Hi Trevor!!
Welcome!
Your routine sounds really great to me! You are definitely doing a great job of making sure you crosstrain! I personally don't care for machines for weight work, but to each his own....you have to set up your routine according to what you know you will actually do!
I love to rollerblade and especially mountain bike! However, I haven't been able to go biking in well over a year due to various reasons. But I love it! I am slow as a turtle, though. My legs are pretty muscular, but they aren't great endurance-wise (I'm working on that, though, with Body Max and Interval Max!) so I just have to take it slow when I ride. My husband leaves me in the dust!
Rollerblading, on the other hand, is the activity I am better at--he slowly blades around so he doesn't fall while I zoom past him! I am not very good at stopping quickly, though, so I must make sure I am in an area where that won't be a problem. Obviously I am not professional blader material!
I am aspiring to be a runner, but man am I slow, and I just can't seem to get into it because of that. I guess that makes for another goal for 2000!
Oh, and by the way, I use a heart rate monitor and I love it! It really helps me keep track of my intensity level--I have a tendency to go all out if I'm not using one, and then I end up going above my THR zone for much of the workout, which of course does me no good!
I agree with what has been said about Christi Taylor--she's fun to work out with, but it will take several tries to get her choreography down! And I catch on to Cathe's within the first try! With Christi's 9801 tape, I was so frustrated, I was ready to yank the tape out and throw it away...my heart rate was plummeting because I had to keep rewinding and trying the moves again. BUT, once I got the moves, I loved the workout! It was just so much fun.
Anyway, good luck with your workouts and please keep posting! It's nice to see a male in this predominantly female group (not that I don't love these ladies, though!!).
By the way, my husband is awed at how tough Cathe's workouts are (he lifts at the gym and runs primarily for his cardio) but he is too chicken to try them--he is pretty uncoordinated!
Renae