My cardio workout as of 3/12/11

The benefits of interval training can be substantial. You will burn more calories during and after your workout, get faster and stronger, and increase overall cardiovascular fitness. Interval training also relieves the boredom sometimes associated with treadmill training. Every week or every 2 weeks I up some speeds just by 1 number to increses my distance. No rail holding.

Week 50 New weight training workout

I took my 2 half hour cardio's from Horizons and turned it into an extra hour of weight training. Jon is planning on concentrating on specific areas each of the 3 days. i will continue to do cardio on my own which is working out great. i am really doing well with the cardio.

Sat Mar 6th Cardio on my own. Made it to 1.42, my personal best on the treadmill so far. Very please with myself. Music helps soooo much, couldn't do it with out the music blaring in my ear with my new nano I won at Christmas. I wear it on my wrist, so so easy to switch up music if need be. I always end my last 4 minutes with REO Speedwagon's "Roll with the Changes" My last minute I am running at 5.6 mph

Mon Mar 7th. First day of new weight training. Done completely differently than the weight training done prior. I have to give him a gage number between each set 5 being really easy and 10 being I can't complete the set. We were working the whole time upper body (chest & shoulders) all with my numbers being 8, 9 or 10. I will be sore.

Tues Mar 8 More upper body and abs. My arms were already sore from day before. very tough, and intense. I bought a nutrition book to be accountable for all my food again and he will check it. I feel if he has to check it, i will think twice before eating or drinking anything bad for me.

Wed Mar 9 It hurts just to rub my hands together and wash them. Tonight brought my gym clothes to go right from work to get cardio in. Went did fantastic. Was planning on just reaching 1.42 again, but hit 1.43 in my final second...yeah. Kickin butt. Very tired.

Thurs Mar 10. weigh in gained 1/2 pd, but it was muscle. last day of weight training for the week lower body...was pretty nervous about this one. First exercise I had to be is perfect sitting position against wall, no hands on legs legs 90 degrees, 45 seconds 3 times...it sucked, I was soaked with sweat like I did a cardio after this lower body. My legs are already so sore I want to take the elevator at work just one floor. I feel I am so done for the week, but will do another cardio this weekend....and be extra good with the food. I am not going to work this hard and not watch the nutrition.

Week 49 Good week!

Didn't go to gym over weekend, planning on Mon & wed. Wanted to rest & get rid of cough.

Mon Feb 28 cardio was trying to get past 1.39 but was unsuccessful. Will def do it Wed. I am determined. Went right from work. Feel better, just coughed a lot after the gym

Tues. Mar 1Upper body with Jon. He is scaring me talking about my new routine next week. that I will be begging for mercy. He will be concentrating in specific areas for the whole hour. Can you imagine doing squats and lunges and working just legs for a whole hour. I can't. I will be in pain. A good pain, but he is making me nervous. Asked him how to get past my 1.30 and he told me to just up my numbers by one and surely will do it

Wed. Mar 2 Cardio. I forgot my nano at home so couldn't go to gym straight from work. Still got there at a good time, but it was packed. Out of 17 available treadmills all were taken, had to wait about 10 minutes. I upped my numbers, pushed myself and made it. 1.41, my new number to beat. Very pleased with myself! Feel great. Weigh in tomorrow

Thurs Mar 3 Lower body weigh in lost 2 pounds, yeah!!!! Lost some lean muscle. Jon said that is all nutrition. Have to adjust my diet. Lower body was hard, the walking incline sucked and I said it loud and clear, and my punishment was he made me do it for .30. Note to self: Don't complain, he will make it worse ;) Have to remember that next week with new routine. He keeps telling me how hard its gonna be. All to get and stay healthy.

Week 48 Sick again

I have never been sick so many times in my life this winter. Insane. This went straight to my chest. Feel like crap.

Sat. Feb 19 went to gym, great cardio workout. Still at 1.39. Did all my erands first, then went to gym.

Tues Feb 22. Upper body. Almost didn't go in, feel aweful, but went, busy week at work, can't be sick, so had to get up anyway.

Wed. Feb 23. Cardio. Again almost didn't go, cough is bad. Asked if I can decide how I do cardio, since I don't feel good. I chose to walk/run instead of the incline. Did 10 minutes they way I do it in the other gym, then walked longer than normal, than ran last 4 minutes. Did more than I wanted. last week of cardio at Horizon. I can do it.

Thurs. Feb 24. Lower body.Jon has me walking on an incline as part of my lower body, for .25 miles and it totally sucks, sweating my butt off

Fri Feb 25. Cardio weigh in, stayed the same, surprised, cause I thought I lost. Did same cardio as Wed...my last day of cardio. Next week, I do 2 days of weight training then the week after I start my new routine of 3 days weight training, Mon, Tues & Thurs 5:30 am. Will do cardio weekends, Mon & Wed night.

