During our morning workouts, Richard Bonomo is always
telling me to try harder. If I do fifteen pushups, he says, “One more for the
Corps!” At first I thought he meant one more for my core, since working the
core muscles is the big thing these days, but then I realized he meant the
Marines. And when it comes to the elliptical machine, he is forever telling me
to set it higher. It has three settings: Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced.
Then within each setting you can choose a level between 1 and 20. Being a wimp,
I was using the Beginner setting and Level 5. On Wednesday Rich told me to do
the Intermediate setting at Level 7, so I did. It was a little worse than my
usual workout, but not much. This morning I did the Intermediate setting at
Level 10, and this time my workout was nearly impossible. I was going a lot
more slowly, averaging 82 steps per minute as opposed to my usual 92, and down
to 62 per minute on the really difficult stretches, so imagine my surprise when
I got done and it said I had gone an average speed of 2.2 miles per hour
instead of 1.5 like usual. Here’s the
thing – once I got done with that awful workout, I felt GREAT, much better than
after my formerly wimpy workouts. Maybe next week I will brave Level 12, or
even the Advanced setting. Of course, I say this now. Let’s see how I actually feel
about it on Monday morning…
Famous Hat
2 comments:
Me the wuss always does the elliptical on level 12 and advanced setting, so there :-)
I'm working my way up to it...
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