I underperformed on work-tickets yesterday
The trip to the gym went well but left me wrung out. When I was in PT after an auto accident, the PT people informed me that the number of repetitions is less important than the time-under-tension.
Taking that into the weight room, I slowly float the weight off the floor, hold it for two or three breaths at lock-out and then I slowly float it down to gently kiss the floor before floating it back up. I figure about ten seconds per rep.
I was rushing a little bit through my last set because I could feel myself running out of gas.
Then we had a visitor who, it turned out, was camping at our house waiting for somebody to call them back.
I got the cabbage planted.
I got one hour of weeding done. And then I nicked my finger. I went into the house and scrubbed the cut and stopped the bleeding. By then, my behind had grown roots and I could not pull myself out of the recliner.
End result: Only half the goal for weeding and no wood cut and split.
Some days are like that.
Today's work-tickets
I have a volunteer to work in the Upper Orchard burning brush. That means I will be doing other things there.
I will lug water to the baby trees, move bigger wood to the side of the orchard where a neighbor will collect it for firewood. I might even get to mulching some of the trees and broadcasting turnip seeds beneath the trees.
If I am feeling peppy when I get home I will do some more weeding in the potato patch.
Getting older is a lot of work. It takes me twice as long to get half as much done anymore. And that's on a good day. --ken
ReplyDeleteYou may not have completed all your work tickets, but you didn't have an accident cutting or splitting wood. Sometimes calling it early is the right thing to do.
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Amen!
DeleteTaking a break is survival as we age.
If the brake lasts 2 day, That's okay too
At. 76 with back surgery and almost loosing a foot to an infection age for me includes a wheeled walker for long outdoor trips, confining my gardening to two hoop houses and, a green house that I can tend sitting on a stool. I can split kindling and fill boxes sitting on the walker and hauling stuff around with tractor and bucket. I use the seat on the walker to haul bags of wood or chicken feed and water to the chickens. You do what you can!
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