After work today, I was feeling pretty good. Last week this time, I was wiped out. Slowly yet surely, I think my body will adapt to my over-scheduled schedule. Off work at 5pm, off to the gym at 6:00. I was going to do Pilates, but it woud have meant rushing to the gym, and I just wasn’t in the mood, plus, I worked out this morning. :] (Lazy bones!)
I hit the treadmill to warm-up. It was about 17 minutes long, I burned 170 calories, and ran at 5.0 MPH, altering the incline to 3.0% and then back to 0 every few minutes. The ghetto treadmill at my gym started squeeealing like a little pig when I stepped on the “wrong” part of the belt, and when I increased the speed to over 5.0. I didn’t notice this at first, though. I have my iPod blasting, (I’m hard of hearing anyways, and then add amped-up working-out on top of that, the volume is on MAX.) So, I’m running along, listening to the new Lady GaGa CD, feeling good, feeling peppy, amping myself up for a good hour of salsa/aerobics/dancing, and I’m a little confused when I start noticing a lot of attention in my direction. Girls are literally double-taking, and even turning around mid bicep-curl to look at me. I’m kind of freaking out, because either my shorts have fallen off, or I’m so hot people can’t stop looking. Knowing it wasn’t the latter, I pulled an earbud out to see if I could hear some chatter, and what do I get? SQUEALING. The belt is screeeeaming along, seriously, making the worst noise ever … I decreased my speed from 6.3 to 5.0, which is the point the sound from the devil stopped … So while it wasn’t a challening run, it was a nice warm-up before Zumba.
I paused the workout on my HR monitor, and began it again when class actually started. At the end of it, I’d burned a decent amount of calories with my little warm-up and an hour of salsa/latin exersice. Those latinas know how to get their groove on. And why do all the white girls looks so silly trying to shake their hips? As long as we are all looking ridiculous together! :]
Zumba/Run Workout Stats: 449 kcals burned - 50% fatMax: 85%
Average: 66%
Max HR: 169
Avg HR: 132
Total exercise time: 1 hour, 15 minutes
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