Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Step it up a bit more

After yesterday's upper body weights, I didn't really fancy rowing! So limited tonight's gym session to stepper and bike, upping the stepper time by 35%.

5 mins bike WU
27 mins stepper:
9 mins profile 5, level 8 (abrupt lo-hi sequence, 4 peaks)
9 mins profile 3, level 8 (smooth lo-hi sequence, 3 peaks)
9 mins profile 1, level 9 (abrupt lo-hi sequence, 4 increasing peaks)

Embarrassingly I admit I did 9 mins because the machine displays have 18 columns on them to show the profile, and I wanted a round number of minutes per column! But then gave that up and for the bike did:

15 mins profile 5, level 7
10 mins profile 2, level 7 (smooth lo-hi sequence, 1 small & 1 large peak)
5 mins CD

I was getting flickers of calf cramp towards the end, so level 7 was enough. A good old stretch was well appreciated afterwards.

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