What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Rowing machining again, 29:36.9 total for the 3 x 2k pieces (2:28 pace/19spm), plus 737 extra meters at easy pace during the 3 x 2' row out/in between and and CD after. 20% of the total time in Z4, most of it Z3, about 12% Z2 and below. I really had zero enthusiasm for the workout today, but finally talked myself into it.4
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dralicephd wrote: »Since today is just an elliptical day (strength training rest day), I decided to do a @swimmom_1 workout.
I flipped on a movie, hopped on the elliptical, and just walked. I specifically kept the pace on the slow end because I wanted to go through as much of the movie as I could. Final score: ~80 minutes, all zone 2 (~65% max HR), about 4 miles. I didn't quite make it to the end of the movie because my quad (the one I injured in November) started to get "twingy". I didn't want to push it, so I stopped.
I know I'm slow by some standards, but that's ok. 10 months ago, I was overweight and sedentary. 10 months ago, my elliptical workout couldn't be more than 20 minutes or my knees would hurt. Today I am normal weight and almost "ellipticalled" through an entire movie! I'll take that as a win.
Keep going everyone. One workout at a time.
That is wonderful! I am so happy for you. Our bodies can do a lot more than we think. The distraction of something helps to pass the time. Congratulations @dralicephd .2 -
I went climbing yesterday (back to indoor bouldering.) I lasted 2,75 hours, which is probably too long to be sensible.
I started off really very well indeed, sending loads of stuff. I was pretty poor at the end, possibly because of the pump. The gym has two rooms; my poor session was in the room which has just been reset so was on routes I've not tried before. So it's also possible that I butchered the new stuff. I will find out next week (my next climbing will be Saturday at a different gym; so Monday is the likely day for the going back).
I also did 10 miles' walking.4 -
Rowing machine, total 19km.5
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Lunch spin today.3
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Sinus infection took me out yesterday. No swim or bike yesterday and no gym session this am. ugh.
Will see if I can handle an easy trail run tonight.5 -
Boxing and Yoga and may go for a walk tonight.2
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Fit in a bike ride after dentist/grocery mega-expedition, but before it got dusk-like enough to be scary on the road portion at the end. Easy pace ride of 11.67 miles, average speed 10.7 mph on the hybrid bike, 6' Z3, remainder below. The trail portion (which is maybe 8 miles of the 11?) is very twisty: I assume they do that to slow bikes down, and I'm plenty slow enough to start with. Sunny, and hot for here (around 85F).3
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Yesterday's workout:
Two hour garden workout and 25 minute walk on beach with husband and dog.
(These are the kind of workouts I enjoy the most!)3 -
Only thing I've done in the last couple of days is go to the chiropractor a couple times for the neck pain and finally felt good enough to golf last night. With a cart, 9 holes isn't a ton of walking, but maybe a couple of miles or so. Was hitting it fairly well on my drives, so all the rowing/lifting is helping something. Hit one drive 275 or so. Overshot a par five in two shots (just off the back of the green). If I could just putt, I would have had a great day. My putting was horrific. I'm usually a decent putter, but last night was bad.3
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MikePfirrman wrote: »Only thing I've done in the last couple of days is go to the chiropractor a couple times for the neck pain and finally felt good enough to golf last night. With a cart, 9 holes isn't a ton of walking, but maybe a couple of miles or so. Was hitting it fairly well on my drives, so all the rowing/lifting is helping something. Hit one drive 275 or so. Overshot a par five in two shots (just off the back of the green). If I could just putt, I would have had a great day. My putting was horrific. I'm usually a decent putter, but last night was bad.
"Drive for show, Putt for dough"
Glad you're up and at 'em.1 -
Decided I was done with being sick, so joined a friend for a trail run last night. 82 and humid, but a great night to run in the woods. Lots of roots sticking up on the trail, so I had one near fall, then a full trip/fall/roll down the hill event, lol. No real injuries, but I was a sweaty, dirty, bug spray covered mess when I returned home.
My wife has seen this movie before, so when she saw me, her only comment was: "Another Trail Run tonight?"
Rest day today. Fly fishing tonight.4 -
MikePfirrman wrote: »Only thing I've done in the last couple of days is go to the chiropractor a couple times for the neck pain and finally felt good enough to golf last night. With a cart, 9 holes isn't a ton of walking, but maybe a couple of miles or so. Was hitting it fairly well on my drives, so all the rowing/lifting is helping something. Hit one drive 275 or so. Overshot a par five in two shots (just off the back of the green). If I could just putt, I would have had a great day. My putting was horrific. I'm usually a decent putter, but last night was bad.
"Drive for show, Putt for dough"
Glad you're up and at 'em.
