12 September, 2017
WHMP: 12 September 2017
Today was my first day back at the gym after a week off while I was laying low with my cold.
So hard or go home right?
Started off with my standard 20 minutes on the cross trainer but in a moment of weakness/stupidity/determination I selected a somewhat torturous random profile and was channeling Mum’s thoughts of it being the torture chamber.
Calories burnt – 303, average heart rate – 134
That was a decent start to my workout. I then moved on over to the stair master. Well to think last time I attempted this gym business 4 years ago I couldn’t even use the stair master because I didn’t physically fit between the arm pieces to where I am now. A fortnight ago I decided to give this machine a crack and managed to do 3 consecutive minutes. Today I worked hard and pushed myself a little bit further than I was comfortable with and ended up doing 15 consecutive minutes on that blasted thing! I mean really 15 minutes, this alone I am crazy proud of!
Calories burnt – 298, average heart rate – 162
Last but no means the least I set myself up on the espresso bikes. I was looking through the list of tracks and I was looking at around the 7-8km mark and I found a track called City Express. Oh this sounds like a good quick track so I set it to do one lap and off I pedalled. Holy crap was I wrong!!
The hills profile on this track was ridiculous and was steeper than any track I have attempted before with the incline getting up to a 43% incline. The only thing express about this track is the express rate in which my heart rate skyrocketed! But I started this awful track and I will not quit, I will finish it no matter how long it takes me or how difficult it is!!
Almost smack on 30 minutes I finished the track.
Calories – 500, average heart rate – 146
So that is my personal best for gym performance today….1,101 calories burnt!
I am feeling damn proud of how hard I have worked and that I am pushing myself every time I go a little bit more outside of my comfort zone to work a little bit harder! But man on man did I need some deodorant and a long now shower!!
I came home and was starving and all I wanted was bacon and eggs but decided that I didn’t want standard bacon and eggs so decided to make myself a breakfast Frittata instead.
I then went to get dressed finally in some warmed weather clothes since for once we had some glorious sunshine today for the first time in a long long time! However it took me a longggg time to find an outfit and in the process of trying to get changed I ended up filling up get another bag of clothes with destination vinnies!!