Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Current and past weekly routines

I'm on kind of a table craze lately. My latest idea is to post a table that will offer a concise overview of our past and current fitness endeavors by weekday. As you can see, cycling/stationary bike riding is the mainstay of our fitness program.1

Thus, the following table that lists our fitness pursuits by typical week2 since April of 2008:

Sunday3 Monday Tuesday3 Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday

Nov '11 - present (the JIM phase)
cycling/stat. bike
JIM
cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike
JIM
cycling/stat. bike

March '11 - Nov '11 (the arm toner phase)4
cycling/stat. bike modified Power 1/2 hr. cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike modified Power 1/2 hr. cycling/stat. bike

Nov. '10 - Feb. '11 (the modified Power90 phase)
cycling/stat. bike modified Power90 cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike modified Power90 cycling/stat. bike

May '10 - Oct. '10 (the alternate modified P90X phase)
cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike alternate modified P90X cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike

Feb. '10 - April '10 (the arm toner phase)4
cycling/stat. bike modified Power 1/2 hr. cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike modified Power 1/2 hr. cycling/stat. bike

June '09 - Jan. '10 (the modified Power90 phase)
cycling/stat. bike modified Power90 cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike modified Power90 cycling/stat. bike

Feb. '09 - June '09 (the modified P90X phase)
cycling/stat. bike modified P90X cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike modified P90X cycling/stat. bike

April '08 - Feb. '09 (The Soloflex/calisthenics phase)
cycling/stat. bike Soloflex/calisth. cycling/stat. bike rest day cycling/stat. bike Soloflex/calisth. cycling/stat. bike

To be updated as our routine changes.

ADDENDUM: Thinking today about our regime I realized that, at certain parts of the year, we might be doing as little as about 2 hours per week of exercise. Of course we do try to be active during those periods in other ways, such as by sometimes walking instead of driving and taking the stairs instead of the elevator--so it's not as if we're totally sedentary the other 166 hours of the week. Then again, during a different part of the year (height of the cycling season) we might get in 14 hours or more of fitness activities during a given week. And we also do some walking and stair-climbing during this portion of the year as well.
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1 As mentioned in this entry, on-street cycling sessions (done when weather permits) range from .5 hours to 7 hours. Stationary bike sessions run 20-30 minutes--the 30-minute sessions usually being cardio workouts aiming to raise and sustain the cardio-vascular rate for the designated period, while the 20-minute sessions typically involve a recurring pattern of 30-second intense riding intervals followed by 3-minutes of liesurely spinning recovery (as described in this entry).
2 We do occassionally miss a day. In addition we've so far taken periods of anywhere from one week to one month off at certain points in the year due to religious or other obligations or vacations. This sort of intentional break might occur 3 to 4 times in total in a given year.
3 We also try to work in several minutes of abdominal/core exercises on these days.
4 It might be a bit confusing that I call this the "arm toner phase" while listing the Monday and Friday exercise routine as "modified Power 1/2 hr." in the table. To provide a simple explanation, we excerpt from the Power Half Hour program a routine called "Arm Toner," which we do on Mondays and Fridays during this phase.

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