Exercise update

[lirion]

Tonight's efforts:
X trainer, 8 Minutes, level 6.
Having spent the vast majority of the weekend bedridden with CFS, I decided not to push through to the 10 minute mark when I started feeling shaky on this.
I was feeling distinctly nauseous.
I have a couple of theories though. 1) The protein drink isn't enough before I start the exercise, I need a more solid snack (I consume it about 45 minutes before I begin the workout). 2) I shouldn't do the X trainer first. While it makes sense because it's the hardest workout, and so doing it whlie least tired is good, I think I also need tow arm up on something else first - treadmill maybe. So I'm going to try both of these out and see if that helps me in my goal of increasing X Trainer time.

Recumbent bike, 12 minutes, level 10. Definite upgrade in time and intensity here so feel it balanced the fail on the X trainer some. The extra 2 minutes only gave me an extra 250m of distance but I figure this is because of the added resistance so I'm not fussed there.

Treadmill, 12 minutes, incline 0.5, speed 6.3. Increase in time here, perhaps could ahve upped the speed mroe - my calves were aching with the incline at 1 and the speed a bit higher so I dropped them both, again in the interests of not overdoing things.

Weights:
Pulldowns @ 20kg:
10 x widegrip
10 x widegrip palms toward me - 5 slow, 5 fast
10 x narrow grip palms toward me

The narrow grip - hands close together - I feel in different muscles which is nice, but I'll have to do them separately as I could cheerfully add another 10kg to theweight I'm pulling.

Cable Rows @ 20kg
2 x 10

Tried the Chest Press machine. Not good for someone who's go t ashoulder that's dislocated since birth. I couldn't figure out why one arm was coming down so much easier than the other. Until on the forth one my shoulder went. Right then, no mroe of that machine! It doesn't hurt for the record, it's just the angle, and the muscles around it bitch somewhat when you're doing it with weights :(

Did some more pulldowns instead:
10 x wide grip behind head
10 x narrowgrip
10 x narrow grip palms toward me

Legpress @ 40kg
2 x 10
@50kg
10

Which is itneresting as I've always thought I carried a lot more strength in my legs than that.

So clearly I need a dedicated weights workout as well as a cardio one.
Because also, doing leg press at the end of a cardio workout which has all been stuff on my feet and leaves my legs a bit trembly = not cool.

But yes, need more strength in general. So might aim for a lunchtime weights workout as well.

And of course had my very lvoely 20 minute sauna afterwards and felt delightful for it.
And if nothing else, at least U had no trouble with feeling cold on the way home :D