What Was Your Work Out Today?
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I hit my old 1RM front squat today!!! I am so happy. And then I did one that was 2,5kg heavier too!
After that we had to do 40-30-20-10 alternating DB snatches and sit ups. I used a 12,5kg DB and it took me 12 min 7 seconds. The snatches were kinda light, I ended up doing the first 40 unbroken, then 16-14, and the 20 and 10 unbroken. I am very slow at sit ups but I managed 20 unbroken in the first set. The rest I divided up in 10s, 7s and 5s, depending on how I was feeling with a few breaths of rest in between.
I feel super good and very pumped. I didn't sleep enough so I lounged in bed until 10am ish and had a 1500kcal breakfast (double my usual amount) so I think that helped me kick the workout's *kitten*.2 -
Cardio today
4 miles on the treadmill (70 mins)
20 mins of abs2 -
Deadlift day today...always a crowd pleaser.3
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itsapizzaparty wrote: »I walked 2 miles and played frisbee at the park. I've been so bored with workout routines, I needed something a little more fun today.
Omg Frisbee, not played with one of those since I was a child. So much fun!! 😃0 -
After a few very busy days, I got put for a 2 hour walk today. Up and down hills and got those glutes burning. Average speed 6km per hour.
It was a very sunny but very blustery walk which increased the intensity of walking uphill into a head on wind.
So tired, the wind always wears me out for some reason but feeling great 👍3 -
Been away since I’m a broken record of a usual daily run. Went for a slim shady(8 mile.. get it 😂) run today. The 98% wet state I was in with final I’m good was literally as my shoes started going squish with every strike. Good thing I stopped since I had thought of doing a half-marathon. Well made the right call as my nip pasties were murdered by my sweat. After removing my shirt realized one was gone and the other was barely hanging on for dear life by a tiny bit of remaining adhesive left on it. Good 👍 times…4
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Moved some rocks around the yard for a few minutes and then later went on a short walk (mostly to test my new fitness watch). 30 minutes, about ~1.75 miles, gentle incline - mostly Zone 2, but a small dip into Zone 4 when my kid and I ran up some steps, I tripped and almost face-planted. My lightning-fast reflexes saved the day!
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180 minutes on my Elliptical for 12.3 miles.4
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Tired and sore today (probably from the rock moving yesterday), but my watch was prompting me to do some cardio. I opted for the watch-led dynamic mobility program. It was pretty fun and a good stretch for the hips. Stats: 25 min., all HR zone 2 and below.
Have a great weekend everyone!3 -
Boathouse was supposed to be closed yesterday and today because of some landscape construction work there, but it was mostly completed yesterday, so we were able to row today. This time, I was back in the double (in bow), for a pretty-lazy pace roughly 7k, our usual bridge-to-bridge circuit. First time in the double this season, still pretty weedy (the weeds grab your oars, try to flip the boat), so we kept the pace gentle. It was a lovely day for rowing, flat water, warm but not too warm, sunny.
In a possible moment of foolishness, I committed to row 3 days in a row (Sa-Su-M) - usually I alternate with biking, except for Fri/Sat rowing most weeks. I'm glad I decided to take yesterday as a rest day from formal exercise, when my schedule got a little complicated yesterday.3 -
I didn't start out thinking I would do this. But when I got to about 15 miles on my Elliptical, I realized since I have to babysit @ 5:30-9 tonight, I wouldn't get a second session in today. And decided to try for something. I wish I knew how up upload photos to the site, to show you. I DID 337 MINUTES ON THE ELLIPTICAL FOR 26.25 MILES. AND I FEEL FINE. GREAT ACTUALLY! As far as any plan this is most likely a one time thing. Just wanted to see if I could do it.5
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I didn't start out thinking I would do this. But when I got to about 15 miles on my Elliptical, I realized since I have to babysit @ 5:30-9 tonight, I wouldn't get a second session in today. And decided to try for something. I wish I knew how up upload photos to the site, to show you. I DID 337 MINUTES ON THE ELLIPTICAL FOR 26.25 MILES. AND I FEEL FINE. GREAT ACTUALLY! As far as any plan this is most likely a one time think. Just wanted to see if I could do it.
