Sit back with your coffee because this is going to be a long one!
Ok, so today was cardio. I chose Press Play and threw on my Imara HRM. Worked well through the warmup and the first steady state. I hit the first interval of challenge 1, looked down at my HRM to see it reading 62 bpm. OMG! It stayed at 62-72 bpm through the entire first challenge which is about 15 min. long. Lovely. At the recovery stage I reset it and tried again. Same thing. Never got over 62 bpm. WTF? So I took it off and threw on my Polar which worked a bit better but lost my HR at certain parts of the workout.
I bid on another Imara HRM on ebay yesterday and won it. It's a different model then what I have and I got it for $30! So, I'm hoping it will work better and if it doesn't then I've only lost $30 instead of $150.
I am starting to think it's me, though. I do have an extra heart beat and my aeortic valves are not the way they should be which causes my heart to flutter. I'm wondering if these HRM's just can't make out what my heart is trying to do? I hardly feel the flutters anymore, though, so I can't figure out how the HRM can record them? I don't know.
But I didn't let this stress me out, I had an
EXCELLENT workout. My endurance running is going so well that I can't even believe it. I did the first four challenges of Press Play and then I did Challenge #3 again which is 3 - 1 min. sprints with a 1 min. recovery. I'm doing very well with my sprinting and just wanted to do that challenge again. Challenge #5 on Press Play is a 4 min. hill climb and I hate hill climbs.
Workout was 1 hr. 5 minutes. Have no clue how long I was in my zone. My treadmill showed a 452 calorie burn and I travelled 4.25 miles. I did not want to stop today, I felt so energized and that I could just keep going. But I know over an hour of cardio defeats any purpose so I made myself stop. I feel awesome right now!! Got me some assisted cardio this morning as well! TMI I know. Sorry!
Hope you all have a great day. We got rain all night long. WTF? But now we are getting snow and it's coming down hard!
Also, here are my planned eats for today. I won't be on much so I thought I'd post it now:
M1: ON whey protein shake & Chocolate Fudge BSN w/ 1/2 c. oats (post workout and I was STARVING)
M2: 1 whole egg, 3 egg whites w/onion, mushroom & cheese omlette; 2 tbsp. raw almonds
M3: Garlic chicken; salad w/Zesty Italian dressing
M4: Chipolte Tilapia; salad w/light Honey mustard dressing
M5: Protein pancake w/ 2 tbps. power pb
[font color=blue]1679 calories (a bit low but I ate like crap yesterday)
61 g. fat - 33%
150 g. protein - 36%
135 g. carbs - 32%[/font]
