Did 30 minutes on the elliptical today. Discovered that while upping the incline helps get my heart rate up before an upper body blitz, keeping the incline down actually burns more calories. So now for cardio, I'm putting the incline down to 1 and the resistance up to 10-12 ( Read more... )

Upper body blitz yesterday morning (Monday). Did 45 minutes of interval training on the elliptical Sunday morning.

I haven't done an exercise update in a week! Rest assured, I have been working out ( Read more... )

No running today. Today I had a personal training appointment at the gym. We talked about my goals as well as my exercise and health history.

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Went to the gym yesterday. We were running late so I forgot to grab my iPod, so no music ( Read more... )

Ran the street run today, complete with iPod accompaniment (more on that in another post), shuffled tracks from a quickly-cobbled ~1000 track playlist ( Read more... )

Got it this weekend, but didn't take it on my run today because I know from experience that the iPod earbuds do NOT stay in my ears while running. It's super-annoying to have to grab them and shove them back into my ears every 30-90 seconds and adds a lot of unnecessary tension to my upper body while running. I need to round up some of the earbuds ( Read more... )

Same 2.5 mi street run today. Took about 20 mins. Felt it in my quads this time for the latter half. Had a chance to sprint for a stoplight, but it was about 100 yards and with wobbly quads, I couldn't convince myself to go for it.