3 years of working out

Today marks three years since I started working out. The 4-days-a-week routine now contains two different aerobic workouts: One is an 25-minute HIIT (high intensity interval training) workout, followed by a ~12.5kph run for 20 minutes. The other is a steady state 10kph run for 1 hour.

The HIIT workout is always hard, but the difficulty varies – one day I finish it without feeling like I did an extremely difficult effort, and on another day I might find it hard to continue to the weights workout that follows.

The 10km run is never really hard. It’s a little exhausting, being a one hour thing, and sometimes I get some leg pains, but nothing serious. I actually started thinking about trying for a 15km run, just to see what it feels like. I’m worried that it might hurt my knees, though – I’m pushing it far enough as it is.

Over the past year I gained some weight. I’m not very happy about the extra fat (I looked thinner after the first year of my workouts), but I think my body adjusted to the workouts and I was also much more strict about my diet (I still avoid eating junk food, sweets or snacks). That’s the reason I started doing the 10km runs – for diversity of workouts, but even though they don’t seem to help, I like having two different aerobic workouts.

So this is it, three years and counting. Congratulations and praises from all 5 readers are welcome.