Cardio for 4-15-9

After she left this morning, Candi called me and asked if she could play Sims2 on my computer while I’m in class. Aw. That game is most fun when you don’t know what you’re doing. I can run a household of 8 people while maximizing everyone’s needs and with nobody getting ignored. It satisfies the OCD in me. I AM GOD, I CONTROL EVERYTHING. I’ve reached the point where there’s not as much fun, not as much challenge anymore. Moreover, with the aging thing, I’m ran into a huge problem with too many families spawning. Ideally I could consolidate the families, have them marry someone in the community and only have one child.

I can not spell the names she created at all. Not. At all. Her first house was relatively well-designed for a first house. My first house in the original Sims was HORRIBLE. I made the bathroom too huge. I put a TV in the bedroom, which meant they Sims kept waking each other up. I made a utility room for utilities that… do not exist in the game.

I made sure she had a smoke detector and a security system. She put in a bookshelf anyway, which pleased me. I know too much, so I was trying really hard not to say too much. I eventually backed off and played Battlefront on PS2.

Anyway, it’s occurred to me that I don’t really use the start menu on Roxanne. All the primary apps, I’ve been accessing from the run prompt. Isn’t that retarded? I used to have things like WinAmp and AIM in the quicklaunch thing on the taskbar, but I haven’t gotten around to setting that up since I reinstalled my OS. Oh well.

Oh. And Candi’s female character is completely naked at all times. Well, unless she goes to work. I love dating this girl. And since I have decent skins and no censor, she looks like an actual NAKED GIRL. She created a boy for her to marry that looks like that Zack Efron kid. I know nothing about him other than he’s the latest wanking material for teenage girls. They come and go. And girls masturbate furiously.

Car-Dee-Oh.

5-minute warm-up then:
10 minute jog followed by two minute walk x3
5-minute cool-down

This feels like a long time for me. I end up clock-watching towards the end of the intervals, but it isn’t complete torture. My lungs feel okay, it feels like its my legs that want to slow down. But, no lactic acid or anything. Just.. fatigue? Slow, steady progress. Maybe next week I’ll do 12 or 13 minute intervals.

I should mention that my jogging pace is supposedly super-slow. Since I freaking suck at cardio, I decided I should build myself up going as slow as possible. Which is around 4.1 mph on a treadmill. Once upon a time in high school, I ran a mile in under 10 minutes. So if I actually participate in a 5K, I don’t think I’ll be jogging at a 15-minute-mile pace. All I want is to build up to a volume of jogging 3 miles nonstop. At my current pace, that means jogging around 45 minutes straight. If that’s what it takes, so be it. When I get there, progressing to 4.2 mph won’t be such a shock to the system.

Slow, steady progress.

For my goals, I don’t think I need much more than a 3 mile jog now and then. That’s my goal. As for maintaining it, I’m not so worried about the catabolic effects. I agree with part of an article I read recently.

The fact is, most people don’t have what it takes to diet so hard and do so much cardio that they burn any muscle tissue at all, much less a measurable, noticeable amount. Let’s review some basic exercise physiology:

The primary fuel for low-intensity exercise — aka steady-state cardio — is fat. The primary fuel for high-intensity exercise — weight training, intervals, and start-stop sports like basketball or hockey — is carbohydrate. Following high-intensity exercise, your body burns more fat than it otherwise would, thanks to EPOC — excess post-exercise oxygen consumption, more commonly referred to as the afterburn.

In neither circumstance is the protein stored in your muscles a significant fuel source.

Only under extreme deprivation does your body try to burn muscle to meet energy demands. –source

Hey, I come from a lifting perspective. Getting big and strong is my first priority. A lot of people ditch cardio out of fear of catabolizing muscle. My point is simply that a 3 mile jog is simply not an elite exertion that will cause the body to seek muscle as a fuel source. Or so I tell myself. We’ll see what happens when I get there.

I have an exam at 5 PM. I’ve done most of my studying. I should briefly go over some of the diagrams. Just briefly. I’m at the point where the rule of inverse results from studying applies, where if you study too much it hurts your grade.