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.
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