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This morning for the first time I felt as if I were extending myself a little more on the treadmill. I didn’t go any faster than I had before, or set it up on a steeper incline, but I did keep going at the higher levels of both for a longer part of my thirty minutes. I started feeling the burn in my legs after about ten minutes, but I kept going for another fifteen before starting to slow things down.
Tomorrow will be a big test, because I’ve worked on the apparatus three days in a row. At some point I’m going to want to back off. There might be a physical reason I think I have to slow down for a day, or I could just feel a letdown that I can’t plan for. Barring anything like that, though, I’m still good to go any day I can get out of bed at all.
And that was the potential problem this morning. I slept in a little later than I should on a work day, and by the time I’d gone through my morning rituals, it would have been easy to say it was too late to start a workout session. I have to guard against easy excuses, though. I’m always afraid that if I miss a day, I’ll miss two, and then three, and then 365. I’m determined to get my money’s worth out of this machine if it kills me.
I don’t expect anything that extreme. On the contrary, in fact, I’m doing this to extend my life, or at least the part of my life where I’m useful to myself and others. I even got the treadmill up into the “aerobic zone” for the first time today. There are fifteen lighted buttons on the console, and the harder you work, the more buttons you light up. The first three are the “warm up zone,” followed by the three “weight loss zone” buttons. Today I made it up to button number seven, the first one in the “aerobic zone,” and I kept it there for most of the session.
The higher zones, by the way, are labeled “endurance” and “performance.” It’ll be awhile before I get there. A fairly long while, I’m guessing. |
