55 Minutes of Fun

This morning I had a fun workout with my dad. He has yet to join the gym; he is using guest passes until he absolutely HAS to shell out the money. :P I'm a lot like my dad, we are both overly competitive and can tend to be sore losers (and gloat when we win). My personal training session last night consisted of working chest and arms, so I wanted to do all cardio this morning. We started off on the treadmill, I jogged a couple of times, not as much as I wanted, and walked. After 35 minutes of that, we switched to the elliptical for 15 minutes. The whole time we were coyly keeping watch on how well the other was doing. How many calories we had burned, how fast we made it to a mile…etc. Once he got about 7 calories away from my calorie burn count, I would speed up the mph. He finally conceded that he couldn’t catch me, so after our 15 minutes was up and I switched to a stationery bike for cool down, he stayed on the elliptical so he could say he burned more than I did on it. Yep…that’s how he is! Tuesday and Thursday mornings are difficult to get to the gym before 6:45 because I also bowl that night and don’t get home until 11:30pm. That makes for a LONG day with no real breaks in between. But I need to motivate myself to get there earlier…at least by 6:30, then maybe work my way down to 6:15 and 6:00am.
I found a Couch to 5k Running Plan that I am going to start. I see people beside me on the treadmill running 8.5 speed for 30 minutes with no breaks. I’m envious and want to be able to do that one day, and soon! I’m going to start the week by week plan to see how I can do. Click to check Couch to 5K Out!

My calorie burning this morning was;

Treadmill : 35 minutes burned 218 calories
Elliptical: 15 minutes burned 145 calories
Cooldown on stationery bike: 5 minutes burned 21 calories

Let’s hope tomorrow can be even better!