I'm Back!

Hi all, sorry for the delay in writing this post today. I have been unusually busy and the pace is only just starting to let up and allow me time to get online and post the days events to my blog. Far out, I am pretty strung out now, but in a good way.

I got up at the usual time and made breakfast for my partner before she took off for work. I was delayed in taking off to the gym as I had to recharge my mp3 player and I decided that while I was waiting for it to recharge I may as well put some different music on it. This took me a little longer than usual, and I wasn't on my bike and on the way to the gym until about 9:00. I got there about 9:05 and decided to start off by getting on the treadmill and doing a short 10 minute burst on the cross trainer (I think this is also known as an eliptical trainer).

It went really well and my blister did not give me any trouble at all. Also my knee was feeling great and decided to make the most of it. I remembered that last Thursday I did the session with the trainer followed by a cardio workout. So, being nicely warmed up I decided that I would lift some weights today to get a bit more of a workout in the absence of having a session with the trainer.

I ventured over to the machine section of the gym and noticed that it was really busy. I decided that rather than plan a workout I would do much better just jumping on machines that were free and working around the crowd. I followed this and did lat pulldowns, seated chest press, leg extensions, peg press, bicep curls and shoulder press (both with dumbbells). It was a good workout, particularly the leg exercises as it seemed like they were helping my knee. I guess I will know for sure if that is true tomorrow! I didn't lift as much as I possibly could, opting instead to do relatively high repetitions of 15-20 for each of the three sets I did on each exercise.

After that I jumped on the treadmill and did the 31 minute routine. Unfortunately I lost concentration and missed changing the speed a couple of times. I felt as if I had been going slower than usual and so I built in a few more high speed minutes that really tested me. At the end of the 25 minute max session I noticed that I had in fact done much more than I usually do, so that feeling of slacking must have just been in my mind. I reounded out the remaining 6 minutes on the treadmill going hard again. If you want to see the stats from my workout, click on the link to the aerobic fitness chart. I burned the most calories ever in the workout today.

I was tired when I finished, but had enough energy to push myself hard on the bike ride home. It went well and the 'warm down' that is the bike ride is now one of the things that I look forward to about the workout. Things really are changing for me, but I need to start getting more sleep or something as the hardest part about going to the gym is fast becoming the actual getting to the gym to do the workout. I am sure that will pass, and is probably related to the pain I have had from my knee and from my blisters. Fortunately I have not had any trouble with them today, and I think that I might be back in business now.

So, all in all a successful day workout wise. I have had lunch and breakfast as set out in the new diet. I'm having chicken for dinner - I've been cooking it all day in the slow cooker so it should be pretty good I hope. I have noticed that I am starting to get hungry, however I don't think that it is the diet that is causing it. I think that it is really just poor time management on my part in getting to the gym early enough to eat all the meals during the rest of the day. I'm sure that I will get into a routine soon enough that will allow me to settle into what I am required to do. However, until then I had better be careful not to break.

Tomorrow will be a cardio only day. I had better allow myself some time to recover from the workout today. I think that I might try to build in some ab exercises as I didn't really do any of those today, and I really need some work in that area. I feel that I need to keep something in the tank for Thursday's workout with the trainer.

So, until tomorrow - keep fighitng the good fight, and keep those comments coming.