Working Out

Well, over the past week I've been working very hard to get a lot of activity in.

I started couch to 5k this week. I am using the iphone app called 5k runner. You can listen to music while doing it and it tells you when to walk and run. I had wanted to start on Monday, but I was called in to work so I went ahead and did my first run on Wednesday. My sister, her boyfriend, and my little brother all came along with me. It was great to have that support and everyone enjoyed it. The first run was rough. I think some of the problem is the heat. Yes, folks, I live in south Texas and it was pretty warm on Wednesday. Anyway, I did the second yesterday and it went much better than the first. The thing that helped is the fact that it has been cooler for the past few days. I am enjoying it. My sweater has been located. It went much better yesterday. I'm feeling very encouraged.

I did not go running today because the weather was rainy and nasty when I wanted to go. So, I decided to do 50 minutes on the exercise bike/spinner. I have been using a new app a friend introduced me to for that. It's called nexercise. I'm pretty happy with it. It tracks your activity and calculates experience points for it. It's pretty cool and I'd suggest it to people with an iPhone. I believe it's in beta for android, as well. I know someone else signed up to do beta testing. Cool app. I'm going to see if I can get nexercise and my 5k runner app to run simultaneously and see how that goes tomorrow. We will see.

I am very surprised at how I've been feeling about this. I have never been one for much physical activity and part of me has been terrified of how this would go, but I feel really great about it. We'll see how much I progress as time goes on.

1.5 Mile Walk/Run

Part of my aerobics class involves a pre and post fitness test. I know that I am not at all fit and this is important to getting better. I have to be honest with myself about my current level of fitness in order to accept and move forward.

So, I did not do fantastically well when we did the walk/run. I honestly did mostly walking. However, that's acceptable. I can only move upward. My time was 26:24 and I don't think that's too bad. I am just happy I lived through the whole thing. There was a point at which I was walking and I felt just... awesome. I was not particularly winded after the whole thing and I felt like I could walk all day long. That didn't lost. The second I stopped moving my body was saying "Nope, we're not going anywhere for a while!". I'm glad I had some time to recover before having to walk the ten minutes to the other building where I had Chemistry class. I have also determined that I need better shoes for running or walking as well. I do have my shape ups, so I will probably use those for that. I need other shoes for aerobics, though, as the curved bottom does not do well with step aerobics since it is not easy to keep my balance.

So, in my aerobics class we are required to have at least one other workout a week and keep a log. So, I have decided to do the couch to 5 k program. I have a few friends who are doing it. I am going to start on Monday with my sister's boyfriend, Brian. He's interested in keeping me motivated and getting to the point of running 3 miles, as well. I am going to probably use the 5k runner app, which my friend Lisa is using and she says it's great. I guess I will be updating more about that on Monday, then. :)