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I’m back on the saddle, woke up this morning and the swelling in my right knee is almost gone now, I’d say I’m back to about 80% fitness. This means I can now start working on burning calories again on my exercise bike. I have just completed a one hour session at level 4 and the calories burned cycling is another 670. I plan on burning another 400 calories later to further increase today’s calorie burning activities. Over the next few days I’m going to have to work my ass off if I’m to succeed in my first body fat reduction challenge.
Still got my knee strapped up though and it was still a little sore during the workout, but the last couple of days whilst I’ve been injured have not been good. I’ve been snacking on chocolate and generally not feeling myself. Don’t get me wrong I’ve still been walking and weight training which has helped to burn off the excess calories. But it just doesn’t feel as effective at burning fat as it does when I’m high intensity interval training on my exercise bike with my sweat suit on.
Still not ready to return to these extreme workouts just yet, but I plan on doing at least 1 hour per day at level 4 for the next 3 days. That only leaves 6 days to go on the 50,000 calories in 50 day challenge. So to succeed I may have to up my cardio to 2 to 3 hours per day. Going to be glad to see the back of the challenge, because to be honest it has been very difficult finding the time to burn 1000 calories a day through exercise. I haven’t had an injury for years, so the injury may of occurred through over training I just don’t know.
My next body fat challenge will probably be one were I aim to reduce my body fat percentage by a set amount each week. This is something I need to look at though when I return from my friends stag weekend in Spain. Whilst I’ve found this first challenge to be hard the calories burned cycling have really allowed me to lose fat and lower my overall body fat percentage.
Not long off this weeks weigh in and I’m expecting to see bad results with been being injured for half of the week. But you never know, the rest from the extreme cardio sessions may have been just what the doctor ordered and fingers crossed I’ll see another reduction in my body fat composition this week.
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Wow, that’s quite a challenge you’ve set up! I’m impressed! Just take care of that knee though. You don’t want to come out of this with an overuse injury.
Thanks! Cynthia it’s the first injury I’ve had in years, but I’m glad to say I’m much better now and totally focused to burning calories and burning fat.