My back is feeling a lot better today. I made a good decision when I decided not to go to the gym yesterday. I really want to win the bet, but it's not worth it to injure myself. But today I was back in the gym and it was business as usual. I wanted to take it slow to test out my back to ensure I was really ready to be back in the gym. I started off with the elliptical because it's a low impact exercise...and it's my go to exercise. My back felt like normal so I stopped worrying. While on the elliptical machine, I watched the infomercial for P90X. P90X is an exercise program which claims that within 90 days a person can drastically change their body's muscle tone by trying a new exercise routine every other week or so. They call it "muscle confusion" and the goal is to not allow the body to reach a plateau. So I decided that I would try a different exercise because I've been doing an hour on the elliptical machine 4-5 times a week for the last three weeks. I jumped rope for 15 minutes and then I did 15 minutes of stair climbing on the StairMaster. If you are like me and you haven't jumped rope since you were a kid, you should know that jumping rope is a good cardiovascular workout. 15 minutes of jumping rope had sweat pouring off of me. My plan is to jump rope and do the StairMaster several times a week.
Daily Journal:
I ate 1550 calories and I burned 580, on the eliptical machine, jumping rope and climbing stairs.
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