Reviveyourlife

Well it was raining cats and dogs this morning, but I decided to do my scheduled interval training anyway.
Coach Nancy (my Fitness by Phone coach) will be pleased I think. I went on my measured 400 metre lap, half up hill and half down and straight out my driveway. Fast walk and some slow jogging.

I had my caltrac on and my Polar 2000 heart rate monitor. The heart rate monitor is the key to these workouts, because together we have set some small goals over the scheduled 15 minute period. interval training is simply a situation where you train for a couple of minutes at a certain exertion level, then back off for a couple of minutes, then again at ever higher exertion levels.

The exertion is a 1-10 scale where 1 is no exertion and 10 is so much exertion you can hardly breathe

We were looking for an average heart rate of 65-75% of max, and a maximum heart rate of about 85%. And the perceived exertion was to be about 7 or 8 out of 10.

Pretty good - I averaged 79% and maxed out at 104%. With an exertion level of 10. I literally couldn’t breathe unless I consciously used my diaphragm a lot more than usual. LOL but I feel great.

BTW, I used 240 calories to do the 16 minutes of exercise, so I am on track to burn my 450 plus for the day extra through movement.

The more I use Fitness by Phone principles for my own health training, the more convinced i become of its usefulness to virtually anybody. You can’t help but win

Cheers