We are going on six days of continuous rain and it is
really starting to wear on me. Every day
it is steel gray skies and pouring rain.
I am starting to hear that song in my head from the movie, The
Crow, the lyrics are: “It can’t rain all
the time.” Apparently it can and has
been. According to Weather.com it won’t
stop until Thursday.
This morning when it stopped Kelly and I were pretty
excited. We threw on our running gear; I
was all amped up for a three mile jog.
In the fifty feet it takes to get to the bottom of our driveway it
started raining again. It’s enough to
make you want to scream. We settled for
plan “B.” Twenty minutes later we
arrived at our gym and walked in the rain through the parking lot to get in.
I decided to change it up some since starting, stopping,
and changing exercises is said to burn more calories. I combined the treadmill and weight workout
dividing my time between the two. It
also helped with treadmill boredom.
I ran for 10 minutes cranking the pace up to 7 miles an
hour for several minutes at a time. After
the first 10 minutes I worked my shoulders and chest. After the second treadmill secession I worked
my back and triceps. Finally I did my
biceps and let me tell you I was spent at the end of an hour. I was truly exhausted.
In addition I feel like I have been burning calories all
afternoon. Several times I got really
hungry.
Our gym has a section called Cardio Theater. They play a movie on a big screen with
booming surround sound like you were in a theater except there is no were to
sit. The darkened room is filled with
bikes, treadmills, and elliptical machines.
That is where Kelly went today and she split her time as well between
the elliptical and treadmill.
I have no idea how many calories I burned today but I am
willing to bet a thousand easily. By
dinner time my stomach was completely empty despite the big lunch we had to
help combat all the exercise.
With Kelly now seeing a personal trainer and their discussion
on diet I have thinking about mine. I
don’t think I get enough calories during the day. The ubiquitous “They” always
say breakfast should be the largest meal of the day and most days I don’t think
I get three hundred calories. Sometimes
breakfast is just a banana. I know that is less than 200 calories.
Over the next few weeks I am going to ramp up my
breakfast intake to determine if that will help me lose weight. I have been stuck at the same weight for a
while now and I know I have to change something up. Diet may be just the thing.
Daily recap:
Matt 1 hour at the gym switching between cardio and
weights
Kelly 1 hour at the gym switching between the elliptical
machine and treadmill
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