Weights Today

I met my friend Brian at the gym this morning and we lifted weights together. Today was the last day of my current weight lifting workout. Stacy will give me a new one on Monday. She always tells me to be prepared to be really sore after the new one.

This isn't my first time lifting weights, but it is the first time I have changed up the workout this often. In prior bouts of fitness, I would do the same exercises for a few months and then get bored. Not so this time. I really helps to change stuff up. Yesterday I tried an "interval" style workout on the treadmill. Really slow for a short time, then run really hard for a bit, recover at a slower speed, and then just when you feel like you got your breath back, really fast again. Repeat, over and over and over again. Even that little bit of change up helped break up the same boring regularity of the treadmill. A few people have asked how I can stand the treadmill, and I had to think about it. What I came up with, was that while on it, nothing is trying to get my attention. I have music (obviously), but that is it. My mind is free to wander without other things jumping in. I don't read on the treadmill, and watching TV is not very motivating. I like running outside just as much, but for some different reasons. It all probably comes down to the variety in your workouts idea.