Progress Update

Don't worry people, no updates doesn't mean no training (at least in my case). I sadly still haven't started swimming yet (boo), but as I think I mentioned before, I'm going to wait until hockey season is over so I can actually focus on swimming since that will be my weakest part.

In other good news ...

• Been able to do 12 minutes running on the treadmill (random, level 2, 5.7mph; last two min. at 6.0 and 6.5 mph, respectively) without the lungs bothering me too horribly much. For those who know, my issue with running isn't my legs - it's my stupid sports-induced asthma so while my legs say I can still run, my lungs say otherwise. This is an improvement over the 7 minutes I had been usually doing. I did do 15 the other day to burn off some stress, but the last few minutes were a struggle and I was doing the rusty pipe organ breathing thing.
• Even though I was sore as hell today (cardio/legs tues., cardio/arms/24 hour fit dance class wed., turbo kick-boxing/hockey last night), I still managed to do a little over 7 miles in 20 minutes on the bike (!). I found this a bit odd since I've been averaging between a 3 and 4 minute mile on the bike (sport-specific, level 8 or 9) lately and I thought that big of a jump was weird. In any case, I'll take it.

In bad news ...

• On a random whim, decided to have my bodyfat percentage tested at the gym (one of the trainers had five minutes to help me out). I hadn't had it done since senior year in college when I had it tested before and after taking a weight training class - was 26-something before and went down to 23-something after. Weeeeeelllll ... now I'm at about 29. Yuck. Said trainer helping me out said she was about the same, but really, I thought I'd be in a bit better shape since I graduated especially since I work out more. Part of it could be that the two tests were slightly different (school did caliper measurements on tricep, side, quad; gym did tricep, bicep, side and back), but still. Ew. Oh well, just another motivational tool, right?

So, that's my update. Since my workouts have been good (despite lack of swimming-ness), my next step is to start eating better (and less, in some cases. oops.) to add an extra push.

Happy training!