I am not that sore... what the heck?

Sorry I didn't post anything yesterday, I was wrapped up with school work. I have one week to go until I finish this semester. I just did a long walk after school (maybe 2.5 miles) since I had a long day and needed to decompress.  I figure a long walk without the dogs is much better than stuffing my face with extra cheese extra pepperoni extra large pizza like I was sorely tempted to do.  Instead I had a salad with a 6 ounce piece of teriyaki steak. And a glass of scotch, I figured I was allowed one not so great thing for me.

Today I awoke around 8:30, had a sensible breakfast and coffee then went to the gym again. I was as sore as that I was going to be after Wednesday's workout, I am not saying that my legs aren't a little stiff, but not as debilitating as I thought it was going to be.  So I decided to stick with the lower impact machines today.  I did 25 minutes on the bike (including cool down) and 30 minutes on the elliptical machine (also including cool down) You might wonder how I was able to spend that long on the machine, easy... Hit the fat burning program on the bike and it keeps the program at optimum fat burning heart rate.

At 35, that puts it about 125-132 bpm, so I tried to keep my heart rate near that range. Its not extremely difficult to keep it at that level so I figured I will try this level for the next couple of weeks then start working on increasing my heart rate to 140 or so which is at the Cardio level. In 2 weeks I will add circuit training with weights into the mix.  I will start go 4 times a week at first then try to get it to 5 times a week. I will see how it goes.

That reminds me, I need to spend some time fixing up my bike so that I can start taking it around town instead of driving.  Before anyone calls me a tree-hugging liberal (Trees around here would probably break if someone my size was to hug them) I want to being able to bike to school next fall rather than drive so Candace can use the car during the days I go to school and not have to either drop me off or be stuck at home.  Anyone got any good links on DIY bike repairs?

That's all I have for now... Until later...