Wednesday morning my leg and back injuries were feeling pretty good but I continued stretching periodically during the day. Last night I felt real good….so much so I ran some sprints…not "all out" 100% SPRINTS, I definitely did NOT run Tabata Sprints. I took it relatively easy but it sure did feel good running hard again.
I was not sure how this “plan of action” would play out. After I cooled down last night from my sprints, I still felt good. This morning, woke up and felt fantastic! No lower back nor leg pains. Performed my Yoga X routine which as you can guess…has a lot of stretching etc and I felt like a million bucks afterward.
Steve is once again stoked and “back in the saddle again”, enjoy this song from Aerosmith.
I had forgotten how great this song is...it used to be a song I'd play over and over and over....
I was going to add a picture of a rough and tough cowboy riding his horse….but when I googled the term and saw this…I had to post it....
Daily Activities
As I get closer to the end, I am really trying to watch what I eat. Not necessarily to make sure that I do not eat too much…but more so to make sure I eat enough. Therefore I am attempting to track my meal plan more closely and will try to report them daily.
Grub
Snack – pecans and blueberries
Breakfast - 3 eggs, collard greens
Early Lunch - meal replacement shake & whey protein
Late Lunch - meal replacement shake & whey protein
Dinner - 4 oz fish, chicken breast and stir fry veggies
Snack - Pecans and blueberries
Workout of the Day: Yoga X
Heart Rate Monitor – my new toy.
I purchased a new toy the other day, a heart rate monitor. I bought it to compare workouts and to see how they stacked up with each other as far as the cardio was concerned. I also wore the unit while I ran sprints last night. As I become more and more comfortable with the use of the device I’ll give more details.
Heart rate is used to determine several things including estimated calories burned during a given period of time.
** This blogging software does not handle formatted text very well. It handles Excel data even worse. I am having to "force the format", not my preferred method. Hopefully you can make sense of the info. Basically I am reporting my maximum heart rate for each routine, dividing it by 172 to arrive at the Heart Rate percentage.
------------------------Max HR------HR
Activity----------------Exercise-------%
Sprinting----------------153---------88%
Plyometrics--------------147---------85%
Arms and Shoulders------123--------75%
Notes:
1) The sprints were not “all out” 100% effort, if I had to guess I would say 90%. I was pretty close as the estimate equaled 88%.
2) Plyometrics is a P90X workout with a lot of cardio including squats and lunges.
3) Arm and Shoulders is mainly a “pulling” workout, with curls and flys the predominant activity.
4) My Maximum Heart Rate is estimated by subtracting my age from 220 which equals 172, this is a common formula for the estimate but there are other formulae.
5) Final Note: Plyometrics and Shoulder & Arms readings were taken, on days that I was still experiencing some health issues. It will be interesting to see how the data changes now that I am 100%.
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