So tonight was my first session with my new personal trainer...Dudley's personal trainer too so we did the session together. The best way to describe it is that I am sitting on my floor right now getting ready to do some editing from last weekend and I am not so sure I will be able to get up. I really should take a bath with epsom salt but I don't want to make sure my tub is clean and I don't want to take a bath in my tub if it isn't just cleaned. Anyway, he was tough!! The good part of it was that he showed us things that I will be able to do in my hotel room (squats, stairs, jumps, climbing on chairs). I wore Al and I burned almost 700 calories during the session. At one point after jumping through all these hoops (literally) my heart rate percentage was 101% of my maximum heart rate...how is that even possible?? I am not sure it is. Maybe Al was mad I was making him work so hard. I think that this will be good for me though because I hope that it will make me work out when I am not there so I am not in pain every time I am (or after I am I guess I should say).
Nothing going on tonight...editing, cleaning and watching the TBS version of Wedding Crashers...
And, yes, I had never seen Footloose...very sad, but I am going to get the soundtrack from Morgan this weekend.
Hope everyone has a good weekend!
7 months ago
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It is entirely possible to push your heart rate above 100% for short periods of time (assuming you're talking about 220-your age to determine your max rate). When i was training to squat my body weight for 10 minutes non stop in college (never made it past 7 minutes) i could keep my heart rate above 110% for a few minutes. I'd see stars and pass out afterwards but that was what I did for fun in college.
Yeah, last night Craig told me that it was ok if I got a little dizzy but when I started hearing a buzz it meant I really needed to stop. I didn't get to 110% and the rest of the time it hovered around 97% but that is still a lot for me. I didn't do the calculation either...Al does it based on your resting heart rate that you "test" with him because they say the 220-age is a good estimate but it is not the same for everyone. Well, I didn't pass out and I feel confident I was working really hard :-)
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