What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Yesterday's "workout" was hard to track: helping set up a youth group car wash, helping hubs carrying multiple loads of stuff to the second story of an on-campus building where he's prepping for a summer academy, then swimming /treading water / jogging in the pool with hubs and son for about 45 min.2
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Two days canoe camping with a loaded boat. First day was 24 miles and so many smiles. Day two was a leisurely twelve miles. So many bald eagles it was just sick.
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Yesterday’s workout:
Took the majority of the extended/intentional family to the Mariners game.
Spent most of the day riding in our van, or watching the action.
So, exercise, such as it was, was walking around the stadium getting stuff.
I had a notion to turn on “indoor walk” on my Apple Watch when I saw how long the line was for picking up our special event souvenir jerseys.
Scene: Third level, T-Mobile Park, Seattle.
I’m using my rollator. I step off the elevator and see the table where they’re handing out the colorful Mariners jersey, with a big rainbow number 24 on the back.
And then I see the line…. Yowza.
I turned on “indoor walk” just to see how it would go.
Yep.
One hour and twenty four minutes…. to go barely over a tenth of a mile.
I missed first pitch 🤣
As it turned out, it was a lot more standing and walking than I am used to. I am so glad I thought to turn on that exercise tracking. I did not really have another opportunity to record an exercise the rest of the day.
I didn’t record it, but I used much of the standing time to set the brakes on my rollator and do some stretching.
Mostly because after a while my hip was aching, and I really needed to get the muscles there moving.
So very glad that my husband was safely with the rest of the family watching the game from our seats.
Pro tip: an entire row (9 seats) of ADA seating makes for a great experience when your group includes an active preschooler attending their first game, as well as adults with ADHD, autism, and other neurospices.
There’s room to fidget and jump around, and when someone gets up to use the bathroom or grab a snack, it’s not an awkward shuffle of tripping over stranger’s legs and apologizing for the annoyance.
My personal favorite was the railing behind us, which kept strangers far enough away that no one accidentally bumped into me, or shouted in my ear during the multiple occasions when The Mariners scored, stole a base, etc.
10/10 awesome family outing!
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I haven't logged in ages. I went scuba diving in Galapagos. It was marvellous.
We saw many scalloped hammerheads; a tiger shark; mola mola; turtles; sea lions; Galapagos sharks; silky sharks; mantas; sting rays; underwater iguanas; reef shark; dolphin; eagle rays and probably stuff I've forgotten.
The only unpleasant bit was being downgraded from business class to economy on the way home for a 14 hour flight. I haven't been paid any compensation yet. Don't fly with British Airways.
I decided to test the well known theory that the best way of recovering from jet lag is caving. I got home on Thursday. So after working on Friday, I drove to Wales and did some gentle caving on Saturday.
On Sunday, we strolled up a hill to the club dig, which hasn't had any work since lockdown. I may well become a digger soon.3 -
Me emerging from a cave;
A sting ray:
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@drwmc . . . you have a vague but interesting resemblance to Spiderman in that "emerging from a cave" photo! It sounds like you've been having some good fun lately, as has @mtaratoot.
I'm envious of both.
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Today is a rest day but i'm doing a yoga class tonight.3
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I’ve been using the habit nest cards as it keeps things mixed up and I rotate body parts. This was today’s workout, following a 5 minute treadmill warm up and ending with some yoga.
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Rowed bow in the double this morning with one of my longest rowing buddies rowing stroke, which was fun. Usual distance/time, a bit under 7k and a bit under an hour. Gloriously flat water, a little warmer than my ideal, but I'll take it.
Tonight, helped with our first learn-to-row class of the season, mostly walking, lifting, carrying, chatting kind of stuff.
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MargaretYakoda wrote: »Yesterday’s workout:
Took the majority of the extended/intentional family to the Mariners game.
Spent most of the day riding in our van, or watching the action.
So, exercise, such as it was, was walking around the stadium getting stuff.
Pro tip: an entire row (9 seats) of ADA seating makes for a great experience when your group includes an active preschooler attending their first game, as well as adults with ADHD, autism, and other neurospices.
10/10 awesome family outing!
It wasn't a pro baseball game, but my family also had a pretty great outing yesterday with a number of similarities to yours, @MargaretYakoda, including some--but not a lot--of walking. Yesterday hubs and I drove 2+ hours with our autistic son and our two daughters, plus their two friends, to an out-of-state water park. The skies threatened rain for several hours, but we managed to get in 3 and 1/2 hours of fun before it really rained in earnest. The best part: we got a rain check so we can return to the water park for free at another time.
