Most days of the week, Mom, Christian and I head down to the YMCA and work out for 35 minutes on they elliptical machine. They are nice machines… you can plug in your age and weight and goals and lots of other things and there are many different programs you can use. I don’t think it’s as great as swimming, but we all get a good workout.
A few weeks ago I started charting how far I went and how many calories I’d burned. Since I try to do a little more than I did the time before each day, it’s been super exciting to see the dramatic difference between the first day and the latest day. My big goal right now is to get to 4 miles in 35 minutes (although I might make it 40 minutes). I’m getting an average of 3 and a half miles and 280 calories for 35 minutes, and that’s taken me a while so I’m not exactly sure how long it will take me to get up to my goal. But it’s been really fun going through it. Dad is going to help me put my chart onto the computer so it’ll be backed up and easier to access.
I’m REALLY looking forward to swimteam though! I want it to be here right now! Sign up day is on April 11th (in a little more than a month!), and it starts sometime in mid-May (2 and a half months!) TOO LONG!
Sigh…
I see a potential Betty Blonde storyline in this. 😉
I like to keep track off my running (walking) also because it gives me motivation.
Good for you for exercising! After our recent testing, we are really motivated now more than ever to practice our karate every day and do the stretches/floor exercises that we routinely do as a warm-up.
Lynn
Man, all this running and karate and stuff is making me realize I have no excuse at all. I have been walking, but not as hard as before. I promise to report my weight tomorrow on the spreadsheet. I am going to try to put a spreadsheet together for Kelly, Christian, Lorena, and I on our “calories” burned or some such thing like that. I wish I had one of those Nike-iPod setups like Lyle.