Wow, did I ever push hard on my cardio today. Not just the hard as in, "oh, I'll just pedal a bit faster this bike ride," but pulse literally thundering in my ears, feeling my heart pounding, the blood coursing through my veins and arteries as I pushed as hard as I could on my bike, uphill, downhill, flat road, grass, gravel, weaving between trees and lamp posts, just hard hard hard. I did it in intervals though... so 5 minutes medium hard riding with 2-3 minutes of flat out, balls to the wall, nothing held back pounding.
And fuck me, do I feel awesome.
I also learned the value of a proper recovery drink and food after a hard workout. Your muscles are screaming at the top of their lungs for protein, and having a cup of milk with a scoop of isowhey in it (mmm french vanilla) with a slice of low fat cheese covers a) all my dairy intakes for the day and b) about 50-60g's of protein. 15 minutes after eating/drinking, the muscle pain that was causing me to have WLS (wobbly leg syndrome) was gone. Instead, I feel oddly energized and invigorated, and almost a little euphoric. Now that's what I call a good day.
So, the rest of this week is the final bit of conditioning, with a 2.4 km walk/jog tomorrow, and a 1.5 km walk back to my place after, for a total of around 4 km done total. Not as vicious on the body as the biking is for pure all out cardio right now, but my body isn't used to high impact training, and I also am a bit fat, so I wanna take care of my knees. Getting some good cross trainers tonight as well, so I'm looking forward to probably posting a time a little over an hour tomorrow.
Weight update:
Started off at 219.7 lbs on July 4 in the am
Right after my protein drink and food after biking, I was 217.9 lbs.
That's probably water weight + a little fat burned, but it's still a bit of progress :D
Anyways, I'll have a new post up tomorrow.
Here's the youtube of today's post, summed up pretty quickly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ4UPibtcb8
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