I've been doing an abbreviated form of my workout since getting back from the walk last November. Despite my resistance-band workouts en route, I got weaker during the three weeks that I was out walking, and when I got back, I took a couple weeks off from doing anything, which was undoubtedly the wrong move, but it's the sort of move to expect from a naturally lazy person. So to simplify my life, I've been doing the exact same exercises I had printed out for myself before last year's walk, but I've been doing only a single set of each exercise. If the exercise involves reps, then I've been doing only ten reps. Today, though, I decided to bump all of my "repped" exercises up to fifteen reps (except for my 10-kilogram lateral raises, which went up from five to eight, roughly in line with a 50% increase in reps).
Since I'm so busy with other stuff, this one-set workout lets me get through a gauntlet of exercises in about 20-25 minutes. I realize it's at the expense of more rapid gains, but it's nice to know that I can keep stacking the reps on periodically, and these modest sets can eventually become supersets while still taking no longer than 30-35 minutes to do.
In other news: today and again this weekend, I'm baking (not eating) cookies to distribute for Lunar New Year, which is on the 17th this year, meaning the holiday runs from Monday to Wednesday. I might do a rare thing and pay my #3 Ajumma a visit tomorrow, a small batch of almond-flour cookies in hand. Ajumma's in her 80s now. She occasionally texts to ask when I'm going to come over, but those texts have been getting rarer lately.
As for this year's long walk... yeah, I might do the Geumgang route, which at a mere 146 km is short. Depending on how I divvy up the route segments, it should take about a week. And being a week-long walk, I don't think I'll need any rest days. Which leaves me to wonder: if the walk is under 150 km, is it even worth my while to make a tee shirt? Hm. Much to ponder, and only a month to do so. If I were to shift this walk to the fall, though, I'd have more time to plan. The only problem is that, if I go back to university work, I'm not going to have time for a fall walk. But we'll see. Always in motion is the future.
I'm just curious, do you have any leads on teaching jobs, or are qualified instructors hard enough to find these days that you'll have plenty to choose from? Do you want to stay in Seoul?
ReplyDeleteYou are the hardest-working person I've ever seen, even when you don't have a "job."
And I've got nothing to show for my efforts! I can always check Dave's ESL Cafe; the Korea job site always has something. But decent university jobs don't generally show up until certain times of year. For example, for fall university jobs that start in late August or early September, you have to start checking around May. For uni jobs starting in the spring semester (beginning of March), you have to check around November-January. I see some job offers right now, but I'm not desperate enough to apply for anything right at this moment. Ask me again in a few months, though.
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