Exercise Pals

DATE			WHAT	TIME	DIST	MPH	FAT CAL	kCAL
06/24/06	Sat	10:59pm	Exerbike	30:02	4.24	8.5	71	229
06/26/06	Mon	10:27pm	Exerbike	35:10	5.35	9.1	88	284
06/27/06	Tue	+1:01am	Exerbike	35:05	5.03	8.6	84	270
07/06/06	Thu	10:24pm	Exerbike	35:09	6.36	10.9	102	330
07/07/06	Fri	10:35pm	Exerbike	35:14	6.64	11.3	106	341
07/11/06	Tue	11:34pm	Exerbike	35:18	7.14	12.1	113	363
07/15/06	Sat	10:48pm	Exerbike	35:12	7.03	12.0	111	357

Times marked "+" are technically the next day, after midnight.
Color-coded by week, Monday start.

My sister was here, and it was cool, since we'd both agreed I'd exercise. So I did it, stuck to the plan. Yay!

My goal is to exercise for three days this week -- for the first time. Need to be at that level for minimally decent results, so that's what I wanna do. So that means I have to exercise tomorrow. Check back and see!

DATE			WHAT	TIME	DIST	MPH	FAT CAL	kCAL
06/24/06	Sat	10:59pm	Exerbike	30:02	4.24	8.5	71	229
06/26/06	Mon	10:27pm	Exerbike	35:10	5.35	9.1	88	284
06/27/06	Tue	+1:01am	Exerbike	35:05	5.03	8.6	84	270
07/06/06	Thu	10:24pm	Exerbike	35:09	6.36	10.9	102	330
07/07/06	Fri	10:35pm	Exerbike	35:14	6.64	11.3	106	341
07/11/06	Tue	11:34am	Exerbike	35:18	7.14	12.1	113	363

Times marked "+" are technically the next day, after midnight.
Color-coded by week, Monday start.

Almost didn't exercise tonight. Got home extra lateish, was very tired as usual. But I convinced myself to put on my exercise top instead of my nightshirt as I changed out of my clothes, thinking maybe if I relaxed a bit in the exercise top I'd have just that much less barrier to exercising. Y'know, I think, somehow, it just made the difference in getting me to do it. Having to take that exercise top off, vs. just leaving it on, somehow helped a bit. And kept exercising on my mind, rather than letting the nightshirt encourage my mellow night settling-in. Hmmm.

Exercised a bit extra hard again. It's like once I've actually started, it's not so bad to push a bit more. Guess that's good, but I gotta be careful and not overdo that, or I'll start thinking it's always just too hard. But I didn't feel it was as hard tonight, sorta, as it was last week. Maybe that's progress?! We'll see.

Bad news is I already know I won't be exersising tomorrow night; going to see a very cool show in Hollywood (I oughtta post details later).

So far I've been doing 2ish sessions per week. Want this week to be 3, at least.

DATE			WHAT	TIME	DIST	MPH	FAT CAL	kCAL
06/24/06	Sat	10:59pm	Exerbike	30:02	4.24	8.5	71	229
06/26/06	Mon	10:27pm	Exerbike	35:10	5.35	9.1	88	284
06/27/06	Tue	+1:01am	Exerbike	35:05	5.03	8.6	84	270
07/06/06	Thu	10:24pm	Exerbike	35:09	6.36	10.9	102	330
07/07/06	Fri	10:35pm	Exerbike	35:14	6.64	11.3	106	341

Times marked "+" are technically the next day, after midnight.

Color-coded by week, Monday start.

Tonight felt hard again. P'raps I'm trying to go too high-intensity too quickly. Well, it'll prolly get easier whether or not I let up. At least I finished, got it done tonight. I wasn't quite as low-energy as I was last night, but it was still not easy to convince myself to do. Had napped earlier, so after I woke up and fed mira_kitty, I watched a little TiVo in bed to wake up. Then exercising seemed OKish.

Glad I'm keeping it up. Already talked with my sister 'bout tomorrow -- we're getting together to work on my place, as is our usual recent habit (Wed & Sat). I told her I was gonna exercise for a while during her time here, and she said she may want to do so too. Cool!

Today's workout

Minutes: 32
Machine: cross-country skiing machine
Distance: 1.02 miles
Resistance: 8
Calories: 234

Minutes: 32
Machine: stationary bicycle
Distance: 12.39 miles
Resistance: 8
Calories: 447

Weight = 193

DATE			WHAT	TIME	DIST	MPH	FAT CAL	kCAL
06/24/06	Sat	10:59pm	Exerbike	30:02	4.24	8.5	71	229
06/26/06	Mon	10:27pm	Exerbike	35:10	5.35	9.1	88	284
06/27/06	Tue	+1:01am	Exerbike	35:05	5.03	8.6	84	270
07/06/06	Thu	10:24pm	Exerbike	35:09	6.36	10.9	102	330

Times marked "+" are technically the next day, after midnight.
Color-coded by week, Monday start.

