Going on about weights and exercise again

Got back on the workout pony after slacking off most of last week.

(  Upper-body workout numbers  )

I’m still pretty sure that I need a good source of cardio. I’m thinking about getting a portable mini cycle, which I can tuck away somewhere in between uses. I’m a bit dubious about the quality of the workout it’d give me, though.

Reading Jim Henley’s fitness entries in his blog has me thinking about HeavyHands. The basic idea here is that you walk at a good pace while holding small weights (1-6 pounds) in your hands and swinging your arms. The swinging is the important part. I know that even without holding weights, swinging my arms while I walked on a treadmill upped my heartrate considerably. So, on days when it’s nice enough, I could go out and look silly around the block for half an hour or so. (Ideally I’d have a treadmill so I could do this indoors, but ideally I’d also have enough money to afford a treadmill, and enough space to put one, and the power to convert ice cream into muscle tissue and win lotteries with my mind.) It looks like dumbbells cost around a buck a pound, so getting pairs of one- and two-pound vinyl or neoprene dumbbells is a pretty insignificant monetary investment, and oughta hold me for about three months.