February 8th, 2010
I upped my game on the treadmill today. Now doing 25 cals @ 4mph, then 25 cals @ 5.5mph, then 25 cals @ 7.5 mph, and repeat for an hour. As you can see I passed 600 calories in an hour. With untold afterburn.
I steamed up the car when I got in. The windshield fogged up completely after my sunglasses fogged up completely. I was making lots of heat after the workout. I’m taking that as afterburn. So it must have been a good routine, right.
The sun definitely rose sooner today. We weren’t in the dark much. In fact the sun was lighting up the treadmillers quite well. I don’t recall seeing that before.
Tags: calories, sunrise, sweat, treadmill
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February 7th, 2010
New stuff this week!
First, this week I get my 3 days with a trainer at 24 Hour Fitness. Going to see about some weight lifting techniques. Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings. Looking forward to getting some knowledge in this area. Get some meat on these bones eventually.
Second, along those lines, I even bought Arnold’s weight lifting book. Don’t plan on being a pro or getting huge, but the tips should prove useful. Arnold probably has some good tips, you think?
Third, my BodyBugg is likely to arrive this week. Going to find out how many calories I actually burn in a day instead of these estimates that could be hundreds of points off, who knows. I’ll know how much I burn lifting weights, running treadmill, sleeping, eating, thinking. It will be great. Will continue tracking the food with LIVESTRONG’s iphone app unless the BodyBugg food tracking proves doable. I can still do the math at LS and just use the BB for calorie burn info. We’ll see.
Good stuff ahead!
Tags: bodybugg, trainer, weightlifting
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February 6th, 2010
To vigorously attack the stomach fat that continues to haunt me despite months of daily cardio in the fat burning zone, I’ve started a focus on mid-section workouts.
The routine is one round of 100 crunches, followed by fast treadmill walking, then another 50 crunches, then more treadmill walking.
Maybe a muscle build up in that area will help eliminate fat, or however that might work. Dunno. Worth a shot.
I’ve heard targeting fat doesn’t work, but I’ve just been using that as an excuse to never do crunches. It’s got to be my least favorite area to work, coincidentally, maybe, my fattest area.
As with so many things in this fitness learning process, we’ll see what works. Be persistent.
Tags: fatloss, fitness, Journal, stomach, workout
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February 6th, 2010
It started raining again yesterday. Love the rain. Never does. OC thing.
Failed to wake up early for gym. Heard the alarm, justified a night workout, and slept another hour or so.
I had a couple other experiences with night workouts. The gym was packed then.
But this time, on a late Friday night around 8pm, it was lighter than in the mornings.
Lori had a special yoga event so that freed up my night for the workout. Otherwise I would have woken up in the morning for the gym.
It all worked out. Wondering about making Friday night a workout time instead of the morning. It would give me a little more needed sleep for sure.
Tags: friday, gym, rain, sleep
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