Week 9 - Orgon City - February 27 - Marcy 5, 2023

Next post on this blog will show my foot "freed" from this plastic boot.  I'm excited to post a picture of my foot (in a sock)....next week.  But today here are photos showing the tread on the sole (uhhhh) and a cool side view (but no Nike swoosh).

With my foot in the boot my daily schedule is pretty mundane: exercise, practice guitar, scan photos, and clean some element or spot in the house.....bleh!

Exercise - I am using Bev's app called MOVES which goes through a daily exercise routine that is different for each day....upper body push, chest and back, and so on.  I am pretty much only doing arms and chest and back because of....the boot.  I have a two prong goal.  One is to be more fit so I can hike better this summer.  The second is to be able to do one-plus pull up...or chin up....which ever I find to be easier.  And I need to recover from the tibialis fracture.

My chin up bar came this week, and Travis installed it (he is so good at this sort of stuff).

And, I ordered a pull-up assist which is this....you put your foot in the loop and the three elastic bands help you pull  yourself up...in theory anyway.

I found a (you can't fail) youtube video that takes one through a whole bunch of different exercises that strengthen the proper muscles to allow one to do a pull up.  I'll post a photo when I am successful.  I intend to be successful - which may be very optimistic because, even in high school, I could only do one.

Saturday we watched the OSU and Arizona State gymnastics meet.  We should have won, but we lost by 0.5 points.  OSU had a great meet, and Arizona State just had a 0.5 point better meet than we had.  Over all,  OSU has a better average than ASU.  Jade did score 10.00 on the beam - her first on the beam.  Now she has what is called the gym-slam - a 10.00 on all four exercises....but not during the same meet. Only 13 other collegiate gymnasts have ever done this.  Next week we meet with University of Utah.....grrr....

Shawny Ernst came up for the weekend so she could go to the cello/piano concert/recital that Whitney is doing.  

Here's Shawny watching the meet (not excited) and Whitney watching the meet (not worried about the concert coming up in four hours).

The concert/recital- got rave reviews on Facebook!

Dad babysitting while WWS  were playing and listening.

Exercise, guitar, scan, clean - repeat.