After a long body-fitness drought precipitated by breaking my foot a year or so ago*, I am finally getting back into a fitness routine. In part, I have my new employer to thank: they pick up 100% of the monthly fee. I did my first major workout this morning. The club I’ve joined is quite small and personal. Their equipment is all new, mostly Life Fitness machines and free weights.

A big part of keeping one’s RealAge down is maintaining good muscle and bone condition. Strength training is the key, I believe. This round, I intend to keep much better track of my progress. Many years ago, I had an excellent personal trainer who introduced me to the benefits of record-keeping. I am going to start again. In keeping with the personal-record-keeping mission of this journal, I think I may work out a way to meaningfully post and track results here. I’m learning about how to create a better strength-training journal.

*I’m terrible at re-creating time-lines from memory. I can’t remember if my broken foot was 6 months ago or 16. If I had been journaling back then, it would be a simple matter search for “foot” and quickly find the date. I am so time-line challenged I believe I would truly benefit from an online tool for visualizing my personal time-line. This would be a great application for WPF. Maybe it should become my next software sandbox.

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