Friday, February 3, 2012

music makes a huge difference

So, I made it in to the gym this morning, don't know how I missed it last week...  guess that's the way of it sometimes. 
When I left to take my daughter to school this morning, I remembered to take my water bottle, wear my work-out clothes, and take my bandana so I don't drip sweat in my eyes so I would stop by the gym before returning home.  What I neglected to take was my music.  :(  I knew that if I came home I'd find some reason to not go back, but without the music it would be horrible to do a serious work-out.  Well... half an hour is better than none at all... got in just over 300 calories killed in today's workout.  It was much worse "torture" than a workout usually is.  The four out of five TVs that were on had NO closed captioning, so I had my choice of watching basketball, soccer, news, or the Price is Right... all without any sound or captioning.  Whee!  I suspect I could have managed an hour or so if I had music, but without it my experience was just draining... I noticed every creaky achy pain for the entire half hour.  With music I can often go for an hour, and sometimes even an hour and a half.  Guess I better be more careful next time to take the tunes.