I had a body comp at the gym Monday and was shocked to see my body fat ratio is STILL climbing slowly and I'm still losing muscle mass. I am NOT pleased to have lost 2 inches around the thigh because it was muscle, not fat, that was lost.

Thus, I've decided to revert back to some of my pre-injury exercises, modified to accommodate the changed circumstances.

I'm not supposed to do exercises which require my arms to be over my head (except on the left side) but that means I can still do biceps curls.

Thus, yesterday I did one set of bicep curls and modified bicep curls @ 5 lbs. and 2 @ 8 lbs. followed by one on the left @ 10 and one on the right @8. Today, I noticed no soreness so I'll continue with this twice a week if all goes well and see if I can stop the loss of muscle and possibly begin regaining muscle tone.

Tonight was leg night so I did 30 minutes on the ET followed by 3 sets per leg at 25 lbs. on the sitting leg press and 3 sets at 25 on the leg extension. Calves and reclining leg presses were 90 lbs.

The left knee is still swollen from overdoing it two weeks ago and I'm being careful to lock the barn door after the horse escaped...er...um... I mean I'm being careful to ice the knee after exercising.

I also did my every-other-day shoulder exercises. 2# weights. Another couple of weeks and maybe I can move up to a whole 3# weight.