What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Unfortunately, I had a busy schedule, I was unable to work out. I think I would have to work out more.2
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LoganBennett715 wrote: »Unfortunately, I had a busy schedule, I was unable to work out. I think I would have to work out more.
@LoganBennett715, exercise is good for a body, but it's optional for weight loss, if that's your main goal. Weight loss is all about getting calorie intake less than calorie expenditure. Since our daily life (and just being alive in the first place) burn calories, we can manage weight loss entirely on the eating side of things, if necessary. Exercising just lets a person eat more while achieving the same sensibly moderate weight loss rate, pretty much.
Don't get me wrong, I personally think life is better with some vigorous activity in it, but I wouldn't want a busy person to think they can't manage bodyweight if they miss a workout.
Best wishes!2 -
I slept through my morning workout time today, must've hit my alarm in my sleep. Guess I needed the rest more than I needed the workout, because I'm feeling good now and will get the workout in tomorrow on my day off.2
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Today I ran a mile at 5:00 am and then after school I came home hit a 1 hour arm workout. Since I procrastinated yesterday’s workout I accidentally skipped it so I did that today too for an hour. That workout was Legs and Core2
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Wednesday
Climbing, 3 hours. I went with my little brother, who does way shorter sessions than me. I broke him; he twisted his ankle towards the end. It was an existing injury, hopefully he recovers quickly.
Thursday
Lifting. Squat, bench and deadlift; with done fingerboarding thrown in.
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LoganBennett715 wrote: »Unfortunately, I had a busy schedule, I was unable to work out. I think I would have to work out more.
@LoganBennett715, exercise is good for a body, but it's optional for weight loss, if that's your main goal. Weight loss is all about getting calorie intake less than calorie expenditure. Since our daily life (and just being alive in the first place) burn calories, we can manage weight loss entirely on the eating side of things, if necessary. Exercising just lets a person eat more while achieving the same sensibly moderate weight loss rate, pretty much.
Don't get me wrong, I personally think life is better with some vigorous activity in it, but I wouldn't want a busy person to think they can't manage bodyweight if they miss a workout.
Best wishes!
Thanks for the advice! It's nice to know that I can still manage my weight even with a busy life. I'll focus on controlling my diet and exercising when I can. I appreciate your support!2 -
Upper Body - Hypertrophy
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)
Machine Reverse Fly 3x10
Machine Lat Raise 3x10
DB Shrugs 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10 (3-second negatives)
Cable Pushdown 3x10 (5-second negatives)
Perloff Press 3x15sec3 -
Rowie-row-row, the usual just under 7k, in bow of the double with one of our new-this-year beginner rowers in stroke seat. She's doing really well!
We mostly did moderate steady state technical work, but threw in a bit of push to see if we could consolidate the tech changes.
Cool, overcast, temps in low 60s F (16-ish C), not a lot of wind and what there was from a non-disruptive direction, sometimes some fine mist/rain, but not enough to be bothersome at this temperature when working. Good stuff.2 -
Coached row, around 8k, bow of the double with my friend J in stroke seat again. We did some acceleration and pause drills, then a series of higher-power pieces at increasing stroke ratings (spm) but decreasing durations.
Chilly morning, but the sun at an angle that made it almost impossible to see when looking in that direction: All I could see was the sun itself, and a huge sun-reflection on the water. That
pretty much hid all of the other boats in that direction when we were going downstream (sunward). There were a quad and single out with us, and they had the same problem. Scariest was during some of the timed power pieces, when we were steering through a double span of bridges, without a great view of nearby boats/concrete bridge supports - noting that I'm looking behind me to steer because we face the boat's stern.
