The other day I stopped into Sports Authority and purchased the Polar FT4 Heart Rate Monitor. It monitors your heart rate making sure you're in your fat burning zone- as well as tells you the amount of calories you burned during your workout.
While the numbers may not be 100% accurate, its interesting to see the difference of calories burned in each workout. For instance, 60 minutes of run-walk intervals burned roughly 438 calories while 30 min run plus 20 minute weight training burned 392. It's a small yet motivating piece pushing you harder cuz once you know the amount of calories you burn on average during your workout you'll want to increase that each time. I went to a dance class on Sunday, it was a 3 hour fundraiser- allowing you to come in and leave at any time. I stayed the 3 hours wearing my monitor- and was pleasantly surprised to see 1,686 calories burned after the class! We wont get into how my legs felt the rest of the day- or the enormous appetite I had- but the fun was well worth it!
This morning was a short 7 am workout before the kids woke up
Hill Sprint
100 jumping jacks
Stationary Lunges with shoulder presses (15 reps)
Walk out Push ups (8 reps)
Lat Pulls (15 reps)
Frog Leg Crunches- Bicycle Crunches (50,30)
Repeated the sequence 3 times. Even if its something short- its well worth it. Just do something.
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