workout update
January 28, 2012
Monday January 16 20 minutes on the bike, random hill programme, level 14.
Wednesday January 18 Warm up: 12 minute run
Once around the weight machines circuit:
12 x leg extension, 70lb
13 x leg curl, 70lb
12 x lateral pull down, 130lb
12 x chest fly, 70lb
13 x chest press, 70lb
12 x shoulder press, 40lb
Cool-down, 5 minute treadmill walk
Friday January 20 1000m on the rowing machine (sets of 100 sprint, 100 rest) and a 12 minute run.
Sunday January 22 3 hours roller derby practice. After I did the 25-in-5 (22 laps, new personal best!), while timing laps for another skater I stood in a deep squat for two out of every three of her laps (standing for the first lap then squatting for two) just to sap out whatever strength I had left in my legs.
Tuesday January 24 2.5 hours roller derby practice. It was an open skate night, so no drills or training; at the end I got in a good 20 minutes of sprinting around the track practicing my still-very-clumsy crossovers.
Wednesday January 25 Warm up: 15 minutes on the bike, random hill programme level 14
Once around the circuit (this is how you can tell when I’m having a lazy couple of weeks, the circuit is the workout that doesn’t require any planning or thinking):
12 x leg extension, 70lb
13 x leg curl, 70lb
12 x lateral pull down, 130lb
12 x chest fly, 80lb
10 x inverted fly, 60lb
12 x chest press, 80lb
12 x shoulder press, 40lb
Cool-down: 10 minute treadmill walk.
Thursday January 26 20 minutes on the bike, random hill programme level 10 (taking it easy so as not to get tired out on skills testing day).
Thursday evening, derby minimum skills testing. I felt pretty good and had fun (23 in 5, new personal best!) but of course still failed, again, this time by a frustrating 1.8%. For serious, you guys.
Posted by jodi on January 28, 2012 at 9.53pm
how i’m spending my saturday evening
January 21, 2012
Hey, want one of my new drawings on a t-shirt?
How about a hoodie?
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Posted by jodi on January 21, 2012 at 8.43pm
today in the studio
January 19, 2012
Progress on the bird drawing:
Start of a new drawing:
The second drawing is inspired in part by this one, from Aldrovandi; I was originally going to put a headdress on the deer (I was thinking of an octopus for a headdress, actually), but once the antler was in there it felt like too much. Somebody in one of these drawings is definitely going to be wearing an octopus on their head, though.
Posted by jodi on January 19, 2012 at 6.21pm
progress in the studio
January 16, 2012
This bird’s head is way too big, but whatever. Also hand-bird is bothering me, it’s too much knobbly neck. Perhaps it needs to be wearing a nice frilly ruff.
Posted by jodi on January 16, 2012 at 10.34pm
workout update, 2012 edition
January 15, 2012
A series of injuries and minor illnesses and a couple of out of town trips plus moving my studio out of the house sidelined my workouts in a major way last fall, and I’ve lost a bit of ground. So I’m lowering my weights a bit in places, picking up and carrying on. These updates will happen every two weeks now instead of once a week.
Monday January 2
Warm up: 20 minutes on the treadmill, 12 running (I was at 25 minutes of continuous running when I hurt my shoulder, and now it’s hard for me to do more than 10 at a time, so this will go up incrementally but I am not in any hurry).
Kettlebells routine, twice through the following (on these no weights were changed from last time):
25 swings x 30lb
12 each 1-armed squat press x 8kg
15 each dead lift x 20kg
15 each sumo squat x 16kg
15 each Gaspari’s crunch x 30lb
15 upright row with squat x 16kg
12 overhead extension x 12kg
16 seated abdominal twist x 8kg (not lifting much weight here because it’s hard enough to balance on a still-injured-a-year-later tailbone)
12 each bentover row x 30lb
with interstitial cardio after each two exercises, rotating between 15 jumping jacks (4 times), 30 bicycle crunches (2 times) and 50 jump rope (2 times); ending with a 60 second plank.
Cool-down: 10 minutes brisk treadmill walk.
Tuesday January 3
Warm up: 1000m on the rowing machine (100 sprint, 100 rest)
Push ups (yes, I’m going back to the push up programme, starting again way back in week two and only doing it once or twice a week, DON’T WORRY I am not going to end up in physiotherapy again). 5 sets, as per week 2 of the programme, with 60s rest between: 9, 11, 8, 8, 13 (minimum 11 for the last set) for a total of 49.
Cool-down: Jump rope x 100, 10 minutes on the treadmill (5 running).
Wednesday January 4
Warm up: 15 minutes on the bike, random hill programme, level 14
Free weights grab bag (this is where I started lowering some weights from what I was lifting before my shoulder injury), 3 times through the following:
10 wide front pull downs x 120lb (down from 130)
10 each leg split squats (instead of lunges because split squats are HARDER) (so much harder) x two 15lb dumbbells (down from 2 x 20)
12 barbell rows x 60lb (no change)
15 squats x two 15lb dumbbells (down from 2 x 20)
10 hammer curls x 15lbs (x2) (no change)
10 military press x 15lbs (x2) (no change)
Ending with a 60 second plank. Cool-down: 10 minutes treadmill walk.
Thursday: day off, massage day!
Friday January 6
Warm up: 15 minutes bike, random hill programme, level 14
Weightless “A” routine, 3 x through the following:
20 squats
30 bicycle crunches
20 lateral box jumps
20 lunges
10 each leg side lunges
10 each leg split squats
Ending with 60 second plank. Cool-down: 5 minutes treadmill walk.
Tuesday January 10
2.5 hours derby skating practice. As it was the first practice back after a two week break and I had some lingering leg pain (there is this ongoing hamstring thing I’m trying to sort out. . . ) I took advantage of the open skating format and mostly just skated around in circles. Worked on crossovers and speed for the last half hour or so.
