What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Today was full-body Friday, featuring the deadlift to start the day (since I can never figure if it's a leg exercise or a back exercise, by putting it on full-body Friday I don't have to choose lol).
Deadlift 5x5
Hack Squat 5x5
DB Bench 3x10 <superset with> DB Row 3x10
DB Shoulder Triset 3x10 (Front Raise, Lateral Raise, Rear Lateral Raise)
DB Curl 3x10 <superset with> Lying DB Skullcrusher 3x105 -
Rowing bow in the quad again this morning, the usual 7k-ish distance.
Lovely weather for rowing: sunny, around 60-something F, moderate breeze from West.6 -
I'm chilling today. I was at a conference all week and averaging around 23K steps per day and also did some kayaking in my off-time in the evenings. Between that and a long travel day yesterday I'm pretty spent.4
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Have been sick for a few days, so not much to report.
Yesterday, I was feeling better so jumped on the elliptical for a slow and steady 45 min. My HR was higher than usual for the slow pace. I followed with some easy strength training, just to get back in the habit.
I had plans to get up and walk early this morning (before the heat gets to level "melt your face off"), but I woke up with a migraine, so that's out. I guess I'm just not 100% yet. Maybe I'll feel better later and try for the elliptical again. Or, maybe I'll just take a nap.
Keep up the good work everyone. I enjoy reading about all of your fitness exploits.
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dralicephd wrote: »Have been sick for a few days, so not much to report.
Yesterday, I was feeling better so jumped on the elliptical for a slow and steady 45 min. My HR was higher than usual for the slow pace. I followed with some easy strength training, just to get back in the habit.
I had plans to get up and walk early this morning (before the heat gets to level "melt your face off"), but I woke up with a migraine, so that's out. I guess I'm just not 100% yet. Maybe I'll feel better later and try for the elliptical again. Or, maybe I'll just take a nap.
Keep up the good work everyone. I enjoy reading about all of your fitness exploits.
Get well soon 🤗🤗2 -
dralicephd wrote: »Have been sick for a few days, so not much to report.
Yesterday, I was feeling better so jumped on the elliptical for a slow and steady 45 min. My HR was higher than usual for the slow pace. I followed with some easy strength training, just to get back in the habit.
I had plans to get up and walk early this morning (before the heat gets to level "melt your face off"), but I woke up with a migraine, so that's out. I guess I'm just not 100% yet. Maybe I'll feel better later and try for the elliptical again. Or, maybe I'll just take a nap.
Keep up the good work everyone. I enjoy reading about all of your fitness exploits.
I felt bad on Monday, worse on Tuesday and then better by Wed night. Felt like I was fighting off Covid again! Guess already having it 3 times does build up your immunity!
Took Thursday off and then back on it today, just super easy cardio on the LateralX for 40 minutes. Feeling good at the moment.
All of my 3 dogs that had caught Kennel Cough are all better now, thank goodness. Despite having all of their shots, they caught it two weeks ago (from a grooming of all things) and were really sick for around 10 days. That was so draining that I'm sure it wore on my immune system and sleep. Hard when you hear your fur babies coughing and struggling to breathe all night long.4 -
Helped with an on-river litter pick-up today. The river was up, so the normal places that have camps were underwater. We did collect quite a few tents that were tangled up in the brush along the banks and some other weird stuff. I found another *kitten*. Yep. I found one on the last trip, too. Very weird. My friend found a nice bicycle multi-tool in good condition and a bag of cheap rope in decent condition. Also a "Pack and Play" crib, some tires, a bunch of empty pop bottles and beer cans, a couple butane bottles, some polystyrene, and some old, waterlogged errant float toys, one of which was full-up with ants.
I took a shower when I got home.3 -
Helped with an on-river litter pick-up today. The river was up, so the normal places that have camps were underwater. We did collect quite a few tents that were tangled up in the brush along the banks and some other weird stuff. I found another *kitten*. Yep. I found one on the last trip, too. Very weird. My friend found a nice bicycle multi-tool in good condition and a bag of cheap rope in decent condition. Also a "Pack and Play" crib, some tires, a bunch of empty pop bottles and beer cans, a couple butane bottles, some polystyrene, and some old, waterlogged errant float toys, one of which was full-up with ants.
I took a shower when I got home.
