Thursday, June 11, 2009

Row, Row, Row your boat....

I tend to get bored pretty easily.  After doing this cardio every day now, even though I change it up a bit and do HIIT one day and LISS another, it still gets boring.  I stumbled upon the rowing machine tonight at the gym.

I did my usual 20 minutes on the stairclimber, increasing the resistance as I went, then hopped on the elliptical and increased the level as I went along for 20 minutes too.  Then I saw this girl on the rowing machine.  I had never even paid attention to it before.  I thought I’d give it a try if she was finished by the time I was.

She was.

It kicked my butt.

Big time.

I made the mistake of getting on the thing and rowing with all my might right off the bat.  Needless to say, by the end of the first two minutes, I thought my arms were going to fall off.  I pushed through it though, but I did slow down.  I managed to get through 1350 meters in 10 minutes.  I have no idea how good (or bad, rather) that is.  But I really enjoyed it.  It’ll give me a little something to throw in the mix.

I became bored of the treadmill a long time ago.  I can’t remember the last time I actually used the thing.  I have to find some new ways to do cardio so that I stay interested.  Think I’ll look up some things.

Scales are trying to drift back up.  I hate it when it does that.  Any time I have a really good loss, the number climbs back up for a few days.  I really have to stop weighing like 5 or 6 times a day.  I know the number doesn’t even matter that much.  I hate that water weight can have such an impact! 

All in all though, I’m holding my own.

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