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Oct. 23rd, 2017 09:00 pmLast week ![[profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mz_hotspur asked to come to the gym with me sometime. So on Saturday I abducted her from ricevermicelli and off we went.
She was a great lifting partner. She did a LOT. She squatted a 20 lb EZ bar (bear in mind she doesn't yet weigh 50 lbs), pressed a wide grip bar (I'm guessing 10 lbs?), progressed from 5 to 10 to 15 lbs on a lat pulldown, I forget what she managed on the V bar triceps pushdown, discovered that she's just plain too short for the hyperextension machine. She did respectably on the battle rope, she curled a 5 lb dumbbell,... She did all the stuff.
Also, trying to demonstrate & describe proper form improved my form. I squatted more than I have since my medical excitement a year ago, and it wasn't a reach. It felt, well, not _easy_, but I had planned to stay within myself, and I felt like I was doing that despite setting a recent PR.
She wanted to stay there all day and lift all the things. I wanted to get food into her, so we left after she'd done at least some of most everything.
After lunch we hung out at home for a while and read, then off we went to see roller derby. We had a blast, then attended the after party. She saw a circle of women dancing and instantly realized that her place in the universe right then was to be in the middle of that circle, dancing with all of them. So she did. It was her dance floor, she graciously allowed other people to use it.
Three separate people came up to me to let me know that there is junior derby, and I could sign her up, they'd be happy to have her. I think they just want to make sure that she keeps coming to their parties...
mz_hotspur asked to come to the gym with me sometime. So on Saturday I abducted her from ricevermicelli and off we went.She was a great lifting partner. She did a LOT. She squatted a 20 lb EZ bar (bear in mind she doesn't yet weigh 50 lbs), pressed a wide grip bar (I'm guessing 10 lbs?), progressed from 5 to 10 to 15 lbs on a lat pulldown, I forget what she managed on the V bar triceps pushdown, discovered that she's just plain too short for the hyperextension machine. She did respectably on the battle rope, she curled a 5 lb dumbbell,... She did all the stuff.
Also, trying to demonstrate & describe proper form improved my form. I squatted more than I have since my medical excitement a year ago, and it wasn't a reach. It felt, well, not _easy_, but I had planned to stay within myself, and I felt like I was doing that despite setting a recent PR.
She wanted to stay there all day and lift all the things. I wanted to get food into her, so we left after she'd done at least some of most everything.
After lunch we hung out at home for a while and read, then off we went to see roller derby. We had a blast, then attended the after party. She saw a circle of women dancing and instantly realized that her place in the universe right then was to be in the middle of that circle, dancing with all of them. So she did. It was her dance floor, she graciously allowed other people to use it.
Three separate people came up to me to let me know that there is junior derby, and I could sign her up, they'd be happy to have her. I think they just want to make sure that she keeps coming to their parties...
