Hi Guys - Here's my story and my plan:
I started going into the gym 3x a week pre-op because I was required to lose 10% of my weight before my surgeon would even talk to me. The day I walked in there, I weighed at LEAST 288 pounds and no one even batted an eye lash.
At his seminar my surgeon said, "If you can't take 30 minutes a day for exercise, don't waste my time" or something like that. On my 4th day post op I went to the gym and walked VERY slowly on the tread mill. Unless my kids were sick, I was sick, or something crazy was going on, I've been there every day since.
I do a split body work-out because what I really enjoy is the resistance training. I love the way my arms and shoulders look - my legs are really defined and I like the "look". So Monday, Wed and Friday are 20 min. warm-up on treadmill or eliptical, resistance training of the upper body and abs. Then Tues and Thursday are warm-up, lower body and maybe abs, depending upon what I was able to squeeze in the day before. Sometimes I'll do all the lower ab stuff one day and hit the upper abs and obliques the next day. It just depends upon how much time I have.
Weekends are either all cardio or 90 min cardio and abs.
The major thing I've added is the biking. I try to go as many times a week as I can. This can mean 5 rides a week or just 2 - never know with my crazy work schedule AND the weather! If I'm pressed for time it is a 17 mile ride through the woods on my hybrid.
I have also, this week, joined a bike club and as soon as I have my road bike, I will be doing rides other days during the week - often 30 or so miles. In addition to all this, I'm starting a belly dancing class and those ladies are mean! They do training like olympic athletes - I'm totally intimidated. I'm going to look like a wimp in there! But at least my tummy is flat!
I am going to try to attach the topographical map of my dream ride - Death Valley in October of 2008 - Ride for the Cure of Diabetes. Just look at that nice 1300 mile climb. My legs tremble just thinking about it. Whooooo!
So that is sort of my goal - to do a century ride here in NY (without the 1300 mile climb) and then to do some crazy century rides like the one attached. I can't wait to find out what my limits are. I still haven't been there on the bike. 50 mile ride coming the 23rd. Hope that hurts! Otherwise I'll have to do a metric century this fall! Hell - I may end up doing the century this fall too.
SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!
