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Change in exercise
I have mentioned that changes in pensions by Her Majesty's Government and the Universities Superannuation Scheme reduced my net pay enough that it costs us our gym membership and more besides. Last week was my last to start out with a morning swim before work. Yesterday ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mst3kmoxie assembled our elliptical cross-trainer out in our garage and this morning I gave it a try.
I easily feel hot when I exercise: swimming is great for me because the water flowing over me is an effective coolant. So, heading out to the garage before the day warmed up seemed wise; still, I quickly found myself pausing to take my t-shirt off. (The weather isn't hot anyway: yesterday was sunny but by the end of the afternoon the grass was still soaking wet.) The cross-trainer certainly makes me work harder than I do in the pool: I used it for twenty minutes and probably required that time again to recover. Contrary to the manual's advice, I plan to start out with more like daily use rather than alternate days but I will balance that by being slow to increase the duration or intensity of my workouts.
The electronic display helpfully shows a count of calories burned. While I concur with the manual in not taking this estimate as being accurate, I do plan to use it as my principal metric of progress: in accounting for the variable resistance over the course of my workout it will probably correlate with some reasonable concept of how much exercise I did.
On this fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 I recall thatmst3kmoxie and I were on our way to the gym to swim, waiting to turn onto Ohio State Route 161, when we first heard the news on the car radio. I am pretty sure that I saw Air Force One with fighter escort later that day.
mst3kmoxie assembled our elliptical cross-trainer out in our garage and this morning I gave it a try.I easily feel hot when I exercise: swimming is great for me because the water flowing over me is an effective coolant. So, heading out to the garage before the day warmed up seemed wise; still, I quickly found myself pausing to take my t-shirt off. (The weather isn't hot anyway: yesterday was sunny but by the end of the afternoon the grass was still soaking wet.) The cross-trainer certainly makes me work harder than I do in the pool: I used it for twenty minutes and probably required that time again to recover. Contrary to the manual's advice, I plan to start out with more like daily use rather than alternate days but I will balance that by being slow to increase the duration or intensity of my workouts.
The electronic display helpfully shows a count of calories burned. While I concur with the manual in not taking this estimate as being accurate, I do plan to use it as my principal metric of progress: in accounting for the variable resistance over the course of my workout it will probably correlate with some reasonable concept of how much exercise I did.
On this fifteenth anniversary of 9/11 I recall that
mst3kmoxie and I were on our way to the gym to swim, waiting to turn onto Ohio State Route 161, when we first heard the news on the car radio. I am pretty sure that I saw Air Force One with fighter escort later that day.