It seems to me that the day after I do tread milling, my body just wants to refuse to go again the next day. Hubby left this morning and my brain and body debated getting up. My body said Please just give me this extra hour of sleep. My brain said get up and go, you'll feel better for it. I almost fell back to sleep, it was very close when my hand reached out and turned the light on. I went and brushed my teeth and got dressed and down I went. My brain was right. I feel sooo much better now that I have done my exercising. I feel ready for the day.
So today I went a distance of 2.69 and burnt 325 cals. My heart rate topped out at 143 bpm. This week I have been adding 30 seconds to each of my runs. So I am running a total of 7.5 mins out of the 40 mins that I go for. Next week I hope to add another 30 seconds to the time so that I would be running for 9 mins.
I did look yesterday for optimal heart rates for losing weight. It was a little confusing because a lot of websites said it depends on the intensity of the work out. Well what the heck does that mean? I feel like mine is pretty intense but a lot of people would be able to do it with ease. So I don't know. According to one site I am in the good heart range for weight loss. Of course that is based on the intensity of the workout, so I am just going with the lowest intensity.
Anyways that's it for today. I'll do this again tomorrow. See you then!
I would think that if you want to get the most out of your work out you should take your resting heart rate and then your goal should be to increase your heart rate by 20% for 20 minutes. But I could be wrong - that is just what I remember from this big fitness I buff I used to know.
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