Recovery and rebuilding

We have reached the end of April already, one third of the year has already gone by, time to look ahead and a little back.  If I look at the goals I have to achieve, I think only my weight loss will be hard to get. Sofar I lost this year “only” 6.4 kg, but summer is coming up and I know the days of inline skating will be growing. The past few weeks I had a very busy time, but luckily I found time to go out skating with my son.

I wrote in my last blog about a recovery which I needed, and so far it worked out OK. The way a human body is working is amazing! If you listen good enough and you have your health check in time you have no limits in what you can achieve (in your mind, that is ;))

My diving health check was about two weeks ago, it confirmed my weight loss. Last year my checkup was in May and my weight was 112 kg, so I lost already almost 12 kg in one year. They also did a more intense health check and everything was OK, excluding weight and fat percentage (but I already knew that J).

My max HR was also measured by a test on a ergometer, my maximum HR was 161 at 3.4 Watt/kg. My HR while resting was 50 (40/43 in the morning) and the health centre gave a good schedule for my training and HR frequency.

Zone	Min		Max		Zone
0	103	Until	114	b/m	Recovery
1	115	Until	126	b/m	Quiet/long
2	127	Until	137	b/m	Normal long
3	138	Until	143	b/m	Zone under
4	144	Until	149	b/m	Zone above
5	150	Until	161	b/m	Maximum

It might be that my max HR is a little higher, but that is something I can test with the spinning lessons. When I got these results I changed my max HR in the lessons back to 167 instead of 170/173. The next month will be a kind of rebuilding, using the table as stated above. I had the feeling last year that some exercise was a little difficult to keep up with, looking at my HR and the trainers’ whishes.

Along the new road I will find new challenges after rebuilding my confidence in HR monitoring. Yesterday Tom and I were participating in the first Friday Night Skate of Almere, my HR max reached 161 once! This summer will be great and Autumn even better!

Ed van Harmelen

April 2012

Achievements	Goals 2012	So far achieved	2011
Weight goal	87.0 kg	100.6 kg	107.0 kg
Weight loss	20.0 kg	6.4 kg	5.0 kg
Kcal burned	200,000 Kcal	76,816 Kcal	48,500 Kcal
Distance exercises	3,600 km.	1.393 km.	1,600 km.
Best time half marathon (skeelers)	50:00	0:55:54	1:04:04
Best time marathon (skeelers)	1:50:00	2:07:06	2:37:36