What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,335 Member
    I simply log all my lifting sessions in a paper journal, the same journal I've been using for 15 years now. It's showing serious signs of age, so I'm starting to think about replacing it, even though it still has plenty of pages left. But I can look back over time and see what my routine looked like and the weights I used for any point over those 15 years. Anytime I feel down about the weights I'm using, I can simply flip back and see how my warmup weights today are heavier than my max weights when I started, and all is right with the lifting world again.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,181 Member
    First swim of the season! I was in the pool 45 minutes and moving about 40 of those minutes. I allegedly swam 1850 yards, but I know for a fact that my Garmin device was not tracking for two or three laps, so I swam closer to 2000 yards and probably was actually swimming a full 45 minutes.

    I went to the gym after picking up some naked barley at the "Fill Your Pantry" event. Our food co-op no longer stocks it, so I have to buy it from a farmer. No problem - now I have five pounds. That should easily last me all winter. One other shopping stop and then off to the gym. I thought I might do a LIGHT weight lifting session or maybe just do some cardio on the workout floor. Just want to get back in the habit of showing up a lot more often now that it's cold, wet, and dark quite a lot.

    Of course I was smart enough to peek into the pool to see how long of a wait there might be. There was a lane open! So I got on my jammers and went out. I skipped the pre-swim warm-up in the steam room because... THERE WAS A LANE. Swam some with my zoomer fins and some without. I swam some with my mask & snorkel and some with swim goggles. Mostly freestyle but a little breast thrown in.

    Good swim.

    Set a personal best for fastest 100 yards if you can even believe that. Old record was from December 2022. How the heck could I be FAST on my first swim of the season? No idea. I reckon I'll stick to it.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 446 Member
    12 min stationary bike; 7 min rowing machine; 2 x 35 sit-ups; 2 x 15 squats w/ 10 lb dumbbells; 2 x 8 medicine ball circles; various stretches, lunges.
  • nicsflyingcircus
    nicsflyingcircus Posts: 2,834 Member
    Seated leg press 1x12 (165lbs), 2x12 (170lbs)
    Seated calf raise 3x12 (140lbs)
    Seated leg curl 3x12 (120lbs)
    Leg extension 3x12 (85lbs)
    Hip adduction 2x12 (155lbs), 1x12 (150lbs)
    Hip abduction 3x12 (155lbs)
    Back extension 3x12 (180lbs)

    Went up 5 lbs in leg press, 10 in calf raise (first set was accident, but I could do it, so why not) and 5 lbs in back extension. I had to drop 5 lbs for my 3rd set of hip adduction today, the struggle was real for some reason. Skipped the a machine cause I got light-headed when I got off back extensions and it didn't pass as quickly as I wanted. Otherwise a good workout.

    I'm under 170lbs, just barely, this morning from 364+ lbs last August. I have my 1yr surgery followup on the 15th, with a big discussion on how to properly and safely re-increase my calories with the goal of slowly working back up to "maintenance", while losing the last 15-20lbs. That's how close I am :)
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,335 Member
    No workout for me, fighting off a chest cold with nasty cough. No work either, just 13 hours of sleep followed by a long, hot shower and spending the day watching TV while swathed in sweats.
  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 14,181 Member
    Two 55-minute dives at the aquarium. I was the stick diver the first dive for two working divers. One was running the siphon to suck up poop. The other was picking up big pieces of uneaten fish. I was one of two working divers on the second dive cleaning all the acrylic - the tunnel, the lights underneath, the windows underneath, and the large flat window by the board room.

    My gym is kind of out of the way when I'm coming home, but my route avoids a bunch of traffic. So off I went. I was able to stay in the sauna a full 31 minutes. Nice way to ease back into town.

    I was surprised how sore I was from my swim workout yesterday. Sauna can't hurt, and 31 is a prime number.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 446 Member
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    A couple of short walks today--basically a rest day.

    But this afternoon got really crazy. Because of shifting weather patterns, my town is now inside tornado alley, whereas it wasn't 20+ years ago when we moved here. Tornadoes touch down from time to time, no big deal. But today some massive storms moved into the area, and while my daughter and I were in the car after school, we started hearing the tornado siren. We made it to a local coffee shop with an inside hallway and stayed there for the next 45 min. with some other patrons. Our phones all went off alerting us to a tornado in the area--to the southwest of us, but heading northeast, putting us in its path. Ten or 15 minutes go by, and then we all get ANOTHER tornado warning, this one a tornado to the west, but also heading our way at a 40 mph speed. The next 15-20 minutes were a bit tense. Reading weather updates, we learned that each tornado veered slightly, missing our town.

    When we finally got the all clear, I took a deep breath and instantly had a stuffy nose. Now, four hours later, it's a cold / sore throat. Weird how it descended immediately after such a stressful event. We are currently under a flash flood warning, but here the water has lots of places to go. On Facebook, I saw a local's footage (taken from inside a Waffle House) of one of the tornadoes--it really didn't miss the town by much. I'm hoping the rest of tonight is peaceful.

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