Well, I am continuing to follow the calendar from Prevention.com and today was a timed day rather than a distance day. The goal was to do a 3 minute warm up followed by a 25 minute brisk walk and then a 2 minute cool down. For this part of the program, PRE scale (perceived rate of exertion) is used in place of distance or heart rate. The calendar recommended a PRE scale of 4-5 for the warm up, 7 for the brisk walk and 3 for the cool down.
Herein lies the problem with this for me....I am an overthinker. First off, I wore the heart rate monitor and the pedometer because I want all aspects of fitness to be available to me at all times (and I paid good money for them dangit, I'm using my technology!) Second, the PRE scale is highly subjective and it is explained as "4-5 - an easy stroll, 7- like you are late for an appointment, 3- easy stroll. *based on a scale of 1-10, 1 being sitting on the couch, 10 being an all out sprint". So the issue is this, I can't tell if I am actually at a 7 because I keep thinking I could do more, but I'm not sure if I am being a wuss or if I am too hard on myself. I think I need athletic psychological counseling to provide me some support. That's right, I said it, I need an athletic supporter!
At any rate, after all was said and done, I managed 1.93 miles in 30 minutes including warm up and cool down which is 3.87 mph which averages a 15.5 minute mile! yeah me!
well, I'm pretty sweaty and my friends are en route for dinner and the drive-in, guess I should go shower....
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WOW! That's pretty fast. If your going to continue at that speed, I think you WILL need an athletic supporter :-)
Great job. Stay with the program and you WILL see results. Don't concentrate on the "wuss" factor. Just make sure you give yourself credit for being there and trying.
That's pretty fast, sis! Much faster than my 2 miler as I have been sitting on my butt for 12 hours and have not gotten one foot closer to my goal.
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