This week has been pretty crazy. I have been working massive amounts of overtime due to a Windows 7 deployment at work. Everything was going well until we found a problem with the testing procedures which delayed my getting home until 10 pm on Wednesday and found an issue with the compatibility of the latest model of CPU with our old receipt printer. What this really means is I did not get to the gym at all from Monday through Friday. On Saturday that all changed as I went to my first TRX class at the gym. TRX is an exercise system which uses body weight to provide resistance. It pretty much looks like a couple of pieces of webbing hanging from the ceiling with handles about a foot above the floor. I didn't realize the class was an hour long, so I went pretty hard for the first half hour, which meant I was pretty well spent for the second half hour. I got through it and ran to the store for almonds and rice puffs, which I was then craving.
There was no down time as the house inspector was already at the prospective new house with Kathy. I went straight to it and joined the process. The evaluation is enlightening, but the only piece of it that really makes a difference is the roof, which has been hit quite hard by hail. We are hoping the current owners' insurance will cover a replacement. The new house is not yet a foregone conclusion.
We did however, get a new juicer. This one is a masticating juicer, a distinct change from the centrifugal juicer we have been borrowing up to this point. The eventual plan is to attempt a week long juice fast, but willpower is a bit tricky when dealing with appetite. The machine is quite astounding as it will extrude pasta, grind nut butters as well as juice fruits and vegetables and it is much quieter than I thought it would be. This afternoon we tried mango, cucumber and cantaloupe, which was quite tasty. I hope we make it through a week even if we have to start by doing a day or two first.
Lastly I made it to the gym this evening to attempt something that I have not tried before. I spent a half hour on an elliptical machine, maintaining my heart rate at 127bpm. Usually I try to go as fast as possible and not worry about how high my heart rate goes. I was speaking with one of the owners of the gym and he told me that I should really try to not go to hard for to long as the body may stop using fat as fuel and use protein from muscles to fuel the activity. So today I decided to exercise for a half hour at roughly 70% of my maximum heart rate. I found out two very interesting things at the conclusion of it. One, I ran almost as far as I do when I am going full out.. Second, I burned nearly as many calories as when I go full out. Turns out pacing myself may be a boon for me.
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