1 Hour of Cardio

Supposed to be doing Hobbes' pump on Saturday. But he's away this week and I was still considering whether to join that class when I was examining the timetable board outside the studio after I arrived.

I thought it was, after all, still early for the pump class and I was planning to do some cardio before the class, so I left that decision to later... Went on the stepper first and was doing between an effort level of 4 to 12, mostly 6 and 8. Did a 30-minute exercise and the machine showed that I'd burned about 220 calories, with a distance of about 100 over floors. Since I was having muscle aches already on my back and shoulder, a bit from Thursday's free weights and yesterday's yoga (focused on strength training, so did loads of push-up stuff), I decided I might as well workout more on my lower body instead of doing pump. Besides, my legs and bum are getting bigger, not to mention me putting on 3kgs. :(

So, I did another 30-minutes on the stepper (I wish I could join one of FI's BS right then!). So in total, 1 hour of cardio, burned about 450 calories and climbed 200 over floors.

Still aiming to work on my new year resolutions, so I did some abs crunches on the bench - 100 front, 100 obliques, per side. Should be enough I hope. Some stretching to end my "session" but still not so stretchy yet.

PT was at LM for his personal training today. So it was good as well that I didn't join BP and managed to catch up with him for a while before he went back to Maxis for his following session. Needed also to ask him about some options - because sometimes the free weights area is dominated by big muscle guys and is no place for "little" lady like me. Therefore, I wanted to know which machines to replace those bench workout in the programme PT gave me the last time. Knowing free weights and machines is very useful especially during times when I miss pump classes ;).