What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • dralicephd
    dralicephd Posts: 402 Member
    Did a quick 30 min on the elliptical (2 miles... a fast pace for me!), most in Zone 3. This served as warmup for some strength training: Crunches, bridges, dumbbell pushups and rows, bicep and tricep curls, and some shoulder therapy.
  • MikePfirrman
    MikePfirrman Posts: 3,307 Member
    edited June 2022
    dralicephd wrote: »
    @MikePfirrman every time you mention the "Assault Bike" I get this weird image of you running some apocalyptic training course where people throw bikes at you. :D

    LOL, Assault Bikes are great. Think of the old fashioned Schwinn Air Bike. They are basically upgraded, more sturdy versions of those. You use both your legs and arms -- full body workout, but there's no motor to burn out. I own an AD Pro, which is a Schwinn. Great workout but it's also versatile. It can destroy the best of athletes but it's also gentle enough for anyone -- you go as easy or hard as you want. Highly recommend them! Though I personally wouldn't chose a Schwinn AD Pro again. I'd get a Rogue Echo -- cheaper and better built.

    @ Ann -- yeah, I'm still adjusting to the heat. To complicate matters, we are around a mile high in elevation, which is an added challenge. I have had a lot more issues with being dehydrated since moving here. I was all geeked up for my golf on Thursday night. Cooling hat, cooling towels and even a cooling hood thing for when we parked. The sixteen intervals are brutal, but I start on the LateralX -- it's a slower build on HR than the rower or the Assault Bike. By the time I'm done with that, my HR is only around 83% max or so, so it doesn't feel too bad. I can only do around 8 of these on the rower. That's the idea. To try to get better on more intervals on the rower, which seems to max out my HR much quicker.
  • swimmom_1
    swimmom_1 Posts: 1,302 Member
    Worked everyday this week. Had a class to learn Plasmaphoresis and a meeting afterwards on what was my day off on Tuesday. At least I get paid OT after 40 hours. So no workout this week till today. My usual elliptical, 242 minutes for 16.26 miles, slower than my usual, and then 2 hours on the riding lawn mower.
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    Assault bikes can be brutal. We got the Rogue Echo at our gym and everyone hates that thing. It's great
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    edited June 2022
    There was an arts and music festival a couple towns over. It was great fun but we only got in 6-7K steps. Overall not bad for a rest day
  • bojaantje3822
    bojaantje3822 Posts: 257 Member
    I did a very gentle oly class with plenty of warm up and light (for me) weights.
    I did a 12 minute emom of 2 power snatches at 15, 17,5 and 20kg for 4 rounds each, then 4 sets of a snatch balance and overhead squat, building up from empty bar (15kg) to 22,5kg. My back feels mostly okay.
  • MikePfirrman
    MikePfirrman Posts: 3,307 Member
    Supersets in the AM and then a hard, longer interval row at lunch. 4 X 2K w/ 4 minute rest. I did this same row at the beginning of the month. It's for my online (indoor Concept2) rowing club. Worst interval you count.

    Last time, my worst interval was a 8:52 (2:13 pace). This time it was a 8:36 (2:09 pace) so huge improvement. Brutal workout. I did this a lot over the Winter and got down to 2:06.5 pace average with 3 minutes rest, so I'm not back to that level yet. Lost some ground but I've been doing less meters and more lifting with the heat. 2:08.0 average for all four.
  • swimmom_1
    swimmom_1 Posts: 1,302 Member
    My usual elliptical but today I felt good at 18 miles so I continued to 26.25 miles once again. This time my pace was slower so it took me 372 minutes. When I did it before, May 29,2022, it was 337 minutes. About a 14+ minutes/mile compared to sub 13 minutes/mile the earlier time.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 14,102 Member
    Yesterday was Leg Day, with squats, step-ups, leg presses and calf raises.

    Today was Pull Day, with pulldowns, lots of rows, shrugs and preacher curls.