Last night I exercised with a heart monitor. It was quite a nifty thing. My heart rate was at about 120 just walking into the exercise room. It went to 140 during warm up, and mjourd got me to try pushing and holding it to different numbers; 150, 160. The coolest single thing was all the different machines picked up the signal. It's the sorta thing about networking that is cool.

After the half an hour warm up, I did a half hour on a bike at 160. I tried to get up to 170, but I forgot that I left the bike set at 160, so it lowered the resistance as I tried to up my heart rate. I fixed this for the last two minutes, and it worked well.

I did a more complete set of pull ups in the gravitrons. It's cool to be able to do a pull up even if the machine is letting you cheat heavily.

I then did the stair climber machine. At the lowest setting 1, I was at 175. At setting 2, I went up to 184. At setting 3 I was at 190-193. That would explain why I could never stick to level 3 for any length of time.

Cool down was back on this free runner like machine. It was set for interval, and my job was to stay below 140 for the low interval and go to 140-160 for the high intervals. The whole heart monitor thing is cool; I'm going to have to buy one of them.

Instead of stretching after cool down, this time we a little bit of the weight machines.
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