On Wed, 29 May 2002 12:32:22 -0400, Hilary McClure <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>I was hoping someone would ask! I used to go on a 2.5 mile jog two or
>three times a week. It seemed to be aggravating my chronic upper back
>pain, so I stopped in about July of 2000 (age 42). Pretty much lost my
>workout routine until February of 2001 when I got a free weight set.
>From February until late July of 2001 my workout consisted of about a
>forty-five minute weight workout doing one or two sets of each major
>muscle group, usually to failure in about eight to twelve reps: Squat,
>leg extension, leg curl, bench press, incline press, standing dumbell
>shoulder press, lateral raise, concentration curl, pulldown, dumbell
>row, side bend and crunch. I would only workout once every week to ten
>days. I was making steady gains in strength. So in July of 2001 I
>decided to try my old jogging session to see how my fitness level was
>after not doing any "cardio" for about a year, and I had better wind
>than I ever had before, going through the 2.5 miles more quickly than
>before and with no walking breaks, and easy recovery. It seemed to me to
>confirm for me the claims in the "Why Not Aerobics" article.

That must have been very gratifying! But you say you did the weights from
Feb to July 2001. Did you stop then and if so, why?

Jo