Slack in the Back

This past week of working out has been hit or miss, mostly miss because of my sacroiliac, which is pissing me off.  I want to get back into the gym, so I can strengthen that area and reduce injury.  So slow and easy is the way to do it.

Yesterday's workout was not what I drew, since I forgot my kettlebell at home.  ooops... Instead I performed staggered grip pulldowns (one had palm facing me and one facing away), supersetted with plate front raises.  After about 5-6 sets (lost count), I then moved on to pushups and planks.  After which I did 30 minutes of cardio, alternating between 2 pieces of cardio equipment(tread hiker and step mill) every 5 minutes, which made the 30 minutes fly by, but was also pretty tough.

Can I go off on a rant here.  When you are occupying an area performing an exercise, why the friggen hell do idiots decide to invade what little space you allotted yourself, to perform their exercise?  Let me give you an example:

To perform the planks/pushups, I went to a corner of the gym, grabbed a mat to put down on the rug so I don't get rugburns on my elbows, and proceeded to perform my pushups/planks.  After 2 sets, these 2 "romantically involved" fugly women came over, grabbed an exercise ball and placed it 8 inches from the location where I was performing pushups.  I tend to mind my own business in the gym, UNTIL, some asshat™ steals a machine, or takes over an area, at that point I get very frustrated and usually start to swear under my breath so they can hear me.  Never mind that I also work at this gym, I couldn't give 2 shakes of a rats ass, you're interrupting MY time and that is precious.  So, after my grumblings of "WTF?", they did not move.  I had to ASK them to kindly MOVE THEIR FRIGGEN WORKOUT so I could have room, because after every set of their "exercise ball assisted crunches", they moved the balls closer to me.  Mind you, they started at about 8 inches away.  If you are not sure about gym etiquette, LEARN IT, and give people room to workout, you are NOT more important than anyone else, and don't even get me started on the mega asshats™ who talk on their cell phone while occupying a machine or doing cardio, who the crap do you think you are and really, are you that important?  If you answered yes to that, GTF out of my gym.

ok, got that off my chest.  I feel better.

I am in the process of redo'ing my "bag o' tricks", since I am down to 3 cards, 2 of which are leg exercises.  I am going to be revamping that bag this week, so this weeks workouts are going to be random things.

WoD 2010/02/16:
Lower back
kettlebells (if I can remember them while at lunch)