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Nothing big. I was helping at learn-to-row class tonight again, and rowed in the barge with the students for a couple of kilometers, carried some boats and oars, poled the barge to "park" it on the shoreline after class, and miscellaneous other small stuff, for a couple of hours.
This photo is not from tonight, but it's a view of the barge (taken last year) to give those unfamiliar with it an idea of what an odd watercraft this thing is. Tonight I was rowing, but in the photo I'm the one at the far end center in fluorescent green shirt. (I was rudder woman that night.)
Yes, that is an elderly dog in a fuzzy blue bed in foreground.
Passenger craft.
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Leg press 3x12 (135lbs)
Calf raise 3x12 (115lbs)
Leg curl 3x12 (100lbs)
Leg extension 3x12 (65lbs)
Leg adduction 3x12 (140lbs)
Leg abduction 3x12 (140lbs)
Abdominal 3x12 (145lbs)2 -
Weights: Upper Body - Monday
Bench Press 10x3x76% 1RM (Final set AMAP, got 12)
Cable Row 5x5
Machine Decline Press 3x10
Machine High Row 3x10
Seated Arnold Press 3x10
DB Curl 3x10 (Twist Curl, Hammer Curl, Concentration Curl) <<superset>> DB Lying Skull Crusher 3x10
Cable Woodchoppers (Low, Mid, High) 3x10
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Weights: Lower Body - Tuesday
Rack Pull 5x10, 8, 6, 4, 2
DB Lunges 3x10
Leg Press 4x10 <superset> Leg Press Calf Extend 4x15 (Last Set Drop Set)
Roman Chair Knee-Ups 4x20
My US Army son is home for the week to celebrate his and my birthdays. He can run circles around me (man, I would love to see him now vs me in my prime!), and his strength in the gym has made huge progress. But I still showed him he has a lot of work ahead of him before he can outlift the old man!2 -
Today's workout: 8 min walking the dog; 12 min stair climber; 2 min Helix; 10 min free weights (arms; squats).2
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Incline press 3x12 (40lbs)
Decline press 3x12 (40lbs)
Chest press 3x12 (40lbs)
Shoulder press 3x12 (30lbs)
Pec fly 3x10 (30lbs)
Triceps press 3x12 (80lbs)
Abdominal 3x12 (145lbs)
So after a little digging around, I have figured out pec fly and chest press are total weight and not per arm. So correct weights on those are 30 and 40 respectively, lol. Now the 40 chest press was easier than either decline or incline, I'll try 45 next time.
Any idea why triceps press I can do alot more?2 -
Today's workout: 15 min walk with my dog; 15 min. bike ride (hot).2
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Upper Body
Incline Bench Press 4x10
DB Bench Press 3x10
BB Row 4x10 (2 sets pronated, 2 sets supinated)
Pulldown 3x10 (1 set each hands over, under, neutral-grip)
Face Pull 3x10
DB Upright Row 3x10
DB Shrugs 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10 (3-second negatives)
Cable Pushdown 3x10 (5-second negatives)
Perloff Press 3x15sec1 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »Any idea why triceps press I can do alot more?
Some people are simply stronger in one body part than another, whether through being used more or simple body biomechanics.1 -
I went climbing on Monday. It was a high gravity day.
I went back to the same gym on Wednesday. It was fun, I got everything I fell off on Monday. Fot some reason, it was super friendly.
I went clubbing on Thursday. It was good, I wasnt in stellar form but it wasn't too shabby.3 -
I went climbing on Monday. It was a high gravity day.
Even though that's not my sport, I empathize. Some days water is mysteriously a lot more viscous than others, too.
P.S. Morning rowing got rained out on Wednesday. I helped with teaching learn-to-row class both Wednesday and tonight (Thursday), but not much workout in the mix, just mild movement - like maybe stress positions holding the stern of recreational shells while instructing our students in basic bladework at the dock.3 -
Lower Body
Squats 4x10
BB Step-Ups 3x12
Leg Extension 3x12
Lying Leg Curl 3x12
Calves Extend <superset> Cable Crunch 4x10, 15, 20, 251 -
Morning and evening walks with the dog, about 10 minutes each.1
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Mid row 3x12 (125lbs)
Row 3x12 (60lbs) single arm
Front pulldown 3x12 (90lbs)
High row 3x12 (80lbs)
Lat pulldown 3x12 (85lbs)
Bicep curl 3x12 (25lbs) single arm
Abdominal 3x12 (145lbs)2 -
Seven mile wildflower hike with about 1500 feet of elevation gain.