So, I missed 8 days (OMG, 8 days!) due to trip prep, days in SF, and one day after I returned. Not great. But I did short hikes on two of the days that I was in SF (one hike was kinda heavy for me -- hilly), and I did actually get on the bike tonight. Last night was just impossible (really needed some down time after my trip), but tonight was difficult and I got through that and exercised anyway. :)

Tonight felt a bit tougher, but then I noticed my pace was higher than it's been. So, good for me, I guess.

I did my weight series today (48,500 pounds total) plus 35 minutes on the elliptical machine.

Then I was pooped. I was glad I had the time today to do a bit extra after taking a few days off.

I'm still 194 pounds but working on it.

Tomorrow is the all aerobic day. Not sure which machines I'll do but I'm hoping I have enough energy to do over an hour, including at least a 20 minute (or more) jog (to match or beat the time I jogged last time).

I forgot to update about my workout on Friday.

On Friday, I did some aerobic exercise. I setup a 30 minute session on the treadmill and did 20 minutes of jogging and then 10 minutes of a walking in a hill profile.

After that, I did 30 minutes on the machine I call the "cross-country-skiing-like" machine.

And then I tried to do 30 minutes on a stationary bicycle but pooped out after about 15 minutes. I literally didn't have any energy left.

I've taken the past four days off for the holiday and also because my shoulders have been hurting. I decided I needed a solid break. Today I have something else scheduled for "after work" time so I'll get back to it on Thursday.

Happy exercising!!

well ... not all at once ... ;-}

My exercising has been going very well. I'm still frustrated, mostly on the aerobic side of things and also on the weight measurement, but generally things are going okay and I'm feeling better about my body all the time.

I go to the gym four days a week right now. There's potential for that to change significantly within the next six weeks to two months in two ways: 1) I am looking for a new job right now which may affect a change in my schedule, including work location, to make the current setup unfeasible; and 2) I am going to be going to school again on Monday nights starting in the middle of August.

Right now, I workout after work on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday. I go in to work early in order to get out of work early and get over to the gym to workout and finish by around 6-630pm so I can get home at a reasonable hour. I alternate workouts between weight machines and aerobic machines so, for example, on Monday and Thursday I may do weights and Tuesday and Friday do an aerobic workout. I've developed and incremented my weight workout so now, based on a high number of reps, a high number of sets, and a series of machines, it all adds up to around 48,500 pounds lifted in one session. It looks like an incredible amount but I started off with two sets of 15 at 20 pounds on three or four machines and just kept building and working it up. My aerobic workout is usually an hour in two half hour blocks chosen from several machines including a treadmill, an elliptical machine, a "cross-country skiing"-type machine, a stationary bicycle, and some others I can't think of right now. For example, on Tuesday, I did 30 minutes on the treadmill where I jogged for 15 minutes then 15 minutes of walking on a hill profile. After that, I did 30 minutes on the cross-country-skiing-type machine.

My disappointments are that I think I should be able to do a longer jog before I get tired, but that could be the result of any residual damage to my pelvis. I think I may have to just be patient and gentle as I build back my pelvis and lower back. Another disappointment is that I haven't been losing much weight since the beginning of the year. I'm still around 190 fluctuating around 4 pounds on either side. I'd like to lose more weight but I do notice that my body is changing a lot without the weight changing so I'm assuming this is just something my body needs to do.

I hope others who read this are doing okay with your exercise and your health is well.

Just got home from work. Yeah, after midnight. I'm trying to finish up some ANNOYING work stuff before the Holiday Weekend. Whee.

May not have time to exercise tomorrow night either; gotta prep for Holiday Weekend Trip. Not good -- must really try to squeeze it in.

Sleep soon.

DATE			WHAT	TIME	DIST	MPH	FAT CAL	kCAL
06/24/06	Sat	10:59pm	Exerbike	30:02	4.24	8.5	71	229
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06/26/06	Mon	10:27pm	Exerbike	35:10	5.35	9.1	88	284
06/27/06	Tue	+1:01am	Exerbike	35:05	5.03	8.6	84	270

Times marked "+" are technically the next day, after midnight.

Color-coded by week, Monday start.

OK, I've exercised 3 out of 4 days now.