JAP69's Blog

To keep track of any progress made that I am back to the gym again after a one year absence I will log my body measurements today. That is what a blog is for. A journal on what you want to post in it.
I will only need to take future measurements at maybe two or three month intervals.

Weight____ 211 lbs
neck______17 in
shoulder___45 in [wrap around measure]
biceps__right arm 12.5 in____left arm 13 in
chest_____44 in
waist_____45 in
hips______41 1/2 in
thighs__right leg 20 in______left leg 23 in
calf____right leg 15 1/2 in___left leg 16 in

You can tell I walk with the cane using my left hand and favor the right leg with the bad hip.

I used this as guidance on where to take the measurements.

https://gymjp.com/track/body-tape-measurements/

Found the piece of equipment I use. Did not know the name of it and when I went to the gym this morning I wrote the name of the manufacturer down.
I rode it for ten minutes on level five.
Really a comfortable piece of equipment for me to use with my bad right hip. Really great for my leg exercises as I can not walk very far without my hip becoming painful. I am suppose to be using this type of equipment for my COPD lung exercises also.
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Total Body Recumbent Elliptical
http://www.scifit.com/product/rex/

Going with the X4X ascending order

Ascending order digit by position tracking
Sat Sat Fri Fri Thu Thu Wed Wed Tue Tue Mon Mon Sun
                        669 48x x78 1xx x37 2xx xx6
023 x5x xx5 x9x xx2 xxx xxx xxx x4x xxx xxx xxx xxx
xxx xxx 3xx xxx xxx xxx xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,
x14,xxx,xxx,5xx,xxx,xxx,xx1,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,
xxx,xxx,x0x,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx
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Digit last seen
                         69 48   7   1   3   2
Sat Sat Fri Fri Thu Thu Wed Wed Tue Tue Mon Mon Sun
0    5                  696 894 768 187 317 829 266
023 571 513 994 220 360 828 916 460 550 076 904 676
672 580 394 183 982 684 168 078 793 953 974 760 948
401 467 810 566 019 113 111 144 808 994 975 321 380
706 186 002 236 324 534 334 844 111 443 178 352 926

Went out and picked the ripe tomatoes today.

I dug into the area in the two deck containers where I planted the yellow and zucchini squash seed and found the seeds never germinated. Planted the seed on June 22nd, 12 days ago. Only one yellow squash seed came up. While at the market today I purchased a packet of fordhook zucchini squash seeds and planted about five seeds. They did not have any yellow squash seeds in the seed rack. The one seed that did come up is a yellow squash. So I will end up with three or four zucchini plants and one yellow squash plant. Not going to buy anymore yellow squash seed this year.

While at Home Depot yesterday I purchased a grinding cylinder with the grinding stone measuring 3/4 diameter by 1 1/2 inch long attached to a 1/4 inch shank 1/1/2 inches long. I got that to attach to my electric drill to grind off the sharp points on the metal chimneys [cages] I made. When I cut the chimney wire with the heavy duty wire cutter left a sharp edge where it was cut. Raked myself a few times on the sharp points. When I made the chimneys I also cut the metal wire to create a larger opening than 6 x 6 to reach in with my soil meters and easier to spread ferlizer around. Those sharp points are nasty when I pass my arm over them by mistake. They draw blood too. I will be going out tomorrow or Friday and do some grinding.

Stopped at the gym today while I was out running errands.

Done some diverging lat pull downs.

Done some lateral raises to build up the deltoids.

Rode a bike type exercise for 15 minutes to build those muscles.

Went out to check on the container vegetables today and see that I have three big boy tomatoes which will be fully vine ripened for picking tomorrow. The lower sucker stems on the yellow cherry tomato plants are growing well.

Looked at my peppers which have fruited and discovered one of the purple peppers was soft and mushy. Picked it off and threw it on the ground. Was thinking about it and came to the conclusion it cooked right on the vine. The pepper was exposed to the direct sunlight with day time temperatures in the nineties right now. I have a garden hose laying on the ground going to the deck and when I turn it on I need to let it run a bit as the water in the hose heats up to at least 110 degrees. Put my hand under the water when I turn it on and feel the hot water. Imagine what temperature the moisture in the pepper on the plant gets up to being exposed to the sunlight.

May have an eggplant for harvest in about a week. The eggplant produced better than I expected. I have about six eggplant growing now with more flowers that started to show fruit. Will have some eggplant Parmesan.

I have one yellow tomato that will be vine ripe by tomorrow. That plant only produced about three tomatoes. All that work for three tomatoes.

The cucumber plant in the deck container has one more cuke on it and I do not see very many flowers on it. Will use that container for zucchini squash when they come up.

To know what muscles I have been working on I have kept a log in the past on what exercises I do along with what the weight is set at and how many repetitions I do at that time. No record today as I did not take some index cards with me or a pencil. I lost my old records from over a year ago since I was there last.

I will get some index cards and start a record again.

Just from today's memory I done these today. bat swing while sitting down  25 lbs twenty repetitions each side, Abdominal crunch 100 lbs 50 reps, arm curl 40 lbs 20 reps, pec fly 100 lbs forward and reverse 20 reps each, pull down 80 lbs about thirty reps,  Leg equipment sitting down 40 lbs 50 reps in 50 reps out. Leg extension 40 lbs twenty reps up twenty reps down. That is all I can remember right now.

