Eye of the Tiger

Since my 2 weeks of work out didn’t really make me lose any weight whatsoever, I’ve decided to push myself harder and focus on cardio. Now the thing about cardio is that it’s only effective when you keep your heart running for at least 30 to 45 minute. Below this time, you basically burn nothing but the energy you have ready at hand.

Me: “So to make it simple, I just need to keep my heart running for 30 minutes? This shouldn’t be too hard”.

Dave: “Well you need to run for AT LEAST above 30 minutes. Only after then, the energy you’ll burn after this lap of time will be depleted from your fat. I also suggest you to run with your sweater on so you can sweat more and burn more fat.”

Me: “Alright”

Dave:” Also remember to play a power song when you feel tired to give you a mental boost… Ready? Alright, let’s go tiger”.

This day, I’ve come prepared with all the required equipments:

• New Nike shoes I’ve just bought for 90 bucks, READY!
• Ipod with arm strap loaded with power song, READY!
• Bottle of water, READY!

Today, there is no way I’m coming back home without losing at least 5 lbs of fat! So I’ve decided to run for one hour on one of those treadmills. I pressed the button “Quick start” and “3…”, “2…”, “1…”. and the tread started to move. Let’s put the speed at 6 for a little warm up…

As I run, I couldn’t help noticing this little timer that tracks my running time, a calorie meter and distance meter. Alright, today, I’m going explode those numbers!

• 2 min 14sec: I couldn’t help notice how boring running was.
• 3 min: My thirst is kicking in… humpff.. I’ve never thought it would be that hard to drink while running…
• 3min 20: My first drop of sweat falls. And my legs starts to get heavy… At this rate, I won’t last much longer. Power song! Power song! I need mental boost!

“Power song played: Eye of the tiger from Rocky…”

Tuuuuduuuutuuuuu… tuduuuduuuuu…!!

Alright baby! I’m back in the game… But lets speed down by a bit...

…

Oh no powersong is over… I’ve got nothing else to do besides running and …

Oh man… NO… Don’t look at the clock… Don’t look… crap…

What the?? oO 4 min 11 sec. How is that even possible? Have I entered in some sort of time distortion or something? At this rate, I’m going to kill myself. Let’s walk a little to regain my breath. All I need is to keep my heart running, so walking a little bit should be fine.

Breath… breath… the key is breathing…

After couple minutes, my body sweated as it never sweated before. My grey T-shirt who was supposedly grey turned black and sticky. I felt like my body was evaporating and that warm thick sweatshirt didn’t help at all. Doh... No wonder it's called a SWEATshirt. From this very moment, I only had one objective… to survive at least 10 min on the treadmill… To survive so I don’t look like an asthmatic rookie. After 10 minutes, tI barely made it alive…the calorie meter indicate 90 cal burnt… Barely enough to burn off a Coke…