Saturday, November 3, 2012

25 minute quickie treadmill workout

If I don't workout before lunch, it usually doesn't happen unless I have already planned ahead to work out after work.  Even then, 7 times out of 10, it won't happen at the end of the day.  So today as the morning crept by, I kept thinking of things I needed to do like drink my coffee, make a smoothie, watch cartoons with Lia, make the beds and tidy up, etc.

Then I realized it was almost 9.  Seeing as I have to leave at 10:30 today for a friend's baby shower, I knew it had to happen right away or it wasn't going to happen today at all.  My guilt from eating pizza last night started to slowly creep in... skipping a workout would only add to that guilt.

This left me with only 25 minutes to get my workout on before I needed to get ready so I decided to just head down to the basement and jump on my treadmill for a quick interval workout.  After a 3 minute warm up walking at 4.0 mph, I alternated minutes at 5.0 then 6.0 and repeated until I hit 25 minutes.  With a 2 minute cool down, I ended up covering just over 2.25 miles at a 1.0 incline.  Not bad for a last minute quickie workout.

Now I am planning ahead and hopeful I will find the motivation to get in a Quick 100 arm circuit later today. 

Off to the baby shower feeling refreshed and ready for my "real" day to begin!

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