What Was Your Work Out Today?
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4 mile run. It was SO hot out today and for some reason I wore full length leggings instead of digging out my running shorts. Ugh...big mistake.2
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Today was not great. I attempted a deload upper body session but my body got so tired. I think the last few weeks of hard exercise is catching up to me. I ended up with brain fog all morning and most of the afternoon. My muscles are achy and twitchy, which tells me I need rest. This saddens me as I wanted to have a heavy leg day tomorrow.
A short 20 min walk helped but I think I’ll still just eat a few extra carbs.
What do you do when you suffer from these brain fog days? Inability to focus, tired.0 -
Today was not great. I attempted a deload upper body session but my body got so tired. I think the last few weeks of hard exercise is catching up to me. I ended up with brain fog all morning and most of the afternoon. My muscles are achy and twitchy, which tells me I need rest. This saddens me as I wanted to have a heavy leg day tomorrow.
A short 20 min walk helped but I think I’ll still just eat a few extra carbs.
What do you do when you suffer from these brain fog days? Inability to focus, tired.
Not much I can do when I get that tired and feeling blah. I will usually either take a day off and just get rest/good nights sleep, or maybe do something light like yoga/stretching? That way I'm still moving but just not exerting myself.2 -
20 pushups, 20 sit-ups, 4.3 mile run2
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Wed 5/27
MORNING
16 miles on the mountain bike trails, vigorous, many inclines
NOON
Yard work
LATE AFTERNOON
Full body weight training2 -
An hour's climbing.
I am getting more used to my board. It is good for training big, thuggy dynamic moves. It is less good for technique stuff. I mainly practiced dynos today.
It was very fun. I worked out by torchlight after dark.4 -
20 minutes strength training, 30 minutes on an elliptigo... Those things are WAAAAY tougher than either an actual elliptical OR a bike (could have been due to doms, though). I think I'm addicted.2
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JustSomeEm wrote: »20 minutes strength training, 30 minutes on an elliptigo... Those things are WAAAAY tougher than either an actual elliptical OR a bike (could have been due to doms, though). I think I'm addicted.
Saw two of those on my Monday bike ride. Really cool.1 -
Easy paced four mile run tonight. Legs were a bit heavy after yesterday's bike ride.2
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I’m using a Beachbody program 21 day fix extreme real time. I did day 7 today. It was yoga. I had some time, so I also did Brazil butt lift tummy tuck a 20 minute ab crunching set.2
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JustSomeEm wrote: »20 minutes strength training, 30 minutes on an elliptigo... Those things are WAAAAY tougher than either an actual elliptical OR a bike (could have been due to doms, though). I think I'm addicted.
My former tri coach used to ride her elliptigo during our long runs, carrying nutrition and extra water bottles in a wicker basket on the handle bars. This picture was taken at one of our early season training camp weekends held at a very well known race and vacation destination in upstate NY.
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That is totally awesome! Thank you for sharing.JustSomeEm wrote: »20 minutes strength training, 30 minutes on an elliptigo... Those things are WAAAAY tougher than either an actual elliptical OR a bike (could have been due to doms, though). I think I'm addicted.
My former tri coach used to ride her elliptigo during our long runs, carrying nutrition and extra water bottles in a wicker basket on the handle bars. This picture was taken at one of our early season training camp weekends held at a very well known race and vacation destination in upstate NY..
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Pouring rain so no walk or bike ride today. I did a 30 minute pilates routine, did 3 pound weight exercises for my upper body, and lower body and abdominal body weight exercises.4
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Just frisbee. Super busy - found out i can finally go back to work on Friday! So gotta get things wrapped up and ready for shifting gears.3
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Chest and triceps.
