The morning was 2 x 30-min sessions on the treadmill. In the afternoon I did a 15-min warm-up on the treadmill, followed by:

Where there is a single number that confirms that I did the number of reps called for. Where there are two numbers the first is the amount of weight I used, followed by reps.

And I followed with another 15 mins on the treadmill. I kind of cheated a little on the pullovers today. I probably should have started at 16e, which is what I finished the last workout with, but I didn’t have the 16-lb dumbbells handy. They’re water-filled, and to try and get the room I’m working in a little more tidy, I took the water out and put them away. So I started back with 15-lbs, but did increase it to 17.5.

Boy am I tired. I also helped the pool guy scrub down the blanket a little. He’s not opening it until tomorrow, but we’ve had so much snow that there’s a ton of water in the pool (almost to the rim). So he brought a pump and we took some of the water out this afternoon. And in a couple of hours I’ll take a little more out and keep filling for a few hours. I’ll do the same tomorrow as he can’t be here until after lunch. Yay though, as I could be swimming as early as Thurs - but realistically it’s likely going to be Friday.

I’m really loving my new heart rate monitor. Very cool. Well, except during the original fitness assessment where it ranked me very low. I’m probably going to try and manually set the beeping zone as it’s using an arbitrary one for my age (124-141). It was good at the beginning, although I had to jog for a minute to get it to stop beeping for too low. Then of course it spent a lot of time beeping ’cause it was too high. I did adjust it in the afternoon to 124-150 so it wouldn’t beep quite so much. I doubt I’ll report my daily exercise in quite so much detail, but since this is a new toy, I will today. The idea is that when I start swimming is that I keep up the level of calories burned. So in the end it doesn’t matter much if the actual numbers are accurate or not.

Water: 20 cups

Food: 2611 (29% fat, 35% carbs, 36% protein)

Breakfast: egg white/egg omelet with cheese, cracked wheat oatmeal bread, jam, orange (478)

AM Snack: protein shake, almonds (254)

Lunch: 2 whole wheat tortillas, mustard, smoked ham, cheese, apple (506)

PM Snack: protein shake, grapes, soy nuts (475)

Dinner: curried chicken over broccoli, salad w/dressing (451)

Late Snack: protein shake, grapes, biscotti (448)