Thursday's workout

Cardio workout
Treadmill for 35 min. After warming up, I did intervals, running 1 minute and resting 2. I ran at the pace of 4.8 and the resting walk was at 3.6. 4 jogging intervals and then I came down gradually.

Strength training
Lat pull downs: 90 lbs. ; 12 reps /2 sets
Seated row: 90 lbs. ; 12 reps /2 sets
Chest press: 90 lbs. ; 12 reps /2 sets
Shoulder press: 90 lbs. ; 12 reps /2 sets
Leg press: 118.5 lbs. ; 12 reps /2 sets
Chest flies: 70? lbs. ; 12 reps /2 sets

Core strengthening
Reverse crunches with feet on ball: 12 reps / 2 sets
Ab crunches: 25 reps / 2 sets
In and outs : 12 reps /2 sets
Plank: 20-25 secs. / 2 sets

Stretches

Now I need to do some more walking/biking this weekend to keep this up. Monday our trainer is back. Will we be ready?

Month of May

May is a crazy month for me. May 1 is E's birthday. May 8 is our anniversary. 22 years this year. May 10 is Mother's Day. May 14 is the anniversary of my mom's death. May 24 is my birthday. 46 is going to be a great year.

working out

Monday, I didn't feel like doing a full workout. I wasn't feeling all that great. But instead of just sitting at my desk, I decided to go for a walk outside in the beautiful weather we're having right now. That's a pretty big change for me. Not all that long ago, I would have just sat at my desk over lunch and read.

Tuesday, I still wasn't extremely motivated but I made myself go to the fitness center. I promised myself I didn't have to really push it. So I did a rolling hills workout on the stationary bike. 30 minutes at L2-L5. I tried to keep my RPM up to about 70-75.
Afterwards I decided I needed to do some strength training since it's been about a week when I worked out with weights.

Lat pulldown: 90 lbs : 12 reps / 2 sets
Seated row: 90 lbs : 12 reps / 2 sets
Shoulder press: 90 lbs : 12 reps / 2 sets
Leg press: 110 lbs : 12 reps / 2 sets
Chest press: 90 lbs : 12 reps / 2 sets
Ball squats : 10 reps - these are killing my knees so I thought I'd better stop
Chest flies on the ball: 6 lbs weights - 12 reps / 1 set
Straight arm : 6 lbs weights - 12 reps / 1 set

I did some core workouts too.
Reverse crunches ; feet on ball ; 12 reps / 2 sets
Ab crunches : 25 reps / 2 sets
In and outs : 12 reps / 2 sets
Plank : 20-25 secs. / 2 sets
Seal

Stretches

Not too bad for not wanting to push myself. 8-)

Sunday bike ride

Yesterday I biked about 13-14 miles on the new bike. It went so very sweetly. Gears shifted smoothly. No clanking or feeling like they were going to pop out of gear. We went biking on the Fred Meijer's Heartland trail out of Greenville (well Sidney really). It was so quiet and peaceful, not a lot of bikers unlike the White Pine trail near our house. E who just turned 6 did really well the first 4 miles. We stopped for lunch and then the big guys and I went on for another couple of miles. We turned back and met T and E on the trail. E had some problems with the last 2-3 miles. Pretty good for a kid who's only been biking on a two-wheeler for about a month.
I could really tell that the cardio training is working. My legs were hardly tired at all at the end of the day. I was working on a gear 4-5 quite easily. I did some sprints where I got all gears engaged as well. I did 3 or 4 sprints over the ride.
Weather was glorious. I've got a bit of a sun burn but not too bad. Can't wait to get out there again.