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May. 14th, 2007 09:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnpalmerCut for boring exercise stuff...
So, it's like, with my heart rate, 150 beats per minute is a threshold. If I go much over that, for very long, I'm going to have a pounding headache and feel like crap.
I've been trying to build up my jogging/walking to the point that I can jog for 5 minutes at 5.2 miles an hour (this is pathetically slow, even for a 40 year old man who weighs 250 lbs, so it's a damn good thing I don't give a damn about how pathetically slow it is), followed by 2 minutes of walking at 2.5 miles an hour.
Today, for some reason, I decided I'd start my set of intervals (each run/walk is one interval in Johnspeak) with four minutes of jogging. Damn good thing... my heart rate was up at 146, which was unexpectedly high. My next interval was 4:15, and I was at 152.
Now, this pissed me off. I've been trying to go from "more than four minutes jogging per interval" to "five minutes jogging per interval" for over three weeks now. My heart rate is dropping really quickly (in two minutes, I can often go from 148 to 115). I was about to give up and hit the ellipticals instead.
I stuck with it, and while the length of time I could jog continued to suck, I managed to keep going for a full hour. I also found that if I set my walking speed up to 3 miles an hour, my heart rate still drops "pretty fast". Not quite fast enough, but it might be worth trying it as a variation. In the end, I did four miles (most I ever did on the treadmill) at an average speed of 4.2 miles an hour (I shoot for 4 miles an hour as my average, since I can *walk* four miles an hour.)
It's occasionally frustratingly slow progress, but I guess it's progress, and my legs are certainly getting stronger. Once my legs are stronger, it'll mean my heart will be able to work a little less hard, so, eventually, I'll get over the hump. But damn, is this teaching me new things about patience.
So, it's like, with my heart rate, 150 beats per minute is a threshold. If I go much over that, for very long, I'm going to have a pounding headache and feel like crap.
I've been trying to build up my jogging/walking to the point that I can jog for 5 minutes at 5.2 miles an hour (this is pathetically slow, even for a 40 year old man who weighs 250 lbs, so it's a damn good thing I don't give a damn about how pathetically slow it is), followed by 2 minutes of walking at 2.5 miles an hour.
Today, for some reason, I decided I'd start my set of intervals (each run/walk is one interval in Johnspeak) with four minutes of jogging. Damn good thing... my heart rate was up at 146, which was unexpectedly high. My next interval was 4:15, and I was at 152.
Now, this pissed me off. I've been trying to go from "more than four minutes jogging per interval" to "five minutes jogging per interval" for over three weeks now. My heart rate is dropping really quickly (in two minutes, I can often go from 148 to 115). I was about to give up and hit the ellipticals instead.
I stuck with it, and while the length of time I could jog continued to suck, I managed to keep going for a full hour. I also found that if I set my walking speed up to 3 miles an hour, my heart rate still drops "pretty fast". Not quite fast enough, but it might be worth trying it as a variation. In the end, I did four miles (most I ever did on the treadmill) at an average speed of 4.2 miles an hour (I shoot for 4 miles an hour as my average, since I can *walk* four miles an hour.)
It's occasionally frustratingly slow progress, but I guess it's progress, and my legs are certainly getting stronger. Once my legs are stronger, it'll mean my heart will be able to work a little less hard, so, eventually, I'll get over the hump. But damn, is this teaching me new things about patience.
