Rise and shine

Yesterday I went to yoga again. It's amazing how good of a stretch I get there. Some of the postures really require a lot of muscle strength, too.

This morning, I managed to talk myself out of talking myself out of working out. I got there early and again there were people there. Two already when I got there and there were four when I left. I ran a measly mile on the treadmill. It was still below freezing this morning, so I'm still not up to running outside yet. I'd be looking at some big problems with asthma at those temps. I could tell the mile went easier than the one last Friday. I'll work on getting up speed on that one mile. However, I already hit in the 180's bpm during the run, so I have to take it carefully. It would be cool if I could get that mile down under 10 minutes. It would make it easier to break the 30 minute 5k mark this spring.

I completed 1B6 out of NRoLfW this morning. I did end up sore after Friday's 1A6 workout and I'm feeling my lunges already. Deadlifts were on the menu today. I think I need to do more of a squat to grasp the bar. I felt like I was doing more of a straight legged deadlift. But, I guess I'll have to pay attention to the mirrors to make sure.

After the weights, I did the stretch trainer. I used the yoga breathing and got a much better stretch.

All in all, I was done in about an hour. Not bad. I had thought the 3-set portion of NRoLfW would take too long, but it seems like it will be ok. Of course, I know the exercises better now, so maybe I stay on task better. I'm pretty good about keeping the 60 second rest between sets. Although, on lunges, I take a short break in the middle.