Tuesday Workout

10 min bike 12 mins of sprint intervals (3 min sprint, 1 min walk, 3min sprint, 1 min walk, 3 min sprint, 1 min walk - Sprint was 6.8 mph, walk is 3.0 mph on the treadmill). 30 min lifting similar routine as Sundays ---------------------------------------------- Standing row in squat on free motion machine supersetted with regular Squats on squat machine 15X3 Ball Crunch into chest press on free motion machine 15X 3 Cable Cross Machine Lumberjack supersetted w/ medicine ball hard as I can throw to ground, catch and drop into squat back to stand and then lift over head for shoulder press 15X 3 10 minutes cool down cardio on arc trainer Really high intensity workout today...too high. I hit 178 Heart Rate which is probably my max or very close and got sick to my tummy and had a bright pink face for about 20 minutes after. The high heart rate carried through during the lifting too. It didn't get lower than 150. I really needed that cool down cardio. I think it was starting off with the sprint intervals that killed me. I need to do a 1:1 ratio with the sprint walks. The 1 min walk didn't let me recover enough back to a lower heart rate. Maybe try 3 min sprint, 3 min walk and see how that goes next time. Anyone else doing sprints or interval heart rate training for cardio? Just curious what other people are doing.

Kicking butt Stayce, I do intervals on the Norditrack, but only 4-6 times a month, kicks my ass. I do sprint here and there every time I do the Norditrack, but just to keep the heart rate up if it starts dropping ( a problem I never used to have, but now if I am not really working, my heart rate begins to drop, does that mean I am getting fit?)

Man.. I have not been on a nordictrack in ages. That was a good workout. I am hoping to do some real skiing this winter. All my life I've never done any downhill skiing and have always wanted to try. The last few years I let my weight get in the way. Now I will have no excuses! Ha.. that is a great problem to have. Even when I lift I try not to let it go lower than 120 during and between sets but sometimes that's hard. I think doing the compound movements and doing more standing then sitting and laying whenever possible also helps to keep it up. Squats always gets it up really high.. like 165. For example, if I do my rows on the cable cross and hold in a squat position instead of sitting and using the traditional row machines (hammer strength or cybex) that seems to help too.