Week 47 Great week

Sat Feb. 12th. Have an event in New Haven this morning. Danielle and I drove together. Topic was Sustainability in regards to graphic design at Yale, after we went to gym together. I did the treadmill but felt my breathing was labored......probably from the anti inflammatory. did 1.32 on treadmill. Disappointed myself took a break then got on the elliptical for 25 minutes...going 2 miles with avg heart rate between 161 and 164...so I made up for the lack in distance on treadmill. I really liked the elliptical, will do it again next time but do a set program they have on machine.

Tues Feb 15th. upper body very tough, Jon is pushing hard, but when does he not. I am looking forward to just doing weight trainings with him 3x a week and cardio on my own.

Wed. Feb 16, canceled morning cardio, had half day at work, went in early, went to other gym in afternoon after my appointment and was on fire. Did 1.39 on treadmill and did a program on elliptical. Great work out.

Thurs Feb 17 lower body....new lower body routine..YIKES lunges. killer. this new lower body is kickin my butt. Told Jon he would be so proud of me seeing me at the other gym, kickin butt doing cardio. Feel good for weigh in tomorrow

Fri Feb 18th weigh in. Lost 3 pounds.....and had lowest body fat % reading...yeah, and now the most weight lost...must keep going down, down down! Did a walking incline cardio with Jon, and it was brutal, holy cow, I was soaked with sweat. Going to go to other gym tomorrow with Danielle. Who would have EVER thought I would like to sweat my ass off. I certainly never did :)

Pinched nerve, "that time"

Feb 7th Went to other gym for my cardio right after work, felt great! Need to try more than just the treadmill my distance went to 1.37...yeah in 20 minutes

Feb 8 upper body I have a pinched nerve in my upper left side from chopping ice on back deck and shoveling it, so no position or exercise is easy. If doesn't get better have to call doctor.

Feb 9, got out of bed in pain, got dressed for the gym but changed my mind. Canceled gym. Found some old anti-inflammatory going to take it. tonight had a 50th birthday dinner at my favorite Thai restaurant. I went off my nutrition tonight, I hope it doesn't effect the scale on Friday. Called doctor, he called something in for me. OMG can it have any more side effects.

Feb 10 Lower body. forced myself to eat something so i could take the pill, it was difficult, i never eat before the gym. I made it thru. Told Jon, I no longer want to run on their treadmill. Don't know whats different, it is a big difference from the other gym, he will make me walk the incline

Feb 11 Cardio Weigh in. I gained 2 pounds....All I will say is I have "cramps" and Thai food on Wednesday. The cramps is most likely the cause, next week will be better. We did the walking incline....brutal, it sucked, sweated my ass off. Tomorrow will go to other gym.

Week 45 Going to 2 gyms. Feeling great!

A coworker found the picture of me from last winter. I took a similar shot to see the difference

Sunday Jan 30th. Jeff and i went to meet a worker at cardio express who will show me how to program my 20 minutes of cardio....it was cool, to manually set it. Jeff jogged beside me the 20 minutes. It was really good. I actually signed up to try a spinnig class Monday 5:30 am. I have this idea I am going to love it,since I love riding bikes so much......that was what I thought, LOL.

Mon Jan 31 Spinning class 5:30. i get to the gym 5:10 am and couldn't;t believe how many people are there that early....I go into spinning room and there are only 2 other women in there. I find a bike. Immediately I go to sit and realize how hard the seat is and how uncomfortable it is to sit, to pedal, to do anything. The instructor comes (very, very nice) and adjust my seat to suit me perfectly....even after that the pain in my private area was just way too uncomfortable even for 5 minutes. I lasted 6 minutes. I went out to the floor and did my regular cardio on treadmill, felt great, was home by 6:30

Tues Feb 1, Upper body with jon. Good work out. Told him he would be impressed with me on the treadmill, all my myself, pushing the numbers. i canceled Wed cardio with Jon due to bad weather. Got out early from work, due to big storm. Tired of this weather.

Wed. Feb. 2 Iced in for the day....crazy. My poor daughter, I think is sick of sow days already. By wed afternoon after feeling like I ate all day stuck in house, i made dinner for Lauren, put on my gym clothes and went to do cardio on my own. I kicked butt, felt great.

Thurs Feb 3 Lower body. Tough workout. squats and lunges are the best for legs, even though they are hard as hell, I feel it for days after.

Fri. Feb 4 Cardio with Jon, weigh in lost 2 pounds! yeah. Did cardio without my security cover since i did it on my own 3 times this week. I succeeded. I look forward to going to the gym again this weekend. Feel great!