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f4f3 A gym free weekend in Newcastle, with only two strolls with Merlin to count as exercise, so I've got to make up for that this week.
Last night I got to the gym around 6.45, and did about 25 minutes on the cross-trainer and two five minute spells on the exercise bike. Then a few lengths in the pool, and about 20 minutes in the sauna.
This morning I got there on the pip of seven, and did 5 minutes on the bike, 15 on the cross trainer, and my warmdown in the pool, where I did 10 lengths (it's a titchy pool, by the way, about 15 meters long) then ten minutes in the sauna and a most satisfying shower. I think I'll have to adjust my medication: I'm on beta blockers for borderline high BP, and usually take one when I get up in the morning. As a result, my heart-rate was sticking pretty firmly below 120, when it would normally get up to around 140. I forgot to discuss this with my doctor when we were talking about exercise, so I'll switch to taking my plenty good drugs after my swim, I think, and take it up with her next week.
I've got an hour of badminton at lunch, then I might go back tonight after work since my badminton club is off tonight.
Provisional plan for the rest of the week:
Wednesday: Morning session, try and take it up to half an hour (twenty on the trainer, warm up and warm down on the bike),
Thursday: Definitely Yoga at 5, followed by wallowing in the pool, maybe something at lunch
Friday: Morning session.
Weekend - up at the cottage, so a reasonable walk and maybe an hour or so on the bike.
Next week I'll try and introduce some weights, since I want to get my upper body strength up, and I'll be back up to 2 or 3 sessions at the badminton.
I realise this is just the first flush of membership, and I'll probably fall away, but as someone said on-line, you've got to fake it until you can make it - if I can manage a reasonable level of attendance for a month, it might just turn into a habit.
Still to come: Weights and Measures - should I weigh myself? If so, how often? At the moment, I'm sticking to the belt hole test.
Tomorrow we Diet: I'm concentrating more on changing my eating patterns (small meals instead of large, lunch being the main meal) than on what I eat, except for forcing fruit (not as much fun as it sounds). Should I worry about calories, or just continue to treat them as something polite people don't talk about? For health reasons, I should be getting into GI, so watch for that starting to appear in the journal.
Last night I got to the gym around 6.45, and did about 25 minutes on the cross-trainer and two five minute spells on the exercise bike. Then a few lengths in the pool, and about 20 minutes in the sauna.
This morning I got there on the pip of seven, and did 5 minutes on the bike, 15 on the cross trainer, and my warmdown in the pool, where I did 10 lengths (it's a titchy pool, by the way, about 15 meters long) then ten minutes in the sauna and a most satisfying shower. I think I'll have to adjust my medication: I'm on beta blockers for borderline high BP, and usually take one when I get up in the morning. As a result, my heart-rate was sticking pretty firmly below 120, when it would normally get up to around 140. I forgot to discuss this with my doctor when we were talking about exercise, so I'll switch to taking my plenty good drugs after my swim, I think, and take it up with her next week.
I've got an hour of badminton at lunch, then I might go back tonight after work since my badminton club is off tonight.
Provisional plan for the rest of the week:
Wednesday: Morning session, try and take it up to half an hour (twenty on the trainer, warm up and warm down on the bike),
Thursday: Definitely Yoga at 5, followed by wallowing in the pool, maybe something at lunch
Friday: Morning session.
Weekend - up at the cottage, so a reasonable walk and maybe an hour or so on the bike.
Next week I'll try and introduce some weights, since I want to get my upper body strength up, and I'll be back up to 2 or 3 sessions at the badminton.
I realise this is just the first flush of membership, and I'll probably fall away, but as someone said on-line, you've got to fake it until you can make it - if I can manage a reasonable level of attendance for a month, it might just turn into a habit.
Still to come: Weights and Measures - should I weigh myself? If so, how often? At the moment, I'm sticking to the belt hole test.
Tomorrow we Diet: I'm concentrating more on changing my eating patterns (small meals instead of large, lunch being the main meal) than on what I eat, except for forcing fruit (not as much fun as it sounds). Should I worry about calories, or just continue to treat them as something polite people don't talk about? For health reasons, I should be getting into GI, so watch for that starting to appear in the journal.
