My legs feel like they’re going to fall off and my head feels like it’s going to evaporate!
I think it’s fairly obvious that I’m a geek who, for various reasons at a young age, never really enjoyed the whole ‘exercise’ thing. I’ve never enjoyed sport (rather hated it) and preferred rather to tinker with equipment or sit down in front of the tv watching Star Trek and Stargate.
After all that time, eh, not really well spent I have to consider that my life requires me to change my habits. So, I spent a decent amount on an unlimited gym membership. Today was my inauguration.
Maybe it’s all that sitting down and working on code the past year, but I’m sure that I’m a little out of shape. My usual heart rate of 58 was up at 71 (nerves?) and my blood pressure was a little high (supposedly thanks to the fact of large amounts of caffeine, walking to the gym and stress). They even took my height and weight so they could figure out my Body Mass Index. My 1.72m body was a little high in the charts, but hasn’t really changed since the last time I went to the gym a few years ago. Still, it was high and needs to be taken down.
Here’s where the interesting stuff happened.
Of course, the best way to get your weight down is cardio. So I was taken to treadmills, cross trainers, rowing machines and cycling machines. That was an stimulating experience - especially thanks to the fact I didn’t know my body could produce that much sweat!
When I’m swimming, I feel the heat build up in my face quite a bit. It’s understood and doesn’t effect me much. However, since the gym isn’t underwater every last minute of the machine was hard work. My face felt like it was going to melt and with the amount of sweat, seemed like it was. I got my heart rate up to a decent 180bpm (which is supposedly 20 beats higher than the ‘fat burning zone’ and 3x higher than my resting rate) and when I finally came out I could definitely feel the warmth and pull in the legs, and the fact I had to re-hydrate myself every 20 minutes showed how much it was taking out of me.
There were some other exercises too - not too much hard, but the weights were included too. I don’t much like weights.
By the time I left the gym my clothes seemed like I’d been swimming in them, my body felt good (but capable of rest) an I was still sweating buckets on the way home.
So, again on Tuesday?
