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Yesterday, I was pretty determined to at least visit the gym once, before I get away for 3 weeks or so. Even though the technician from P1 came and checked the condition of our modem, and left late in the evening, I told the missus that I want to at least flex out the muscles before going for dinner. The missus had a bottle of soy milk and I had half piece of banana, just to keep our hungers at bay, because we usually have our dinners quite early.
Anyway, we decided to just do a 30-minute work out because we don't want to have our dinners too late, and I don't want either one of us to be getting gastric attack.

We decided to warm up, on the threadmill. Just doing a 5km/hr, with an incline of 4.00%. I know it's nothing great, but was enough to keep someone who has been away from the gym back to shape. One thing that I realized that my heart rate can go up pretty fast in a minute.
I started off with a 111 pulse, and it suddenly shot to 156 in less than 5 minutes. On the other hand, the missus maintained its heart rate at 110 from the beginning to the end of the warm up.

My question is, is it normal for heart rates to shoot up so quickly? I have discussed this issue with several friends, and they told me it's because of my bad stamina, which caused my heart rate to beat double the rate to sustain the blood and oxygen level in my body. Why, am I that bad of shape? Actually the family has heart related issues and I wonder if this is the cause of it? I remember when I was younger, I jogged around and always find that my chest hurts when I ran for 5 minutes or so. I am a little worried, because the chest no longer hurts that much, but the heart rate doubles almost instantly.

Well, we did a 30-minute exercise; switching from threadmill to the other machine.
We finally figured out how to fully utilize it since our personal trainers didn't tell us everything during the first session of our gym.

Sometimes I wished I could have more time, to work out. I should consider swimming laps in Lumut, instead.