Weird: At one point, there was a big, completely unoccupied, stationary jet ski way out in the river. We all saw the obstacle, couldn't tell what it was until right near it (so improbable!). It had escaped from its dock. Our coach pushed it back to its owner on shore, who was about to launch a kayak-ish boat to tow it back.1 -
Lower Body
Squat 4x10
Rack Pull 4x10
Leg Press <<superset> Leg Press Calf Raise 4x10
Seated Leg Curl 4x10
Cable Crunch 4x10, 15, 20, 251 -
Lat pulldown 1x7 (105lbs), 2x12 (85lbs)
Front pulldown 3x12 (100lbs)
High row 3x12 (90lbs)
Mid row 3x12 (185lbs)
Rear delt fly 3x12 (40lbs)
Back extension 3x12 (175lbs)
Bicep curl 3x12 (55lbs) single arm
Abdominal 3x12 (120lbs)2 -
Seated leg press 1x12 (155lbs), 3x12 (160lbs)
Seated calf raise 3x12 (120lbs)
Seated leg curl 3x12 (120lbs)
Leg extension 1x12 (85lbs), 1x12 (80lbs), 1x12 (75lbs)
Hip adduction 3x12 (155lbs)
Hip abduction 3x12 (155lbs)
Torso rotation 2x12 (115lbs) both sides
Abdominal 1x12 (125lbs), 2x12 (120lbs)2 -
Friday
Climbing, 2 hours. Pretty decent session. One slab v4 took me about 2 minutes. I flashed the thing, but it was horrible. (You chimney up between two volumes. It only had three holds.)
Saturday
12 mile walk. I'm unfit; I was tired at the end. Maybe I should have taken some food or water with me; I tend not to bother for short walks.
Sunday
Swimming, 1 km.
Climbing, 2 hours. I was a bit out of form.2 -
nicsflyingcircus wrote: »Seated leg press 1x12 (155lbs), 3x12 (160lbs)
Seated calf raise 3x12 (120lbs)
Seated leg curl 3x12 (120lbs)
Leg extension 1x12 (85lbs), 1x12 (80lbs), 1x12 (75lbs)
Hip adduction 3x12 (155lbs)
Hip abduction 3x12 (155lbs)
Torso rotation 2x12 (115lbs) both sides
Abdominal 1x12 (125lbs), 2x12 (120lbs)
Torso rotation was 3x12. Not sure why I bothered correcting that, heh.1 -
Upper Body - Power
Bench Press 5x8
Cable Row 5x5
BB Decline Press 5x5
Machine High Row 5x5
Seated BB OHP 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10, 8, 6
Cable Pushdown 3x10
Cable Woodchoppers 3x10
Long wondered how well my lifting form stands up. On my last set of bench I asked a guy at the next station to spot me for safety as I went for max reps, banged them out, didn't think twice about it. Later saw my spotter in a different shirt accompanying somebody else, turns out he is one of the new personal trainers at the gym. After my workout I went to the front desk for a pen to make notes in my lifting log, and that trainer was there. When he commented, unsolicited, to the other people how smooth my bench was, that just made my day!1 -
Yesterday, about an hour and a half practice/training session for a charity dragon boat race coming up next Sunday.
Today, a short row, a little under 5k, in bow of the quad. One of our boat-mates started having a shoulder problem during the row, so we cut it short. We decided to hunt down some extra people (from the university women's rowing team whose practice had just ended) to help us carry the boat back to the boathouse, to avoid further aggravating her shoulder.
(It was pretty windy/choppy anyway, so I don't think anyone was super sad to cut it short today, completely independent of the fact that we care about her. Besides that, it's our absolute standard practice to do whatever possible to help any club member who gets injured, has a limitation, is rehabbing, or whatever.)2 -
Incline press 3x12 (50lbs)
Decline press 3x12 (60lbs)
Chest press 3x12(60lbs)
Shoulder press 3x12 (60lbs)
Pectoral fly 3x12 (50lbs)
Lateral raise 3x12 (25lbs) single arm
Triceps press 3x12 (100lbs)
Abdominal crunch 3x12 (125lbs)2 -
Blowing bubbles.
Siphoning up fish poo.
Feeding squid to anemones.
Working as "stick" for the working dive in the shark exhibit.
