Being both the end of the month and end of the week, I decided to take it easy today. I went to the gym, but all I did was relax in the hot tub and sauna. What a great way to spend my lunch hour. I left relaxed and feeling great if not a little tired, sometimes the heat wears me out a little. Overall, this was a good decision for today. I’ve been working hard this week, things have been stressful, and I start up with school again next week.
I hope you all have a nice weekend!
Spin class. Fun. Worked hard but I felt tired and a little run down throughout. Didn’t really feel 100% but it was a good effort and all in all a really good workout. So far this has been a great week. I’m 4 for 4 going in to Friday and it’s been a long, long time since I’ve been able to make it to the gym all 5 days. Looks like this week I’ll make it! Yea!
What a great workout! I pushed myself really, really hard today and felt good doing it. My workout today was on the elliptical machine and I was able maintain a pretty good pace throughout the entire 30 minutes. I feel like the last week or so I’ve really seen marked improvement in my overall fitness. Aside from the incisional hernia and not being able to run, I’m starting to feel like I did before my gallbladder went bad.
Good luck!
Today I went to spin class. Had a great workout, pushed myself pretty hard and I felt OK. I’m still clearly not back to where I was. For one, I feel like I’m working super hard at lower heart rates than prior to all my health issues. I think what that means is that my VO2 max has dropped. That’s what happens when you are not able to really workout hard for a few weeks. I recently read a study that claimed for every week of inactivity, it take two weeks of solid activity to get back to your prior level of fitness. If this is true I figure I have about 6 weeks of solid rehab just to get back where I was before my first Gallbladder surgery. I think I’m on about week two of the six. It’s a long road…
Overall, pretty good numbers. In the next few weeks, I really need to concentrate on improving my diet and finding a way to get vegetables included in my diet. This is really important if I’m going to be successful and keep my weight off long term.
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I worked from home today, so in order to workout I went to my local YMCA rather than going to the downtown Minneapolis YMCA like I normally do. My local YMCA is small, not very clean, the equipment is old and not very well kept, and there is just not enough equipment to meet everyone’s needs. Bottom-line, my YMCA needs a lot of work. They are putting on an addition, another 10,000 square feet. While this will help some, the new space is mainly for the YMCA preschool and won’t really help with the fitness center size too much. Let’s hope they get some new equipment.
Today, I got on a treadmill and did some walking/running. I was able to run for about 10 minutes straight, but the rest of the 32 minutes was fast walking. I was able to go about 2.0 miles in 30 minutes. Not too fast, but I’ll take it for now. I’m always looking for improvement.
Other stuff…
I had a couple of doctors appointments today. The first one was at 10:15 am and was with my family practice doctor. I’ve hinted lately that there might me something else wrong with me, and today confirmed it. I’ve had a lump in the middle of my abdomen that I feared was an incisional hernia and, sure enough, it is. I all ready have an appointment next week with the surgeon that did my VBG, so I’ll discuss this new problem with him then. Hopefully the solution will not be too invasive nor painful. I do however, want to make sure I get it taken care of in good time. This little bulge is the main reason I haven’t been able to run for any length of time. It gets a little painful and irritated when I run or do anything with too much twisting, turning, or jarring (like running). I really miss being able to run and I want to be able to get back up and in shape as quickly as possible. For now I’m sticking to lower impact workouts like spinning, elliptical, or might even start swimming again this week. On the positive side, my hemoglobin is back to 14.5 (Normal). Always a good thing.
My second appointment was for the first of many follow-up CT scans. Luckily, I didn’t have to drink any contrast, I only had to have the IV contrast. Much simpler. Everything went well and I should hear some results in the next 3 days or so. I’m interested to hear what they have to say.
