When I woke up yesterday I was like, alright this going to be a bad day, that's life but then it became great so looked forward to wake up in a normal way today. A Facebook friend named Glenn sent a much needed birthday gift. A great relief.

I bought a lot of groceries with a couple of brake cables for the bicycle as the last snapped yesterday but other than that food. After going home with the four cartons of milk yesterday I realized how scarcity can drive hoarding and wondered how many of the hoarder-hoarders came that way.

Lots done today, did first sort of circuit workout after diagnosis for pain after months of doing separate days to just build up strength safely or as safe and pain free as possible - which is pretty much painful no matter how it is done. Was just doing shrugs and bi's one day, then at least two days later chest with tri's in there.

Back and Bi's
Cannot do rotator cuff anything so the Face Pulls which ATHLEAN-X correctly tells people to do, cannot be done for posture without damaging self, so shrugs are alright to help with that and to carry things for very short distances in general. The two curl exercises I do are done with a strap, clip and handle attached to two jugs of 4L water for the first set then immediately do curls while keeping thumbs pointed up with only one jug for the under biceps muscle the brachialis I think (yes that is it) afterwards. With the first curl exercise the wrists rotate so when they get to top they are palms up.

Chest and Tri's
Pushups then the two jugs to do a variation of an incline bench press on a very slight angle position on the "bench", a water cooler w/skateboard propping it up slightly on one end. Immediately after one set is done, grab the single jug to do chest fly's in same position being sure not to drop the arms below plane of body.

With the Bicep curls and the incline presses the jugs are hanging by a short strap loose, not steady so some excellent stability exercise in there too.

I would do these things on separate days sometimes flaking off for a week or more due to pain, lack of food, etc and had many of those days in the past two weeks so no pics for B-Day but will go again with the Solstice. Now that I have the sustenance that allows me, and others, to work out, I need to be on it.

Managed to do them together this morning with some weighted leg lifts earlier for the abs prior to the above. Let us see how it goes.

If you are thinking of starting out getting in shape, starting with only one exercise, that is 100% okay. Like, one thing - pushups, one set. Great good start even if only 2-6 done. Cannot do any? Try some curls. Build, take months, which real world RPG's take, versus clicking around a screen. I like RPG's Mass Effect original not remake and Diablo 2, L.O.D. Expansion or D2X but that too, original not remake.

Growing in reality, increasing skills and experience in reality is far more rewarding than simply on screen.