Well, my calf is still bugging me a little bit, but its Monday which means its time to work out for lunch. And, since he has to be down here, we’re going to do the downtown gym which is always convenient for me. Starting out, I do about 20 minutes easy on the elliptical. This, it turns out, is a really good way to gently stretch a tight calf muscle. It got tight and loose alternately as I was going, but when I was done it was noticably better - as was my walk.

On to weights. Today we started with some incline presses - 10×25, 8×25, 6×25. I think I need to do incline more often. Did a little leg work to alternate - seated leg press (15×150, 15×170) and leg extensions (15×70, 15×90). Back to the chest area, and did declines. These felt pretty good - the first 10×25 was a little shaky, but the second set (10×25) was no big deal. The third 10×30 was nice too - time to think about upping the initial weight (or at least doing 25/30/35).

Back over and did some ab work. Did crunches on the tall bench (3 sets of 15) alternated with back work (1 weightless, 2 with 25 lbs, 15 reps each). Ended with 100 plain crunches and some side stretching/lifting on the back machine. Once we were done with that, we did bicep curls (15×60, 15×65, 15×60) and tricep pushes (15×60, 15×65, 15×70) to close out the day.

Oh, and my calf? Much better now.

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