We Have Treadmill
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voxwomanAnd I also have blisters on my feet. From 30 minutes on the thing. Sigh.
They will callus over (like the last 4 times I started getting active this year) and I will attempt to find some different footwear, but I think I just have to "power through" this phase.
I've done an hour today on it in 2 30-minute sessions, and I'm now wearing my heart-rate monitor when I walk because the pulse rate bar on the machine itself is wildly innacurate (says 175 when it's 140, for example... and according to the manual for the heart rate monitor my max rate should be no higher than 163 (220 minus my age), and I'm not supposed to work out at more than 90% of my max in any case (which is 151 bpm). I have discovered that I break a sweat at around 135, which is solidly in the aerobic zone, and I can maintain that pulse rate for a while without feeling breathless, but I do feel like it's work.
Once I remind myself how to work the stopwatch feature on the heart monitor, I will figure out how long it takes me to return to a "normal" heart rate after pushing it up high - that's an indication of how "in shape" you are. My resting heart rate is too high right now as well. At the end of my second workout today, I actually jogged for maybe 5 minutes, and pushed my heart rate up to 153 or so, just for a couple of minutes, to see what it feels like.
Walking on the treadmill is weird and noisy and when you stop it takes a while to feel "normal" (like the room's not moving). Not quite vertigo, but similar. It's certainly different than moving in real space, and I will have to add that back into my fitness routine at some point (like on nice days and such). I do like the speakers that plug into my iPod so I don't have to wear earbuds, except when I don't want to really bother the family.
I think I can manage the 1 hour of exercize per day, that was one of my goals for this year. Whether I can get into shape for auditions for "Gypsy"and drop my weight to under 200 pounds before the end of the year is another matter entirely.
They will callus over (like the last 4 times I started getting active this year) and I will attempt to find some different footwear, but I think I just have to "power through" this phase.
I've done an hour today on it in 2 30-minute sessions, and I'm now wearing my heart-rate monitor when I walk because the pulse rate bar on the machine itself is wildly innacurate (says 175 when it's 140, for example... and according to the manual for the heart rate monitor my max rate should be no higher than 163 (220 minus my age), and I'm not supposed to work out at more than 90% of my max in any case (which is 151 bpm). I have discovered that I break a sweat at around 135, which is solidly in the aerobic zone, and I can maintain that pulse rate for a while without feeling breathless, but I do feel like it's work.
Once I remind myself how to work the stopwatch feature on the heart monitor, I will figure out how long it takes me to return to a "normal" heart rate after pushing it up high - that's an indication of how "in shape" you are. My resting heart rate is too high right now as well. At the end of my second workout today, I actually jogged for maybe 5 minutes, and pushed my heart rate up to 153 or so, just for a couple of minutes, to see what it feels like.
Walking on the treadmill is weird and noisy and when you stop it takes a while to feel "normal" (like the room's not moving). Not quite vertigo, but similar. It's certainly different than moving in real space, and I will have to add that back into my fitness routine at some point (like on nice days and such). I do like the speakers that plug into my iPod so I don't have to wear earbuds, except when I don't want to really bother the family.
I think I can manage the 1 hour of exercize per day, that was one of my goals for this year. Whether I can get into shape for auditions for "Gypsy"and drop my weight to under 200 pounds before the end of the year is another matter entirely.
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Date: 2010-11-21 03:12 pm (UTC)Maybe you should have a movie of a road in front of you and stare into the screen. It might just convince your inner ear that all is well with the (non-)movement ;-).
Also: Can't you just run in socks?
Congrats on really doing this, of course! Your heart will thank you in the end :-D.
(The weight will be more impressed with less intake, sadly. You'd be devastated to know how little you actually burn with these hours of torture...)