I suppose I found a different way to do a sixty minute cardiovascular workout. I started my workouts on the arc trainer on January 28TH 2010. Since that time I have done a workout everyday except for my replacement days on Day 717 and 718. Now, I started my arc trainer workouts on Day 706.Here is a look at all the days since January 28TH 2010;
January 28TH 2010 Day 706 calories burned in 60 minutes 1050
January 29TH 2010 Day 707 calories burned in 60 minutes 1070
January 30TH 2010 Day 708 calories burned in 60 minutes 1180
January 31ST 2010 Day 709 calories burned in 60 minutes 1228
February 1ST 2010 Day 710 calories burned in 60 minutes 1180
February 2ND 2010 Day 711 calories burned in 60 minutes 1240
February 3rd 2010 Day 712 calories burned in 60 minutes 1232
February 4TH 2010 Day 713 calories burned in 60 minutes 1412
February 5TH 2010 Day 714 calories burned in 60 minutes 1413
February 6TH 2010 Day 715 calories burned in 60 minutes 1393
February 7TH 2010 Day 716 calories burned in 60 minutes 1402
February 8TH 2010 Day 717 calories burned in 60 minutes 885 life cycle from 7/9/08
February 9TH 2010 Day 718 calories burned in 60 minutes 823 life cycle from 9/17/08
February 10TH 2010 Day 719 calories burned in 60 minutes 1367
February 11TH 2010 Day 716 calories burned in 60 minutes 1468
A quick look shows that I have increased the number of calories that I burned during the sixty minute arc trainer workouts.
One of of the biggest challenges we all encounter at sometime is reaching a plateau.Where we reach a level of performance that we cannot exceed. The key is not so much that we reach that plateau the key is to keep trying to exceed that plateau.
I suppose as I look back on my journey with the life cycle my high water mark was when I burned 1,013 calories in an hour. Yesterday, I reached a calorie burn of 1,468 calories in an hour. My highest number of calories burned in an hour to date.Plateau? I sure hope not!
The thing I noticed in working out on the arc trainer versus the life cycle is the different muscles that are used. I was so used to exactly how I felt after riding the life cycle and the aches and pains I would get that after awhile I paid no attention to them. When I began to workout on the arc trainer I could tell when I had pain but realized that I was just putting extra pressure on certain muscles that had not been used in awhile. Once, I got past that pain I felt strong in doing what it took to do the workout virtually pain free. I have also noticed that the arc trainer seems to offer less resistance than the life cycle especially when fatigue sets in. To me that is odd, because I am so used to doing whatever it takes to achieve my goals on the life cycle that I am actually surprised at the effort it takes to keep up the pace on the arc trainer.
I am sure anyone that works out knows what I mean when I refer to that point where you say to yourself can I keep this pace? Then you decide to go on or back off. Well, with arc trainer that point comes but there really is not any other gear that needs to shifted to, you just keep on going. On the life cycle you need to muster up lot of energy to maintain that pace. I am not what I enjoy most.
Now we charge ahead to Day 721 only nine days to reach 2 whole years.My goal in the next nine days is to get in a few two days. I am working on getting my mind ready for that attack!
Okay no double today but a good solid single work out. Did an awesome calorie burn of 1,428 in 60 minutes. I psyched! As I mentioned before the machine moves you along yet you continue to exert the effort and burn the calories.
I know somewhere in these memoirs I have mentioned this before, but it bares repeating. If I represent a small percentage of the population that has a habit of working out everyday then I must be a small segment of the population. However, since the population is so massive there must be thousands of people that have some sort of exercise streak that they are on now. After all, exercise is a broad word I am sure there has got to be 1 % of the entire adult population( 18 years or older) that works out every day. Now, according to the latest count there were approximately 218 million people that fall into that category.
Now let us just play with the numbers. Do you think 1 out of 10 people have a streak of days in which they have worked out every day for the last year or more? I say no way! How about 1 out of 100 people? I say maybe. Now, if we say that 1 % of 218 million people are currently doing what I am doing that means their are 2,180,000 million people that currently have a workout streak in place. To that I say, nah! What if we say there are 1 out of 1,000 people that have a workout streak in place? That would mean 218,000 people out of the 218 million we started with. Now that would be what percentile? Put this way, a very small percentile. Either way there are right now in the United States 218,000 people that are currently on a workout streak of about 1 year of consecutive days . My question is where are they?
As I side note, I found out today based on a test to determine one's body fat that I am in 95TH percentile for leanness for people in my age group. I suppose that may have got me thinking about what percent I am in for other categories in terms of over all fitness.
I have said before, I am on a quest to see if I can unite the other 218,000 or so people who enjoy a good workout every day. My attitude is if you are not working out everyday it is great that you are at least working out. Also, if you are working out let us know about it. Your experience and knowledge will inspire and benefit us all!
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