Week 1 XT #2

Well today's workout almost didn't happen. Our hotel claims to have a pool and fitness center, but the pool is about 2 feet by 5 feet, and the fitness center only had 2 treadmills and 1 elliptical. No bikes. Therefore I could not cycle or swim for cross training.

Luckily we discovered a 24 Hour Fitness less than a mile away. The place was humongous! And also extremely filthy. Nevertheless, because it was so large, I was able to do a workout with both cycling and rowing, without having to worry about losing either piece of equipment.

Here was my workout:

• 10 minutes easy spinning
• 4 x (5 minutes hard/fast rowing; 5 minutes cycling)
• 10 minutes spinning cool down

I rather liked this workout. I enjoy rowing, but I have difficulty doing it for more than 20 minutes at a time because I find it to be so hard. But by breaking it up into 5 minute chunks, I was able to run hard every time. We're talking 60 calories for 5 minutes of work.

I also did my 5 key strength exercises today.

So yay! First week down - unless I decide to the option third cross training workout tomorrow.