A marine layer and smoke from prescribed burns prevented me from seeing the coast. The view to the east was very clear, and I could see ALL the volcanoes - all the way up to the tip of Mt. Rainier, and that's 200 miles away. Views of Mt. Jefferson and the Three Sisters were very clear against an azure sky.
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Turns out we're going to have some coaching in our club this summer, from the collegiate club team's coach whose boathouse is next door to ours. He's a good coach, nice guy. Funding is from an "anonymous donor fund" from within our club, to pay him so that the coaching is free to members who participate.
Today was our first session. It focused on technical drills and corrections, which is just what we need. We did various one- and two-part pause drills, "cut the cake", and some stretches of just plain rowing in between drills to integrate the drills' emphasis and individual corrections he gave us. (He drives a "wakeless" (not totally wakeless ) launch alongside the group, uses a bullhorn to call us by name with corrections. We had 3 singles and a double. Two racing (skinny) singles were a couple of the collegiate rowers, the other 2 boats from our community club.
I was rowing a recreational (wider) single, since this was my first time out in a single this season and I wanted to focus more on technique without balance challenges. I figured I'd be the slow boat (oldest participant by 25+ years, wide single), but was relieved that although mostly at the slow end of the bunch, I did keep up with the group.
At the last, we wrapped up with 10 strokes hard, 10 strokes easy, then 20/20, 30/30, 20/20, and 10/10 again (and repeat back to the dock). This was the first time this season I've really tried to push power, and in the wide rec single there was a bit of a strength component to this. It went OK.
Things to work on: A bit more layback on the finish with elbows coming back past my body well, keeping my knees together and sitting taller at the catch, backing the oar in a teensy bit more especially on the left side so I don't miss water at the catch. (The knee thing is a holdover from when I was overweight; I used to have to make room for my belly.
It's improved, but there's still a vestige.)
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Turns out we're going to have some coaching in our club this summer, from the collegiate club team's coach whose boathouse is next door to ours. He's a good coach, nice guy. Funding is from an "anonymous donor fund" from within our club, to pay him so that the coaching is free to members who participate.
Good stuff!
'Fess up, Ann: are you the anonymous donor?
My workout today was water-based as well: 30 minutes in the local pool with my autistic 16 year old. I swam laps near him and alternated that with treading water. Also the requisite 10 min. walk with my dog. She's really losing her 'get up and go' now that the summer weather is here.
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DiscusTank5 wrote: »Turns out we're going to have some coaching in our club this summer, from the collegiate club team's coach whose boathouse is next door to ours. He's a good coach, nice guy. Funding is from an "anonymous donor fund" from within our club, to pay him so that the coaching is free to members who participate.
Good stuff!
'Fess up, Ann: are you the anonymous donor?
My workout today was water-based as well: 30 minutes in the local pool with my autistic 16 year old. I swam laps near him and alternated that with treading water. Also the requisite 10 min. walk with my dog. She's really losing her 'get up and go' now that the summer weather is here.
Not exclusively, and I think not a significant percent of the fund. I did donate some. Now you know something that no one (other than the fund coordinator) knows, because no one else ever asked me flat out.
I wish I liked swimming.
I tried to. 30 minutes of swimming/treading is a great thing. When I do talk myself into a pool swim, I spend a few minutes treading water, because that's a useful skill in case of inadvertent rowing shell flips - part of the process for getting back in the boat, in deeper water. 1 -
Not exclusively, and I think not a significant percent of the fund. I did donate some. Now you know something that no one (other than the fund coordinator) knows, because no one else ever asked me flat out.
I wish I liked swimming. I tried to. [/quote]
Good work on the donation: your secret is safe with me, especially since I don't know anyone you row with!
Ah, swimming. Sometimes I think I love it even more than my labrador retriever does. Got a little burned out after last year's triathlon season (to be clear, I did ONE race, so not really a whole season), and then after my surgery I wasn't allowed to swim for several months. Now, I'm celebrating a return to the water!
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I can doggy paddle long enough to get from boat to shore, provided I'm on a lake or river. lol Nah, I'm fully versed in swimming (except the butterfly), just prefer not to as I hate sticking my face in the water and not being able to breathe the exact moment I want to.
We got a notice from the city that "someone" had complained about the state of our yard, how the weeds were too high, grass uncut, tree branches making it hard to walk past, and junk in my back yard (out of sight from the street). Note said fix everything in ten days or face a $1,000 fine and court appearance. I admit, the things cited needed fixing, but not in this manner! Sheesh. So the last two days have been busting my butt trying to fix what was cited, all while wondering which neighbor had the issue and chose to go the legal route rather than just talk to me.2
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