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The weekend is here and we have upper body today, lower body tomorrow, and cardio on Monday. Usually Monday is a day off, but we decided to add a cardio day. The plan is to keep the heart in the fat burning range (110-120 bps) for an hour. That should burn about 300-400 calories.
We went to the gym. I walked/jogged for 30 minutes. That's a calorie burn of somewhere between 240 and 315 - depending on who you ask. After that, a full upper-body workout. Flies on the exercise ball then machine presses for pecks, dumbbell side raises then machine raises for delts, shrugs for traps, pull-down then cable row for lats, cable pull-down for triceps, and dumbbell curls for biceps. I drank two bottles of water during my workout and my muscles seemed to pump up nicely. It was a lot of work!
We belong to Snap Fitness. It's a bare-bones gym - no showers, no saunas, no meet-market environment. But it's convenient - open 24-7, very affordable, and lots of locations around the country. We see a lot of the same people and the owner knows us by name. It's like a family. We really like it. They have several treadmills, elipticals, and bikes for cardio, a full circuit of weight machines, a smith machine and lots of free-weights. If you need it, they got it. And since it's a neighborhood gym, we've never had to wait for or turn on something.I'll be 1% below the average male and be much healthier for it. I'll be cut, and my doctor will love me for it.
We joined a health club the first week of January.
A day off from exercise. (Deep breath) Since Chris and I joined the health club the first week of January, we have been going 4 times a week. The first few times on the treadmill were brutal! I do a 20 minute routine there, then a circuit on the weight machines. I alternate upper and lower body each time we go. Yesterday, was lower body, and today I can still feel the sore muscles from upper body the day before.
I can see the difference in my face and neck. For me, it's the first fat to go. The gut fat will be the last. I guess I have to burn through all the other fat before the belly goes.
January 24, 07
Today was supposed to be day off, but to burn the fat that I have, we decided to hit the club and do some cardio. we both did the excersize bikes. Not a bad ride, but I couldn't get my heart rate over 120. May have to stick to the treadmill. I can get the heart up to any level I want there.
When taking the garbage van up to the curb, I slipped on the ice. To catch myself, I wrenched my left knee. I hop that it will not hurt tomorrow.
Jan. 25
The knee hurt a bit but didn't stop my workout. I rode the bike for 30 minutes in the fat burning zone. Did a full set of lower body & core excersizes. The hanging abs was a killer.
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