Earlier this year, I brought a Heart Rate monitor. Not sure as to what got me interested in the first place but I absolutely love it! Its nice to see what you are getting out of whatever exercise you are doing and personally, I feel encouraged to push harder to reach a higher beats per minute (BPM) or reach a certain amount of calories when its right there for me to see!
The last week I did a mini challenge for myself and wore it every time I did some exercise to see how intense I may or may not be working!
Some days I was a couple of minutes into my walks so had to quickly set it up haha but they are all recorded! It was interesting to see on my usual day walks, although I walk the same distance everyday (to and from work), I might walk a minute slower, or faster, or not at a pace that increases my heart rate as high as I would expect! I worked out a long time ago the route is roughly 150 calories and a 25 minute walk, but you can definately see how my intensity and time varied over the week!
I also wore it during my gym classes! Although its not a good indicator for weight training as to how much you burn in a workout, my HRM is still useful in monitoring my heart rate and how much the weights I may be using increases my BPM for different body parts and weight increases.
So I took a photo of my results on my watch after every exercise and made a small collage for each day. Heres my week’s worth of exercise as recorded by my Polar FT7 Heart Rate Monitor:
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| Monday and Tuesday workouts |
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| Wednesday and Thursday workouts |
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| Friday, Saturday and Sunday Workouts |
My weekly exercise as you can see above consists mainly of walking, Body Pump classes, Body Attack classes and a CXWorx classes.
I pretty much for this exact routine every week, with a couple of changes like swimming instead of CXWorx, or a walk might be a jog, or I may walk the dogs which is a slower pace. My main routine I never change is walking to and from work Monday - Friday, body attack and pump on Monday nights, body pump on Wednesday nights and body pump again on Saturday morning! I am guaranteed to always do those activities! I like my routine, it fits into my lifestyle and I enjoy all that I do!
I’m not a massive fan of cardio, and over the last year or so, I’ve come to enjoy weight training a lot more.
I have been looking up programs on bodybuilding.com and playing around with the boys weights at home, hell even attampted a deadlift with 30kg, DAMN it was hard haha so dropped down to 20kg haha
Anyways, there is a new 24hour gym opening up just around the corner from home, and I think I might join to start doing heavy weights! Not just my pump class, but my own routine. I would still do pump on maybe Monday and Wednesday nights just to get a full body workout, but I really want to start lifting heavy! So I’ll let you know what happens in the future regarding that :D
Today I have done my walks to and from work, and tonight, I will be doing 1 hour Body Attack and 1 hour Body Pump! I don’t know how I’m going to go though as my butt is still very sore from CX on Saturday morning haha. I usually take a few kilo off on my weights too as I am exhausted by the end of Attack and trying to do weighted squats on my jelly legs just doesn’t happen haha
Wish me luck ;)
(note: I didnt end up doing pump, had a massive headache after attack! And Attack was insane, so muggy and sticky hot in the classroom, I was sweating first track in!!)
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