Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~5 miles/~25 minutes
Driver: TNT: Tell No Tales
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A Posterior definitely not used to the saddle, so I went more casual tonight. I want to be able to get on and try to hit it harder going into a 3 day layoff. Legs seemed like they were a little barky, but could have taken more. Air was not challenged at all.
Observations/Intel: Once I get more accustomed to the saddle, I need to turn it on more...the idea here is more to build Cardio and the only way to do that is to do that. It's nice to lose weight and all, but the idea is to get Cardio conditioning more in line...while it's not being significantly challenged at this point, I'm not fool enough to think it's in anything approaching good shape...
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Tuesday, March 22, 2016
D28: 03.22.16
Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~7 miles/~30 minutes
Driver: Savatage: Hall Of The Mountain King
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A As yesterday, again no physical complaints to speak of from any corners. Air was not challenged, Legs were again slightly, but my larger concern is more getting used to the saddle again more than anything. I was pretty pleased at a rough equivalent to 14mph, which came very easily...definitely - and I can never seem to say this enough - the music driver makes a huge difference...
Observations/Intel: I think I'm going to need to put speed tape on the glide bolt on the right side as the nuts keep wanting to turn themselves off...I also neglected to mention last night that part of my fear at doing nothing but a fairly catabolic activity would be to compromise bone integrity without accompanying resistance training. I don't foresee ever giving up Cardio or even the Air Dyne entirely, nor am I taxing myself at an alarming level, but I think some degree of healthy caution is warranted, especially given my long layoff and respective greater age...
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~7 miles/~30 minutes
Driver: Savatage: Hall Of The Mountain King
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A As yesterday, again no physical complaints to speak of from any corners. Air was not challenged, Legs were again slightly, but my larger concern is more getting used to the saddle again more than anything. I was pretty pleased at a rough equivalent to 14mph, which came very easily...definitely - and I can never seem to say this enough - the music driver makes a huge difference...
Observations/Intel: I think I'm going to need to put speed tape on the glide bolt on the right side as the nuts keep wanting to turn themselves off...I also neglected to mention last night that part of my fear at doing nothing but a fairly catabolic activity would be to compromise bone integrity without accompanying resistance training. I don't foresee ever giving up Cardio or even the Air Dyne entirely, nor am I taxing myself at an alarming level, but I think some degree of healthy caution is warranted, especially given my long layoff and respective greater age...
Monday, March 21, 2016
D27: 03.21.16
Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~5.5 miles/~23 minutes
Driver: Alice Cooper: Flush The Fashion
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A Less of a gap than before...happily, no physical complaints to speak of from any corners. Air was not challenged, Legs were slightly, possibly due to a seat adjustment I made so it would more closely match my actual bike...which I've not ridden in 7 years...CD player woes are continuing, even with the new player, which suggests that I may have to abandon portable CD players completely (I think the Air Dyne vibrations are too much for them to compensate) in favor of the MP3 player, something I'm not looking much forward to because sound quality loss...
Observations/Intel: I did a really stupid thing last week by running the workout so late into the night. I completely forgot about the time change, you see, which entirely threw me off and took me until late into the week to somewhat recover. Work also stepped in to play havoc with things, but that's not a predictable factor, so I'm not too upset there. I am, however, taking this week off from work, due to conflicting school schedules between my wife and son, which I hope to use to get me both on track with body rhythms and with the workout schedule...
I do, however, have a few mini-trips coming up, sprinkled in the midst of my monthly week-long trips, that may prove challenging to keep consistency. Diet has overall not been completely unsound, though I sort of dread getting on the scale again. If I would have thought of it this morning, I should have taken a weigh-in then, but maybe tomorrow...not having the scale in the bathroom I normally use upon wakening is sort of compounding things, in that I tend to forget, since I'm not in "the mode", but both bathrooms in the new place we're at are tiny. In fact, I more or less get the basement bathroom to myself, since it is shower only, but the only one large enough to accommodate me; the one upstairs would hit me slightly below the chin...
