What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • cyndi2012
    cyndi2012 Posts: 65 Member
    There are some nice-looking adventures going on! Well done, everyone. I tweaked my knee playing softball about two weeks ago so am relegated to the spin bike for now!
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    Wow caving, canoeing, hiking, what amazing adventures!

    Mine is less exciting today, cycled to a friend's (mile or so each way) to walk her dog first thing. No chance to get to the gym today or tomorrow due to work commitments.
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    @mtaratoot - Wow, what great pictures! Looks like quite adventure.

    @drmwc - I'm claustrophobic as well, so NO THANK YOU! I really admire your ability to block out fear/anxiety while climbing/caving/diving. I don't know if I could train myself to do that. Probably not.

    Took an easy spin yesterday with my wife. She rode her eBike and I rode my hybrid for 12 miles on our local bike trail. i had a trainer led gym session today, plus a 20 minute treadmill romp just to keep the legs moving.

    Maybe a swim tomorrow.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 422 Member
    drmwc wrote: »
    Saturday I got stuck for a couple of minutes at the top of a climb where it turns into a squeeze to get into the Northen Lights.,but I eventually twisted the right way.
    We spent a few hours wandering up and down the valley after this going into small caves.

    @drmwc, this story is amazing and also the stuff of my nightmares, you realize!?! That picture of your feet disappearing into a gopher hole was something else.

    I biked first thing this morning, so it was still cool out. A 20 min. loop around my house, then back to get my autistic son ready for the bus (summer school), followed by a 10 min. ride to my local coffee shop, reading for a bit, then another 20 minutes or so on a meandering ride back home to take my daughter to swim practice.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 422 Member
    laurachambers86 wrote: »
    Wow caving, canoeing, hiking, what amazing adventures!

    Mine is less exciting today, cycled to a friend's (mile or so each way) to walk her dog first thing. No chance to get to the gym today or tomorrow due to work commitments.

    @laurachambers86, my workout today was a lot like yours. No caving over here!
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 422 Member
    edited June 2023
    mtaratoot wrote: »
    Mine have been "non-traditional" as far as what most would call "work-outs." But I'm having fun!
    Last week I went paddling two days (Sunday and Thursday). It was about 18 miles each day. The second day launched from where the first day ended. I didn't really get any pictures, and that's OK.
    Yesterday I hiked up a local peak that's the highest in the coast range. I hadn't been up this year. Hiked a bit more than seven miles through beautiful forest and saw a bunch of wildflowers. There were different flowers blooming along the way to the top. It was really windy up there, but I stayed a while as it was one of those rare days you can see the beach and even the waves crashing in (and the bridge over the bay) and also the Cascade volcanoes to the east. Usually you can see one or the other; sometimes neither. Every now and then, you can see both. Nice day.
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    @mtaratoot, thanks for sharing your adventures. Those pictures were gorgeous. Where is this, if you don't mind my asking? It is hard to believe anyone would want to move away from so much natural beauty, even for Australia. I'd love to see volcano pictures if you have some.

    *Update* I did a quick Google search and realized you are in the Pacific NW. Lucky!
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 33,733 Member
    Complicated schedule day, so not much activity: Just a walk while my car was getting repaired, 4.27 miles at a casual 3.1 mph pace. Later, helped with learn-to-row class again, only slightly more physical than last night, so pretty negligible.

  • mtaratoot
    mtaratoot Posts: 13,929 Member
    edited June 2023
    DiscusTank5 wrote: »
    mtaratoot wrote: »
    Mine have been "non-traditional" as far as what most would call "work-outs." But I'm having fun!
    Last week I went paddling two days (Sunday and Thursday). It was about 18 miles each day. The second day launched from where the first day ended. I didn't really get any pictures, and that's OK.
    Yesterday I hiked up a local peak that's the highest in the coast range. I hadn't been up this year. Hiked a bit more than seven miles through beautiful forest and saw a bunch of wildflowers. There were different flowers blooming along the way to the top. It was really windy up there, but I stayed a while as it was one of those rare days you can see the beach and even the waves crashing in (and the bridge over the bay) and also the Cascade volcanoes to the east. Usually you can see one or the other; sometimes neither. Every now and then, you can see both. Nice day.
    .