LOL, short game is everything in golf!! But at least it's more enjoyable if you're also not looking constantly for balls in among the cactus, sticker bushes and rattlers!2 -
Swim
50 yard warm-up breast stroke
300 yard swim w/10 second rest every 25 yards
50 yard cool-down breast stroke
I just kind of wanted to see where I was at. My sprint-tri swim is 400 meters so I guess I would have to add another 50 yards to this, but with rest and breast stroke warm-up and cool-down I did it in just over 15 minutes completely untrained and it felt like a pretty easy day at the office. I definitely can't crawl the whole thing, but I feel like I could actually breast stroke the whole thing no problem...it's definitely my most natural stroke. I think my run (which is awful) is going to be my biggest hurdle.
Went for a walk afterwards because...well I thought that was going to take longer than it did.4 -
My body was tired today so no digging. Still was able to do a 20 minute stretch. Flexibility has increased and almost as good as it was when I was in my best shape.2
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I did the thing and joined the gym to lift weights! Today was my 3rd day and I did barbell rows, barbell squats and bench press.
I really struggle with bench press so hopefully I'll improve by keeping at it. And I can't squat properly because I have limited dorsiflexion, so my heels rise up and I can't go any lower without falling forward! But hopefully that improves with time too.3 -
Did a mostly slow elliptical session today for ~50 min. Most of it was at Zone 2 with a few token intervals into Zone 3 in the last 15 minutes. This was followed by my low weight/don't hurt yourself strength training routine.
Happy Friday!2 -
I did the thing and joined the gym to lift weights! Today was my 3rd day and I did barbell rows, barbell squats and bench press.
I really struggle with bench press so hopefully I'll improve by keeping at it. And I can't squat properly because I have limited dorsiflexion, so my heels rise up and I can't go any lower without falling forward! But hopefully that improves with time too.
Good show, @no1wf: Starting is one of the hardest parts of any of this, I think.
For sure, with patience and persistence you'll gradually improve your bench press, and your squat form. Keep going, avoid injury, and improvement is the obvious (and earned) natural outcome.RaquelFit2 wrote: »My body was tired today so no digging. Still was able to do a 20 minute stretch. Flexibility has increased and almost as good as it was when I was in my best shape.
@RaquelFit2, stretching can be really rewarding in that way: There's visible progress, especially at first, and many stretches are almost like they have a built in tape measure: Getting closer to the toes, twisting more degrees, getting the hands closer to each other between the shoulder blades, or whatever the stretch is working toward.
I should follow your good example, and return to more structured stretching/mobility. I usually do some intentional stretches scattered through the day, but I know I make better progress if I set aside a defined time to focus on a routine.1 -
Back on the rowing machine today, the usual kind of workout with the usual stats (6743m, 2:29.4 pace/21 spm on the 2k pieces, Z3 and below) . . . but it felt like a little more of a slog.
I don't know whether it's the higher temp (I don't have the AC on yet; it was 85 again today), or the cycling this week being a little more tiring because it's been a little more volume than the stationary biking, poor attitude, bad sleep, or some combination.
Usually, I'm looking for a sort of point of relative ease, physically, within the pace/rating I'm going for (even if going for harder pieces than the ones I've been doing this Winter). It's something analogous to what rowers might call "swing" in a multi-person boat. Tonight I felt low powered, kind of clunky instead - worse than usual. Random, I'm sure - it'll pass. 🙄🤷♀️
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My day off was broken up being my son's chauffeur. He got hit in the eye with a piece of cardboard at work. He couldn't keep his eyes open. So I had to go pick him up, we came home, till time for the eye Dr appointment and I got some elliptical time then. Drive there and back home. Some more elliptical time. We then went out to dinner and then took him to his work to get the car.
Elliptical 136 minutes, in 2 sessions, for 11 miles total.1 -
My day off was broken up being my son's chauffeur. He got hit in the eye with a piece of cardboard at work. He couldn't keep his eyes open. So I had to go pick him up, we came home, till time for the eye Dr appointment and I got some elliptical time then. Drive there and back home. Some more elliptical time. We then went out to dinner and then took him to his work to get the car.
Elliptical 136 minutes, in 2 sessions, for 11 miles total.
Oh, no, @swimmom_1: How awful! I hope he's OK, now, or will be soon. Eye injuries can be so scary!0 -
@AnnPT77 Eye Dr said, "When you had your PRK(kind of like Lasik), I gave you a corneal abrasion on purpose. Now you got one by yourself. So we put a contact that acts like a bandage, like then, for about 5 days and you need antibiotic drops. I'll see you in 5 days and take the contact off and check you. It should be better by then." He is doing much better. He can't go back to work till Monday. Thank you3
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@swimmom_1 Hope your son feels better!0
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I did the thing and joined the gym to lift weights! Today was my 3rd day and I did barbell rows, barbell squats and bench press.
