No I’m not referring to the movie. Mid-August (2007), I decided to quit smoking. Well, in all honesty, I was hacking and coughing at the time and had to stop to get well. After recovering from my coughing bouts, I decided to quit all together. I needed some other motivation to keep me on the wagon, so to speak. To help reinforce being smoke free, I went ahead and joined a gym (24 Hour Fitness) - everytime I’m breathing hard due to exertion I’m reminded why I stopped smoking.
I started going to the gym around the last week of August and thus far have been able to keep my work out schedule. I go 5-6 days a week where I alternate between weight training and cardio workouts. On my cardio days, I’ll usually do 30 min. on the eliptical machine and another 30 min. on the tread climber. I’ve got bad knees and these two machines seem to be the most forgiving on that body part.
My goal is to get down to about 200 lbs., I was at 251 lbs. on the first day with my trainer. I do need to get a scale and tape measure to monitor my weekly progress. Maybe I’ll write a ‘lil app to track and display the data points that I can i-frame onto here.
