What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    I think I'm going to be doing mostly swim and bike this week...Achilles bursitis.
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    TMI: period

    My period's been weird this month. Usually I get headaches the week before and milder headaches and full body fatigue during the worst days and then it's over. But this month I've had cramps. Bad cramps. For two full days. And my legs have been entirely useless.

    We had to do 3 8-minute amraps (as many reps as possible) with 4 minute rests between. The first round was 150m ski and 5 pull ups (or 200m row or 500m bike), then 150m ski ("") and 10 push ups, then 150m ski ("") and 15 air squats. I scaled the pull ups down to ring rows and did push ups off a 30 inch box. During the first two 8 minutes I was fine but thought hmm so much arm work, I'm ready for some leg work. Except when the first set of air squats came around, my legs gave up. 15 air squats took a minute. And then I was so exhausted I couldn't ski at my usual pace either so my strength at the ski halved and I got almost twice as slow. So annoying.

    But yeah so I did 6x150m ski and 32 ring rows, then 5x150m ski and 40 push ups off a 30 inch box, and then 4x150m ski and 45 air squats. And even then I thought I was gonna pass out during the last set. The 4 min rest between amraps were long enough, my body had re-energised. The first 150m ski of the last set was fine, at my usual pace, but the air squats destroyed me. My legs feel like jelly and my back feels like I did 450 air squats instead of 45.

    Thankful that next week I have a work thing on the day our box is gonna do the Murph wod. Running is so not my thing.
  • Bodenista
    Bodenista Posts: 146 Member
    bojaantje3822 wrote: »
    TMI: period

    My period's been weird this month. Usually I get headaches the week before and milder headaches and full body fatigue during the worst days and then it's over. But this month I've had cramps. Bad cramps. For two full days. And my legs have been entirely useless.

    We had to do 3 8-minute amraps (as many reps as possible) with 4 minute rests between. The first round was 150m ski and 5 pull ups (or 200m row or 500m bike), then 150m ski ("") and 10 push ups, then 150m ski ("") and 15 air squats. I scaled the pull ups down to ring rows and did push ups off a 30 inch box. During the first two 8 minutes I was fine but thought hmm so much arm work, I'm ready for some leg work. Except when the first set of air squats came around, my legs gave up. 15 air squats took a minute. And then I was so exhausted I couldn't ski at my usual pace either so my strength at the ski halved and I got almost twice as slow. So annoying.

    But yeah so I did 6x150m ski and 32 ring rows, then 5x150m ski and 40 push ups off a 30 inch box, and then 4x150m ski and 45 air squats. And even then I thought I was gonna pass out during the last set. The 4 min rest between amraps were long enough, my body had re-energised. The first 150m ski of the last set was fine, at my usual pace, but the air squats destroyed me. My legs feel like jelly and my back feels like I did 450 air squats instead of 45.

    Thankful that next week I have a work thing on the day our box is gonna do the Murph wod. Running is so not my thing.

    Oh bless you. I'm 54 and don't have the damn periods to worry about now but I feel your pain.

    You did really well considering. Take it easy, do some meditation and rub some lavender oil into your stomach.

    Sending lots of 🤗🤗🤗
  • Bodenista
    Bodenista Posts: 146 Member
    An impromptu rest day for me. I just didn't have the time to do anything 😒
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    Bodenista wrote: »
    You did really well considering. Take it easy, do some meditation and rub some lavender oil into your stomach.

    Sending lots of 🤗🤗🤗

    This comment is so sweet 🥺 thank you
  • dralicephd
    dralicephd Posts: 402 Member
    @bojaantje3822 The struggle is real! Hang in there and rest when you need it.

    The "old standby" for me today: 45 minutes on the elliptical; ~2.6 miles; HR mostly in Zone 3, with a few dips into Zone 4 (I think when I was laughing at the video I was watching :D ). Followed up with my small strength training routine. I was able to add weight to a couple of exercises, so that's good. Overall, I'm feeling tired today, so I'm happy with what I was able to do. We'll see how it sits in the body.
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    Rest day today. Finished mowing the lawn and kept plugging away at the big pile of mulch sitting in the driveway.
  • Bodenista
    Bodenista Posts: 146 Member
    Oh no another day of no exercise. Mostly busy but mostly no excuse either. I did so well last week. Can someone kick me a kick up the bum and tell me to get back to it - please!
  • dralicephd
    dralicephd Posts: 402 Member
    Bodenista wrote: »
    Oh no another day of no exercise. Mostly busy but mostly no excuse either. I did so well last week. Can someone kick me a kick up the bum and tell me to get back to it - please!

