i've decided to add some cardio into my routine, i haven't really done any kind of consistent cardio in at least 9 months so i'm starting off pretty slow and working on building up my endurance/cardio threshold. i'm going to be doing my cardio on an elliptical b/c i just feel like it is easier on my joints. the last time that i ran on a treadmill my knees and lower back were sore for the next 3 days. i've read some stickies and i'm thinking that HIIT looks like the way to go for cardio. i'm planning on doing fasted am cardio 2x per week on days when i don't lift (wednesday and either saturday or sunday).

so today for my first day of cardio i warmed up for 3 minutes at a slow pace on the elliptical then 8 minutes of HIIT (30 seconds "sprint", 1 minute "jog") and followed that with a 4 minute cool-down to bring my total amount of cardio to 15 minutes.