it's an experiment

I just finished the sculpting class about half an hour ago...when I got up to close my office door just now, I got stuck about halfway up. As in, my shuddering thigh muscles wouldn't lift me any further. I had to push with my hands on the armrests to get them to go the distance.

And here I was thinking the class was easier than usual, because we didn't do squats. I guess those few minutes of lunges did the job after all. Yikes. :)

I've been giving some thought to posting daily stats here. Nothing too intensive...I'm not going to post food/exercise logs, because those bore me even as I'm typing them. I generally give up on them mid-week anyway. However, I am beginning to think that posting a daily calorie count might be worthwhile, even just so that I can look back at the end of a week and see what my numbers looked like without having to search through different records.

So, here are the numbers I'm going to start to post here daily (and where they come from):

Calories eaten (fitday)
Carb/protein/fat % breakdown (fitday--I'm shooting for 40/30/30)
Water intake

Workout description
Workout time (HRM)
Time in target zone 120-170 bpm(HRM)
Average heart rate (HRM)
Calories burned (HRM)

I don't know how useful all this is going to be, so I may eliminate some of these daily stats over time. These are just the ones that I can get easily that seemed the most worthwhile to track. I'm going to try to make the stats the last post of the day, after I'm sure that I've eaten and worked out as much as I'm going to for the day. Right now, my stats look like this (if I stick to the meal plan for today, that is):

Calories eaten: 1488
Breakdown: 44/32/22
Water: 2L

Workout: sculpting class
Workout time: 0:29:47
In target zone: 0:06:59
Average HR: 114 bpm
Calories burned: 159

I'm planning another workout today, a long walk after work. I'd like to get 1.5-2 hours in, but I think it's going to be more like an hour, since Americ@n Id0l is on tonight and I want to get home in time for it. A girl's gotta have her priorities straight, after all. ;)