I’ve been working out everyday for a week now, doing my cardio and a little lifting. I spend about 15 to 20 minutes running everyday on the treadmill at a pace of 5.0 mph, which is quite a bit slower compared to the 6.5 I used to run. This is all because I need to stay under my VO2 Max zone to make sure that I’m burning the fat and not the fat & sugar. But then again, I don’t know my true limit because it is just out of my budget to go through that $175 test. From what I understand, when you’re over your limit or when you’re working “inefficiently” as the Lifetime Fitness coaches likes to call it, your body can’t take in enough oxygen to feed your muscles and therefore you are doing anaerobic exercise. I have this theory that when you’re in this anaerobic zone, you have trouble talking to someone if they were to interrupt you. Based on the indication of difficult breathing I tried to determine my own heart rate to see when I am approaching my VO2 Max. I’ve done this a couple of times and I notice that I start having to breath hard when my heart rate is reaching 175. So now whenever I’m getting to 175, I just slow down, don’t want to work inefficiently ya know… Funny thing is I’ve noticed that I am able to handle a faster pace now and still keep my heart rate under 175. I think I’m improving, I’ll have to test my limits again in a couple more days.
Last Friday morning I got up early to hit the gym before work because I had some drinking, I mean partying to do that night. And I loved it, well not the getting up part, but I loved the feeling of working out in the morning. The feeling of coming into work full of energy and feeling like you’re a step ahead of others who are still in bed is quite amazing. I did it again this morning and hope to keep it up. I used to be baffled by those who can get up before the sun rises to exercise but I have a few tricks myself. Being in Minnesota and during the middle of the winter, there are many factors working against you when you’re trying to get out of bed. First of all, it’s early as hell and you’re likely to be tired, it’s also cold and dark outside. Needless to say, you just want to stay in your warm comfy bed. One of the tricks I use to get myself to get up is to have a set routine I must do every morning, this does not include hitting snooze. I usually get up and turn on my bed lamp, turn on my computer and start picking out what I want to wear. Then I make sure to read my email and some online news sites, this usually gets me engaged and helps me to wake up. Or you can try setting up 4 alarm clocks to go off in 15 minute intervals, like I used to do. :p
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