Monday, January 29, 2007

Back on Track

Woo! After my grumbling, I've managed to get back on the proverbial wagon (horse?) and work out the past two days. Still no more pool time, but I'll get to that - I think I need to get me a lesson somehow.

In any case, I was a crazy machine tonight - I was at the gym for 195 minutes (that's right, 3hrs 15min), being a machine. I officially got there at 4ish to get a parking spot (can't get anywhere near the place at 5pm) and, after arriving, was fortunate enough to snag an elliptical. True, ellipticals aren't technically tri-specific, but I figure building my cardio endurance up is also good. After 25 minutes on there, I stretched out (been forcing myself to get back into that before i injure myself) and did this foam roller thingy one of the trainers showed me to stretch out my thigh muscles. At this point, I was extremely fortunate enough to snag one of the GOOD treadmills, so hopped on there for 12 minutes (3 cooldown) at 5.7 mph (last two minutes were at 6 and 6.5 mph, respectively). Usually the ol' lungs can only do about 7 minutes, so this was a good improvement. :)

After that I took two aerobics classes with one of the trainers (talked her into staying through the entire 24tease and she convinced me to stay through turbo kick boxing) then contined on to do upper body weight work (ugh, pathetic) and a 12 minute cooldown on one of the recumbent bikes (level 6 random). All in all, I hope I didn't overdo it too much and will be good and take my cardio easy tomorrow.

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