My New Magicakal Name

[cadfael]

Interesting workout today. I started on the cross-training machine wanting a 25 minute exercise. I found that to be very difficult. I couldn't get my heart rate above 107 without a great deal of difficulty. I decided after 6 minutes to stop and do my anaerobic workout and return to the cross trainer later.

Did the anaerobic stuff and came back and the workout was teriffic, with a heart rate over 140 without too much stress.

My immediate goal is to get back from the 170 I am now (was 180) down to 150. My ultimate goal is to get back to 135 pounds of rompin' stompin' sex.

When that happens I will change my magickal to something really masculine, like, Biff. Whadda ya think?

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Re: Ooooo, King Stag...

[sabrinamari.livejournal.com]

Your routine sounds very good! You're warming up, stretching to prevent injury, then doing weights and then cooling down. That's almost ideal for a weight workout, based on what I've read. Perfect would be adding in another short stretching session after your final cooldown.

Do you also have days where you do only cardio, or do you usually mix it up and do a little of both? I'm not sure what the crosstraining machine is, exactly. Can you tell me about it?

I'm tinkering with my routine now. It changes over the course of the year. I just finished up about 3 weeks of only cardio, stretching and food tracking, and now I'm adding weights into the mix too.

I find I can't keep up on everything if I try to start working on everything at once after a period of few workouts.

This week is planned to look like this:

Monday: 15 minutes on the elliptical trainer to warm up very well and avoid injury (I'm still not at full strength on my left hamstring from an injury that happened over a year ago).

Weights: Legs, back, Abs and Biceps
I'm concentrating on low weights and doing no more than 2 sets per exercise and 2-3 exercises per body part right now.

I'll do this again one more time this week.

Tomorrow and one other day this week, I'll do 15 minute warm up on the ET (this is twice as long as most people take; I am really concerned about averting injuries)then go to weights again, doing
Chest, Shoulders, Abs and Triceps and using the same approach for the number of exercises and sets per exercise.

That's four days of weights.

Then I'll do between 2 and 3 days of pure cardio. One of those days will be an interval training day, probably on the elliptical trainer. On that day I'll do 6 1-minute intervals as hard as I can interspersed by 2-minutes slower intervals.

As I need additional rest days, I will add them in.

That's the routine for now. It will shift as my needs shift. I'm trying to speed up my metabolism and add some muscle right now, and do some fat burning as well. Later, I plan to add in yoga and expand the stretching segment while cutting the weights back to 2-3 times per week.

That will be more of a maintenance schedule.

We'll see how it goes. This kind of intense schedule necessitates good quality, sufficient sleep, good quality eating and a lower stress lifestyle. We'll see if I can do all that critical infrastructural work to allow me to keep this schedule in place!