first week in March
This has ended up being more of an aerobics week than a weightlifting week. I only got lifting in on Monday … chest and shoulders. Wednesday night I was on the elliptical trainer for an hour. Saturday was treadmill. Again an hour. I started off at 4.7mph and after every mile upped it 0.1mph. That way you can ease your speed up something like 0.3mph w/o it really being noticeable. However, at about 5.1 it was. The last mile I pushed it to 5.3. In the end I was able to get an average of 4.94 mph. Not too bad. Today I risked the stationary back. ‘Risk’ because I’ve got some knee problems with my left knee that causes fast movement with a fair amount of bending of the knee to give me extreme pain down the road. This is how I got started with the whole walking thing. Sometimes, if i make sure that my knees don’t bend much (using a recumbent (sp?) bike) I can do some biking. Well, with a new brace on my knee a Physical therapist recommended, i did 40 minutes today with no problems. Make no doubt about it, I was going reasonably slow, but this gives me another option for burning off calories. Variety being the spice of life 
Oh yeah, Thursday I was down two more lbs to 189 lbs.
March 12, 2007 at 1:22 am
189 nice… keep kickin ass!