Back to the Gym
I took the two week break between WWW sessions off, limiting myself to random yoga sessions and a little bit of frisbie golf. I also went out and bought a heart rate monitor, after a year of nagging by the girls in the session and our trainer.
It was interesting. 25 minutes of intense biking: My heart rate peaked at 165, while I felt like I was working at 90-95%. Two laps of 'easy' running around the parking lot: 174(171 doing stairs, woo), where I felt like i was working at 80%. Yeah, when I say my body doesn't like running? Not lying. This, in some ways, made me feel good. It means I was not wrong before - and it means I know how to jack up my heart rate when I need to. :)
It kind of makes me want to get a waterproof monitor, just so I can see what swimming does, after so many years of not really being serious about it. But, not enough to spend that kind of money. Or join Masters yet, though I am seriously considering it after this WWW session. Or, at the very least, when I move back to civilization.
And my knee felt really strong, even with the two week break, both biking and doing the leg exercises. We're re-doing my measurements on Friday, and that will be interesting - I did them last on my second session about a year ago.
It was interesting. 25 minutes of intense biking: My heart rate peaked at 165, while I felt like I was working at 90-95%. Two laps of 'easy' running around the parking lot: 174(171 doing stairs, woo), where I felt like i was working at 80%. Yeah, when I say my body doesn't like running? Not lying. This, in some ways, made me feel good. It means I was not wrong before - and it means I know how to jack up my heart rate when I need to. :)
It kind of makes me want to get a waterproof monitor, just so I can see what swimming does, after so many years of not really being serious about it. But, not enough to spend that kind of money. Or join Masters yet, though I am seriously considering it after this WWW session. Or, at the very least, when I move back to civilization.
And my knee felt really strong, even with the two week break, both biking and doing the leg exercises. We're re-doing my measurements on Friday, and that will be interesting - I did them last on my second session about a year ago.