A few days since I’ve trained.
Work, soccer and a holiday weekend all conspired against me. Luckily having the dog got me up off my butt to do something.
Today is my first day back and I feel really good. I worked out this morning and am not suffering through the mid-afternoon sleepiness.
I felt great again yesterday. I left work around 5:30 and as I was walking to my car I realized how much energy I had throughout the day. My head was clear and didn’t feel any mid-afternoon fatigue.
I’m writing this here to continue to remind myself daily why I’m getting up to workout.
I pushed my bursts a little bit today.
1 minute
2 minutes
1:30 minutes
1 minute
It’s Monday and I’m back at it. Did the same workout as before but I bumped up the resistance on the elliptical machine.
Ok, so it was the weekend and I fell apart. Felt great on Friday, wasn’t tired so it definitely is making a difference.
I wasn’t completely sedentary on the weekend. We took the dog to the park and ran around with her.
I received an alumnimum Mac Book Pro a little while ago and I began to scour the net to find some great websites for getting the most out of my system. I figured I’d create a list to give back some link love.
Day two of Interval training.
I felt great yesterday, no afternoon fatigue and I wasn’t tired after dinner. These are generally the worst times of day for me.
20 Minutes
1 minute bursts every 4 minutes
I actually pushed those bursts a little bit, probably did more that 1 minute per burst.
OK, maybe not a round up. I’ve tried two. Twitteriffic and Tweet Deck.
photo credit: dantekgeekI’ve used Twitteriffic as my primary twitter application since it came out. It sports a clean interface. Allows you to manage multiple accounts and color codes posts in such a way that they have context.
TweetDeck is a newcomer. If you are familiar with the desktop Tweet Deck, they try to create the multi-pane window effect on the iPhone. This I’m sure was a challenging UI design. For me, it just doesn’t work. If your primary twitter device is an iPhone and you are a hard-core user than this application might be better for you.
My verdict for now is Twitteriffic.
photo credit: cotallo-nonocotI’m using my blog to log my training activities. I’m hoping that the public nature of the blog will help me stick to it.
Some back story. On the way home from work the other day I heard a report on NPR about the value of interval training. The reporter pointed to some evidence that interval training provides long term benefits.
I’m not a doctor so I can’t speak to how well it works but I am going to try it.
About a year ago, I weighed 174 pounds. At my lowest, I was 170. I then went to work at a company that has a great culture (that mostly surrounds the consumption of food). In six months I gained about 10 pounds. Now, I can’t seem to loose it.
I’m not completely sedentary. We have a dog which generally needs three good walks a day. I take one of those and we do a brisk 30-40 minute walk each night. It has made no difference. Since I’ve done this since April, I feel like I have a pretty good baseline.
Today, I hopped back on the elliptical machine. Set the resistance to 1 and began the workout.
20 Minutes
1 minute bursts every 4 minutes
My target weight is 174 pounds. My short term goal is getting my ass up everyday to actually do this!
One of the things that always bugged me about Apple’s Weather application is it didn’t know where I was. If I’m travelling in some location and want to know the weather I have to go through the hassle of setting up a city.
That frustration led me to check out the Weather application from The Weather Channel. It does a lot more than what I need and is a great tool for hard core weather junkies. It does provide two click access to weather in my current location. A feature I love.
Check it out and let me know if you know of a better weather application.
photo credit: bradleygeeThe Urinal Test is an advertainment game for the iPhone. The object is to pick the correct urinal to pee in when presented with a group of urinals, some populated with dudes.
Amusing to play once or twice. Doesn’t warrant a permanent place on my phone.