    Why do you want to exercise? If you can answer that for yourself, then you will be able to kick your own bum into action. :)

    Also, everything @AnnPT77 said. <3
  • Bodenista
    Bodenista Posts: 146 Member
    Thank you Ann and all dralicephd

    I do like all the workouts that I do, it's just down to motivation some days and I don't want to ruin the work that I put in last week.

    Back to it tomorrow and I really do appreciate your replies xx
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,600 Member
    Snuck in a bike ride after running errands today, by missing the first part of the rowing club board's Zoom meeting. (I'm not a board member. I'm just an active member, and the board welcomes members attending their meetings.)

    We have a lot of rain the in the forecast the rest of the week, so I wanted to get a ride in today. It was getting toward the low-angle evening light that I don't like being on the road (with cars) during, so I didn't go crazy.

    So, 13.62 miles, 11.4mph average moving speed, just over a minute of Z4 (some hill someplace? 😉), some Z3, mostly Z2. The rest of the week could be indoor-ish. Or lazy.
  • BeYourBestSelfDeb
    BeYourBestSelfDeb Posts: 64 Member
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  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Snuck in a bike ride after running errands today,

    So, 13.62 miles, 11.4mph average moving speed, just over a minute of Z4 (some hill someplace? 😉), some Z3, mostly Z2. The rest of the week could be indoor-ish. Or lazy.

    You're becoming a regular roadie! 11.4mph is moving right along on a hybrid.
  • teamgiff4
    teamgiff4 Posts: 62 Member
    An hour of Barre/Pilates and Rock Band :D
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    Today was one of those days that the workout I did and the workout everyone else was doing are unrecognisable as the same thing, that's how much I had to scale it. But that's okay, because those just identify the areas I need to work on.

    The original workout was a 12 minute amrap (as many reps as possible) of 10 toes to bars, 20 box jump overs and 30 double unders. It was preceded by some skill stuff on the pull up bar and the cooldown was pallof's presses (idk how to spell that, they're deviously simple and kill your arms and shoulders, we did 4x10).

    I posted in the nsv thread in success stories about hanging from the pull up bar for the first time in my adult life a few weeks ago (I can deadlift maybe 5 lbs less than my bodyweight now so that gave me courage) and today is the first time since then that I hung from it again. For the skills part I did 4 sets of 4 strict knee raises. Kippings scare me a lot so I was really glad the coach told me to do strict ones.

    Then for the amrap I did 3+2 strict knee raises (my max is 4 but takes a lot of effort and is unsustainable in a fast workout), 20 box step ups but without extending at the top, so stayinh squatted on the box, then stepping down from that position, and then 12 calories on the ski machine (because while I can jump a little, my physio advises against any jump rope stuff. I did 20 jumping jacks during the warm up and while they didn't hurt my leg got really tired). I managed 3 full sets and 3+2 strict knee raises. My heart was racing during parts of it.

    My hands are even more blistered now because I did the warm up stuff on the untaped part of the bar. The tape really helps. I got on the taped part during the workout and it was almost easy.

    Tomorrow is the benchmark wod DT and I have no idea how my hands will handle it. I'm definitely not RX'ing it, that's for sure.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,600 Member
    Djproulx wrote: »
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Snuck in a bike ride after running errands today,

    So, 13.62 miles, 11.4mph average moving speed, just over a minute of Z4 (some hill someplace? 😉), some Z3, mostly Z2. The rest of the week could be indoor-ish. Or lazy.

    You're becoming a regular roadie! 11.4mph is moving right along on a hybrid.

    Thank you - that's so nice of you to say! I'm never really sure how to look at my cycling metrics. I admit, I'm mostly just trying to have fun and get a little variation in outdoor activities, but as a non-cyclist it's really hard for me to understand if what I'm doing is reasonable or not, since bikes and terrain vary so much.

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