What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Still bikie bikie bike, 60'+3', 86W average for each because no need to CD from a workout that's 98% Z2 (and the remainder below), peak heart rate 127bpm, fraction over 70% HRmax.
This time, keeping it easy was a firm plan: I didn't get a ride in before going out to late lunch with a friend . . . lunch that included lots of healthy foods plus a nice big mug of Deschutes Fresh Squeezed IPA. That was delicious, too, but not really top notch exercise fuel, so easy pace seemed conservative, even though some time had passed.
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Still have the PT exercises to do before bed, and will do them for sure.3 -
Wow, that didn't take long! Thanks to your suggestion, @annpt77, my humble post has been added to the "Fitness and Exercise" "most helpful posts" thread. As a published author, it's always nice to know somebody enjoyed what I wrote, and now I'm immortalized! lol
Congrats, @nossmf: You're now MFP famous! It'll also make it easier to find your post in order to link it when appropriate in future, too.
That was the fastest I've ever seen a nominated post added, too: They must've really like it! 3 -
Thank you for the kind words, @annpt77. Quite often (ok, almost always), your posts are the most comprehensive, well thought out posts in an entire thread. For you to compliment my little addition, that just makes my day. 🤩
Yesterday was an hour on the elliptical, really banged my intensity out of the park. Not sure if it's because I took the weekend off from exercise, or because I was over on calories for the weekend and had energy to burn, but either way it was a great session.
Today was an hour on the treadmill at an average incline of 10.5. This gives my quads a rest from the elliptical, but boy does it do a number on my calves!
That's been one of my favorite cardio workouts lately -- walking on the treadmill @ an incline. I can't run anymore, but I've been enjoying it. I'm fortunate to have accumulated a lot of different cardio equipment. I bought the treadmill for my wife and daughter, but have been using it a lot lately.
I did 30 minutes on the Treadmill at 15% incline, really slow (2.4 MPH) yesterday, then another 25 on the Assault Bike. All super easy.4 -
Good workout this morning. Lower body, core and cardio. Continuing the de-load week.
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36 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 136/164
31 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 137/149
34 minutes lifting weights
Bodyweight Box Squats: 4*10
Crunches: 4*30
Dumbbell Romanian Deadlifts: 10@40, 10@50, 10@60, 10@70
Weighted Side bends, each side: 4@10@20lbs
Step-ups, each leg: 4*10
Leg Raises: 4*10
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Trying to keep some momentum going this week. Got in a short "drills focused" lap swim yesterday (1700 yds) and did some foam rolling.
This morning, I joined a short, social paced group ride on Zwift. 40 minutes at a 130W ave which was just enough to raise HR a bit. I'm still amazed at the number of riders on Zwift at all hours of the day or night.
My wife and I will walk a few miles tonight.
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One hour on the elliptical, hills.4
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Just around 55 minutes of easy cardio. 30 on the treadmill and 25 on the LateralX. Nothing hard.2
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Hump day 10k. Tried to keep as much as possible in Zone 2. Well 60% Zone 2 and 40% in Zone 3. Good enough.
Decent overall heart rate.
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Yoga
HSPU
2x2,3,5 (20)
Ab wheel
1x10
Turkish getups
10x1 (5L, 5R)3 -
Physical therapy session; later a very easy 60'+3' stationary bike (82W both parts, nearly all Z2) because I'm feeling kind of burned out tonight. I'm going to shift the dumbbell nonsense to tomorrow, and before bed do some of my home PT exercises that aren't duplicative of what we did in the session earlier today.
I wonder if I'm tired because of the workout I did in my sleep last night: I woke up in the middle of the night, tried to glance at my watch to see what time it was, saw that somehow Garmin was tracking a workout (?) and stopped it. I must've hit buttons in my sleep to start the workout. 🤣 Details (IMO pretty hilarious) in the spoiler.When I got up in the morning, I learned that apparently I'd rowed about a mile verrrrry slooowwly, back and forth around and even through my house (the pink rectangle) at an average HR of 58bpm, in an outdoor temperature of 9 degrees F (-13 C). It looked like this:
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Good workout this morning, Upper body, core and cardio. Still on the de-load, one more day after this.
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36 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 140/168
31 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 138/154
31 minutes lifting weights:
Superset:
- Incline Dumbbell Press: 4*12@30lbs
- Cable Rows: 4*12@90lbs
- One Armed Landmine Overhead Press, each arm: 4*12@55lbs
Superset:
- Rope Triceps Press-downs: 3*12@20lbs
- Crunches: 3*25
- Cable Biceps Curls: 3*12@20lbs
- Kettlebell Side Swings, each side: 3*8@20lbs
- Resistance Band Face Pulls: 3*12@60lbs
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One hour on the treadmill, thought I'd see what happened if I lowered the incline slightly while upping the speed. Net result was about 10% less calories burned, 20% fewer feet elevation gained. Felt slightly more out of breath, no data on heart rate (I don't have a wearable monitor, and refuse to hold onto the sensor bar while on a treadmill, just let my arms swing naturally).3
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45 minutes with my trainer this morning. Worked quite a bit on swimming muscles with lat pull downs, core strength movements, dumbbell pullovers while lying on BOSU, etc.
