Gym: Treadmill for half an hour
Dec. 9th, 2012 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackI went to the gym, fulfilling my "twice weekly" resolution on the last two days of the week. I did the treadmill for half an hour: 5 minutes walking, then 25 minutes alternating walking (5.3km/h or 3.3mi/hr) for a minute and jogging for a minute (7.8 km/hr or 4.8mi/hr).
I felt really good. I was bathed in sweat, and felt like I'd had a really good workout, but my legs didn't hurt, and I didn't feel ready to collapse afterwards.
I felt really pleased at being able to do half an hour, even though that was alternating walking and jogging, because a month ago I'm not sure I could have quite done it. So I really have got better (a little bit). And I've got up to a time that's reasonable for a gym session, so I don't need to worry about that as much, and can concentrate on increase speed or proportion of jogging.
I wasn't sure in advance I'd do half an hour. Last time I went up from 20min to 22 min, and I didn't want to promise myself too much and renege, so I said I'd do the same again since it'd been a week since I'd done it. But after 22 minutes I felt fine to continue so I reset the machine and did another 8. Yay me!
I couldn't have done much more, though. I tried to continue the penultimate set, and started to feel "I can't breathe, I want to throw up" quite soon, so I went back to walking until the final set. But I can hopefully increase the proportion a bit, going to 65 s jogging, 55 s walking, etc.
I felt really good. I was bathed in sweat, and felt like I'd had a really good workout, but my legs didn't hurt, and I didn't feel ready to collapse afterwards.
I felt really pleased at being able to do half an hour, even though that was alternating walking and jogging, because a month ago I'm not sure I could have quite done it. So I really have got better (a little bit). And I've got up to a time that's reasonable for a gym session, so I don't need to worry about that as much, and can concentrate on increase speed or proportion of jogging.
I wasn't sure in advance I'd do half an hour. Last time I went up from 20min to 22 min, and I didn't want to promise myself too much and renege, so I said I'd do the same again since it'd been a week since I'd done it. But after 22 minutes I felt fine to continue so I reset the machine and did another 8. Yay me!
I couldn't have done much more, though. I tried to continue the penultimate set, and started to feel "I can't breathe, I want to throw up" quite soon, so I went back to walking until the final set. But I can hopefully increase the proportion a bit, going to 65 s jogging, 55 s walking, etc.
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Date: 2012-12-10 12:20 pm (UTC)I do alternating speeds by distance rather than time; I'm not really sure why I got into that habit though, time is probably more useful.
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Date: 2012-12-10 05:50 pm (UTC)