I really struggle with bench press so hopefully I'll improve by keeping at it. And I can't squat properly because I have limited dorsiflexion, so my heels rise up and I can't go any lower without falling forward! But hopefully that improves with time too.
Good show, @no1wf: Starting is one of the hardest parts of any of this, I think.
For sure, with patience and persistence you'll gradually improve your bench press, and your squat form. Keep going, avoid injury, and improvement is the obvious (and earned) natural outcome.RaquelFit2 wrote: »My body was tired today so no digging. Still was able to do a 20 minute stretch. Flexibility has increased and almost as good as it was when I was in my best shape.
@RaquelFit2, stretching can be really rewarding in that way: There's visible progress, especially at first, and many stretches are almost like they have a built in tape measure: Getting closer to the toes, twisting more degrees, getting the hands closer to each other between the shoulder blades, or whatever the stretch is working toward.
I should follow your good example, and return to more structured stretching/mobility. I usually do some intentional stretches scattered through the day, but I know I make better progress if I set aside a defined time to focus on a routine.
Stretching is fantastic and something I've been doing since I was little and taking gymnastics and dance classes.
The reason why this weight gain and lack of fitness of my current state is so disturbing is that I use to be a "semi" professional dancer. I say semi because I did get paid but never made a living out of it. Someone online posted videos of a show I use to dance on and I watch them (probably more than I should.)
In any case, I'm going to be spending the day in the garden. This shed cannot come soon enough.2 -
Yesterday, I attempted to pick up some heavy stuff, but was quite time constrained (and weak, which limits the heavinness involved). So I ended up doing:
Bench, 2 sets of 5, 55 kgs
Deadlift, 1 set of 4, 100 kgs.
Today, I went for a climb. It was really good fun; I was in reasonable form. I sent 4 routes graded v3-v5, which were probably all closer to v3 than v5, but I got around half of the ones at the gym in this bracket.
I lasted 2.5 hours, which is probably a bit silly as the pump means I don't get much towards the end (although I did get one slabby v3-v5 on my very last effort.)
I also did around 15 miles' walking.3 -
I got up stupid early to go to my rowing club's boathouse clean-up and open house day, spent close to 6 hours on my feet, carrying many boats, washing boats, doing other chores . . . I could feel the result, speaking as an old gal who's been getting 2000-some to (sometimes) 5000-some steps most days this Winter that don't have intentional walks. I'm at 10k+ steps and counting today. That, plus the (seeming) leg fatigue I mentioned in my PP - all of which feels like pretty pathetic performance to me subjectively, honestly, in my individual context - had me wanting to moderate today's workout.
So - because of the thunder I could hear nearby - I was back on the stationary bike indoors, for the usual 10k+3' CD, keeping it ultra-low intensity, just trying to stay above a very modest 75W+ floor. Ended up at 78W average, 11,067m, 30:36.2 time - all of those including the 3' CD. Nothing above Z2, 70% max maybe 57% HR reserve - low. It'll have to do.
Hoping to be on the water next week M-W-F-Sa, if day to day weather allows, bike Tu-Th-Sa, outdoors if possible. Rest day tomorrow, per routine.4 -
I did work in the garden today for about an hour. I didn't work too hard. I was tired.
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cwolfman13 wrote: »Swim
50 yard warm-up breast stroke
300 yard swim w/10 second rest every 25 yards
50 yard cool-down breast stroke
I just kind of wanted to see where I was at. My sprint-tri swim is 400 meters so I guess I would have to add another 50 yards to this, but with rest and breast stroke warm-up and cool-down I did it in just over 15 minutes completely untrained and it felt like a pretty easy day at the office. I definitely can't crawl the whole thing, but I feel like I could actually breast stroke the whole thing no problem...it's definitely my most natural stroke. I think my run (which is awful) is going to be my biggest hurdle.
Went for a walk afterwards because...well I thought that was going to take longer than it did.
Nice. Sounds like the swim will be a non-issue come race day!
Stroke selection is a personal choice in triathlon. Plenty of swimmers use the breast stroke in sprint distance races, or as a recovery stroke when needed. Also note that crawling is an acceptable form of forward movement during the run segment, since the only thing that matters is getting the job done!2 -
Had two days of rest this week. Finally got to ride the bike this morning. Two of us rode an "out and back" route that had almost all of the climbing on the way out (2833ft) and very little on the return. Ended up getting 55.4miles in just over 3hrs. 17.1mph average. This was a good training ride.
Both of us rode our tri bikes and were focused on power output and HR. I spent a lot of time in the aero
position, trying to capture every opportunity to gain free speed and efficiency. My suspicion is that the new wheels helped, since my power output was roughly the same, yet my speed was slightly higher than average.
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Easier day today as I finished up the rock wall/garden. Wasn't too bad. Got out early, zero digging (all the plants are planted). Just positioning rocks for around 90 minutes.4
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