You completed a marathon on the elliptical: How cool is that?!! 🥇🏆💪🦵🤩1 -
1 hour gardening and I don't mean light weeding!
It was almost 2 hours of putting gravel into a wheelbarrow in the front garden and wheeling it down 30m to the back garden and distributing it - 3 tonnes of gravel 🥵 All on my own, who says a woman can't do a man's job 💪
My face was puce and I've never sweated so much!
Loved every second and my garden looks amazing. It is a work in progress but I am getting there 🌸🌻4 -
I didn't start out thinking I would do this. But when I got to about 15 miles on my Elliptical, I realized since I have to babysit @ 5:30-9 tonight, I wouldn't get a second session in today. And decided to try for something. I wish I knew how up upload photos to the site, to show you. I DID 337 MINUTES ON THE ELLIPTICAL FOR 26.25 MILES. AND I FEEL FINE. GREAT ACTUALLY! As far as any plan this is most likely a one time thing. Just wanted to see if I could do it.
Wow! Elliptical marathon! I feel like you should get a medal for that. 😀3 -
1 hour gardening and I don't mean light weeding!
It was almost 2 hours of putting gravel into a wheelbarrow in the front garden and wheeling it down 30m to the back garden and distributing it - 3 tonnes of gravel 🥵 All on my own, who says a woman can't do a man's job 💪
My face was puce and I've never sweated so much!
Loved every second and my garden looks amazing. It is a work in progress but I am getting there 🌸🌻
Garden workouts are the best.
I mowed our badminton/play field today with a push mower. It took 30 minutes and my watch said the total distance was a half mile. (And most of it I spent in HR zone 3!) Love it when exercising also gets stuff done around the house!
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Rowed the double again today, with a different friend rowing stroke seat. The usual roughly 7k distance, still sticking with easy pace . . . partly to keep any singles out with us in sight for safety, partly to focus on getting the rust out of our bladework and balance early in the season. Mostly Z2 and below, a little Z3.
My double partner this morning took a photo of me sitting in my double today post row, because I was complaining that there are few photos of me rowing where I look happy (even though I nearly always am) - my face usually looks concentrated/intense in on-water photos, doesn't show the inside happy.
This is what our funny, skinny boats look like - note how the seat is on wheels, on a track, so it slides similar to how a normal rowing machine works, so most of the power comes from legs.
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dralicephd wrote: »I didn't start out thinking I would do this. But when I got to about 15 miles on my Elliptical, I realized since I have to babysit @ 5:30-9 tonight, I wouldn't get a second session in today. And decided to try for something. I wish I knew how up upload photos to the site, to show you. I DID 337 MINUTES ON THE ELLIPTICAL FOR 26.25 MILES. AND I FEEL FINE. GREAT ACTUALLY! As far as any plan this is most likely a one time thing. Just wanted to see if I could do it.
Wow! Elliptical marathon! I feel like you should get a medal for that. 😀
Thank you. I was quite proud of myself for making it!
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I went caving in Wales for the weekend. It was a nice, relaxing weekend.
Friday was not much exercise, as I drove down to the hut after work, actually arriving before midnight this time.
On Saturday, we did the OFD1 to Cwm Dwr through-trip. You follow the stream for a bit; have a bit of a climb through the letter-box into a crawly maze; climb down diver's pitch (12m but easy) have a bit of a walk to an easy traverse, a bit more of a walk, an easy crawl, a bit of a an easy climb, and then out for tea and medals. (The crawl at Dwm Dwr was way easier than before - the South Wales Caving club have done some work moving out the pebbles. Previously, at the narrowest point, I needed to breathe out, relax, and possibly dig a bit. This time I didn't need any of that fancy stuff.)
We were 4 hours for the caving bit, which is reasonably fast for this route.
