After my three hour workout on Tuesday, I didn't have much 'gas' for my workout on Wednesday. I found myself back in Fort Wayne, Indiana where I know that the YMCA there has a stairmaster. I did figure that it might be a good time to do something a bit different after a few consecutive weeks pounding the elliptical machine.
I managed to spend one hour on the stairmaster and the calories burned that the machine reported were only 629. I feel that this is a low estimate. I was drenched in sweat after just one hour and although it sometimes seems like I can take my strides on an elliptical machine in my sleep - the stairmaster requires full concentration or else you can actually fall of the neverending stairs. When the workout was complete, the machine recorded that I had 'climbed' 234 floors. I like to remind myself that I used to be unbelievably out-of-breath climbing the twelve flights of stairs to my apartment that few times that I tried to skip the elevator.
I am going to carefully monitor my workouts as the trek up Half Dome (Yosemite) is no longer in the far distant future. My flight to California to rendezvous with the members of the 'expedition' is just a little more than one month away. My time on the stairmaster assured me that my legs were capable of moving and gaining altitude.
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Wednesday MENU
breakfast oatmeal 450 calories
lunch Panera BBQ chicken flatbread, onion soup, baguette
apple, oat n' honey granola bar 1081 calories
dinner spinach salad 750 calories
SNACKS vegetable chips, banana chips, almonds 1108 calories
total calories consumed 3389 calories
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Fort Wayne YMCA Stairmaster 60 minutes, 234 floors 629 calories
Wednesday net calories 2760 calories
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