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Finding time in your busy schedule to exercise is hard. Whenever you do have an extra half hour to yourself, you likely jump directly on the treadmill or the bike and take off, going as fast as you can to burn as many calories as you can with your short amount of time. This can really be unsafe. If you do not take time to stretch before you exercise, your muscles will not be properly warmed up and your risk of injury will be higher than if you had taken the time to stretch. You need to also stretch ...

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Remembered my goggles and hat after a quiet week last week. In 20 min, did 18 lengths, 4 with float. Part way through I got my head lower and my stroke sped up and became much easier.

Bit of stretching, no foam rolling. Bother. Doing it now instead.

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So I still don't have a designed full workout yet, I'm still looking for lots of excercizes I have a large list of them...some awesome person gave me an idea that each gym something different is accompllished....I think this workout is goign to be three different set ups, ne for my personal goals so mainly cardio and strength, and I don't know if at this point I would want to train something differnt each week...I don't think bodies can do that....maybe yours can...but mine doesn't...unless I were ...

Wednesday, May 16, 2012 - BMR: 1,770 kcal - Exercise: 450 kcal - Food: 3,467 kcal - Surplus/(Deficit): 1,247 kcal - Miles today: 3.8 Cum YTD: 807.3 Miles - 10K MilesTD: 1,926.6 - Walk 5 min@4.5 mph - Run 15 min@6.5 mph - Run 15 min@6.8 mph - Run 1 min@7.2 mph - BW Pull-Ups with Ab Tension (minimum 50)25, 15, 10, 6 (56) - 60° Decline Sit-Ups (minimum 100) 25, 25, 15 (65) -

Got about 5 hours of sleep last night, and I woke up feeling very tired. I got to the equinox ...

Required #s for the five sets: 7, 6, 5, 6, 7 with 90sec rest or longer if necessary between each set.

From Monday's test and workout, I was surprised to find myself still pretty tender & sore today. Here's what I was able to get done:

5 Pull Ups (much better)
90sec rest
4 Pull UPs
90sec rest
3 & 3/4 Pull Ups
15min rest
4 & 1/4 Pull Ups
15min rest
3 Pull Ups

I've changed the format ...