OK…  This is becoming a habit!  I am actually exercising every day (almost) without thinking too much about it.  🙂  I must write more so I can remember the workouts better.  Today, I took a video “spinning” class…  It was great!  I started off with a warm up to soft music with a very “fit” guy on his bike guiding me through a meditation type warm up and ended up riding through the clouds to new age music with his soft, encouraging voice saying “keep going” and “your doing great”…  I think I am in love with this guy!  😉  I felt kind of silly and looked over my shoulder a few times to see if anyone was watching me enjoy his soothing voice.  However, the groove I was in was soon eclipsed by the pain in my butt…  I did not have any riding (padded) shorts on so the mounting agony forced me to say goodbye to “Mr Wonderful” and move to the recumbent after 25 minutes.  Maybe I’ll get some serious padding and try a real spinning class soon at the other gym.

So, I finished with another 25 minutes on the recumbent and kept the Watts between 233 and 245 with the heart rate varying between 137 and 145.  Also, I did 3 sets of 10 reps on all the upper body machines which are set up quite nicely to get through quickly.  I had a little shoulder pain from the chest/shoulder reps but I can reduce the pain significantly by lifting more slowly and doing a few less reps.  Let’s see if I can recall the previous week:

Yesterday (4-26), Hard skating for 45 minutes at the ice rink with a few rests.  (Training for a return to ice hockey soon)

Tuesday (4-25), Elliptical machine for 45 minutes.

Monday (4-24), Elliptical machine for 45 minutes.

Friday (4-21), Went surfing for 2 hours.  Lots of paddling but not sustained heart rate training.

Thurs (4-20), Elliptical machine for 45 minutes.  3 sets of 10 reps on most of the upper body machines.

NEVER QUIT!!!