What Was Your Work Out Today?
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After a few intense days, taking it slow today - a 2 mile recovery run at a 11 min pace. Felt good.3
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After tweaking my back on Friday, I took the last four days off.
Got back out on the bike this morning, no problems with the back and put in a 16.72 mile ride at a 13.6 mph average.3 -
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I actually did that when I didn't have a gym membership. That's actually more brutal to do than separating them. Very, very hard to do sprints on the rower, then a HIIT type lift, rest a minute or two and do over. Wicked hard. Not true Tabata (because it's not quite as intense) but the HR will jump over 85 percent max on the lifting parts and over 90 on the sprints.
On the flip side, I lifted last night for an hour, so my total time working out was doubled. Separating let's me better concentrate on form and really pushing the cardio piece and lffting heavier. I'm beat this morning. Glad I have two easy days as a reward of sorts. Might do recovery pace today.
There's an F45 gym that just opened up near my house. My wife is like, "you don't need to work out more...". But that style of working out suits me a lot better than Planet Fitness. That's exactly what they do. Mix cardio with HIIT for 45 minute classes. Plus, unlike Orange Theory, they use the Concept2 rowers. I'm not a fan, at all, of WaterRowers. Mark Wahlberg is one of the founders/investors.
I would imagine that you need recovery this morning! While I haven't even tried Tabata work on either device, I know the assault bike used to really take it out of me when my trainer mixed short sprints into my lifting circuits.
The 45min class option is interesting. Some of my best Tabata workouts used to come at the end of a high intensity 45 min group spin session. The power/cadence numbers showed on a big wall mounted screen, so everyone knew who was putting out X or Y wattage. I can't think of anything that was more exhausting than the eight 20 second all out bursts (10s rec.) that occurred during the end of those classes. Felt like the longest 4 minutes of my life, but very effective.3 -
Easy hour today. 30 minutes on the rower, really slow. Despite that, my HR got to 75% max. So I got off the rower and did another 30 on the LateralX, making sure it didn't exceed 70%.
@djproulx -- I had a Tabata tape workout I did years ago, soon after I lost the weight. It was, if I remember right, 8 rounds of four minute blocks with one or two minutes of rest (additional to the 10 seconds within each block). It was very hard. Things like jump squats, standing broad jumps, pushups, mountain climbers, burpees, etc. I rather enjoyed it in a sadistic kind of way after a while. It will sure challenge you. Not sure I could do that workout now.1 -
Before work:
Met a friend at the park to workout and watch the sunrise. Ran one lap warm up (0.29 miles) then B/W squats, push ups, tricep dips, OHP, upright rows, lunges, and core work.
Lunch time: 4.81 mile run.3 -
Rowed twice today, each just under 7k, sat bow both times: Double in the morning, quad in the evening. Still asking others to carry those boats, but helping folks carry the much-lighter singles.
This talk of Tabatas could be triggering. I've done the classic Tabata intervals on the rowing machine (WU, 8 x (20" max effort, 10" easy), then somehow CD). Exhilarating, yet brutal. Yeah, I know, it's only 4 minutes. Heh.2 -
After getting sidetracked for several weeks by the Dog Days of Summer rowing challenge, combined with home renovations and working full-time at the office for a week, I finally managed to get some strength training in (last session was August 18th).
Aside from my usual exercises, some experimenting with my newest 'toy': a landmine attachment for my power rack. I tried some squats (I struggle with the classic barbell squat for several reasons) - not sure on my form but better than not doing leg exercises at all, I guess.2 -
Morning ride - 18.24 miles, 13.5 mph avg, 83 minutes... another friggin humid morning (80%)... gotta get a wind blowing thru here to clear some of the water out of the air!!
Also did 75 push-ups (25x3) yesterday to throw in some upper body work.3 -
A 5.5km run today in almost 43 minutes, first proper run since August 19th. I don't know if it's because I needed a break from running or because the intense rowing challenge boosted my cardiovascular fitness, but it felt remarkably easy for not having run that long. I could have gone longer, but my BF would have been grumpy at getting a late dinner 😁2
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Did 11K meters today on the rowing machine. Slow (around 2:36 pace) but I was really concentrating just on three things -- a higher Drag Factor (116 today, high for me), keeping HR lower (under 75% max) and form. I also wanted to get a longer distance in because this month's club challenge is rowing a one hour TT. Haven't done that in a LONG time so not really looking forward to it. And the other competition is a 12 minute TT, so nasty stuff this month.
