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July 17: No bike today. Did a hike instead with Pepper for 2:15 hrs. Just needed to take a REC day from cycling. BUT I started doing my resistance again, finally after nearly three total months, two of which were since the surgery. Now I’d been told to just go light and to do unilateral lifting - one arm at a time alternating. This so I will not put opposing stress across the sternum as you would do with bilateral exercises. Makes sense to me.

So I did chest with alternating chest press, followed by alternating chest fly. Then I did alternating triceps extensions and alternating biceps curl. Finished with leg lifts for the core. I had suggested to my lead exercise physiologist that I did mostly the body weight stuff, but he was worried that even a simple pushup would put too much stress on the sternum right now. Same for pull-ups and all the crazy hanging core exercises I do. So for the next month I’ll just work on the dumbbell stuff unilaterally. Hey, just doing SOMETHING is way better than where I was at. 

Back to healthy eating again after the seafood orgy last night. Make some cod on the pan in EVOO and put together a good salad, then had some home-made hummus on the side. Actually felt “right” to be eating healthy. What, did I say that?