Session #20
Jul. 19th, 2009 10:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lynnWe had it on Friday morning instead of afternoon because I took the day off. When I first woke up though, I was tempted to call in and cancel but when I reset the alarm to make the call, and lay back down to sleep, I had to grapple with my conscience and in the end threw off the covers and got dressed in my workout gear.
Dammit.
I wore the heart rate monitor for a change. For an example of what it was doing (it has a set zone for me: 129-145. If I'm under 129 it beeps slowly, if I'm over it beeps fast) one of my first exercises was planks on the Bosu. So I set myself up in pushup position, hands on the sides of the Bosu. I have to hold the plank for 1 minute. My hrm starts off beeping slowly then it's quiet for awhile and by the time the minute's up it's going beepbeepbeepbeep real fast. And I never moved.
So while we did triceps and biceps and abs, we did a few things for my glutes and hamstrings on the extension bench as well. See this
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He had me doing extensions with one leg out straight- not under the padding- and my arm next to me so that one side was doing all the work. Two sets of 15 repetitions on each side about killed me. Ow ow ow ow ow ow.
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Almost every day this week I used the hrm while either running or using the elliptical. I really like using the elliptical with it though. Yesterday I did 40 minutes, 35 of those minutes were spent in the high end of the zone- 142, about 80% of my max heart rate. But it was amazing. I felt like I could go on forever because even though I was soaking wet with sweat, even dripping all over the machine, I wasn't even breathing hard.
Amazing.
And I've lost 2 pounds this week. Officially.
Dammit.
I wore the heart rate monitor for a change. For an example of what it was doing (it has a set zone for me: 129-145. If I'm under 129 it beeps slowly, if I'm over it beeps fast) one of my first exercises was planks on the Bosu. So I set myself up in pushup position, hands on the sides of the Bosu. I have to hold the plank for 1 minute. My hrm starts off beeping slowly then it's quiet for awhile and by the time the minute's up it's going beepbeepbeepbeep real fast. And I never moved.
So while we did triceps and biceps and abs, we did a few things for my glutes and hamstrings on the extension bench as well. See this
?He had me doing extensions with one leg out straight- not under the padding- and my arm next to me so that one side was doing all the work. Two sets of 15 repetitions on each side about killed me. Ow ow ow ow ow ow.
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Almost every day this week I used the hrm while either running or using the elliptical. I really like using the elliptical with it though. Yesterday I did 40 minutes, 35 of those minutes were spent in the high end of the zone- 142, about 80% of my max heart rate. But it was amazing. I felt like I could go on forever because even though I was soaking wet with sweat, even dripping all over the machine, I wasn't even breathing hard.
Amazing.
And I've lost 2 pounds this week. Officially.