Starting weight: 225.6. Today’s weight: 225.6
Calories burned: 1.056 (Bootcamp workout and one mile run on track)
Average heart rate: 146 bpm.
Total Time: 1:10:16
There’s a skunk that lives on the Madison Central campus and he was out this morning foraging through the garbage cans. When the weight room door was opened, he decided to chill in there instead. For reasons why you can probably understand, the weight-lifting portion of our workout got cancelled; we wisely ran on the track instead.
I say this because at least I wasn’t the only one out there this morning stinking the place up.
But I shouldn’t be that hard on myself. This is the first time I’ve done a Paul Lacoste workout since last November. Back then, I weighed 195 lbs, and could run 15 miles at a 8-minute per mile pace. Then I hurt my knee. Today I am 30 pounds heavier and was gasping like a catfish on a dock.
I’ll be honest, I struggled through the workout. Instead of working out in line one (where I have been for a few years now), I was in line two and felt lucky to be there. I’d look over at my old line one team mates and think, “I’ll be back soon.”
I don’t write this to beat myself up. I write this to tell you that even if you have laid off exercising for a while (say, since middle school), you can still get back out there and burn a few calories. You don’t have to sling yourself around a field like I did — you can go for a walk, a jog, a swim — the bottom line is just to get out there and get moving. Do SOMETHING for 30 minutes a day. Get your blood flowing and heart moving. Sitting on your can is as bad as smoking for your health.
Sure, it was painful. But it was a good pain. My knee held up. I survived and I didn’t get sprayed by a skunk. All and all, it was a good way to start the week and the next 11 weeks.