Monday, September 02, 2002

 
I WENT A LITTLE CRAZY AT THE GYM TODAY.
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Saturday was my three-month "luniversary" of going to the gym, and today, to celebrate I did twice my normal weight-lifting, and then I rode the elliptical machine for three hours and 45 minutes, until it said I had burned 3,600 calories. Normally, I do an hour and burn 1,000 to 1,100 calories. I picked 3,600 for two reasons. First, it's a little more than a pound of fat, which is 3,500 calories, and I liked the idea of burning an entire pound of fat in one session at the gym. Second, when I ask people how much they work out, I almost invariably hear that they do 300 calories, 3 times a week. So, I liked the idea of doing as much in one afternoon (well, one afternoon and evening), as my other friends do in 4 weeks.

I've heard again and again that the three month mark is when you start to first notice changes in your body from working out. I definitely noticed a difference more than a month ago, but I continue to be pleased by my progress, which seems a little noticeably better just about every week. At this point, I think I would be pretty happy if I'd had plastic surgery three months ago, and this was the result. Standing on the elliptical machine, peddling away, doing a month's worth of exercise all at once, I could almost have sworn that I could tell the difference between the way I looked when I started and the way I looked afterwards. But, it must have been just my imagination.

This is The Official Record. 11:32 PM
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