8/7/13
After the Zumba fiasco thought it safer to stick to machines. The safety of the sidebars provided reassurance should at any time I lose balance and fall flat on my butt (I suppose it would bounce me back up). So on to the elliptical I go challenging myself to crossramp (incline) of 20, that's the max. You see, the higher the crossramp the higher the angle of the pedals which means it works different muscles groups like the upper thighs, hips and buttock. (here we go with the buttock again) after 5 minutes of high incline, I go back down for a minute, then up again just to keep me busy playing with the buttons on the control board.
Anything to keep me entertained is welcomed at this time. My eyes are fixated on the "time lapsed" counter and the higher it goes up the longer I've been enduring torture. The higher it goes up and the sooner I can get off. The goal here is to get off as fast as you get on. NOT...
However 15 minutes of maximum incline which had brought my heart rate to 153 was all I could take before I would drown in my own private pool of sweat.
What a better way to cool off than a slow walk on the treadmill. I find the only available treadmill between 2 runners on each side of me. The one to my left is watching anime on his Ipad, oblivious of his surroundings that's good for me as I like to be ignored. The one on my right is an older Hispanic gentleman who was quite concerned with my workout progress and could not stop looking at my control board. I take a look at his and see that he's on medium incline and a speed of 4 and had been on the machine for 44 minutes. Way to go Cynthia, you managed to feel like a turtle among cheetas. I step it up a bit, ha I'll show him, I push the incline up to the max which is 20. It takes one minute for me to huff and puff and wish he would get off already. I up my speed to 2, yes 2 is fast enough for me, and I go at it for 3 minutes. Oh lord, this is boring, tiring, need stimulation here, I play with the buttons up and down. High incline/slow speed, low incline/increase speed. Entertaining to say the least, up and down passed the time until I burned 100 calories in 20 minutes. What??? just 100 calories? I can breathe 100 calories.
There's always tomorrow...
Cynthia
After the Zumba fiasco thought it safer to stick to machines. The safety of the sidebars provided reassurance should at any time I lose balance and fall flat on my butt (I suppose it would bounce me back up). So on to the elliptical I go challenging myself to crossramp (incline) of 20, that's the max. You see, the higher the crossramp the higher the angle of the pedals which means it works different muscles groups like the upper thighs, hips and buttock. (here we go with the buttock again) after 5 minutes of high incline, I go back down for a minute, then up again just to keep me busy playing with the buttons on the control board.
Anything to keep me entertained is welcomed at this time. My eyes are fixated on the "time lapsed" counter and the higher it goes up the longer I've been enduring torture. The higher it goes up and the sooner I can get off. The goal here is to get off as fast as you get on. NOT...
However 15 minutes of maximum incline which had brought my heart rate to 153 was all I could take before I would drown in my own private pool of sweat.
What a better way to cool off than a slow walk on the treadmill. I find the only available treadmill between 2 runners on each side of me. The one to my left is watching anime on his Ipad, oblivious of his surroundings that's good for me as I like to be ignored. The one on my right is an older Hispanic gentleman who was quite concerned with my workout progress and could not stop looking at my control board. I take a look at his and see that he's on medium incline and a speed of 4 and had been on the machine for 44 minutes. Way to go Cynthia, you managed to feel like a turtle among cheetas. I step it up a bit, ha I'll show him, I push the incline up to the max which is 20. It takes one minute for me to huff and puff and wish he would get off already. I up my speed to 2, yes 2 is fast enough for me, and I go at it for 3 minutes. Oh lord, this is boring, tiring, need stimulation here, I play with the buttons up and down. High incline/slow speed, low incline/increase speed. Entertaining to say the least, up and down passed the time until I burned 100 calories in 20 minutes. What??? just 100 calories? I can breathe 100 calories.
There's always tomorrow...
Cynthia
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