I can definitely make a few observations thus far. The first is that I really hope my Shoulder holds up to the testing I'm planning for it as not being able to get in the gym is a very short-lived prospect. Love the Air Dyne and all that it does, but hopping on it is boring me stiff and as soon as I run out of programs, I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't run the tv loud enough to be heard over the Air Dyne, due to the way the vents are, so it's basically watch-only and I'm not in good enough shape yet to pour it on and just concentrate on the music/workout. The second is that I am really disliking actual food as an energy source prior to workouts. In the old days, it would be a careful combination of either protein shake and/or English muffin with raw honey and natural peanut butter, depending on what I was doing and that combination worked exceedingly well for what I wanted to do. Now, depending on what I have for dinner, I have to try to figure out a way to time it so that I'm not bloated and am mentally prepared, but can also fit work in there and get done with all of it at a decent time and can't start much, if any, of that process until my son is in bed and asleep. This will be a persistent challenge, though and the calorie load varies wildly with the different dinners, sort of compounding things. Adding the gym to that will definitely present another dimension, in that I will probably also have operating hours to contend with...should be interesting, if nothing else.
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~5.5 miles/~23 minutes
Driver: Alice Cooper: Flush The Fashion
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A Less of a gap than before...happily, no physical complaints to speak of from any corners. Air was not challenged, Legs were slightly, possibly due to a seat adjustment I made so it would more closely match my actual bike...which I've not ridden in 7 years...CD player woes are continuing, even with the new player, which suggests that I may have to abandon portable CD players completely (I think the Air Dyne vibrations are too much for them to compensate) in favor of the MP3 player, something I'm not looking much forward to because sound quality loss...
Observations/Intel: I did a really stupid thing last week by running the workout so late into the night. I completely forgot about the time change, you see, which entirely threw me off and took me until late into the week to somewhat recover. Work also stepped in to play havoc with things, but that's not a predictable factor, so I'm not too upset there. I am, however, taking this week off from work, due to conflicting school schedules between my wife and son, which I hope to use to get me both on track with body rhythms and with the workout schedule...
I do, however, have a few mini-trips coming up, sprinkled in the midst of my monthly week-long trips, that may prove challenging to keep consistency. Diet has overall not been completely unsound, though I sort of dread getting on the scale again. If I would have thought of it this morning, I should have taken a weigh-in then, but maybe tomorrow...not having the scale in the bathroom I normally use upon wakening is sort of compounding things, in that I tend to forget, since I'm not in "the mode", but both bathrooms in the new place we're at are tiny. In fact, I more or less get the basement bathroom to myself, since it is shower only, but the only one large enough to accommodate me; the one upstairs would hit me slightly below the chin...
I can definitely make a few observations thus far. The first is that I really hope my Shoulder holds up to the testing I'm planning for it as not being able to get in the gym is a very short-lived prospect. Love the Air Dyne and all that it does, but hopping on it is boring me stiff and as soon as I run out of programs, I don't know what I'm going to do. I can't run the tv loud enough to be heard over the Air Dyne, due to the way the vents are, so it's basically watch-only and I'm not in good enough shape yet to pour it on and just concentrate on the music/workout. The second is that I am really disliking actual food as an energy source prior to workouts. In the old days, it would be a careful combination of either protein shake and/or English muffin with raw honey and natural peanut butter, depending on what I was doing and that combination worked exceedingly well for what I wanted to do. Now, depending on what I have for dinner, I have to try to figure out a way to time it so that I'm not bloated and am mentally prepared, but can also fit work in there and get done with all of it at a decent time and can't start much, if any, of that process until my son is in bed and asleep. This will be a persistent challenge, though and the calorie load varies wildly with the different dinners, sort of compounding things. Adding the gym to that will definitely present another dimension, in that I will probably also have operating hours to contend with...should be interesting, if nothing else.
