Last 4 Weeks!

I’m now in my 9^th week and I can’t believe time is flying so fast. It’s good and it’s bad.  Good because I’m finally starting to see the weight come off and I can really notice the changes.  It’s bad in the sense that I still have a ways to go if I want to hit the targets I’ve set for myself.

Upperbody workout day.  I changed my exercises and I’m now doing the bench press.  I always think of it as the big boy’s exercise and here I am doing it.  Well maybe not as strong as the other guys in the gym but I’ll get there eventually.  It’s hard when you start a new series of weights to determine what the proper levels should be.  Clearly today on the bench I was way over my head.  Way too heavy!

I have to admit I was not looking forward to the scale today.  Although I had gone to brunch on Saturday, I was fairly well behaved but on Sunday, friends and I ended up at the Olive Garden.  Those damn breadsticks!  Yeah I know it was only one day but would it show on the scale?  The good news… I did not gain weight!  I was actually down 2 pounds!

I wasn’t quite sure what cardio I was going to do for this 4 weeks.  I was worried that if I did the ellipitical I would not get as much benefit as I do on the treadmill or stairmaster so I was hesitant to try.  When I got to the gym, lucky for me I didn’t have to get on it.  All the machines were either broken or occupied.

So I set myself up on my old standard fallback….. the treadmill.  Knowing where I was since my last visit to old faithful, I hopped on and increase my intensity one up from the day before. Wow! I finally reached a pace that I couldn’t maintain.  What was I to do? I couldn’t quit and I needed to complete my 20 minutes.

I decided to alternate the new intense running pace with levels of steep hills.  First cycle run, second cycle hill, third cycle run and fourth hill.  When I got to level 10, I ran at the fastest speed I’ve ever tried.  Let me tell you…that was a killer!