything. The things I do for a job. Or something.
My belt has fake blood all over it. Woohoo!
I didn't get as much sewing done last night as I wanted to, by virtue of the fact that not 5 minutes after Andrew left, the sewing machine when KERCHUNK and stopped working. Andrew fixed it first thing this morning, though.
I won't be sewing tonight, either. Although the course I was going to has been postponed, I still have to work late tonight. Deadlines, and all that. Bug testing, yay. No, really. Yay.
At least I'm banking hours for later. I really do like having some extra hours if I need them. And I'll need them as we get nearer to our whatzit.
I did, however, do my legs workout, including the cardio and stretching. I tried doing the lifting first, and pulled a muscle. Not too bad, but still. I admit, I like doing the cardio first because I know I'm warm for my workouts.
I remember a conversation with my brother the personal trainer and power lifter, and he said "it doesn't matter which you do first, as long as you always do it that way", about not only cardio, but also about what order you do your lifting in.
Sometimes I really hate consulting people before making my decisions, because I feel it makes me look weak, unintelligent, unknowledgable, or otherwise incompetent.
But what I really hate is having to point to "experts" to explain why I have chosen to do a certain thing, so that people will leave me alone.
Sometimes, I really feel like people think it's ok to question me, my actions, and my decisions far more often than they would question other people. Or worse, feel it's ok to just tell me what they think I should be doing, assuming that what I'm doing is wrong, and that I have no good reason for it.
That's really not cool.
Don't assume that because I'm a woman/young/insert-other-reason-here I don't know how to take care of myself, how to research things before making a decision, or am otherwise incapable and need your help.
Don't assume that because I ask questions I am somehow inferior or unknowledgable, and that I am opening up the rest of my life and all my other decisions to you. Last I checked, making sure I have all information before making a decision was intelligent.
Ooooh guess I'm a little pissed off about that.
I spoke to my brother yesterday and he told me that I have taught him so many great things over the years. I thought that was really sweet. This time, he was talking about being yourself. He said I taught him not to be an actor, but to just be who you want to be, and to find your personal style, and wear that come hell or high water.
It all started because he said "What do you want me to wear to your whatzit?" and then said "nevermind, I know what I'm going to wear - whatever I want!" which is, of course, what I was going to say. I mean, dress up if you want, don't if you don't, it's all about feeling good!
It's really nice hearing nice things like that. Funnily enough, I feel more like an actor nowadays than anything. The things I do for a job. Or something.
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Date: 2004-04-06 01:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-04-06 01:41 pm (UTC)He says, if you do cardio, you tire the muscles x amount.
If you lift weights, you tire the muscles y amount.
So if you do cardio, then weights, you tire x + y
if you do weights, then cardio, you tire y + x
which are the same thing.
The concern, though, is that if you do cardio first on one day, then weights first the next day, on that next day your muscles will be stronger to start off with, and you'll either a) not be lifting enough weight or b) set yourself up on a high weight that you won't be able to lift the next time you do cardio first, or else will lift the next time you do cardio first, but will hurt yourself.
Ok, so he didn't say it quite so mathematically, that's just my translation. :P
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Date: 2004-04-06 03:36 pm (UTC)If you lift weights, you tire the muscles y amount.
So if you do cardio, then weights, you tire x + y
if you do weights, then cardio, you tire y + x
I'm not sure I believe this, though it's probably pretty close. But I don't see that it's necessarily true that the amount you tire your muscles lifting weights should be the same whether or not you've just done cardio. That could affect, e.g. how much oxygen they're getting, and thus how tired they get. So you could get x + y' or y + x', depending. If this is the case, it seems like what you're really trying to do is standardize the conditions under which you do each exercise as much as possible, so you're really doing the same training each time.
OR, maybe not.
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Date: 2004-04-06 03:57 pm (UTC)I believe that's what he was trying to say.
Of course, this brings to mind one theory I've heard, that what you want is not to do exactly the same thing every time, but instead to do as large a variety of things as possible, to ensure the best training possible so the body "doesn't get used to the activities"
It's really confusing to me. Maybe if I had more knowledge in biology, or kinesiology? Although everything I hear pretty much implies that a lot of fitness "experts" don't know what's best either. My brother says that even most experts get caught on some fad or other, until they find a newer, better fad, even if the fad itself is spurious at best, but talks the talk that they like to hear.
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Date: 2004-04-06 03:30 pm (UTC)And I know what you mean about the feeling that people don't always take you seriously. Maybe everyone feels that way, I dunno. It's most frustrating for me when I get into a conversation about culture and someone is saying something, and I know it's just *not* true, but they won't take what I know seriously. It's like they expect me whip out a list of experts and books on the subject that they can consult to support what I'm saying - never mind that this is what I study in school :P Of course, at the same time, it's good for people to talk about culture, and no one should take what people say at face value just because they learned something about in University (since everyone is full of crap), but c'mon already!
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Date: 2004-04-06 04:01 pm (UTC)Well, unless you like that sort of enforced learning, which in some ways, at some times, I do.
I think I would enjoy talking culture with you! I know that I'd trust that what you were saying came from something - although I might disagree with it anyway, not because I was disagreeing with you, but because I might disagree with the source, or the underlying assumption... anyway, I wouldn't invalidate your knowledge, that's for damn sure.
Grrr!!! to those people. It gets really frustrating.