Sunday was the round trip at OFD1. This starts off the same as the though-trip. But you turn off the stream-way a bit sooner, through some crawly stuff to the helter skelter. This is a twisting down-climb where you can't really see the footholds, but it's easy. Then there is the roly-poly. This is a crawl, but it's high enough and wide enough that you can roll your way though as opposed to crawl. Then there is a the bolt traverse, which is a traverse with a wire you clip into as it is slightly hairy. It's pretty easy. This leads onto the Airy Fairy, which is another wire traverse. This is also easy - there is a bit you need to move onto a lower ledge which is not obvious, but straightforward if you know about it. Then it's back to the streamway.
The weather was stunning on Saturday and drizzling on Sunday. A fast charger for EVs has opened at a McDonalds's near the hut, which makes life a lot more convenient. I found a footpath with a nice walk whilst charging there. Here is the view from there:
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Rowed the double again today, with a different friend rowing stroke seat. The usual roughly 7k distance, still sticking with easy pace . . . partly to keep any singles out with us in sight for safety, partly to focus on getting the rust out of our bladework and balance early in the season. Mostly Z2 and below, a little Z3.
My double partner this morning took a photo of me sitting in my double today post row, because I was complaining that there are few photos of me rowing where I look happy (even though I nearly always am) - my face usually looks concentrated/intense in on-water photos, doesn't show the inside happy.
This is what our funny, skinny boats look like - note how the seat is on wheels, on a track, so it slides similar to how a normal rowing machine works, so most of the power comes from legs.
Oh wow what a fantastic place to live and you look great too 😃1 -
Here are some more photos, the first is me staring at pretties in one of the more open bits; the second is me going into the Roly Poly entrance .
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Here are some more photos, the first is me staring at pretties in one of the more open bits; the second is me going into the Roly Poly entrance .
Crikey you're brave! I can feel the claustrophobia clawing at my chest just looking at those photos. Gosh my workouts are nothing compared to yours!!3 -
Here are some more photos, the first is me staring at pretties in one of the more open bits; the second is me going into the Roly Poly entrance .
Crikey you're brave! I can feel the claustrophobia clawing at my chest just looking at those photos. Gosh my workouts are nothing compared to yours!!
I was thinking the same thing. As someone who has actually had a full-blown anxiety attack in a cave once, I have trouble looking at those pictures.
Having said that, @drmwc I'm glad you are having fun! I can appreciate finding some exercise that feels like recreation, not work. Good for you! (Also, your meadow walk looked lovely!)3 -
Now that my schedule has changed for the summer and the weather is nice, I've switched to doing more yard work and outside stuff (walks, badminton, etc.). It's great, but I am SORE. Different muscles than the elliptical, I guess.
Anyway, the kid and I did an almost 3 mile neighborhood walk this morning up and down a big hilly area. Total time was about 50 minutes, with about half in Zone 2, and some good intervals into Zone 3 and 4. A couple of the hills are pretty steep. From a cardiovascular standpoint I felt great (thank you elliptical training!), but my calves, shins and hips are feeling it. When we came home, I followed up with some upper body strength training and stretching.
I'm also enjoying my new fitness watch. Trying to complete my activity ring works to keep me moving throughout the day. I also like its little programs for 20 minute stretching, etc. Those are fun to do. I'll probably do one later tonight.5 -
Today was Murph day because it's the US equivalent of Dodenherdenking today iirc and I was dreading it. I've only been doing xfit for about 9 months now so it's my first introduction to Murph ánd we rarely do hero workouts. The og Murph is run 1 mile (1,6km), 100 pull ups, 200 push ups, 300 air squats, run 1 mile, for RX with a weighted vest and under an hour.
