Showing posts with label workout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label workout. Show all posts

Wednesday, December 24, 2008

Workout Day 3

This is the third consecutive day I've worked out. Before now, if I did work out, it was sporadic, but not anymore. From now on, I'm going to try and workout just about every day. Tomorrow being Christmas, I will make an exception, but come Thursday, it's back to the gym. Another good thing is I'm drinking more water... in fact, I've only had water or milk since Monday evening. As for what I'm doing, these past three days have been a mix of cardio and weights, with some crunches thrown in to try and defeat my belly. But I think I'm going to start doing weights every other day, just because I've noticed that doing weights every day (and this has only been three days) makes it harder to do them the following day, which I guess means I need to let my muscles rest. I'm still going to do cardio every day, but it seems that mostly works my legs. So I'm also going to do crunches every day, but I'm going to try and do more, spaced throughout the day.

Tuesday, December 23, 2008

Workout Update

So my second official day of working out. Surprisingly, spending an hour at the gym's not as hard as I thought it'd be. Of course, I still don't completely know what I should be doing... and to make things worse, I get home only to be conscripted into making buckeyes (like Reese's, but better!). Hopefully, I'll avoid the temptation... but I dunno, these are like, once a year treats. Who the hell passes something like that up?
Still, once the buckeye assembly is complete, I'm going to do research. I really need to know what would be the best course of action in burning a lot of fat, without getting too big.

Enemy Spotted!

The enemy? My gut. I don't know how bad off I am when it comes to my weight. I know I'm overweight, heck, maybe even obese. And it's no wonder. Most of my life since, say, age 11, has been sedentary. And since starting college this past fall, things have just gotten worse. As it stands I'm 6 feet tall, and a hefty 245 pounds.
So, after some inspiration from Glowing Face Man, and the fact that the apartments I live at have a free gym (small, but free, and rarely used by other tenants), I've decided to start working out.
Today (or really, yesterday) wasn't the first time ever going, but it's the first time I'm counting.
So, what am I doing on these workouts? Well at the gym I use there are two treadmills, a stationary bike, and two of those things that look like skis. there are also some weight machines.
Mostly so far, I've favored the stationary bike and ski things. Treadmills just scare me for some reason, I can't say way, but every time I've gotten on one, I've felt as if I were in danger.
So, when it comes to today, I spent 20 minutes on the ski thing, 5 minutes on the stationary bike, and about 15, 20 minutes with weights.
In the future, my workouts will probably be more focused, more planned out. But for now, I'm just going to keep going. The hardest part of working out isn't the labor, it's showing up, being motivated. And I think I have that down.