Spent a total of 2 hours on the elliptical yesterday. I'm easing into this return to exercising, so I wasn't using high resistance. I got my heart rate up, even so. Have I mentioned that I love my elliptical? I even find using the moveable arms gives my arm muscles a bit of a workout.
Wow. I am surprised how tired I am today. I did not push myself yesterday as far as using resistance on the elliptical, and my muscles are not sore, but I have no energy today. Zero. Zip. Zilch. (Why are there so many 'Z' words for low energy?) So whatever I did, it must have pushed my body even though I did not feel like I was stressing out the system. I'm going to consider that progress.
Exercise du jour: Today, I want to go easy on the elliptical. A mere 15 minute stint. done
Joachim Martin Falbe [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
8 comments:
Welcome back! I've missed your posts and your ability to make me feel even more slug-like by comparison.
How has it been FOUR years? That just doesn't seem possible.
Curse it, you've uncovered my secret behind the blog -- to make you feel slug-like.
Sadly, it has been four years. I'm older and wider, er, I meant wiser. Well, okay, so wider is more accurate.
*thumbs up* for the exercising. Hopefully as you ease (two hours isn't exactly easing but ok :P) back into it it won't leave so drained.
Thanks OH! Good to hear from you :)
Of course it pushed you, even if it didn't feel like it did. Your body rebuilds on the rest days.
True, Messymimi. It's just shocking to think that it would /need/ to rebuild when I didn't stress it enough even to feel sore. But I suspect my body knows more about when it needs to rest than I do.
Still feeling elliptical envy, but not as much. I can't use one with movable arms; if I don't have something stable to hold onto I feel that I'm going to fall off with every step.
Go, you!
Mary Anne in Kentucky
I think there's some way to immobilize the arms. Many people find them annoying or unstable. It's not just you :)
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