Ok, the first visit the other day to the SAN wasn't too bad.
They gathered lots of information on my fitness and history and all that. Not fun to tick nearly every "risk factor" box, but that's the game I'm playing I guess. They put me through the typical treadmill stress test and I did okay. The worst part is always the shaving and ripping off of those damn tabs.
The result of the assessment was "lots to improve in the risk factors, plenty to do in cardio fitness, otherwise not so bad, let's lose some weight". I was more worried about my BP raising during the workout than they seemed to be.
This morning I went for the first 'official' session. Again, not so bad. They're starting me slow - the workout was far less than I do in a usual MA workout, but much more 'sustained'. The Cardiac nurse pointed out that my HR spikes a lot - it goes up fast when I exercise, then comes down pretty well again when I rest. I guess this is the 'anaerobic' aspect of my MA training -not a lot of sustained cardio, just lots of 'bursts'. 20 minutes on the treadmill at medium pace was far harder than cranking out some leg presses or bench presses.
I proved quite a problem with the heart rate monitoring. Despite the shaving, I seem to sweat some kind of oil and those tabs just pop off every 30 seconds or so, much to the distress of the nurse. Surely there must be better technology than this by now?
Anyway, that done, I continue from here. The trainers liked my fun-run goal but said the first part of the training plan should just be "daily, consistently". She said she wants me walking/jogging/running for 30 minutes every day, regardless of intensity or distance and we'll work from there. Either way, they said we had plenty of time to get ready.
Feeling pretty good at this point. This week I also cut alcohol consumption by half - next week I'll half again. This is Rob's "detox plan" ;).
I want to test the embedding of a youtube video, so here's a new band I've found recently and a favourite song of theirs to end out this week...surprisingly, not safe for work...
Yeah, just have to get out there.
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Sweating oil! I've only heard of that happening in the Randy Couture "supreme mother of all workouts!" Let's go princess!
Hey, it's been that way since I was 16...nearly all of my instructors have noticed how useful it is for defence...you can't hold onto a guy who is so slippery ;).
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