    @mtaratoot, thanks for sharing your adventures. Those pictures were gorgeous. Where is this, if you don't mind my asking? It is hard to believe anyone would want to move away from so much natural beauty, even for Australia. I'd love to see volcano pictures if you have some.

    *Update* I did a quick Google search and realized you are in the Pacific NW. Lucky!

    The pictures were from Tillicum Beach campground, Siltcoos Canoe Trail, Sweet Creek, and Marys Peak.

    On our trip today we saw only eight Bald Eagles. One was a juvenile; the rest were adults. We also saw a very rare thing; a small flock of Pelicans. They are not uncommon east of the Cascades, like on the Snake River, but we don't see them here. Well, we saw them today. Pretty kitten awesome.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 422 Member
    A 30 minute pool swim today, first thing. I slept badly--that seems to affect my swim more than my bike or run.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,864 Member
    Hour on the elliptical, hills.

    Must've slept wrong, because I woke with a stitch in my side along my ribs which flared every time I tried to inhale deeply. Made the middle part of my elliptical session pretty uncomfortable, as that's when the hills are at their steepest/hardest resistance. But my final numbers for distance and calorie burn were consistent with previous sessions, so it didn't seem to affect performance, only comfort.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 422 Member
    Djproulx wrote: »
    The wildfire smoke from Canada is affecting the Northeast US in a significant way.
    Friends who are already at the New Jersey race venue advised that today's air quality reading of 166 is at an "orange alert" level. If the level gets to red, the race will be cancelled. I'm hoping that the smoke impact will lessen by Saturday. Race is Sunday. Fingers crossed.

    @Djproulx, I'm sorry to hear that! Hope the wildfires die out and the race goes on.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 33,733 Member
    edited June 2023
    Cooler day today, and one of our group needed to get home early-ish, so we started rowing a little earlier than usual. I rowed bow in the quad. We did power 10s (interval workout) during about half the workout time (warm-up to the bridge, intervals down to the other bridge, cool-down back to the boathouse, basically). Splits (minutes:seconds per 500m) were dropping by around 40 seconds or so on the power pieces.

    Helped with learn-to-Row class tonight. I did some barge wrangling to bring it up to/from the dock (poling & stand-up paddling the unwieldy giant rectangular thing), then just ran the tiller while the class rowed it, so mild activity.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,864 Member
    Upper body hypertrophy day in the weight room:

    Incline Bench Press 4x12
    Incline Cable Fly 3x12
    BB Row 4x10
    Pulldown 3x10
    Machine Lateral Raise 4x12
    DB Curl <superset> Lying DB Extend 3x10
    Perloff Press 3x15sec
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    @Djproulx I hope the wildfire smoke clears for you in time!

    I haven't managed to fit any workouts in the past two days due to really complicated long work days, early starts and late finishes. So all I've been able to focus on is steps, which is better than nothing. Have a banging headache tonight so am hoping it goes when I sleep so that I can get to the gym first thing.
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    edited June 2023
    My headache got worse last night and progressed into a migraine. Still felt it this morning so did the sensible thing and cancelled my gym workout. I get annoyed with myself for stuff like this even though it's outside of my control and would be stupid to even attempt a gym workout!

    The weekend is scheduled to be around 25°C + here in the UK, I'm riding my share horse both days so have booked swimming as well so I can cool off afterwards.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 10,864 Member
    Skipped my scheduled leg workout in the weight room, there's a paperwork snafu with my gym membership which I will get resolved after I come back from my vacation to see my son graduate from US Army basic training. No workouts for me the next couple weeks until I get back home.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 422 Member
    Long run this morning for me: 45 min. with another 40 min. of walking split between before and after (and a few minutes in the middle of the run).

    Yesterday's workout was some short stints of biking, around 50 min. total.

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