Friday, September 17, 2010

Extreme Exercise Jams

I've come to hold the utmost respect for the time I spend at the gym working out.  Currently, I do about an hour and a half of cardiovascular exercise.  For the first hour, I do a slow, but steady, warm up on the exercise bike; averaging about 400-480 calories.  I then hop onto the elliptical and do about forty minutes (that's about all I can do because my toes start to fall asleep and periodically I must wiggle and squelch them to get the blood flowing back through there).  On the elliptical today I did 40 minutes with a 5 minute cool-down in the reverse mode. The total calories burned for my time on the elliptical ran up to a whopping  600.  In total, I burned well over a thousand calories on cardio alone.  I don't think I've ever felt this good in my entire life than when I'm in the middle of that elliptical run.  Back to where I started, I've grown to realize that while I am engaged in this physical activity, my thoughts are like a rushing river full of fish, non-polluted and crystal clear.  I guess what I am hoping to convey is that all the thoughts I have are beneficial.  I exude nothing but positivity and aspirations of productivity when I am in this state of healthy bliss.
At this point, I feel highly motivated and cruise into the weight training area of the gym and take it up a notch with my max reps for some of my exercises (although it tired me out too much so I couldn't do the whole thing).  I also contribute the fatigue to my small breakfast and small coffee so after having burned so many calories doing cardio, I was beat.  Doing cardio also conjured up other realistically obtainable goals in regards to my hobbies such as making music compilations for my friends not only just around the the holidays but for all sorts of things.  I'd love to do a work out mix (which is where the title of this entry comes from), I envision an anime girl in 80s trainer gear on the cover in an animated pose that I could design using Photoshop.  That reminded me of how many pictures I used to make on Photoshop for all the little fan websites I made when I was fresh in high school.  First, I had a Mandy Moore fan-page on Geocities where you used their custom designer to put the images up and all that.  I definitely held a huge crush for  Mandi Moore back then, I must embarrassingly admit.
         Then I created a website also on Geo Cities and eventually bought my own domain name called www.janimedojo.com which no longer exists and really never went anywhere because right around that time... I started getting into drugs.  Being the ultimate nerd, I assumed an internet alias of Junpei from my fondness of a character of that name in the anime "Those Who Hunt Elves." Also from the elliptical I experienced a tinge of clarity that in fact, I had (and still possess) a lot of talents back then but they didn't seem as valuable to me then, all I felt I needed and wanted was fit in and feel apart of.

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