20:00 Stairs + 20:00 Bike

Laundry is the worst. Honestly. Somehow, I always have a mountain of it, and, on the rare occasion where I get it down to nothing I realize that as soon as I take off whatever I'm currently wearing there's going to be more to do. A vicious cycle, to be sure. And what's worse, since I've been neglecting Mt. St. Laundry recently, I ran out of 'good' bras! Anyone else have 'good' bras? The select few that you've stumbled upon over time that actually do what they're supposed to do and keep everything strapped down? I have, like, three. The other 47 in my drawer? Functional, but I probably shouldn't jump rope in them. Although sometimes I do anyway. Whoops. That's Future Britt's problem.

Anyway, since everything clean was also stupid, I ended up going low-impact yesterday. The stair stepper, which I've recently discovered is a bitch and a half and therefore probably really good for me, and the ol' stand-by stationary bike. I'll get back to jumping up and down later this week.

Pre

Energy Level [1-5]: 4

Sore Areas: Legs hurt, but I think they're bruised and not actually sore

Yesterday: No exercise, four-more-years champagne

Environment: indoors - FREEZING. Coldest day of winter thus far.

Workout
Equipment: Stair Stepper, Stationary Bike
Work Time: 40:00

Stairs

Minutes	Intensity (steps/minute)	Total Distance (floors)
0:00 - 1:00	51	~5
1:01 - 2:00	60	~11
2:01 - 3:00	69	~18
3:01 - 4:00	78	~26
4:01 - 5:00	91	~35
5:01 - 7:00	101	~55
7:01 - 17:00	repeat 1:01 - 6:00 x2	~95 ~135
1701 - 20:00	60 forward [1:00] side step - L [1:00] side step - R [1:00]	~141 ~147 153
Total: 20:00	76.5 [avg]	153

Stationary Bike
Program: Random
Level: 15

Minutes	Intensity (RPM)	Total Distance (mi)
0:00 - 5:00	70-75	~1.3
5:01 - 10:00	~95 [:20] ~30 [:10] x10	2.6
10:01 - 15:00	70-75	3.75
15:01 - 20:00	~95 [:20] ~30 [:10] x10	5.25
Total: 20:00		5.25

Post
Energy Level [1-5]: 4
Stretch Time: 10:00
Total Time: 60:00

Day After
Sore Level [1-5]: 0
Sore Areas: None! Surprisingly.

Comments
Everything I've heard about the stair stepper is that it's a total butt burner, but after awhile it wasn't my butt that was tired, it was my quads! Butt still isn't sore even the day after. Must look into this.

Also the stair stepper at my gym is stupid -- it goes by 'levels' which correspond to an awkward number of floors per minute, which in turn equal 10 steps per floor. For example, level 9 is equivalent to 5.1 floors per minute, which is the same thing as 51 stairs per minute. Why 51 and not 50? Hell if I know. Then while levels 10, 11, and 12 are a fairly normal 55, 60 and 65 stairs/minute, 13 decides to be 69 instead of 70. WTF? Why can't I just plug in nice round numbers for how many stairs I want? Plus the machine maxes out at a paltry 101 (...) steps/min, which is why there's an awkward 2 minute interval in there. The idea was to do all one minute intervals topping out at whatever level was closest to 110, but I never got that high. But by the time I figure out it wasn't going any faster I was already like 20 seconds in so I just rolled with it.