An Unenthusiastic Monday

I had very little sleep last night - thanks to my son, who seemed to develop some kind of weird toddler insomnia - and that, in combination with a miserable grey Monday morning didn’t enthuse me about going to the gym at all. But, I still managed it.

The Sennheisers I purchased really are excellent. They arrived on Saturday morning, which is impressive work by online supplier Qfonic given that I only ordered them on Friday, and aren’t quite as green as they look. They’re still green…but not that green. In a gym, they kind of blend in with the brightly coloured Lycra. Albeit not my brightly coloured Lycra, because I’m not wearing any. There’s a horrible set of images for those who know me, but FYI: I wear comfortable shorts and the first t-shirt I can get my hands on.

My green headphones managed to stop the drivel pumping out of the gym’s speakers penetrating my ear drums, and The Prodigy’s Fat of the Land sounded pretty good through them. Brilliantly, there’s never any worry about them coming out of your ears, because they’re held in place by the neck-band.

Having noticed that my heart rate was something like 200 last week - after a bit of research it sounds like this could either be “a bit high” or “dangerous” or “quite close to dropping dead” - I tried to keep more of an eye on it today. Not running helps, but then that’s like saying not eating is a good way to lose weight, or not jumping off a tall building is a good way to not break your legs. A few stabs of the “incline ^” button, and I managed to find a brisk, up-hill walking pace that was hard work, and kept my heart at around 165-170, which I’m told is OK.

PS: for those of you worried that this blog is simply going to become a log of my training - and I’ll not lie to you, I’m going to carry on writing about that - I’ll have some film and tech content along shortly.

Morning Gym: Day Two

I managed to drag my lazy buttocks out of bed and down to the gym for the second day this week, despite the depressingly miserable weather we’re having. My plan is to do three days a week, so hopefully next week I can get into gear and commence three day gymification. I even ran for a bit today.

I have noticed a problem though - the headphones I’ve got don’t block out the horrific noise that the gym considers to be music. So, my next mission is to feed my headphone addiction find a set of headphones that block noise and aren’t too heavy for the gym. And in-ear ones don’t seem to live up to their name and stay in my ears, so they’re probably not an option.

Game on…