iFit New York City Walking Tour Financial District Walk, New York City, New York - Jack Palitz.

Today is Wednesday and I did this walk today. I was happy to have a relatively easy walk to recover from the speeds yesterday. I wasn't sore when I woke up, but my calves were a big tender during the walk. It was super high up on my calves and it wasn't pleasant. My glutes were also a bit tight. I'm was tempted to slow the pace and just do a leisurely 2.0 MPH but that felt like cheating. 

This was supposed to be the second one in the New York Walking Tour series, but it ended up as my fourth due to some scheduling issues. Now I'm done with this tour. It was only four. I'm kinda sad about that. I liked this guy. He was funny and had interesting tidbits about New York. It was interesting to hear the history of how some streets got their name. Wall Street got it's name because it used to have a giant wall going down it. They still have the fence posts embedded in the road. Broadway was named because it was a wide road. 

This was a fun walk and I have things I need to do so I have to wrap this up! Still trying to decide if I'm going to do the yoga challenge and the walking one or just the walking one. I still have time to decide. Tomorrow is walking and then the next day might be yoga. We shall see! 

My Walk

iFit New York City Walking Tour Rockefeller Center Walk New York City, New York - Jack Palitz

Today is Tuesday. I did this walk yesterday. It was supposed to be the last one, but I did it third. I had missed one and added it to the end. I didn't want to do it third and then have to reschedule this one. However, that didn't work out so well for me for two reasons. This was longer than I remembered so I was late getting to work. Oopsy! I also ended up having to reschedule the third one again because I set it for today and then ended up doing something differnet for today. 

Okay so this was another one of the iFit New York City Walking Tour walks with Jack Palitz. He's an interesting guy and talks about interesting things about New York. The streets were a bit busier than the other two walks that I did. This was at night and it was Christmas time so there were a lot of tourists. It was so pretty with all the lights! I think this guy needs a TV show like Anthony Bourdain or someone like that. He doesn't talk about food, but he has so much knowledge about the area and he's very personable. I like these because it's just a guy walking the streets of New York. No one cares about form or speed or inspiring me to move. He just talks the entire way and provides interesting facts about the area. One of the tidbits was about why they called a certain street the channel. He also talked about 5th Avenue being the middle between the east and the west. No one wanted to live on the waterfront which is not normal, but that's what it was like in New York. He also talked about a hotel that had the windows designed so people couldn't look down and see the red light district activity. Oh and there was a apartment complex for rich people that has an escape tunnel that used to be used during prohibition. 

I only have one walk left in this series and I'm a bit bummed to be done with it since he really is a fun guy. I was able to do this without modifications. I didn't have anything fall asleep or hurt too terribly badly. I've also been using my rolling stuff and my torture device of nails so my back has been doing a little bit better. I totally slacked off of that for awhile. Anyway, not much else to say here. 

My Walk

iFit New York City Walking Tour Soho Walk, New York City, New York Jack Palitz

Today is Sunday and I did this walk today! This is actually the third in this series, but I did it second since I must have messed up something when I set up this series. Normally if I skip a day, it will still be there, but walk 2 was missing. I didn't do it yesterday because I was doing the last of the iFit Trainer Meet and Greet Twist challenges to earn my second magnet. 

This was a nice flat walk at a nice pace of 2.5 MPH. I thought about bumping the pace up, but I really wanted to take today as a rest day so I didn't want to increase the pace. I only did the walk today because today is the 7th day of the week for my first Apple Watch medal to finish one full week of closing my rings. Yes this is true, I got on the treadmill to get a digital medal. I'm not even getting a real life magnet. Nope. It's just a digital medal. Don't judge. 

This was a walking tour. There was no mention of working out. The only mention of anything related to movement or exercise was when he walked through a park where people were playing Chinese Chess and he said he would stop to play some rounds and win money, but he had to keep the pace going. This walk was through Little China, Little Italy and possibly something else, but I can't remember. It was interesting to see the architecture of the buildings and also the policing structure. He said that Little China and a Jewish neighborhood in New York City are allowed to police themselves instead of having NYPD officers do the policing and Little China has one of the lowest crime rates. I thought that was pretty wild. Now I'm not sure if they really have a low crime rate or just a low reported crime rate because of their methods of policing. He didn't get into that. He just said they police themselves and have a low crime rate. 

He talked about how Soho became popular and pointed out some interesting things about some of the buildings. It was interesting to see the original police department building. Oh and he talked about how Manhattan joined with the four burroughs and they formed the five burroughs. Overall, I really like this guy. I wish he had more tours or maybe more walks in this tour. 

My lower back hurt during this walk. I don't think I've done any of my back stretching things this week. Sometimes I just don't feel like dealing with it after work. I live to regret it later, but at the time, it's nice to just sit on the couch instead of lay on the floor on a torture device. Oh well such is life. I need to get back to the chiropractor on a weekly basis. Things were going well when I was there very week and using some sort of torture device every nice. 

My Walk

iFit New York City Walking Tours Booklyn Heights Promenade Walk, New York City, New York - Jack Palitz

Today is Sunday and I did this walk on Friday. They released the last of the iFit Trainer Meet and Greet Challenge Twist workouts, but I saw that it had incline and I was in a no incline kind of mood so I started a new series of four walks through New York. I'm glad I picked this one because that last twist workout was pretty much hell. 

This was a fairly level walk through New York streets. There was one incline section, but it did not last long at all. This was a walking tour like you would get if you went to New York and signed up for a walking tour. It was just a guy walking the streets of New York while talking about the history of the area. No one talked a about form, no one tried to get me to let go of the bars (not that I was holding the bars), no one tried to make me move faster or anything like that. It was a straight up walking tour. It was so refreshing! I've done a few walking tour videos with iFit. I like the because they usually aren't too terribly difficult so the are nice for a rest day type of walk, but they also seem to help the time go by a lot faster since I'm not focused on intervals or breaking or RPE or form or any of that. This may have been one of my more favorite walking tour tour guides. 

He talked about the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. The design was finished by a women. I was a bit surprised by that. I was also surprised that the bridge was from the late 1800s. I thought it would have been newer than that. He also talked about an area that started off like Soho as an artist squatting area, but then some guy bought a bunch of the buildings for $4 a square foot and at the time of the filming of the walk (which I think was pre-COVID since no one had masks on in the streets) it was worth over $1800 per square foot. Crazy! 

Nothing hurt too terribly much in this walk and I was able to keep the pace without holding the bars. I don't have much more to say other than I did enjoy this and look forward to the rest of the series. This is the only series with this trainer. It sounds to me like he has a walking tour company and iFit just got him for this one series in New York. 

My Walk