I Hate Cardio Check-in, 3/19

[Miss Lee]

Good morning to everyone in Cardiohateville! I am taking a rest day today. Six days of cardio in one week is enough already--LOL! DH and I have plans to eat out for brunch and dinner so I won't be home long enough to get in a cardio work out anyway. Now that I'm being faithful to my cardio, I really need to clean up my eating. I'll start tomorrow.

Have a great day everybody!

Michele

 

[Norma48]

Maybe I can help not to hate cardio, if you think of the benefits:
You can do 6 days a week!!!! how awsome is that!!!!!!
I bet you heart is super healthy by now!!!!!
Your circulation is in optimun state!!!!!!
You may know it or not, but your inmune system is doing just great!!!
Your legs must be powerful!!!!!!
I bet if you have to run for your life, you could scape and safe youryourself because you are in good shape!!!!!
and all to cardio,,, YEAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! Congratualions,,, bragg about it!!!!
Norma

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[Miss Lee]

Hi Norma!

Trust me, there is NOTHING you can say that will ever make me enjoy cardio. But thank you for the encouragement anyway--LOL!

Michele

 

[toastythemosty]

Well I went for a run today. It was for 10 mins! LOL! Fast run for as long as I could and then fast walk to get my heart rate back down and repeated another 3 times. I wanted to go at least 30 mins, but my lungs were burning really bad. Now I feel terrible because I didn't go the full 30 mins!!!! Anyhoo, so that was some of my cardio for today. I still have to do 3 sets of BBM w/weights, upperbody (triceps/biceps) and then abs.

Charlotte~~

 

[dianet]

I just got back from my 30 min walk/run in the park. I was definitely feeling it more today, so I'm scared to have to add more running tomorrow.

Charlotte - if you want to build up to 30 min of running, you might want to try this 10 week walk/run program I am currently doing from the Complete Book of Running for Women.

You run/walk 4 times a week for a total of 30 minutes each day. First week you run 2 minutes, walk 4. Then the second week run 3 minutes, walk 3 minutes (this is the week I am just finishing). From there it goes:

5 run/2.5 walk
7/3
8/2
9/2 repeat once, then run 8 minutes for a total of 30 min.
9/1
13/2
14/1
to 30 minutes of straight running!

The book says that the most discouraging thing for new runners is when the try to run as fast as they can for as long as they can, and they are disappointed that it is not very far. It recommends building up endurance slowly to prevent injury.

- Diane