Treadmill intervals of 3.3 -5.5 settings at 2:00/4:00 timers.2 -
Well, just getting a small taste of what the rest of Summer will feel like at 5 AM. Today was well over 70 degrees when I started my row. Today and tomorrow are closing in on record heat days. Will reach around 105 or more both days. Did a decent job keeping the HR down under 140 (72% of Max) for most of the row.4
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Easy paced 4 mile run again tonight.2
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Apparently, I'm 18 steps away from 10k lol Other than walking for errands and such, I kept it light 'n short with a quick lower body workout this evening. That means three rounds of the "25-Pound Dumbbell Leg Workout" .... with an 8lb DB
https://youtu.be/VmkXx7jjDAs 1 -
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Upper body weights - 25 min, yoga - 20 min, walk - 60 min2
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1 mile run
20 rounds of:
5 x burpees
10 x press ups
15 x Airsquats
1 mile run
In a 12lb weighted vest 👌👌
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Today I woke up earlier than usual because I had a medical appointment. After breakfast I had some time left so I did two short workouts to distract myself. I was really nervous because the appointment was to be tested for antibodies and blood tests are my biggest phobia so the workouts helped take my mind off things. By the way, I did not need to be fasted to be checked for antibodies, that's why I had breakfast
The workouts I did were the 7-minute workout to lose belly fat and the 7-minute pear shape workout by Lucy Wyndham-Read. I'm trying to do those every day.
Later in the day I have a live-stream ashtanga yoga class. This is the sequence we do and the class is about an hour and a half.3 -
Thur 5/28
MORNING
12 miles on the mountain bike trails, vigorous, many inclines
NOON
Yard work (around 1 1/2 hours)
LATE AFTERNOON
32 chin ups, 100 push ups (both in sets to failure)2 -
The reason I worked so hard at doing an easy hour (row on the Concept2) each of the last two days was for today's workout. Among indoor (and OTW) rowers, this is known as one of the hardest workouts you can do -- the dreaded 4 X 2K. I actually forgot to turn on the HRM for the first interval. The last "hump" on the graph is actually my cool down, believe it or not.
Not the fastest of times (my best times were all around 7:40s to 7:50s on this workout), but I'm slowly getting there and don't feel worse for the wear with what is really a brutally hard workout. Also hot morning as well. We're having that record heat week.
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Ran a 10K this morning. Up at 6:30 am and it was still too hot!!4
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@Mike Pfirrman - Looks like you hammered it with HR that high. If I"m reading the chart correctly, the work periods were about 8-9 minutes. How long are the recovery intervals? Looks like your HR recovered very well in a short time, a mark of true cardio fitness.
Maybe you could have done a few more rounds? Kidding!! 2 -
@Mike Pfirrman - Looks like you hammered it with HR that high. If I"m reading the chart correctly, the work periods were about 8-9 minutes. How long are the recovery intervals? Looks like your HR recovered very well in a short time, a mark of true cardio fitness.
Maybe you could have done a few more rounds? Kidding!!
Thanks! They were from 8:29 to 8:54 -- all 2Ks with my second rep being the fastest. The HRM wasn't on for that first one. The recoveries were 3 and a half minutes. Felt really good with that rest moving to the next one. Steep drops in HR despite the heat, a great sign.
The C/D looked like a fifth rep, though hardly at the speed.
I do believe I'm pretty close on my Max HR estimates. They normally say your HR should hit 95% of max on this workout if you're pushing hard (and I certainly felt like I was), so it looks like my Zones are based on relatively good HR metric estimates now, which is good to know.
I think my cardio is getting sound. It's my strength endurance and peak strength, along with the lactate tolerance and reuse that are lacking. But according to Stephen Seiler, this is the workout that best addresses that (or at least an 8' X 4 workout).
Anyway, onward and forward.2 -
Poor planning today. I'd not run yesterday because it was too windy. So I moved it for today, and forgot that it's my live music dancing evening as well. Thus I started running much earlier than I'm used to, got a new 5k record for 2020, jumped under the shower for a very short moment, then went to dance in my livingroom for an hour and got all sweaty again
Btw, it was much more windy that I'd hoped for as well. 2 -
20 min yoga, 30 min full body dumbbells.2
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Yesterday ran a 5K.
Today was yoga day. Hadn't done any decent amount in a while, was a good morning!1
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