River clean-ups can be interesting. My rowing coach once found a prosthetic leg.2 -
Helped with an on-river litter pick-up today. The river was up, so the normal places that have camps were underwater. We did collect quite a few tents that were tangled up in the brush along the banks and some other weird stuff. I found another *kitten*. Yep. I found one on the last trip, too. Very weird. My friend found a nice bicycle multi-tool in good condition and a bag of cheap rope in decent condition. Also a "Pack and Play" crib, some tires, a bunch of empty pop bottles and beer cans, a couple butane bottles, some polystyrene, and some old, waterlogged errant float toys, one of which was full-up with ants.
I took a shower when I got home.
River clean-ups can be interesting. My rowing coach once found a prosthetic leg.
This is the second one in a row I found a sex toy.
I got a plea yesterday for more folks to come help. I said sure. I found another person so I could take the tandem canoe; it's a really good tool for this kind of work. There was one other canoe who also came last-minute. Otherwise it would have just been staff from an agency and a non-profit on one raft....
Last time was last fall. The folks at the non-profit still joke at what I found. There's an awesome picture that will never be shared with general members.
So I called a friend last night to see if they wanted to maybe join me. They did. But when I called and told them there was a river clean-up I was going on, they asked if I was taking bets as to how many sex toys I would find. I didn't plan to find any, but there ya go. Very odd indeed.
It was eye-opening for my friend. They had never done a river clean-up. It's so sad to see what gets "lost" in the river. It's so sad to realize how many people don't have a home and don't actually want to live in other people's squalor. Paddling up a side channel and under a bike bridge, a cyclist yelled down "Thank you." That was nice. Also, when the raft got out to clean up a BIG pile of stuff, someone camped there asked if we had any garbage bags, and they started help clean the place up. Most of the people in these camps don't necessarily want to be there. Some do. Some are anti-social. That's who we clean up after. Others are just in an awful circumstance in life.6 -
Elliptical 180 minutes for 14.04 miles.
Been a bit sick last few days. Bronchitis type cough and I had a fever 102.4 at the highest. Now running about a 100. Covid home test was negative Tuesday. I had my 2 vaccines and 1 booster, as I couldn't find a clinic time to get the second booster. My nose today has been running constantly since I finished my elliptical. I had a patient Monday with Covid but I wear a PAPR, as I'm allergic to the N95 masks, so very slim chance I have it. I have a 4 day weekend, Thursday through Sunday. Doing another test tonight to check. Hoping it's just a bad cold. We are having a unit employee picnic Sunday, I want to attend.5 -
My second Covid test is negative. Just a rotten late Spring cold with a cough.4
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An hour of pilates with a focus on spinal health. I can still do bridges, it wasn't a fluke!
I overworked myself this week so time to rest until monday morning and enjoy the nice weather.5 -
44 min walk at an average speed of 4.9kmph.
2 mins below zones
14 mins fat burn
27 mins cardio
1 min peak.
My blisters are covered in Compeed plasters and while that helped quite a lot, the soreness was still pulling me back a bit from the speed that I usually walk at.
Caroline Girvan Iron Series Day 2 - Upper body with dumbbells, 30 mins.
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Still recovering from whatever weird virus my kid and I got this week (and yesterday's migraine to go with it). Anyway, I had more energy today so I hit the elliptical for an hour (3.3 miles), with my HR up in Zone 3 for most of it. This isn't a bad performance (for me) on paper, but it felt hard.5
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Feeling better today than last 3 days and hoping to feel even better tomorrow. Elliptical 210 minutes for 16.3 miles. Thought I would get another session in today but I had to cut the grass. I have a unit employee picnic tomorrow and made a big bowl of broccoli salad to take. And all that pretty much filled my day.5
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No walking today, staying off my blisters for a couple of days.
At home workout today with Caroline and then Nicole.
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I didn't post yesterday, really technically a rest day, though I did go out in a double with a learner in our learn to row class. As with the earlier such outing, I rowed a bit to get us back on course now and then, but mostly just stabilized the boat and let her row alone. So fun and rewarding, seeing someone make changes, improve, get the hang of it!
Today, rowing with my regular group: 6 of us, a double and quad, with me in bow of the quad; the usual 7k-ish distance, not intense - Z3 and below.4 -
Elliptical 211 minutes for 16.2 miles. Got up at 6 to do it. I knew I wouldn't feel like doing it after my work picnic.5
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Elliptical for about an hour, 3.6 miles, most in HR zone 3, with dips into zone 4 for some intervals at the end. Unlike @swimmom_1 I did NOT get up at 6 to do it.
