TREADMILL MANIA (with a twist)
Started out the day with an ab workout. I did the standard crunch and reverse crunch for about 50 each. Then I decided to try cable crunches. I knocked out about 50 of those little ditties before hitting the treadmill.
I worked up a sweat today and boy did it feel good. I was a little crunched for time today so I changed my routine a little. Instead of do my normal 45 minutes, I took a page out of bwestgat’s book and did a 23 minutes interval on the treadmill. You know, the one where you stay at a constant speed and adjust the incline every minute for 23 minutes.
Well, today I was successful - and no so successful. I managed to do the entire 23 minutes at 4.7 - 5.0 mph (which is a totally new neighborhood for me). That was the successfull part. The unsuccessful part was that on the last round of inclines I could not get past 3.0 - I was supposed to take it up to 5.0. Anyway, I accomplished something that I had been trying to do for some time now. I was able to jog, non-stop, for over 20 minutes. It was not pretty and I know the folks around me were waiting for me to kill over. They almost got their wish.
I don’t have the distance and calories burned numbers handy but who’s counting. I climbed my first real cardio mountain today.
February 27, 2007 at 5:59 pm
Congratulations! 20 m of non stop jogging is fantastic!! Keep it up!
February 27, 2007 at 8:59 pm
Now that is a good workout. You took it to your max and that is how you loose weight and gain endurance. Way to go. Don’t worry about how you look, my wifetells me I look like an uncoordinated ape when I run.
Next time try to hit that 5.0. That would be a great goal that you got so close to this time. You may be able to hit it next time. And if not maybe the time after that. Keep it up.