Tonight was our weekly tri club ride on Zwift. Half dozen of us rode for an hour and chatted via Discord, which helped take my mind of those d*mned hills, lol.
Lap swim planned for tomorrow.
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Standard, on which I'm getting kind of burned out (more weak character than physical, I think): 60'+ 3' stationary bike, my usual few shoulder sparing upper body dumbbell exercises (still progressing reps or weights) plus the band hamstring curls (added a set since I don't have a great way to increase resistance). Will do my PT exercises before bed.
Pushed the bike ride in the last few minutes, to 150-160W, hitting 160bpm (7bpm above 220-age, almost 90% HRmax) after most of the ride being Z2 and a little Z3.3 -
Good workout this morning. Lower body, core and cardio.
Stretched
36 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 139/166
32 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 141/152
30 minutes lifting weights:
- Wide Stance Leg Press: 5*12@210lbs
- Crunches: 4*25
- Weight Side-Bends, each side: 4*10@lbs.
- Barbell Romanian Deadlifts: 5@12@95lbs
- Leg Raises: 5*10
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Last day of the de-load and I am feeling better for it.
Looking forward to moving so weight tomorrow!
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...plus the band hamstring curls (added a set since I don't have a great way to increase resistance). .
Considering you nominated my thread for special status, why not employ one of the other strategies inside, such as slowing down the reps or stopping motion at different points of the movement?1 -
Today was an hour on the elliptical, hills.
Good news: I shook the hand of a friend I haven't seen in a while, and my elbow didn't hurt! I still could feel it when I gripped my friends hand, but the pain was gone. I'm not deluding myself into thinking I'm magically 100% cured yet, but this is an important milestone towards getting there.
Bad news: not so much bad as annoying. According to my logging, I should have lost exactly one pound this week, and another .7 the week before. But reality is I actually GAINED .4 pounds each week, putting me up almost a pound since I really started to try losing weight (after years of maintenance) by restricting calories and hammering my cardio. After almost a decade of logging and maintaining weight, I'm confident my logs haven't suddenly become unreliable. Yes, I'm fully aware losing weight comes in fits and starts, and likely the difference is increased water weight from my body adjusting to this new cardio-centric workout regimen. Just mildly annoying to sit here at my desk, staring at some potential snacks which I'm ignoring while feeling hunger, and GAINING weight. I could handle staying static better, KWIM?2 -
...plus the band hamstring curls (added a set since I don't have a great way to increase resistance). .
Considering you nominated my thread for special status, why not employ one of the other strategies inside, such as slowing down the reps or stopping motion at different points of the movement?
Good point. Some of those are kinda limited with my half-*baby-felined* band set-up, but I was thinking last night I should figure out whether I can use bands on my weight bench somehow and get a better result. Thanks!0 -
Wednesday
Climbing. 2.5 hours
I started really well, but faded. That said
I did get a 6b+ slab at the end. It was petrifying, and took about 10 attempts. (I never got close before.)
Friday
Lifting
Front squat, 65 kgs, 3x5.
Bench, 55 kgs. 3x6
Deadlift, 100kgs, 2x5.
Hangboarding, which was good. My fingers are stronk at the moment.2 -
Elliptical Interval setting 150 minutes for 9.92 miles. Looked up & calculated my zone heart rates, I was in the high zone 2-4 range and a bit of zone 5. This is my usual effort.3
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Physical therapy session (which involved a lot of the PT reviewing potential weight lifting exercises I could do, and checking form wrt the shoulder problem, plus the arm bike warm-up). I'm cleared to do overhead press: Yay! That's important to me for lifting and carrying boats. She thinks its OK to try machine rowing again, but I decided to wait until tomorrow or Monday when my shoulder will've settled down after some of today's experiments.
So, more stationary bike today, 60' at 100W, 3' CD at 85W, mostly Z3, peak at 134bpm (75% HRmax-ish). If I believed 220-age, it would be more like 88% and in anaerobic threshold: NopeNopeNope. Why? Because RPE, mostly, and tested max (even though tested a while back now).
I'll do at least some of the home PT exercises before bed: PT told me to limit today based on perceived shoulder fatigue/strain, so we'll see.3 -
Great workout this morning. Upper body, core and cardio.
De-load ended yesterday, and it felt great moving some heavy weight. Felt strong through the whole workout with out a many aches and pains.
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36 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max:145/167
32 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 135/147
51 minutes lifting weights
Superset:
- Barbell Bench Press: 10@135, 8@165, 6@195, 4@205, drop set: 2@215, 4@195, 6@165, 8@135
- Wide Grip Lat Pull-downs: 10@110, 8@140, 6@170, 4@190, drop set, 3@210, 4@190, 6@160, 8@130
- Barbell Overhead Press: 10@75, 8@95, 6@115, 4@135, drop set, 3@135, 4@115, 6@95, 8@75
Supset:
- Triceps Press-downs: 10@50, 8@70, drop set: 5@90, 10@50
- Crunches: 20, 20, 20
- Dumbbell Curls: 10@25, 8@30, drop set: 6@35, 10@25
- Landmine Twists: 3*10@65lbs
- Resistance Band Face Pulls: 3*10@70lbs
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Great workout this morning. Lower body, core and cardio.
