Today was outright hard! It’s after 9 pm, and I’ve still got a few things to do to finish the challenge. We had some work deadlines that pushed me out some out of necessity, as they all needed to ship today. Morning workout was on time, with Legs Day! Had a number of new exercises again today that I had to look up and figure out last minute, so that took me a little extra time. Also, my new Least Favorite Exercise is the Bulgarian Split Squats…hard on my knees so I’m going to have to watch that. Once done, I went straight to work until the work was done!
From there I went straight to my cardio workout (7 hours later). The cardio workout kicked my butt a little…ended up with 14.37 miles on the bike. After the warm-up, they had reduced level runs, starting with 2 rounds at 800 meters, followed by 4 rounds of 400 meters, 5 rounds of 200 meters, 6 rounds of 100 meters, and a 400 meter cool down walk. With my triple the distance calculations, I was at 2 rounds of 1.4 miles each, followed by 4 rounds of 0.7 miles, 5 rounds of 0.4 miles, 6 rounds of 0.2 miles, and a 0.7 mile cool down. All told it took me 52 minutes to get through it all with all the scheduled breaks in between rounds. Was quite tired by the time I was done, soaked in sweat all down my back and half way down my chest. Honestly felt really good to do it, and to know I can do that much!
Didn’t get as much reading in as I would have liked today, but everything else will get done tonight and I’ll just have to get caught up tomorrow!
One bonus, talked to the gym owner today and they are setting up a flat bench in the near future in the upstairs areas which will make some things considerably easier for me! Loved to hear that! They also say they are opening another room upstairs and will be putting some other equipment in there as well as it’s getting a little crowded in the afternoons in the weight room downstairs. Loving the sounds of this, and can’t wait to see it open up! I just love the Extra Bonuses From Kind People!