Polarization right now is the key for me not ending up hurt or sick. Keeping the hard days as hard as I can muster and the easy ones easy. Even today was higher HR than I'd like. Ideally would like to get to the point where all my steady state days are 70% of HR Max or less.2 -
Rowing for 30 min using Apple Fitness +3
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30 minutes walking around the neighborhood, 2 mile "jog" (.25 warm up, .25 cool down, 1.5 jogging), a plank, and general stairs/walking the dog stuff.3
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Ultra-easy pace bike ride, just over 10mph on the hybrid, mostly Z1-2, just a little Z3. Garmin said 20.7 miles, but I lost around 1-1.5 miles when I paused it for a water break at a park, forgot to start it right away when I resumed riding. Nice day - a little cooler, upper 70s F, less humid - so I left earlier and paced myself to go a bit further than recently, for a little variety.2
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Recovery type week this week. Easy long run today. Went out for 100 minutes using a 4:1 run walk approach that I plan to follow on race day.3
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A 45 minute run and laps in the pool3
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30 minutes Les Mils squats, back, triceps, biceps and chest exercises. 20 minutes High Intensity aerobics similar to HIIT Step, and 20 minutes regular step aerobics using Jenny Ford.3
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Morning ride - 16.26 miles, 13.4 mph avg, 73 minutes.
Yesterday did 50 push-ups after the morning ride.2 -
Post covid here. Still learning my limits. This morning I did 8K steps before 10am now I’m very tired and need to lie down. I don’t think I’ll be moving this much at once when I get back to work, but work is still a 15 min walk for me. Sigh **5
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I ran 5k. My time was 39 minutes. It was very hard for me because I haven't worked out in a very long time and have gained quite a lot of weight since.6
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Ran 3.5 miles today. More of a recovery run - slower pace...3
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Rowed just under 8.8k in the bow of the quad. Still letting others carry my piece of the 40'-ish boat (sigh); I'm only carrying singles and oars.
We made a couple of loops upstream of the boathouse, loosely between boathouse and the upstream bridge, avoiding the area downstream of the boathouse we'd usually use, because the university ski club was on that part of the river, using their buoy course. (We usually row a circle, boathouse to upstream bridge to downstream bridge, and back.)
That's all I have planned for today, but ya never know . . . .2 -
Today a run of 6.25km in 49 minutes.
I don't usually run several days in a row, but I'm playing catch-up and furthermore I'm leaving on holiday for three weeks on Sunday. We'll do lots of walking, but probably not much running or strength training possible.2 -
You all inspire me daily.
Hard workout today. Did 8 X lifting superset (which includes all compound movements -- legs, shoulders, chest is the common theme). I hit all 3 without rest and then let the HR drift down back under 120 or so, go again until I hit 8 sets.
Then I did 3 X 2K on the rowing machine, using a DF "waterfall", going higher DF than normal, like 150, down to 140, then 130, ideally rating up (more strokes per minute) on each one. Not that fast, because of form, already elevated HR from the lift and higher DF, but all three were around 2:16 to 2:18 pace. Took 90 seconds rest between rows. HR hit 93% max on the last one.
950 some calories on the hour workout.
Will tread around the pool tonight and take tomorrow off except walking the 3 dogs, which can be exercise depending on how my two Great Pyr mixes act! Combined, the 3 dogs weigh more than me and are a lot stronger!2 -
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30 minutes on the rower, then 30 on the LateralX. All under 80% max and the last half all under 65% max.
Heading out to Tubac, a cute little border town near Mexico that has amazing shops. Might go have lunch at Tubac Country Club. If you're a golf fan, it's where Tin Cup was partially filmed (the scene where in the qualifier he kept hitting it in the water). They built a water hole just for that movie. It's also right next to a cattle ranch, so you'll see longhorn steer and cows right up to the greens, with small fencing, it looks like they are on the course!3 -
I have been on a week long scuba trip to the remote North-West of Scotland. It has been superb. I have got a number of hikes in as well.
Diving is over now; I now have three days' hiking before heading back.
There was no internet or mobile reception at the cottage. It was relaxing, although I have now moved to a hostel with both.
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Getting ready for my easy Sunday 30 min jog… 97 degree so doing treadmill… may do some yard work as well after since I’ll be nice and sweaty so a hat and some water. Charged up with some fresh watermelon…3
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Getting ready for my easy Sunday 30 min jog… 97 degree so doing treadmill… may do some yard work as well after since I’ll be nice and sweaty so a hat and some water. Charged up with some fresh watermelon…
Well I lied… well at least the workout worm lied… decided that 30 mins wasn’t enough went for a full 45 min jog… a little over 4.1 miles…
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Satuday, did the yardwork and other honey-do chores
Sunday was an active rest day with the weekly shopping trip and house hold chores
Today - rode 20.94 miles @ 13.6 mph average to start the day... we'll see what the rest of the day brings.1 -
Walking in the Highlands. There seemed to be a lack of paths, so I relied on Right to Roam a lot. There was a lot of bogs involved.
I managed around 15 miles, with around 600m of ascents. It took around 7 hours.3
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