Just a little over two hours underwater. It was 51 degrees in the first exhibit. The pelagic exhibit was a balmy 59.3 -
@AnnPT77 good to be back Auntie😁
Today's
Dumbbell bench press 4 x 8-12
Cable fly (high to low) 3 x 12-15
Smith machine squats 4 x 8-12
Leg extension 3 x 12- 15
Machine shoulder press 3 x 12-15
Cable curls ( super set with tricep overhead extension) 3 x 12- 15
1100 steps and 1 hour desk cycle while studying for test.2 -
Lat pulldown 1x12, 1x10, 1x9 1(105lbs)
Front pulldown 3x12 (100lbs)
High row 3x12 (90lbs)
Mid row 3x12 (185lbs)
Rear delt fly 3x12 (40lbs)
Back extension 3x12 (175lbs)
Bicep curl 3x12 (55lbs) single arm
Abdominal 3x12 (125lbs)1 -
Posting is hard now finding the end of threads is hard...
Monday
Climbing. I pulled a muscle on Sunday, so I didn't go very hard.
Wednesday
Badminton. The first time I had played in years. Good fun. 1 hour.3 -
Catch-up report:
Wednesday row, just under 7.5k in bow of the quad, a little longer than usual because we looped back upstream to stay out of the way of the university water ski club that was practicing in a buoy course downstream, and the meters are always different with a different course. (500m-ish is a trivial difference.) We did a couple of oar-blade-depth drills and a bunch of 10 hard/10 moderate stroke intervals.
Thursday, physical therapy session, mostly not active stuff because I was being discharged (not cured, more like stalled and taking a break), then alter just some boat-carrying at open rowing.
Today, more rowing, bow of the double with my friend J. in stroke seat. Body of the row was another set of steady 10 hard/10 moderate intervals.
@drmwc, usually the true end of the thread is back a few page numbers, if I click on the page numbers at the bottom of the page. On another thread, an MFP staff person said they're working with Vanilla Forums to figure out what the problem is and get it resolved.2 -
Upper Body - Hypertrophy
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)
Machine Reverse Fly 3x10
Machine Lat Raise 3x10
DB Shrugs 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10 (3-second negatives)
Cable Pushdown 3x10 (5-second negatives)
Perloff Press 3x15, 20, 30sec2 -
Lower Body
Squat 4x10
Rack Pull 4x10
Leg Press <<superset> Leg Press Calf Raise 4x10
Seated Leg Curl 4x10
Cable Crunch 4x10, 15, 20, 252 -
I got in two 15 minutes walks today with my dog and DH. I told another MFP thread that I was feeling unmotivated, but hey, at least I'm here and posting.2
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Amen, @discustank5!1
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Seated leg press 3x12 (160lbs)
Seated calf raise 3x12 (120lbs)
Seated leg curl 3x12 (120lbs)
Leg extension 2x12 (85lbs), 1x12 (80lbs)
Hip adduction 3x12 (155lbs)
Hip abduction 3x12 (155lbs)
Torso rotation 2x12 (115lbs) both sides
Abdominal 1x12 (125lbs)
A guy my age and his wife stopped me at the gym today to tell me they noticed and were impressed by my consistency. Yay!3 -
I felt cranky yesterday because I'd planned to row in the coached row, but the best solution in circumstances was for me to cox a quad instead of rowing. Probably the extra rest day was a good thing, though, because today was the community dragon boat races I signed up to do.
The dragon boat races were super short sprints (just over a minute) so not that difficult athletically even though full out and an unusual (to me) movement pattern. However, it was pretty hot and fully sunny today, so the total experience was tiring (though generally fun). It was cooler first thing this morning, but around 85F (29C) by the last heats. I'll probably perk up some when I get better rehydrated.2 -
Saturday
I went sightseeing with my niece in London, so got around 20,000 steps during the day (neither of us like the Tube.) I then went climbing in the evening. 3 hour session. It was odd; I started really badly. However, after 2 hours I suddenly improved. I got 4 of my projects in the last hour; mainly hard v3s but one v4.
Sunday
I had a quick, easy dive (50 minutes, 10 metre max depth) to test out some new equipment.3 -
Upper Body - Power
Bench Press 5x8
Cable Row 5x5
BB Decline Press 5x5
Machine High Row 5x5
Seated BB OHP 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10, 8, 6
Cable Pushdown 3x10
Cable Woodchoppers 3x103
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