Wednesday January 11
Warm up: 10 minute treadmill run.
Once around the weight machines circuit:
12 leg extensions x 60lbs (down from 70)
12 leg curls x 60lbs (down from 70)
12 lateral pull downs x 130lbs (down from 135)
12 chest fly x 70lbs (down from 80)
12 chest press x 70lbs (down from 80)
12 shoulder press x 35lbs (down from 40)
Oddly, when I got to the circuit there was nobody using it and each machine except for the shoulder press (where I don’t lift much anyway due to the whole recurring injury thing) was already set at exactly the weight I USED TO lift, so that I had to look at that and then move it down. I said to Peter that there must be some literary device to describe this phenomenon but that I couldn’t think of what it would be called, maybe something with the word fallacy in it? and he said, “um, coincidence?”. Yes, so helpful.
No cool-down because I’m reckless like that.
Thursday January 12
30 minutes on the bike, random hill programme, level 14.
Posted by jodi on January 15, 2012 at 6.59pm
new drawing in progress
January 14, 2012
For an upcoming (date TBA) solo show of tattoo flash drawings at rEvolution gallery & studio in Kingsville.
For inspiration I am looking at: early printed books about animals and mythological creatures, in particular my old favourites, Edward Topsell*’s The Historie of The Foure-Footed Beastes (1607) and The Historie of Serpents (1608), and Ulisse Aldrovandi**’s Monstrorum historia cum Paralipomenis historiae omnium animalium (1642); old botanical engravings of weeds and mushrooms; various danse macabres of different eras; renaissance manuscript illuminations of fantastic animals, demons, hellmouths and the like; early 20th century ex libris plates***; old lace pattern books; typeface catalogues; old engravings of insects and cephalopods and who knows what else.
*I’ve been scanning images from facsimile editions of the Topsell, but you can find images of the plates at this link.
**Aldrovandi’s History of Monsters can be seen in full at this link (a warning: while this book is full of strange and funny imaginary creatures it also presents a variety of birth defects and disabilities as equally “monstrous”, so, that’s disturbing).
***Pratt Libraries has a wonderful collection of over a thousand ex libris plates in this flickr set.
Posted by jodi on January 14, 2012 at 8.24am
some things i’m working on
January 11, 2012
Carving a new woodblock so that I can print some stripes on fabric.
And doing some production sewing for an upcoming installation by Broken City Lab.
Posted by jodi on January 11, 2012 at 6.13pm
meet kevin!
January 10, 2012
Kevin would like you all to know that he is very happy to be here. He hadn’t even been here five minutes and he was totally comfortable, getting into stuff, flopping around looking for belly rubs, cleaning himself. . . the only reason it took a whole 5 minutes is because the first 4 were spent in the bathroom with me getting all of the poop washed off him from pooping all over himself in the car (early in the trip, and in switching the towels I got covered in it myself and then he pretty much immediately peed on the new towel anyway and it was fairly miserable but even then he took it mostly in stride) (except for being lifted out of the car on the side of the highway, he hated that). Also while I had him on the floor in a strange new place with a wet rag scrubbing at his fur and poop everywhere and all this right after a scary car ride with strange people, he was purring like crazy as if this was the funnest thing ever. Weirdo.
Kevin likes snuggles, belly rubs, food, tripping people, jumping on the counter, jumping on the table, and especially jumping up onto the piano keys. I’ve now got a whole collection of plastic animals lined up along the keys to prevent him from climbing over from the window seat. Because I hate fun. According to Kevin. He makes up for all of his annoying badassery with enthusiastic cuddling, though, so I think we’re going to keep him.
You guys, I am SO HAPPY to have a cat again.
Posted by jodi on January 10, 2012 at 11.14pm
durrow cable instructions in written form
January 6, 2012
Working Out Kinks and Fingering Yarn is an online resource for visually impaired knitters. They’ve got a project underway to translate complex charted patterns into written instructions more easily read by those who find it difficult to follow charts. The sleeve cable chart for my Durrow sweater pattern is one of the ones they’ve kindly translated thus far. You can find it, along with a few other translated patterns, at this link.
Links!
Durrow pattern
Durrow cable written instructions (pdf link)
If you’re thinking about starting Durrow, please be aware that there are some problems with the yoke decreases resulting in a neck opening that is much too large (mostly due to my inexperience as a designer at the time). I am planning on knitting another Durrow myself and will work on rewriting that portion of the pattern so that it fits a little better, but in the meantime here are a few useful links to modifications that other knitters have made to the neckline:
1. Ken’s Durrow
3. mollita’s Durrow (rav link)
Posted by jodi on January 6, 2012 at 8.11am
stripes
January 3, 2012
Every once in a while a project does still get finished around here. This shawl’s been off the needles for a year, lying both unreported and unworn on a shelf. It’s a beautiful thing and I love to look at it, but I haven’t quite figured out how to wear it yet.
And of course I only have photos of the back of the thing, where the edges of the garter stitch stripes cross each other and end up looking like double stripes instead. But I like this side, and I understand this thing was one of those “it” patterns for a while so I’m sure everybody knows what it looks like on the other side already.
Specs: the pattern is Veera Välimäki’s Stripe Study Shawl (Rav link). It was quick and fun if perhaps a little boring towards the end with the long, long rows, but I would make it again provided I can ever figure out how to wear the first one.
The green yarn is something really wonderful but the ball band has gone missing in the studio; it was a gift from Hockey Mom when we visited last. The black yarn is remnants of some commercial sock yarn or other that’s been sitting around here for years with no label. There is a plan afoot to rid myself of the bins of sock yarn and this shawl is just the beginning.
Posted by jodi on January 3, 2012 at 7.36am
