Workouts ... Week beginning 02-Apr-2007

Workout 02-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:08:41
Time In Zone 1:00:55

Watch calculated limits: 117 - 147
Average Heart Rate 136
KCal/Fat: 819 /45%

5 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark in zone

Workout 03-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:22:20
Time In Zone 1:10:50

Watch calculated limits: 117 - 147
Average Heart Rate 138
KCal/Fat: 1002 /40%

5 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark in zone

Workout 04-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:44:19
Time In Zone 0:31:17

Watch calculated limits: 115- 145
Average Heart Rate 135
KCal/Fat: 523 /40%

5 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark in zone


Workout 05-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:40:01
Time In Zone 0:33:02

Watch calculated limits: 115- 145
Average Heart Rate 134
KCal/Fat: 467 /45%

0 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark in zone

Workout 06-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:06:37
Time In Zone 1:01:04

Watch calculated limits: 115- 145
Average Heart Rate 134
KCal/Fat: 780/45%

10 Push ups on each 10 minute mark in zone

Workout 07-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:17:50
Time In Zone 1:06:58

Watch calculated limits: 122 - 152
Average Heart Rate 144
KCal/Fat: 1026 /40%

10 Push ups on each 10 minute mark in zone

Workout 08-Apr (Happy Easter)

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:27:31
Time In Zone 1:22:11

Watch calculated limits: 122 - 152
Average Heart Rate 142
KCal/Fat: 1131 /40%

10 Push ups on each 10 minute mark in zone

Positive Attitude..

Well, I did have a positive attitude, and it's still there.. but the motivation.. that's currently more than a little lacking. I can't complain too much since I haven't gone badly off track, but I've basically switched into maintenance mode a month early. If i were playing bounce around the trend line with the lower boundary of my goal weight I'd be ecstatic, but the fact I'm doing it with the top boundary just doesn't make me happy.



Time to start a new month and see if i can't move downward again and start playing with that bottom line instead of the top one. I may just be skipping chin ups for a short while.. sets of chin ups every 10 minutes has been more demotivating than motivating and I think until I'm trying to be in maintenance mode and can add some extra protein that might turn into more muscle to make those chin ups easier.. they can wait.

Workouts ... Week beginning 26-Mar-2007

Workout 26-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:05:13
Time In Zone 0:55:53

Watch calculated limits: 123 - 152
Average Heart Rate 137
KCal/Fat: 793 /45%

10, 10, 10, 10, 9 Chin ups

Lack of workout 27-Mar

Arms hurt again.. new book arrived.. The Dance of Time, David Drake and Eric Flint.. maybe workout tomorrow if muscles don't feel like I pulled something

Workout 28-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:44:32
Time In Zone 0:31:48

Watch calculated limits: 123 - 152
Average Heart Rate 133
KCal/Fat: 502 /45%

10, 10, 10 Chin ups

Workout 29-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:42:32
Time In Zone 0:31:55

Watch calculated limits: 123 - 152
Average Heart Rate 135
KCal/Fat: 502 /45%

10, 10, 10 Chin ups

Workout 30-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:44:13
Time In Zone 0:32:56

Watch calculated limits: 123 - 152
Average Heart Rate 135
KCal/Fat: 516 /45%

10, 10, 10 Chin ups

Workout 31-Mar

The most I managed today was a set of push up and a set of sit ups.

Workout 01-Apr

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:32:05
Time In Zone 0:26:19

Watch calculated limits: 123 - 152
Average Heart Rate 137
KCal/Fat: 387 /45%

0 Chin ups

Workouts ... Week beginning 19-Mar-2007

Workout 19-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:06:59
Time In Zone 0:55:24

Watch calculated limits: 118 - 148
Average Heart Rate 136
KCal/Fat: 804/45%

10, 10, 10, 9, 9 Chin ups

Workout 20-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:41:26
Time In Zone 0:31:45

Watch calculated limits: 113 - 143
Average Heart Rate 131
KCal/Fat: 461/45%

10, 10, 10 Chin ups

Workout 21-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:14:10
Time In Zone 1:01:28

Watch calculated limits: 113 - 143
Average Heart Rate 134
KCal/Fat: 857/40%

10, 10, 10, 9, 9 Chin ups

Workout 22-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:42:26
Time In Zone 0:31:12

Watch calculated limits: 113 - 143
Average Heart Rate 133
KCal/Fat: 471/45%

10, 10, 10 Chin ups

Workout 23-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:11:58
Time In Zone 1:01:06

Watch calculated limits: 118 - 148
Average Heart Rate 136
KCal/Fat: 858/45%

10, 10, 10, 10, 10 Chin ups

And just 'cause I had time and wanted to see if doing some extra work would help me push through a stubborn weight slow point.

