King of Pain

I've been feeling like the King of Pain a few times recently. A little over a week ago I used, for the first time, the Cyclo-Core workout that I purchased years ago. Graeme Street kicked my butt! And my quads. It was really more my quads. I could barely walk down stairs for the better part of a week. The worst part is that I had only done part of the first third of the workout that morning. Ouch. I did try the program again last Saturday and fared significantly better. I got through two of the three sections of the workout, and was still able to walk normally afterward.

Well, during this time I have continued to regularly utilize the NordicTrack for my morning workouts. This has become a critical part of my weight loss regimen, especially since the stationary trainer for my bike broke last year. Well, the NordicTrack has adjustable resistance, and I have been slowly increasing that resistance over the past month or so.

Let me tie these last two thoughts together. This morning I did a little over 2 km on the NordicTrack on the higher resistance levels and was feeling some muscle burn after that, but I then proceeded to use my ABslide, then go into some of the exercises from Cyclo-Core. By the end of that 25 minute workout, I knew that I'd done something. I could still do stairs okay (thank goodness), but could feel a bunch of muscles from my arms, legs, and core.

The payoff of all of this? I was down to 87.1 kg when I weighed in right after that workout! Woohoo! Only 7 km to my goal weight. Could it be that I will finally achieve the resolution that I've been chasing for the last four years? Probably not by the end of this year, but most likely by next Spring. How would it be to actually start a cycling season without the extra 10 kg of Winter storage? Hopefully I'll be able to know and share that feeling.