Exercise: Aug, 20

Did a metabolic assessment today. The key point: my VO2 *SUCKS*. Gotta get my aerobic capability up. I’ve been pushing myself pretty much exclusively anaerobically. Also decided to up my daily activity (not workouts, just activity, in this case walking) so I can eat a more normal amount of food, but [...]

I signed up for a metabolic test on Friday. The test requires that I be “well rested, with absolutely no muscle soreness”. So, I decided to forego a zone 4-5 workout today and instead am sticking with zone 3 as that doesn’t impact my muscles so much. I’ll probably take tomorrow off [...]

So, the zone 3 workout is so easy, that I did another 64 minutes of it while watching Heroes tonight.
Weight: 191 (190.6)
Time: 1:04:04
In Zone: 1:00:06
Avg HR: 149
Peak HR: 157
Min HR: 91
Tot Cal: 1152 (409)
Recovery: 29 (150-121)

So I decided to start doing my exercise in an organised fashion. What does that mean? Well, I’ve been just pushing myself without any clear goals. I’ve certainly made progress, but I probably could have done better if I planned things out a bit. For instance, you shouldn’t do two hard [...]

Just took it easy today. A little over 4 mile walk with the new puppy, not too fast, but did do the hills versus the flats. The lookup table puts it at 525 calories.

Did a 3.11 mile walk/jog combo. The GPS tracker said my average speed was 5.1mph, so it was definitely more jogging than walking.
Weight: 191 (191.4, went up 3 lbs from yesterday because of the potluck last night!)
Time: 37:17.43
In Zone: 35:46
Avg HR: 171
Peak HR: 184
Min HR: 113
Tot Cal: 843 (508)
Recovery: 22 (177-155)

Did a little walk/job combo today. Nothing much. 2 1/2 miles total, 1 1/2 miles of it jogging. Only enabled the heart rate monitor for the jogging part, but there was about 10 more minutes of walking.
Weight: 191 (188.2)
Time: 12:51.51
In Zone: 11:58
Avg HR: 170
Peak HR: 186
Min HR: 105
Tot Cal: 288 (watch said [...]

32 minutes on the elliptical trainer:
Weight: 191 (189.0)
Time: 32:04:55
In Zone: 24:06
Avg HR: 177
Peak HR: 188
Min HR: 97
Tot Cal: 766 (373)
Recovery: 52 (187-135)

64 minutes on the elliptical trainer:
Weight: 191 (189.0)
Time: 1:04:03
In Zone: 1:01:32
Avg HR: 177
Peak HR: 187
Min HR: 117
Tot Cal: 1531 (612)
Recovery: 48 (185-137)

62 minutes on the elliptical trainer:
Weight: 191 (191.0)
Time: 1:01:57
In Zone: 56:54
Avg HR: 172
Peak HR: 185
Min HR: 96
Tot Cal: 1415 (650)
Recovery: 42 (184-142)