Time exercising.. 1:26:04
Time In Zone 1:22:35

Watch calculated limits: 118 - 148
Average Heart Rate 135
KCal/Fat: 1012/45%

Workout 24-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:16:50
Time In Zone 1:08:34

Watch calculated limits: 123 - 152
Average Heart Rate 144
KCal/Fat: 1013/40%

10, 10, 10, 10, 9 Chin ups

Lack of Workout 25-Mar

I might have just pushed a little hard the last couple days.. neck, shoulder and arms are unhappy so I'm taking the day to let those muscles heal a bit before pushing again on Monday.

New Watch.. Cardio Monitor that is.

The reason for my brief hiatus from cardiovascular workouts was because my old Cardiovascular monitor watch (A Polar M21) was really starting to frustrate me. Sometimes once or twice a minute it would lose track and suddenly instead of the heart rate of 145 it was registering moments ago, it would think my heart was beating 76 beats a minute. This kept getting more and more frequent. I could make it stop by holding the watch a couple inches away from the chest strap but it still took a few seconds to correct itself and that tended to mess up both my pace and the watch statistics for amount of time in-zone.

Finally reading the FAQ on the Polar website I discovered that this was a sign that the battery in the chest strap was failing. They have a rated life of about 2500 hours of use and I'd certainly had mine at least that long.

Well, they don't make the model M21 anymore, so the closest to that currently is the M32. Now I get to go through the fun of getting the watch to figure out my fitness level and give me a in-zone range that's a challenge.

Right now the challenge is staying down in the range that it's set for me. Ok, I figured that the top range was going to come down. Apparently my old watch didn't increment my age as time went by so it still thought I was in my late 30s, so a the top range didn't decrease.

According to my age, a heart rate zone of 65 to 85% of my maximum heart rate is.. 220 - my age, so 179. 65% = 116.35, 85% = 152.15 which is the range my watch used the first day. But it does have a function called "OwnZone" that is supposed to be able to determine a narrower range than that from your heart rate's activity during a warm up period.

I'm no longer sure I plan on using the OwnZone function and may just set it to go by my age. I felt like I was really slowing down a lot to stay under a max of 147. And I have no clue why it brought the top end down that much. We'll see what happens with a few more attempts.

Workouts ... Week beginning 12-Mar-2007

Workout 12-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 13-Mar

Nada, zip, zilch, took the steps in the stairwell at a pretty good clip, but that's as close as I got to exercise.

Workout 14-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 15-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 16-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:57:05
Time In Zone 0:45:42

Watch calculated limits: 116- 152
Average Heart Rate 145
KCal/Fat: 757/35%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 17-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 1:17:18
Time In Zone 0:55:38

Watch calculated limits: 117 - 147
Average Heart Rate 141
KCal/Fat: 974/40%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 18-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:46:39
Time In Zone 0:31:26

Watch calculated limits: 115- 145
Average Heart Rate 136
KCal/Fat: 554/40%

10 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

I'm not sure if I'm gonna keep performing extra cardiovascular exercise on my "off" days, or if I'm just trying to make up for those days I missed.. time will tell. The time (today and yesterday) is longer than I would normally record because I've been having the heart monitor active during my calisthenics too. That's actually making me be a little more mindful of how I'm doing them and keeping me from waiting/resting too long between exercises.. not sure if I'm keeping that either but I was curious how much of my calisthenics were inside my target heart range as well.

Workouts ... Week beginning 05-Mar-2007

Workout 05-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:57:24
Time In Zone 0:45:36

Watch calculated limits: 145 - 156
Average Heart Rate 142
KCal/Fat: 760/55%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 06-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 07-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Cardiovascular:
Time exercising.. 0:57:01
Time In Zone 0:47:41

Watch calculated limits: 145 - 156
Average Heart Rate 144
KCal/Fat: 775/55%

9 Chin ups on each 10 minute mark

Workout 08-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 09-Mar

Morning Calisthenics


Workout 10-Mar

Morning Calisthenics

Workout 11-Mar

Morning Calisthenics