fordguyinny's Journal

   Day 2 Cardio. I finally fit in a double workout. I spent one hour on the bike, and one hour on the elliptical for a combined calorie burn of 1622. That's good. That's nearly half a pound of fat. I plan to do some cardio every day now, even with my weight training days. My strength is right about where I want it, and I am almost completely rid of the cursed belly fat. I just need to burn those extra calories to get there, and I figure an extra 4800 a week will really do it for me.

I had alot of trouble getting any power into the bike ride today. My hip flexors were still quite sore, so I couldn't push much power to the pedal, limiting my contribution in the first hour to 810 calories. The second hour, I took it real easy on the ellip, with the resistance about 4 levels lower than normal, and my HR stayed around 145-150 the entire time. A slow burn the second hour, if you will.

I would like to reach a point where my two-hour endurance is so good, that I lose little power. That will take some time.

I know many of you have goals to just stay on the ellip or bike for 20 mins, or 30 mins, or 60 mins or whatever. I am no different than any of you. I suppose it is just my philosophy that, "there's nothing to it but to do it."

Good luck to everyone out there.