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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.