Earthquakes at the Gym
Nov. 19th, 2007 07:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jakebe
Weight: 164.6
Time: 35 minutes (15 min. and 20 min.)
Distance: 800 stairs/1.98 miles
Speed: 53 stairs per minute/6.5 mph
Calories: 300
The treadmills were full today, so I started off on the stairmaster thing that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mut tried the last time we exercised together. It's a pretty good workout; low-impact, with a pace that you can set yourself, and pretty cool programs that determines the amount of resistance you can reasonably take. I opted for 30 minutes on program 1 (a roughly 60/40 split between levels 2 and 4) and worked for about 15 minutes. After that, a treadmill opened up, so I went for a 20-minute run instead of completing the program.
The run was pretty good; I didn't really need to warm up or anything, so I amped up pretty quickly and ran at 6.0 mph for about 15 minutes, then goosed up to 6.5 mph in the last minute just to see if I could take it (and this beginner's running guide recommended it). Also, I really wanted an even 2 mile run. :P
All in all, not a bad day at the 'gym'.
Today I'm grateful for my health. My teeth are bothersome, and I have a bit of a paunch I'd like to lose, and there are few other nattering problems, but overall I'm in fairly good shape and I feel really lucky for that. Mental illness runs pretty strongly in my family, and so does diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and (shudder) Alzheimer's. The fact that I came out relatively OK is something I don't stop to think about all too often, but when I do, I feel really lucky that I am.
Time: 35 minutes (15 min. and 20 min.)
Distance: 800 stairs/1.98 miles
Speed: 53 stairs per minute/6.5 mph
Calories: 300
The treadmills were full today, so I started off on the stairmaster thing that
mut tried the last time we exercised together. It's a pretty good workout; low-impact, with a pace that you can set yourself, and pretty cool programs that determines the amount of resistance you can reasonably take. I opted for 30 minutes on program 1 (a roughly 60/40 split between levels 2 and 4) and worked for about 15 minutes. After that, a treadmill opened up, so I went for a 20-minute run instead of completing the program.The run was pretty good; I didn't really need to warm up or anything, so I amped up pretty quickly and ran at 6.0 mph for about 15 minutes, then goosed up to 6.5 mph in the last minute just to see if I could take it (and this beginner's running guide recommended it). Also, I really wanted an even 2 mile run. :P
All in all, not a bad day at the 'gym'.
Today I'm grateful for my health. My teeth are bothersome, and I have a bit of a paunch I'd like to lose, and there are few other nattering problems, but overall I'm in fairly good shape and I feel really lucky for that. Mental illness runs pretty strongly in my family, and so does diabetes, high blood pressure, heart disease and (shudder) Alzheimer's. The fact that I came out relatively OK is something I don't stop to think about all too often, but when I do, I feel really lucky that I am.