Stretched
36 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max:128/149
35 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 126/142
45 minutes lifting weights
Wide Stance Leg Press: 10@210, 8@300, 8@390, 8@480, 6@t570, 6@570, 6@570, drop set: 6@570, 6@480, 6@390, 8@300, 10@210
Crunches: 25, 25, 25, 25
Bodyweight Box Squats: 10, 10, 10, 10
Barbell Sumo Deadlifts: 10@95, 8@145, 8i@165, 6@185, drop set: 6@205, 6@145, 8@95
Kettlebell Pass Around: 4*16@40lbs
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I went scuba diving this weekend.
Saturday
We were in a group of three. I was slightly away from the others at the start. I couldn't see them as I descended (visibility was about 20 centimetres). So I swam around for a bit, still didn't find them, and slowly came up. 12 minute dive.
They were at the top of the shot, so we went down again. It was nice. 40 minute (for the second dive); 20 metres; 8 centigrade water.
We failed to pull the shot line after the dive, which gave rise to:
Sunday
The went out to the same wreck (the British Inventor.) It was fairly lumpy on the sea, but diveable. The current was ripping, probably 2 knots. We hauled ourselves down the shot, freed the weight from the bit of wreck it was caught on. Then we blobbed and went for a fast drift. I got enough scallops for dinner.2 -
Skipped all workouts yesterday (off usual rest schedule) including skipping PT exercises. I had an "I can't even" day, I guess.
So, working out today, which would usually be the rest day. Normal stationary bike, easy pace, 60' (89W) + 3' (83W), only started Garmin part way through (😬) but Concept 2 graph suggests the overwhelming majority was Z2.
Saved up a little enthusiasm (?) to try a very limited machine row, 2k + 2' CD at an easy 2:29.1 pace/22spm for the 2k, just to see how my shoulder felt (applying some tips from my PT), mostly Z3 Not too bad in shoulder discomfort/fatigue terms.
Thought about lifting, since I skipped yesterday, but decided it would mess up plans for coming week, so will live with 2x this past week. Will do PT exercises before bed (I don't count those for calories because trivial.)
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Hour of elliptical hills. Couple months ago I would be dripping sweat after this workout, today felt rather routine. Guess that happens when you do daily cardio for a few weeks, instead of 2x per week.1
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Good workout this morning, Upper body, core and cardio.
Stretched
32minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 134/157
26minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 133/142
51minutes lifting weights
Superset:
- Incline Dumbbell Press: 12@35, 10@50, 10@60, 10@60, drop set: 8@60, 8@50, 8@40, 10@30
- Cable Rows: 12@110, 10@140, 8@170, 6@190, drop set: 4@210, 4@180, 6@150, 8@120
- One-Armed Landmine Overhead Press: 12@60, 10@75, 10@85, 8@95, drop set: 6@105, 6@95, 8@85, 10@75
Superset:
- Rope Triceps Press-downs: 10@30, 8@40, drop set: 8@50, 10@30
- Crunches: 25, 25, 25
- Dumbbell Curls: 10@25, 8@30, drop set: 8@35, 10@25
- Weighted Side-Bends, each side: 3*10@40lbs
- Resistance Band Face Pulls: 3*10@70lbs
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Yesterday (Sunday) was 70 minutes of easy steady state cardio.
Today was an AM lift during work breaks and I did my monthly rowing challenge at lunch. It was row 3 minutes, one recovery, 2:30, one recovery, repeat (taking off 30 seconds each interval) down to 1 minute. Ended up at exactly 2500 meters/2:00 pace.2 -
dralicephd wrote: »@Djproulx Hang in there! And yes, please keep posting.
30 min. elliptical session today followed by a full-body low/body weight strength training session. Part of me feels like I can probably kick up some of the weight, but I'm afraid to do so. Every time I've done that in the past, I've gotten injured. So... I'll just keep on with the same for awhile for muscle maintenance.
@dralicephd, can I suggest that if you'd like to increase the challenge, but don't want to increase the weight (yet), there's a really excellent thread by @nossmf (who sometimes posts in this thread) about other ways to increase intensity? It's here:
https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/discussion/10877279/30-tips-to-increase-strength-training-intensity
I don't know why no one nominated this for "Most Helpful Posts", so I just did, because I think it is. (Feel free - anyone who agrees - to go second the nomination over in Feature Requests, the Nominate Stickies thread near the top.)
DrAlice, I'm very injury averse, so when lifting I usually noodle around under my own inexpert piloting to increase useful stress some other way for a while when I'm kind of on the edge of "will I hurt myself if I increase weight". Eventually, the weight increase feels more viable. The results may not be as good as quickly as the weight increase, but there can be progress nonetheless. Just a thought.
Oh my goodness. What an invaluable resource! Thank you for pointing this out. Thanks @nossmf for writing this up! There's some great ideas in here.
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