For reference on what muscles I am working on when I do different exercises here is a muscle anatomy chart.

http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/muscle-anatomy/

Just came in a short time ago from planting the Siberian tomato seeds. Also decided to plant about six or eight Charleston Bell pepper seed for the fall peppers I spoke about which I had seed for.

I took two six inch pots I had and filled them with container mix up to about 1 1/2 inches from the top. Added seed starting mix leaving room for the seed depth required. Planted the seeds and covered with seed starting mix.

One pot tomatoes the other pot peppers. When it comes time to transplant I will just separate the plants in the pot.

Time to mosey on over to the gym for about an hour of exercise.

Playing 852 & 843 today

Ascending order digit by position tracking
Sat Sat Fri Fri Thu Thu Wed Wed Tue Tue Mon Mon Sun
                                                266
023 157 x35 499 xx2 xxx x88 xxx x4x xxx xxx xxx 6xx
xxx xxx 3xx xxx xxx xxx xxx,x7x,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,
x14,xxx,xxx,5xx,xxx,xxx,xx1,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,
xxx,xxx,x0x,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx
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Digit last seen
                                                26
Sat Sat Fri Fri Thu Thu Wed Wed Tue Tue Mon Mon Sun
03  157     49            8                     266
023 571 513 994 220 360 828 916 460 550 076 904 676
672 580 394 183 982 684 168 078 793 953 974 760 948
401 467 810 566 019 113 111 144 808 994 975 321 380
706 186 002 236 324 534 334 844 111 443 178 352 926

Playing 852-952
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Ascending order digit by position tracking
Sat Sat Fri Fri Thu Thu Wed Wed Tue Tue Mon Mon Sun
023 157 x35 499 xx2 xx6 288 x6x x4x xxx xxx xxx 6xx
xxx xxx 3xx xxx xxx xxx xxx,x7x,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,
x14,xxx,xxx,5xx,xxx,xxx,xx1,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,
xxx,xxx,x0x,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx,xxx
___________________________________________________
Digit last seen
023 157     4 9      6    8
Sat Sat Fri Fri Thu Thu Wed Wed Tue Tue Mon Mon Sun
023 571 513 994 220 360 828 916 460 550 076 904 676
672 580 394 183 982 684 168 078 793 953 974 760 948
401 467 810 566 019 113 111 144 808 994 975 321 380
706 186 002 236 324 534 334 844 111 443 178 352 926

The 25X group has been out 82 days

255 3 4.06 Nov 20, 2017 413
256 9 8.1  Apr 28, 2018 118
257 7 8.1  Dec 11, 2017 373
258 6 8.1  Dec 08, 2017 378
259 9 8.1  May 17, 2018 82

Decided to go with the Siberian tomato for my fall tomato crop. I already have the seeds and will plant the seeds tomorrow.

The Siberian tomato are cool weather tolerant for setting fruit. I checked the average monthly temperature for my area. They should be a go if I get the seeds in now.

Start about four seeds.  One in each starting container.

http://www.reimerseeds.com/siberian-tomato.aspx
"Plant Height: 48 to 60” tall"

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https://www.usclimatedata.com/climate/summerville/south-carolina/united-states/ussc0332

 

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The yellow straight neck squash are up. Seen one plant peeking out for a look this morning.

Thinking of next years varieties of tomatoes.

Read the comment section also. Great list posted there.
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Best Patio Tomato Varieties

https://www.gardeningchannel.com/best-patio-tomato-varieties/

Yesterday I went and signed up for the gym again. Have not been there in almost a year.

At least when I go to the gym they have a lot of exercise equipment I can use sitting down. I have been getting a fair amount of exercise the past year setting up for the container garden but I got to move around too much on my feet with my arthritis and bad hip needing constant use of a cane. My blog tells the story of what I have been doing setting up the container garden.

Now that I have lost forty pounds in the past year or so dieting with intentions of at least twenty five more taking me down to 185 pounds my body could use some fine tuning of muscles.

Build up my upper body and arm muscles along with leg muscle strengthening exercises.

I done about one half hour of exercises yesterday and today my right hip did not feel as sore as usual.

I did not go today to the gym. Took apart the three wooden ground boxes I took up and boxed that to go to the recycling center. Plus I wa puttering around in the container garden.

May start a blog entry series on progress report with my body building.

Out on the patio this afternoon with the Velcro garden tape tying off pepper and eggplant branches that had fruit on them to their stake for added support.

The acorn squash seeds are up.

Had the snips with me for cutting the Velcro tape so I trimmed off dying foliage on the tomato plants. Seen some yellow cherry suckers that came out on the lower part of the plant. Leaving those to see if they will grow branch stems long enough for a second crop. there are three or four suckers on the plant at the lower level. Was looking at the sucker branch where it came out next to the main stem and leaf branch. I decided to cut off the leaf branch about one inch away from the main stem leaving the sucker shoot. Figure it will direct more plant energy to the sucker at that point. There are enough leaf branches left on the plant to collect the suns energy for the plant.

Debating whether to yank up the cuke plant in the wooden deck container when the yellow or zucchini squash plants are tall enough and plant a squash plant in the former cuke box. May take the six foot tall cuke chimney and cut it in half with the heavy duty wire cutter which will give me an extra three foot cage for the squash plant in a bucket or container. I do not plan on cukes again needing a tall cage.

I will not grow the big boy tall tomato plants again either. Choose a tomato plant that does not grow as tall.