Enough bellyaching! I went to the gym on both weekend days and here is the breakdown:
Saturday - weights, abs only. Abs really fought me hard and did not want to crunch. I even cramped them up somehow. A cramp in the ab region is not fun, I didn't know how to relax them. I just bent backwards a little and they were ok but I stopped. You won this round abs!
Sunday - I did the eliptical trainer while watching football. I used the machine with handles like a cross country skiing thing. I did the workout in the three minute increments so for 3 minutes I used no hands, for the next three minutes I grabbed the non-moving handles in the middle of the machine that take your pulse and for three minutes I used the swinging handles.
It made the 30 minutes go by fast. I like this concept of micro goals. On the treadmill, I use the same system - 3 minutes fast and 2 minutes slow, etc.
This blogging does influence how I did. I ate sensibly and exercised on both days so that I could honestly blog about it. I thought of a few things I would like to add and even a new invention:
How about a scale that tracks your weight loss without actually telling you your weight. So the first time you step on it, you push a button to tell it that this is your starting weight. When you weigh again, it will say "-1 lbs" so just your weight loss (or gain) but not the starting number and no math to do.
I also want to add a graph showing weight loss with the same concept. No starting number, just the progression of loss.
Wow! I added a picture. Yes! Give me an H, a T, a M, a L. Anyway, this chart sh0ws progress without seeing the y axis and that number glaring at you.
Now all I need to do is either invent the scale I was talking about or actually step on a "regular" scale and start tracking. Next week's goal - get on a scale.
