I missed my exercise on Friday. No explaining it away. It just didn’t happen. Saturday was the day I had scheduled to take off this week so I’ve had two days in a row off. I’ll be back at it again on Sunday. I now feel lousy on the days I don’t exercise so the point of the challenge, “Making exercise a habit” is being realized.
I had a talk with my cousin last night and she seems to think we should run a marathon next December. She has been running on her lunchtimes at the office with a bunch of coworkers and she’s running about 5 miles a day. So she has a bit of a headstart on me. We’ll see how the next few months of my training go before I commit to something that ambitious though.
Well I’m over halfway throug this challenge, actually I’m 3/5 of the way through, and it’s all going along quite well at this point. I’m slowly starting to add a few things to my weight training days to give it some variety now that all of the really painful soreness that I get when I begin to workout is gone. Hopefully all of this effort has a useful impact on my mountain biking next year. I guess I’ll just have to wait and see.
Weight training day:
- curls – (15×3)
- military press – (15×3)
- bench press- (15×3)
- dumbbell rows – (15×3)
The rest that I took last weekend seems to have paid off. I had a great workout last night, and think I finally have a handle on how to get the pullups up to snuff.
Weight training :
- Curls – (15×3)
- Hammer curls – (12×2)
- Military Press- (15×3)
- Dumbbell rows – (15×3)
- Bench Press – (15×3)
- Pullups- (5×1) With some assistance from my legs on a stool, it’s not my full weight yet, but it’s getting closer!
It was nice to get out for a walk today. I ended up working most of Saturday and all of Sunday (9am to 1:30am). So I took the dog but the hill for a brisk four mile walk in the rain. It only rained for about 20 minutes and then the sun came out. Good walk for sure.
Later I went for a bike ride on the fixed-gear which has no odomotor or heart-rate monitor or cadence monitor or anything else. It was a great workout though because everywhere I had to go had hills in the way.
Tomorrow’s schedule..back to the weights, I can’t wait.