Some more cardio

Well today I new I was not going to last more than 30min on the cardio I decided to do today, because I had done something similar before and what was that? Running.

So I used the treadmill today. I can’t remember the brand of it, it is pro something. Really nice peace of machinery, however it had some issues.

The issue it had was that it was not reading my heart rate correctly, I was running without putting my hands on the bar, but I put them on the bar every once in a while to check my heart rate, at times it would not read, some times it would be to low, telling me it was 58 or 98 and at one point it said it was 240. 240? what am I a humming bird? LOL, so yeah it had some issues there, but everything else seemed ok.

I did the regular warm up again, then I started a slow pace of 6km/hr then increased to 8km and by 3min I went up to 10km, it was a nice pace and 10min after I decided to go to 11km, it put a nice kick in to it without to much struggle. I will say it is a heck of a lot easier than really running on the street as there were no hills or anything. At least I did not set that up because it is the first time I use the treadmill and last time I ran I had problems with my knees, therefore I did not want to push it. But I knew I was running before at 11.3km because if you guys remember, when I ran the second time and old man followed me on his bike in order to provide me with the speed I was doing. So I knew 11 would be a good pace and try to keep it longer, as the last time I ran, I did it for a little over 16min. Well I did keep it for longer I actually managed to stay on the treadmill for 30min, I was not dying, but I did not want to push to hard either, I did feel my body was slowly telling me I should slow down and so I did, the last 5 min I spent it slowing down a little at a time, every min I would bring the machine down a couple of notches until I was walking.

I will say it felt really awesome, the machine ended up telling me that I burnt 317.6 Calories and I covered 4.8km, not bad. Now I have not been on a treadmill for like 11 years or so, and at that time I never used it that much or for that long. When I got off it felt odd, like my vision wanted everything to move forward and faster since my brain knew it was running but at the same time not going anywhere, very odd feeling for sure.

The other thing I will say is, I could have done better if I would have not been so bored LOL. I did feel a bit bored as I was not moving, I was looking out of a window and watching cars go by and what not but not the same thing. I think I need my media player with me and play a movie, that way I occupy my mind at the same time and I don’t pay to much attention to the timer, which is like watching paint dry.

Well tomorrow I will continue my little cardio adventure, playing around with the different cardio machines. Next week we should be able to start using weights, Oh yeah! :o)

Thank you for your time:

Mike