Instead, I spent most of the day whining and being grouchy that I didn't get enough sleep last night. I eventually told myself to shut up and get my grumpy butt onto the machine. In the end, I went a pretty decent pace (for me) and felt pretty good doing it. I guess I should reflect on the NSV of that. Instead of "self-medicating" my grumpiness with a bag of chips, I chose to workout instead. I'm tired, but my mood is improved. I'm betting the chips would not have had the same result.5 -
Saturday
I went climbing. I went to Arch, a gym I've not been to since before lockdown. It was really good fun. I lasted a slightly ridiculous 2.5 hours. It was good. Consistent with all the other London gym, the route setting has got easier over the last couple of years. (Or I've got better. I spent a long time in my youth learning to play the board game Go. I never really thought I got better at the game; but my opponents did all get worse. I went from beginner to national champion, so it's possible I did improve, but I preferred the everyone else getting worse hypothesis.) I got a couple of v4/v5 graded climbs, which I'd have never managed before.
I've never really looked into heart rate zones and whatnot - I prefer to just do stuff without really thinking. However, I suspect there was a lot of anaerobic effort in my harder attempts.
The gym is in East London near the Thames, so I decided to stroll down the Thames to get to Waterloo to come home, and I also got 15 miles's walk in.
Sunday
I did a hike. It was perfect weather for it - around 20 Celsius with slight cloud cover. I did 16 miles with many, many hills (probably around 3,000 feet ascent in total.) It was very nice.5 -
Was feeling better going into the weekend and then let my guard down on Saturday and got glutened. I'm celiac, so that is my fault. I need to be more vigilant.
After having a migraine headache for all of Saturday night and sleeping like an hour, I did manage to get a 30 minute row in yesterday in my garage with the Evap Cooler. It was already around 95 degrees outside. Then splashed around in the pool for around an hour. Managed to do a few supersets last night with complex chest, legs, shoulders but not as much as usual.
Got a great night rest last night. Much needed.6 -
Day 4 done and loving it!!
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The workout was:
15 minutes to find a heavy double push press
15 minutes amrap (as many rounds as possible) of 10 handstand push ups, 20 american kb swings, 40 double unders.
My wrists have been hurting all day so I was not feeling it at all. I took it easy on the push presses but I also scaled the handstand push up to seated db presses and the double unders to 25 air squats.
Normally I like to use the 20kg kb for the swings and the 10kg dbs for the seated presses but today I used the 16kg kb (the normal amount they expect women to use, even the top athletes) and 7,5kg dbs because I needed to take it easy. It hurt. I did 4 full rounds and 25 reps but I had to fight for every single one of them. I am so tired.5 -
Rest day so just a walk for 2 miles.6
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Leg Day!
Squats, RDL, leg press, leg extend/curl6 -
Got a nice rest last night after feeling better from the 24 hour headache from hell.
Did 30 minutes on the rower out in the garage (100 today at lunch -- and it's supposed to get 10 degrees hotter by Thursday!). Evap cooler made it tolerable. Did a nice cool down in the AC after for around 25 minutes on the Assault Bike.5 -
Rowed the usual 7k-ish this morning in bow of the quad. Almost hit a fishing boat that was bogged down in the weeds; one more mistake on my part (3 strikes) and I'm going to mutiny out of rowing bow for a while. SMH.
Tonight, coxed a quad rowed by the two official learn-to-row coaches, and two learn-to-row class participants, which went fine. No workout there; just sitting in a boat and shouting at people. (Richer clubs have "cox boxes" that connect to speakers in the boat, so the cox can use a headset to talk to the rowers. We're shoestring-y, so our coxes just shout no megaphone even. 😆)4 -
I had an active recovery day yesteday, doing 8 miles' walk and spot of light lifting:
Front squat, 50 kgs, 1 set of 5
Deadlift, 100 kgs, 1 set of 5
Hangboarding5 -
Day 5 done. It is a 30 day series and we do 5 days on and 2 days off. So back to it on Friday.
Then I went straight out for a 74 mins walk at an average speed of 5kmph.
7 mins fat burn.
62 mins cardio.
5 mins peak.
I'm having a rest day tomorrow, have a great day everyone and see you all on Thursday 🙂
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