{"id":144,"date":"2010-09-30T08:09:07","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T23:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/?p=144"},"modified":"2015-03-22T08:19:08","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T23:19:08","slug":"september-2010-fitness-diary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterdaley.net\/home\/september-2010-fitness-diary\/","title":{"rendered":"September 2010 Fitness Diary!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, September 1:<\/strong> After a week of being sick I was anxious for a big cardio session tonight and with the DMZ half marathon fast approaching I decided on a long and slow evening jog. I left home around 8:40 p.m. and headed towards campus and twenty minutes later while jogging on campus I had to stop because of a pain in my right calf. Doh! I hope I haven’t seriously hurt it! I walked home and it felt OK walking on it. Then when I got home I was hungry for more cardio so I hopped on my exercise bike for 10 kilometers at just under 15 minutes:<\/p>\n

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Thursday, September 2:<\/strong> Thankfully my calf felt much better today so it’s definitely not the serious strain I had feared. It still felt a little stiff, but when I tried walking on the treadmill at the gym it felt almost as good as new. I took it easy though reducing the speed while increasing the incline to ensure I still got a decent cardio workout from the 3 kilometers I walked. The steeper incline also gave my thighs more to do which felt good. It was also my first back workout in while and it was a workout I sorely needed. I exercised my traps, lats (lightly) upper back, lower back, biceps, thighs, hamstrings, and sides:<\/p>\n

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Friday, September 3:<\/strong>\u00a0 A super fast 20 kilometers on my exercise bike today left me absolutely drenched in sweat and my heart racing:<\/p>\n

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Sunday, September 5:<\/strong> I arrived at the gym at 3:10 thinking it was staying open until 7, but\u00a0was shocked to learn\u00a0it closes at 4! I didn’t have much time so I raced through a chest, shoulders, and triceps workout – my first in a while – and then jumped on the treadmill for a solid and sweaty 3 kilometers.<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, September 7:<\/strong> Here then is my 200th post-cardio workout photo! Twenty kilometers on my exercise bike watching the starship Enterprise (Next Generation) do their usual space things:<\/p>\n

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Wednesday, September 8:<\/strong> Four kilometers on the treadmill up a steeper incline than usual:<\/p>\n

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Saturday and Sunday, September 11 & 12:<\/strong> A fair bit of walking around in Incheon and Seoul catching up with Davids Neale and Vasella. I was supposed to run in the DMZ half marathon on Sunday, but my right calf muscle still doesn’t feel 100% and it needs to be 100% to attempt a half marathon!<\/p>\n

Monday, September 13:<\/strong> An hour in the gym today for a 30-minute 3-kilometer cardio session on the treadmill (my calf felt fine), and then a back, traps, biceps, and lower back workout. It’s been a while since I’ve exercised those muscles and it felt great to be back in the swing of things:<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, September 14:<\/strong> A rare evening gym session tonight from 8:55 p.m. until 9:25 p.m. A nice short sharp good old-fashioned chest, shoulders, and triceps workout.<\/p>\n

Wednesday, September 15:<\/strong> Four kilometers on the treadmill and thankfully my calf muscle felt fine:<\/p>\n

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Thursday, September 16:<\/strong> A 25-minute legs and lower abs workout in the afternoon. I don’t work my legs enough (I’ve always hated doing squats), but today I worked them pretty hard.<\/p>\n

Saturday, September 18:<\/strong> Thirty minutes in the gym this morning focusing on traps, lats, upper back, lower back, biceps and forearms.<\/p>\n

Sunday, September 19:<\/strong> Back in the pool for the first time in almost a month. It felt wonderful being in the water with my SwiMP3 again. Listening to my favorite music underwater makes all the difference! I swam 26 laps of the 50 meter pool behind HomePlus in Yongsan. Then I went to my gym for a 30-minute intense chest, shoulders, and triceps workout:<\/p>\n

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Monday, September 20:<\/strong> Three kilometers on the treadmill followed by a mammoth legs session. Walking will be difficult tomorrow…<\/p>\n

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Thursday, September 23:<\/strong> I walked about 8 kilometers outside from home to Igok station and then around downtown a while doing some shopping.<\/p>\n

Friday, September 24:<\/strong> Back in the gym for 3 kilometers on the treadmill and a solid weights session: back, traps, biceps, forearms, lower back, thighs, hamstrings, calves, sides and abs. Getting tired just typing what I did…<\/p>\n

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Saturday, Sept 25:<\/strong> Just under an hour in the gym earlier today: 3 kilometers on the treadmill and a solid chest, shoulders, and triceps workout.<\/p>\n

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Sunday, Sept 26:<\/strong> A 1.5 kilometer swim in the morning followed by a downtown shopping spree that netted a new motorbike helmet and a tub of protein:<\/p>\n

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Tuesday, September 28:\u00a0<\/strong>I did well to make it to the gym after a long day today and an even longer day yesterday (13 hours). At the gym I worked my back, traps. lats (my injured lat muscle is almost back to normal), biceps, a light leg workout (I’m saving my legs for a possible 2-3 hour slow jog tomorrow evening.. maybe), sides, lower abs, lower back and 3 very steep kilometers on the treadmill:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, September 29:<\/strong> Something completely different tonight: 26 slow laps (10.4 km) of Keimyung University’s athletic track – with the festival going on a few hundred meters\u00a0away!\u00a0It was my first time jogging since injuring my\u00a0right calf a few weeks back. Phew, it felt fine. The first 25 laps were at a\u00a0slow pace and I sped up for the\u00a0final lap to test my calf further.\u00a0It’s all systems go for next week’s\u00a0Hi Seoul half marathon!<\/p>\n

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That ends\u00a0this month’s fitness campaign.\u00a0I’ll be very busy the next couple of months, but hope I can continue exercising as regularly. Only time and my site – which is a year old this week – will tell…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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