I made it to the gym on Monday and completed the jump rope workout I outlined in my Day 2 post. This workout was a bit tougher than my first
workout but I was able to successfully complete it without too much
trouble. On one of the 30 second intervals I did get a bit tired and
tripped over the rope a few times but that was fine because I’m making
progress.
These workouts made me realize that getting to my first 12 week goal
of continuous jumping for 30 minutes is going to be tough and will
require some major leaps in jumping time in order to achieve it. I’ll
probably take a gradual increase in jumping time for the first 6 weeks
and then start adding jumping time in greater increments for the final
6 weeks in order to get to 30 continuous minutes of jumping.
Today I had my physical and I’ve been cleared to start an exercise
program. Once I get my cholesterol numbers I will probably put a
couple of them on my goals page so that I can compare them to my numbers after 36 weeks of jump rope training and eating healthier.
This just leaves me with deciding on what heart rate monitor I want to
get in order to track the progress of my fitness over the 36 weeks.
It’s doubtful I’ll have the monitor in time for my first workout but as
long as I have it in time for week 2 I’ll be happy.
Tomorrow will be another warm up jump rope workout and this will be the
same one that I did yesterday so it should still be rather easy. On
Friday I’m going to try and make the workout much tougher than these
first 4 workouts so that I will be prepared to start with my first 12
week workouts on the 18th.
That’s it for this post, feel free to leave a comment and I look forward to posting more as this journey goes on.