Monday, March 14, 2016
D26: 03.13.16
Not done a weigh-in or a workout in a while. Occasionally I
have knee troubles and I’m guessing all the pounding of the cardio sort of
contributed to a bit of an onset, which I mentioned in the last workout on my
left Leg. That turned into some knee issues, which prompted a cessation of
further Cardio and Labrada’s Joint juice that I like to use to set things
right. Tastes ghastly but works everytime.
Along the way, though, in fact, the day after my last post, we got the GTFO letter from the owners of our former rental. The story here was that the rental was sold to some
new buyers, who evidently evidently upon themselves to become
representative of the dregs of humanity, truly reprehensible and outright bad people utterly devoid of so much as a trace of integrity. Thus, even though my knee was back in
order by that weekend, I had to very quickly find a new place, so all my free
time was spent scouring the interwebs for wherever that would be. I also had to cancel every one of the out
of town business trips I had scheduled.
So, I would research, drive by, sometimes walk through over
and over again until I found something workable and then I would take my wife and
son to check it out. I was basically looking for rejections and after one place
made the grade, I finalized it the following Friday. I wound up working late that same day, but once
I got back home, began immediately moving, solo, with my bum Shoulder and
re-aggravated sprained left thumb. So, definitely got a lot of work in,
particularly since it snowed Sunday and I added shovel work into the mix as
well. Definitely exhausting.
That continued well into the following week, which, combined
with still working full time, basically left me sleeping if I wasn’t working,
packing or moving. It ran me ragged, but did demonstrate perhaps that muscle
memory on my part took the extra work in stride and rebounded quickly, even
without the aid of a ton of protein, a somewhat crappy diet and lots of beer,
which was really my only hope of unwinding, given the pressure of the things,
particularly trying to work around stupid rain and fucking snow. I don’t know
what it did to my body composition, but it definitely wore me the fuck out
after 1 week+ straight of that…anyway, with the big move-in the last weekend of
the month, I scheduled nothing on the agenda but well-deserved recuperation and
then wound up fighting a cold for 2 weeks and change, then another trip out of
town, wherein I continued to be plagued by a relentless sore throat. So a week
of rest and settling in turned into a lot more and that brings us right up to
where we are today, which is more or less going to be a reset…life and all that.
Workout: Cardio
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~5 miles/~25 minutes
Driver: Highway Thru Hell (Netflix)
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A It's been 2 months and I've been fighting various minor ailments for the last 2 or 3 weeks, so I mostly just wanted to try to get the rhythm back. This will be the case for the next week or so, I imagine, though if I can get things clicking sooner, I will definitely do it. Tonight didn't feel super-wonderful but I was itching to get back...having to re-adjust my ass to the seat again is one in a long list of annoyances surrounding the move I mentioned earlier...
Observations/Intel: My wife is ill today or I probably would have put this off to tomorrow, but this will be the last Sunday workout until Walking Dead takes a season hiatus. Hopefully by then (mid-April I think), I'll be way back more into a position to floor it...
Equipment Used: Schwinn Air Dyne
Duration: ~5 miles/~25 minutes
Driver: Highway Thru Hell (Netflix)
Calories: unknown
Quality Level: N/A It's been 2 months and I've been fighting various minor ailments for the last 2 or 3 weeks, so I mostly just wanted to try to get the rhythm back. This will be the case for the next week or so, I imagine, though if I can get things clicking sooner, I will definitely do it. Tonight didn't feel super-wonderful but I was itching to get back...having to re-adjust my ass to the seat again is one in a long list of annoyances surrounding the move I mentioned earlier...
Observations/Intel: My wife is ill today or I probably would have put this off to tomorrow, but this will be the last Sunday workout until Walking Dead takes a season hiatus. Hopefully by then (mid-April I think), I'll be way back more into a position to floor it...
Subscribe to:
Comments (Atom)