Day 26
Today's Notes:
This is the first Saturday in a long while where I didn't have some sort of ridiculous not-chosen-by-me housekeeping thing to do. And it ruled.
I went to that power class thing at the gym - it's pretty intense. I have always been adverse to group training in gyms due to the high level of cheerleader-instructor-annoyance mixed with the meat-market mentality of most people in gym classes. But this one is taught by the owner (James) and his wife (Susan) and is NO JOKE. They beat your ass. So the people who show up tend to be pretty intense as well.
I also got to break out the superbadass Orbea Onyx and take it around for a while (for those who don't keep up with cycling or care about it, it's a bicycle, and it's my baby). THAT felt good. Without getting into too much detail, last year my cycling training - something I find a lot of joy in - was cut short due to an endeavor I chose to undertake. That endeavor lead to probably the most unhealthy period I've had in my life in, oh, 7 years. So it felt good to revisit something I love dearly... Especially with this new endeavor of trying out for the Georgia Force, which is something I'm growing to love equally.
The Workouts:
(You can read descriptions for all of these exercises here)
Morning Session (weights + aerobic stuff)
Insane Power class at the gym... It's pretty intense:
Squats - 30 @ 150lbs slow burn
Lunges - 25 each leg @ 150 lbs slow
Lateral Shoulder Raise - 30 @ 70 lbs
Military Press - 40 @ 150 lbs
Bent-over Rows - 30 @ 70 lbs
Chest Press (somewhat like bench, but on one of those Reebok Step thingers) - 30 @ 150 lbs
Tricep curl - 30 @ 70 lbs
Bicep curl - 50 @ 60 lbs (slow)
Abwork - Planks, crunches, situps, more planks, hip lifts... I hate this class.
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Evening Session:
Cycling - 20 miles, interval mixed (supporting Andrea's marathon training run of 9 miles)
(the way I do this, I ride with her for a bit, then head down a side road and pound the pedals as hard as I can down and back. I get about double her distance when I do that).
HOW I FEEL:
Had a GREAT day today. It's always special when I get to spend an entire day with my wife doing stuff we like doing, instead of, say, cutting up trees and installing stoves and whatever.
It's been since October of 2006 since I was on my bike for any distance whatsoever... The weather plus the cycling was just plain inspiring. It felt GREAT to go 35 miles an hour with the wind and the cool breeze and the smell of the trees and grasses as I passed them. Plus it ruled to ride behind my wife and stare at her ass... I mean, uh... Support her. In her run. Yeah.
This is the first Saturday in a long while where I didn't have some sort of ridiculous not-chosen-by-me housekeeping thing to do. And it ruled.
I went to that power class thing at the gym - it's pretty intense. I have always been adverse to group training in gyms due to the high level of cheerleader-instructor-annoyance mixed with the meat-market mentality of most people in gym classes. But this one is taught by the owner (James) and his wife (Susan) and is NO JOKE. They beat your ass. So the people who show up tend to be pretty intense as well.
I also got to break out the superbadass Orbea Onyx and take it around for a while (for those who don't keep up with cycling or care about it, it's a bicycle, and it's my baby). THAT felt good. Without getting into too much detail, last year my cycling training - something I find a lot of joy in - was cut short due to an endeavor I chose to undertake. That endeavor lead to probably the most unhealthy period I've had in my life in, oh, 7 years. So it felt good to revisit something I love dearly... Especially with this new endeavor of trying out for the Georgia Force, which is something I'm growing to love equally.
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The Workouts:
(You can read descriptions for all of these exercises here)
Morning Session (weights + aerobic stuff)
Insane Power class at the gym... It's pretty intense:
Squats - 30 @ 150lbs slow burn
Lunges - 25 each leg @ 150 lbs slow
Lateral Shoulder Raise - 30 @ 70 lbs
Military Press - 40 @ 150 lbs
Bent-over Rows - 30 @ 70 lbs
Chest Press (somewhat like bench, but on one of those Reebok Step thingers) - 30 @ 150 lbs
Tricep curl - 30 @ 70 lbs
Bicep curl - 50 @ 60 lbs (slow)
Abwork - Planks, crunches, situps, more planks, hip lifts... I hate this class.
************
Evening Session:
Cycling - 20 miles, interval mixed (supporting Andrea's marathon training run of 9 miles)
(the way I do this, I ride with her for a bit, then head down a side road and pound the pedals as hard as I can down and back. I get about double her distance when I do that).
HOW I FEEL:
Had a GREAT day today. It's always special when I get to spend an entire day with my wife doing stuff we like doing, instead of, say, cutting up trees and installing stoves and whatever.
It's been since October of 2006 since I was on my bike for any distance whatsoever... The weather plus the cycling was just plain inspiring. It felt GREAT to go 35 miles an hour with the wind and the cool breeze and the smell of the trees and grasses as I passed them. Plus it ruled to ride behind my wife and stare at her ass... I mean, uh... Support her. In her run. Yeah.
posted by Joe Peacock at
4:10 PM
1 Comments:
I think I've figured out what your best motivation for keeping on track is...Andrea's ass. So, this means that she needs to take part in your training by somehow positioning her ass such that you need to do your workouts properly to see it.
;P
The nicer fall weather should also be a good motivating factor as well since it's so much easier to work out when you're not sticky and the air drier and easier to breathe.
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