• Be Sure Exercise Is All You Get at the Gym: Skin Infections Can Spread Like Wildfire – NYTimes http://t.co/WjR8VqQO - via @melanie_ching
• My Top 3 #lastfm Artists: The Police (2), Gorillaz (2) & The Beatles (2) #mm http://t.co/DCYjnDnR

• burned 1139 calories doing 124 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 04/09/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 720 calories doing 78 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• burned 771 calories doing 87 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 04/12/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 101 calories doing 9 minutes of “Walking, 5.0 mph” #myfitnesspal

• burned 944 calories doing 119 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• burned 675 calories doing 72 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 04/03/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 201 calories doing 18 minutes of “Walking, 5.0 mph” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 04/04/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 1290 calories doing 156 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 04/07/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal

• All About Refeeds – http://t.co/baBUkJGw #diet #nutrition
• Coming soon: automated #Fitocracy tweets, to add some variety to those boring #MyFitnessPal tweets. Plus, the occasional article.

And… the  boring autotweets:

• burned 1238 calories doing 151 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/25/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 725 calories doing 65 minutes of “Walking, 5.0 mph” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/26/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 1122 calories doing 108 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• burned 983 calories doing 98 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• burned 754 calories doing 58 minutes of “Walking, 4.5 mph, very, very brisk pace” #myfitnesspal
• burned 1194 calories doing 122 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal

I’d still like another twelve 10-pounders for my dumbbells but I haven’t seen anything suitable. I hate fat grip plates! Love the old style slim-line though, like these plates on Amazon. You can pack a lot more on the handle.  I might have to get some of the ones I’ve linked to here shipped via the States, because the selection around here is so poor.

Saturday was initially a bit of disappointment.  I answered an ad for Olympic plates from a store called Mike’s Office Surplus and showed up at the store for opening.  No sign of the owner.  After waiting 20 minutes I called him.  He explained he was running a bit late and was on his way.  Fifteen minutes later he arrived and showed me the plates: two 45-pounders.  Good shape, but he was asking 75 cents a pound (60 or less and I might have considered it).  He said he had more plates at his storage lockup, so I followed him for another 5 minute drive to a nearby semi-trailer.  We open the door: about a dozen more standard plates and two 5-pound olympic Weiders in poor shape. I grabbed them anyway, so the morning wouldn’t be for nothing.

Mike gave them to me for nothing, pretty much guaranteeing I’ll drop by his store in the future… but I’ll call first.

Thanks Mike!

The rest of the day was spent scrubbing and repainting my collection of rusted black, green and white plates to a hammered metallic silver.  A lot of work, but a great result.  My mismatched set of Yorks and Weiders look a lot more uniform now, and less in contrast to my dull grey Standards, Olympics and Olympias, and hammered-black  CAP-branded plates.

Yeah, I’m aware there are lifters that would roll their eyes at my motley collection of cheap Chinese plates.  I could care less.  Who has the time and the money to buy new, matched equipment or weigh each plate separately.  My barbells balance, loaded or unloaded. My body is looking great.  Isn’t that what really matters?

More boring exercise updates. You can safely skip these ones…

• burned 1320 calories doing 161 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• burned 90 calories doing 17 minutes of “Walking, 3.5 mph, brisk pace” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/11/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/12/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/13/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 1025 calories doing 113 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/14/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/15/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 41 calories doing 6 minutes of “Walking, 4.0 mph, very brisk pace” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/16/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal
• burned 2045 calories doing 231 minutes of “Weight training” #myfitnesspal
• completed his food and exercise diary for 03/17/2012 and was under his calorie goal #myfitnesspal