03.11.08

About time for an assessment

Posted in Habit, cardiovascular, weights at 10:00 pm by satsumasalad

I’ve been doing relatively well at the gym over the last six weeks.  The lat pulldowns are too easy – I think I must have figured out the technique now, and yesterday I added 1.25kg to each side and they were still too easy.  Perhaps I’ll add 2.5kg to each side tomorrow, making a total of 25kg.

All the other weights exercises are going well.  The front/lateral raises are still really difficult.  I can get through them but the last one or two of each set I have to really work for.  But I can see the difference in my shoulders.

I’m on Level 9 (Bike Programme 1) on the bike, and the walking is OK.   I don’t do cardio every day - I warm up on the rowing machine and sometimes do some cardio after weights on weights days, and I do the cardio on the non-weights days.  This seems to be working, I seem to be getting to the gym every day and not talking myself out of it. 

The rowing is also going well – I usually average 32 strokes a minute over 4 minutes now.  Feel good about that.