Just Some Quick Cardio

I hope you all had a really good weekend, we had an awesome weekend. Here in Canada, we celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday, so I ate a lot LOL at least most of it was Turkey, which is lean. However I had not worked out at all for the entire weekend. That’s right, I took it off, wow, it felt weird not to do anything. Well today a friend asked me to help him move a fridge and a counter, so my thought was that will be some workout, I guess I better get some cardio in today.

I did not have lots of time to use the GYM about 45min, so I decided to try the bike today and see how that went. They have a Lifefitness brand, called LifeCycle. Looks something like this:

This is not the exact one, I did not check the model number but it is very similar and it was pretty cool, I used it for 35min. I did not know how to work the settings but I managed to get set to Hill and it cycled through different hill simulations I managed to increase it to Level 8. It kept track of my heart rate, distance, RPMs and Calories. However I never imputed my age so the calculation may have been a bit off. For the heart rate if I would have put my age it would have sounded an alarm, as it stated that for over 30 but under 40yo the max heart rate is 152, I went all the way to 162, which is for 20 years old LOL. It told me that in the 35min I lost 275 Calories, but it’s hard to say, I kept the machine at around 100RPMs with high heart rate so I might have lost more. Oh and I forgot to mention that I started with Tony’s warm up, with raising the knees then jogging in place, jumping jacks, the usual, just to get the heart rate up first before I went on to the bike.

Now the only complaint I have on the bike is that the seat hurt LOL yeah my butt was in pain within the first 5min, imagine 35min LOL I told another person who was working out that the seat hurts and he says, yeah I think it’s part of the workout, and I said “What, to provide you with calluses on your butt?” LOL but the cardio was pretty good no complaint there.

After I went to help my friend out, we moved a fridge down to the basement with stairs that turned, and then went and picked up a counter for his kitchen. So I did some lifting today. I have moved fridges before, but for some reason I found the fridge lighter, I was expecting it to be heavier and I had no problems with my back. If I would have done this 6 months ago, I would have been coming home to take some pain killers for my back. Thank you P90X and Yoga :o)

Well the rest of this week I will continue to play with most of the cardio machines and hopefully I can do more time and I hope I have time to program the machine to get more proper info.

Thank you for your time:

Mike