Day 97: Dealing With The Illness

I would like to tell you everything is going good but it’s not.  We are both worried about leaving Isabella, our Great Dane.  Her ankle seems to be swelling more and more and there is nothing we can do about it. 

I started this to discuss the daily obstacles that seem to get in the way when a person tried to exercise and here I am with a dog that is very sick from cancer.  It was hard leaving her to go to the gym but our vet said we had time.  We didn’t want to sacrifice our daily routine when all Isabella does is sleep. 

We hit they gym.

Treadmills all the way around.  Both Kelly and I hit them, she doing the routine that her trainer wants her to do, me, making it up as I go along.

I have been working on getting my heart rate up and toyed around with different setting for four to five minute intervals.

First I tried 4mph at a 4 incline.  That got my heart rate up to 147.  Next I tried a 6mph at a 6 incline and that got my heart rate up to 157bmp.  Lastly I set the incline to 13 and walked it at 3.5 mph, oddly enough this got my heart rate up to 160bpm and held it there for four minutes. 

My muscles though the back of my legs, hamstrings and gluts, all the way up the middle of my back burned and struggled to maintain that pace.  I was huffing and puffing harder than setting the speed to 7mph on a 0 incline. 

Afterwards we hurried home to make sure Bella was okay.  She was, at least as well as an almost eight year old giant breed with cancer could do.

Daily Recap:

Matt: 5 minutes stair master 35 minutes treadmill 5 minutes row machine

Kelly : 5 minutes stair master 30 minutes tread mill 5 minutes stair master 5 minutes row machine