I scaled it a lot. I'm still not allowed to run because of my ankle so I did 2 x 1,6km on the ski machine. I can't do pull ups so I did ring rows. I can't do push ups so I did them off a 30 inch box. I weigh 282lbs so I skipped the weighted vest. No idea if such a thing would even fit me but I feel like I have several extra 15 lbs on my body at all times so I figured it was hard enough. I planned all weekend and decided to do half the Murph (which still unfortunately includes all the running, or in my case skiing) and if I wanted to continue I could do the full thing. But my trainer talked some sense into me and said you gotta learn to take it easy so just do half the murph. So I did half the murph. (1,6km ski, 50 ring rows, 100 push ups off 30 inch box, 150 air squats, 1,6km ski) It took me 40 minutes and 46 seconds because skiing after you did 100 push ups is actually the definition of insanity so while my first mile took 7 minutes 14 seconds, the second mile took about 10 minutes.
I am really happy because:
- I ski'd a km in 4.44 even though it felt like an easy pace where I could hold a conversation.
- I didn't partition anything and my breaks were reasonable and well-thought out.
- I wore new leggings that fit perfectly in a size down from usual and a sports bra (so no shirt) and did not feel self-conscious at all.
- I stepped on the scale at the gym, which shows 2kg/5lbs-ish more than my mum's scale which is the one I usually use for weigh-ins, in the evening after the workout, fully clothed, after having eaten 2200kcal and drunk a liter of water during and immediately after the workout and it showed the same number it showed on my mum's scale on the 7th of May in the morning after I'd used the bathroom and unclothed so I might've lost another kg or two.
I spent the weekend resting a lot because I was catsitting for my sister. I'm actually allergic to cats, including her, but I love her so I'm happy to spend a weekend teary-eyed and runny-nosed to take care of her.
Tomorrow is another day off, not by my choice but because we have a work thing that lasts until 9pm in the next city over and our gym closes at 9pm on Tuesdays. But maybe that's for the best as I am really feeling my triceps.3 -
Another lovely rowing day, the usual 7k-ish, focused more on technique than speed/energy, mostly Z2. I was in bow of the double again; and we had a good group today from the row-together group I "den mother", the two of us in the double plus four others out in a quad.
We had a unique adventure this morning: As we rowed upstream just out from the dock, a young, still-fuzzy duck/goose (not sure which!**) swam out, completely alone, from the North shore at breakneck speed, and met us mid-river.
At first, I thought it just wanted to get past us, but no: It wanted to stay by the boat, right up next to the hull, even as we maneuvered to get out of its way. It was swimming at maximum energy, right alongside the hull, yeeping frantically.
Finally, it literally hopped up onto the double's stern deck and just sat there! We didn't want to carry it even further from its (we hope) nearby family, so we sped up and it slipped off into the water again.
As we rowed off, it was heading for the South shore, still at top speed. We can only hope it found its separated family!
** It was mostly fuzzy, so not clear markings, more duck-shaped than goose-shaped, but kind of large to be part of this year's baby Mallards. The Mallard ducks usually hatch their babies later than the Canada geese do theirs, and the baby geese are still at the mostly-fuzz stage now. (I haven't seen any baby Mallards yet, but there may be some.) I was more focused on not injuring it, than on identifying it. We didn't have a camera with us, and wouldn't have had time for a photo anyway, given circumstances.🤷♀️4 -
Thanks Alice and bojaantje3822. I actually find caving similar to climbing and diving - it's very relaxed. I used to be quite stressed on dives, but at some point (maybe around my 300th dive?) I eventually learned to slow down and chill out. That also helped make diving more fun.
I wouldn't say I'm brave. One of the lads on the trip is - he is mortally afraid of heights, but still goes caving regularly and does get the climbs done. Confronting your fears is way braver than not being afraid in the first place.
There can be minor things which are, on the surface, slightly worrying, but they tend to actually not be bad. For example, in the picture, the hole I'm going into is the one where the easiest way of making progress is rolling over, which is just good fun and not dangerous at all. (It did make me dizzy, so I eventually reverted to a crawl.)
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Drmwc I love reading about your adventures. As I'm both scared of heights (I can go up a thing but not down) and caves, I know I won't ever experience it for myself (probably) but I love reading about it and the pictures are great. Dives seem equally terrifying and great2
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Ran 5 miles. (4.94mi). Tomorrow will be 1hr lower body weight routine. 3 sets lift heavy, 1 set burnout on half the weight.4
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