Exercise accoutrements
Sep. 5th, 2017 07:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI have continued to experiment with earphones: while working out I now wear a wholly wireless pair of X1Ts. I had never before used Bluetooth® yet, with the help of instructions written in an approximation of English, I was able to pair them with each other and my cellphone far more easily than I had expected. They do still fall out and without a wire I do not know how many hits on the garage's concrete floor they can take but they cost less than ten pounds from eBay and, being wireless, if one refuses to stay in then the other remains unaffected. As I exercise my heels do leave the cross-trainer's foot pads: I am experimenting with trying to always land on each heel gently which works my calves a little and may now be helping the earphones to stay in.
I had extended my workout time to a round hour. However, the front half of my left foot is beginning to numb after forty minutes. (It is my right foot that has an issue with the calcaneocuboid joint so I suppose that each foot is somehow defective.) My leading hypothesis had been that my feet swell over the course of the workout and that my shoes were somehow too tight. I invested in larger, especially wider, shoes and I lace them loosely but the numbing remains the same. I thus now stop sooner, after I have reached one thousand of the cross-trainer's
I am working out more gently though I believe it still to count as being adequately vigorous given that it significantly elevates my heart rate. I reach the above calorie goal within fifty minutes but around five minutes later than I used to and no longer needing a few minutes afterward to properly catch my breath. I still listen to upbeat popular music but I wonder what else I might listen to over that time, perhaps some sufficiently engaging spoken-word material.
I had extended my workout time to a round hour. However, the front half of my left foot is beginning to numb after forty minutes. (It is my right foot that has an issue with the calcaneocuboid joint so I suppose that each foot is somehow defective.) My leading hypothesis had been that my feet swell over the course of the workout and that my shoes were somehow too tight. I invested in larger, especially wider, shoes and I lace them loosely but the numbing remains the same. I thus now stop sooner, after I have reached one thousand of the cross-trainer's
calories, by which point my larger toes are already quite numb.
I am working out more gently though I believe it still to count as being adequately vigorous given that it significantly elevates my heart rate. I reach the above calorie goal within fifty minutes but around five minutes later than I used to and no longer needing a few minutes afterward to properly catch my breath. I still listen to upbeat popular music but I wonder what else I might listen to over that time, perhaps some sufficiently engaging spoken-word material.
