4 posts tagged “exercise”
Well I managed to roll through another two hour session on the recumbent bike last night, racking up another 30 miles, bringing me to 90 miles in 3 days. Yay for me. Only problem is I got a late start and didn't finish until almost midnight, had to get up for work and all, and now I'm really pretty much for the most part utterly and completely crushed. I'm so damned tired. It's gonna be one of those get through the day at all costs, try not to talk to anyone days because I'm completely bushed.
I've got my 9:30 daily call coming up shortly and really I'm gonna need some coffee. I'm not switching back, just using it for it's medicinal and awakative properties.
Wow look at that, my lack of rest has ushered forth a new word... "awakative".
How the heck am I pulling this off?
1. I brought my bike inside, moved it into the laundry room. I had it in the garage and in spite of the propane heater nearly froze my butt off on a few long rides.
2. I have a 30gb video ipod. I've been rolling through Battlestar Galactica, just starting up Band of Brothers. Time flies my friends, time flies.
And as an added bonus, I run a few loads of laundry while I ride. Which means not only does the laundry get done, we aren't abandoning any loads in the washer overnight. Really it's kind of win/win/win if you ask me. I work out, the laundry gets done, and I get to watch a ton of tv.
The only downside is I've been finishing my rides around 11pm and not hitting the hay until midnight or so. Which means at the moment I'm kind of zombified. I gotta try to start as near to 7pm as possible if I'm going to keep it up because rolling out like this I gotta get some sleep.
I got an ipod for xmas I think at least two years ago, maybe three years ago. It was one of those co-operative group gift things. And I have to say I loved the darned thing. It was a pre-video, pre-photo, clickwheel ipod. Lately battery life had been getting pretty low which I could deal with by plugging it in when I got to work. I was considering ordering a new battery, pricing them out, when she finally died. The hard drive went. I'd turn it on and it'd rhythmically click over and over and after a few minutes a picture of a sad ipod would come up.
Just broke my heart. So I kind of held out hope, wishing for a new ipod for xmas but making plans to try to survive without one. My plan was to load a 1gb memory stick with music and load my iTunes at work with new music. This might have worked but they relocated me to a very small desk because they're remodeling my floor. My Mac is up on the shelf here and my headphone cord wouldn't reach.
I mean really it would but it's one of those phone type cords and I didn't want to stretch it all out and ruin the cord. The worst thing is the folks behind me are from a different team and they're really loud and always seem to be arguing about things. And the construction is going on about 20' behind me. At least they put up a wall. But the noise from the folks behind me along with the construction sounds were just way too much. I needed tunes. So I broke down and got a 30gb ipod.
It's got video and photos and all that jazz, displays album art and most importantly plays music. I'm pretty darned stoked. I plugged it in here, fired up itunes and checked out the tv shows section and was quite pleased to see the entire first season of Star Trek available. I'm kind of new to the whole Star Trek thing and I'm enjoying it quite immensely. I was watching three to four episodes each day of Next Generation while at home during vacation. Yes, big nerd.
Anyway last night I downloaded the very first episode of Star Trek and watched while I rode the recumbent bike. The episode was only ok but the pleasure of watching while riding the bike was huge. Time flew. And my workout was excellent. On the program I do I usually do 14 miles during an hour of intervals. While watching Star Trek on my new ipod I did 15.7 miles in an hour.
Really the ipod is the most perfect gadget for what it does. Of course the world can thank me for getting this now. I'm certain because I made this purchase that Apple will come out with some amazing new ipod in a week or two. My karmic sacrifice is your gain.
I can't eat any of the following:
- Potato Chips
- French Fries
- Alcohol (beer, wine, hard stuff, anything adult and good)
- Candy
- Red Meat
- Pizza
I have to limit my intake severely of the following (but again never is best):
- Coffee (I'm struggling, down to one a day and none on the weekends)
- Diet Coke (again, struggling)
I also have been told that I have to do at least 30 minutes of cardio every single day. Not sure exactly what this has to do with the lining of my stomach but whatever. I think they're aiming at bleeding off stress. Luckily I'd purchased a recumbent bike in the spring that I'd been using on and off since, so I've really kicked it in.
The good news is that in the month or so that I've been eating this way, I've lost 16 pounds. I wasn't weighing myself and the only clue I had was that my pants were falling down all the time. I'm about at the point where I can slide out of my current pants without undoing them.
