A Strong Workout Plus the Altered Five Blues Band’s “Mint Condition”
So last week was nice. Morning temperatures were in the mid-60s and relative humidity was also fairly low. Yesterday and today overall temperatures were up. This morning it was 76 degrees at 8 o’clock with 95% relative humidity and the sun shining brightly! Not conditions that I like to run in! This 68 year-old body can take just so much!
Anyway I decided to do an indoor workout. Since it was supposed to be a running day, I wanted to make it a mostly cardio workout. One of the things that I decided to include in the workout was a set of exercises, some of which are from Kundalini yoga, I do to Snatam Kaur’a Song of the Mul Mantra.
Anyway, I used probably the first Cardio playlist that I created which contains a lot of songs from the Sixites and added a few different songs. I kept it mostly just dance cardio but did use light weights, a resistance band and a 5 lb medicine ball during the workout. Here are the results!
The Nerdy Results
Total Time: 60 min Calories Burned : 541
Avg HR 117 bpm Max HR 168 bpm
Time in HR Zones
Peak: 7 min Cardio: 35 min Fat Burn: 10 min
The results show that I burned as more calories today than I did on my 3.1 mile run on Tuesday. (All be it in more time).I also achieved my goal of having the workout be mostly cardio. I may try this schedule running 2 days a week instead of three for a few weeks to see if my knees are a little better for it. While my knees aren’t real bad, they don’t feel as good as they use it on the non-running days.
Morning Music
If anyone is interested here is the basic playlist I used for the workout. I did however skip a few songs and added one or two songs from another playlist.
Now, how about some other late morning music …..
A few weeks ago, I discovered the Altered Five Blues Band. Their new release Ten thousand Watts was on the Roots Music Blues Chart ( this week the album is number 8 on the chart) but hadn’t been released yet. So when I went to Spotify, I checked out their 2017 release Charmed &Dangerous. It didn’t take long for me to realize that this was a band I was going to like .
On the first track “Charmed and Dangerous” I heard some killer guitar, good vocals and organ!! Oh yeah ! The second track “Mint Condition” continued the love fest, as the organ became more prevalent. Then they won me over by adding some blues harp on then third track “Three Forks”. I was sold on the band!!
I’ll write more about the band after listening to Ten Thousand Watts a few more times. But for now let’s go into the afternoon with some late morning music “Mint Condition”from the Altered Five Blues Band album Charmed & Dangerous. Check it Out!
