moominmuppet

PT last night kicked my ass. Ow. On top of that, I just missed the bus, so I decided to walk home rather than wait another 1/2 hour. It's only a mile and a half, but it was a bit much on top of the session. Very sore. We switched approaches such that I'm doing my stretching exercises at home, so we're now spending the entire hour doing conditioning instead. I like that, but I think I was a bit overly gung-ho about it last night. I think some part of my brain is working in the same way I get through tasks at home -- "Do it all now, because once I stop, I'm going to collapse and be non-functional for a couple of days" -- I kind of enjoy pushing myself too hard for short periods of time, actually, even when it breaks me in the long run, but it's a habit I really need to quit (especially because it tends to be about my macho tendencies, which seem to hit the "idiot" button in my brain). Not effective as a PT approach. I need to figure out better how to judge the middle ground on that, so that I can give my physical therapist the feedback she needs, without unnecessarily bailing on things that I can do. We've started playing around on the Total Gym for some of my exercises -- I'm seriously considering ebaying a used one when we've got the spare cash. Anyone have experience with them, or opinions about them (aside from the inevitable Norris-related giggles)?

The Taiko performance last night was rather misbilled by CSU -- the advertising suggested that Taiko would be the primary focus, and there would be a Taiko-symphony cooperative piece as well. In fact, it was primarily an orchestral performance, and the last piece also included the Taiko drumming. Still enjoyable, but we were a bit disappointed that there wasn't more of what we'd specifically come to see. I did get to see