Day 9: Feelin' the Burn

Yo.  I forgot to update yesterday; whoops!  I had my first day of work today though, so I haven't worked out yet.  Thus, I'm going to update now about yesterday, and then later tonight, after I workout, I'll update again (post should go up around 10:00 or so).

I kept up my cardio goal of 2.4 miles yesterday!  What I've discovered is that I'm running 0.1 miles every minute and a half.  If you do the math, however, you'll notice that at 9 minutes and 20 seconds, I'm only reaching 0.7 miles.  That means that SOMEWHERE in there, about twice within every 10 minutes, I'm running 0.1 miles in one minute.  So, cardio question here; when people say they can run a 10-minute mile, does that mean over extended periods of time, or just for that 10 minutes?  I mean, does that mean that if they run for a half hour, they run 3 miles, or that if they only have to run for 10 minutes, they can do one mile?  Because if I only had to do 10 minutes of cardio, I'm pretty sure I could do a 10-minute mile.  Thoughts?

Anyways, workout yesterday was good.  A friend of mine suggested yesterday that I lower my amount of reps and put my weight up; after some research, I've found this to be true, so my workout is going to change somewhat drastically over the next couple of days (starting today, most likely).  I'll put up an updated version of each workout on my next break day (Friday).

Bicep and Triceps felt pretty good yesterday - I'm going to be moving up in weight anyways, due to the lower reps, but if that wasn't happening, I'm pretty sure I would have moved up in weight a bit for curls in the next cycle.  Triceps are feeling good, but I'm glad I've got another exercise for them now (thanks Steve!).  Everything else is cool.

That's all for now, I think.  Check back tonight around 10:00 for another post!  Also, I recently put up some new stuff at Stuff That I Like, so go check that out too!

-Daniel

P.S. I was watching Survivorman while doing cardio yesterday.  Les Stroud is the man.