Sunday, February 6, 2011

My Own Version of Ironman

I have a secret...I'm not a huge fan of NFL football.  While the majority of the country was watching the Super Bowl I watched some HGTV until I talked myself into a little workout.  I had a movie from Netflix so I decided I would watch part of the movie while doing some bike trainer intervals.

I got on the bike at 8:02 and decided a 58 minute workout would be optimal (I'm a little behind on my time goal for the month so thought I could pick up some extra minutes!)  While spinning in an easy gear I came up with my workout.  Lesson learned...never trust your math while working out! I decided on a ladder that I thought would get me to 40 minutes of intervals and then my warm up and cool down time.  It wasn't until after my second ladder that I realized my intervals were going to be short.  My interval set was a decreasing time ladder with increasing resistance.  Between each rung of the ladder I did a 1 minute standing run in my big chain ring.  I started at 10 minutes and worked my way down by 2 minutes each ladder rung with a bonus extra 2 minutes at the end too. 

You are probably wondering where my title post comes in? Well, the movie of choice for my ride tonight was Ironman 2.  I know the movie came out a while ago but I'm a little slow sometimes.  It was a good distraction for while I was on the bike. It didn't require any thought to follow the plot and I was able to stay interested and get the full workout in. 

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3 comments:

  1. Thanks, Whitney! Do you happen to have any good resources/sites to recommend about foam rolling techniques? I can only imagine my coordination on that thing will be hilarious, and any tips I can get will be greatly appreciated. :)

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  2. I can do math okay when I'm running. But swimming!! I get so mixed up. I would love to have an abacus (is that what they're called) on deck at the end of the lane so that I could just slide beads over. : )

    ps. I'm not a fan at all of football either, so I didn't catch the Super Bowl though it was on in the living room.

    pss. to comment above -- try youtube. I've found lots of foam rolling techniques there.

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  3. My math skills fall apart when I'm working out, too. Sometimes I have a hard time counting to 10 ("Am I on lap 5 or 6???"). :)

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