What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Did an hour of free weights/machines in the gym (although I have a list of exercises I pick from I'm not as organised as @carolinepowell885 and didn't keep a record!). Also got an hour or so walk in locally at an Equestrian Cross Country course.3
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Heavy upper body day, featuring 5x5 bench press and cable row. Felt like a monster today, weights were flying up and increasing.
After coming home, spent time collecting garbage for the weekly truck visit, including hauling super heavy bags filled with yard refuse. In terms of calories, I just added that time to my gym time for a total of 90 minutes.3 -
@AnnPT77, cutting down 15 ft. tall saplings?? That's some heavy duty yard work! I need to plant a few more azalea bushes soon in the backyard.
20 min run + 20 min walk with my senior labrador this morning. She was struggling in the heat. I think for the summer I'll need to do shorter runs with her, then circle back to the house and drop her off before setting out again. This way I'll also get a water break without having to carry it with me.2 -
Yoga
15min
Iron Cardio.
20 sets of clean, press, squat snatch (1 rep of each per side).
160 reps.
16kg
20 min
HSPU - 6x4r (24)
Chins - 6x6r (36)
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Today I got in a 65 min. bike ride, out to the lake and back.3
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Full body workout at the gym today, 45 minutes, plus 30 minute walk. Not as much as I'd like because of work but I knew that ahead of time which is why I hit the gym first thing.4
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Yesterday, Monday (US Memorial Day) another row in 2 seat of the quad, not very intense because we were trying to keep a rower in a single in sight most of the time for safety reasons, and we had some issues with boat set (staying level side to side).3
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Heavy leg day, featuring 5x5 deadlifts. Been very nice the last couple days, working a swing shift (starts 2pm) instead of day staff (starts 8am), so instead of waking at 4:30 to get a workout in, I slept in until 7 each day. When you actually get enough sleep, the workout really works out, kwim?
Tomorrow, however, is the first of two mid shifts (10pm-6am). I'll get my weekly cardio in before the first one, but no workout Thursday between mids as I'll be focusing on catching up on sleep. Am debating hitting the gym Friday after my second mid. Or more accurately, debating what I'll do that day, whether a second round of cardio or do a light lifting day. Probably will depend on how I'm feeling at that time.3 -
Another all-too-functional workout, raking, shoveling, breaking up clumps in the heavy clay soil the stump-grinding guy brought up with his bobcat from my wild zone out back, when he took the wood chips out there to dump them. Also raking up some remaining wood chips, especially ones that were in my neighbor's lawn. (Tree stumps were along the property line.)
Still quite a bit to do there to break up clumps (after they dry more) and get the area to some kind of reasonable contour for re-seeding. Thinking I should add some gypsum (may even have some in the basement), and may need to bring in some compost and/or topsoil as well before reseeding.
Big fun.3 -
24 min. pool swim, then a 10 min. walk with the dog. Really overdid it biking yesterday--I had to keep a heating pad on my quads for a couple of hours before bed.4
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Hour on the elliptical, hills, 5.8 miles, 800 calories. Gives me lots of extra calories for the day, perfect for dealing with the snackies which always come when I stay up extra late, such as during a mid shift tonight.4
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Been under the weather for the past 24 hours, managed a 30 minute pilates floor workout (mainly core and glutes) this morning, then a 20 minute walk at lunchtime, but not pushing it any further than that today!4
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Long time no log...
Wednesday
I got up early, as I had a 6 a.m. flight to Malta. I am a bit incompetent at international travel these days: I don't do it very frequently. I managed to drop my passport onto an open pocket on my drysuit bag whilst checking the bag in. So I didn't quite make it abroad.
I went for a lovely, very hilly 26 mile walk in Surrey instead. I managed 6 miles before realising breakfast was a good idea.
Thursday
I rebooked a flight. This time it was in the evening, so I went for a climb beforehand. I was Ok, not outstanding.
Friday
3 dives. The first was a purpose built tugboat. It looked nice, but it was a long swim and some folk hooned through their air getting there. So we turned around pretty much on getting there.
The last was a night dive, which felt a bit claustrophobic as loads of us were on a small wreck.
Saturday
3 more dives. The first two were on Gozo, the Blue Hole followed by the Inland Sea. These were stunning; truly amazing dives. The night dive was nice; it was the reef near the tugboat.
Sunday
Final two fives on Comino. Both dices were really nice; the second was a sea cave which is a big swim-through.
Monday
I stopped off for a quick climb 9n the way home from Gatwick.
My main drysuit was in for repair, so I was on the back-up. It worked OK; I was damp due to a hole in a dry glove. I had spares, so no harm was done done on the later dives.
I have slight pain in my right index finger, so I elected not to climb today.
The dives were pretty chilled; the longest was 53 minutes and the deepest 29 metres.5 -
One dive in a pretty shallow exhibit at the aquarium, and I was quite cold despite the warmer water.
My dry suit flooded very badly. I had to call the dive off after an hour instead of the full 90 minutes. There were several gallons of water in my suit, so I have to figure out where that came from. I have an idea; it could have been user error.
Paddling tomorrow about 18 miles, then maybe heading to the coast on Saturday to camp with a friend and then paddle somewhere over there on Sunday.5 -
Sat stroke seat in the quad, counting in my head the whole time as usual when stroking. (Stroke sets the cadence, and everyone's supposed to synchronize with stroke on square up, catch, release, arms away, body over, slide . . . well, actually on the same stuff in reverse in between catch and release, too - every body benchmark in the whole stroke cycle. This puts the onus on stroke to get this stuff technically correct and well-timed. Yikes.)
Last time I stroked, the row was kind of awful. I was worried it was me. Today's row - with a different lineup of rowers - went just fine, really well . . . so I think the problem wasn't me last time, at least not mostly/entirely.
Later, 3 mile walk at 3.6mph in about 90 degrees F and full sun, while my car was getting its oil changed and tires rotated. Garmin decided to anti-age me by a year in its claimed fitness age (33 to 32 🤣) . . . maybe as a bonus for that . . . I guess?3 -
I did a couple of race prep efforts this week. Last night, I rode a sprint distance bike ride (13 miles) at a somewhat brisk pace (16.5), then jumped off the bike, threw on my run gear and was into a 20 minute run with less than 1 minute of transition time. My run pace was nothing special, (10:30/mile) but I always like to put in a few training sessions that force me to run on "heavy legs" for the first ten minutes until I find the run groove.
Today was my first open water swim of the year. It was a warm day and swimming conditions were perfect. I wore my full sleeve wetsuit. We went out to the distant beach and returned, a 2050 yd round trip. I didn't push my pace, but rather focused on a smooth gliding stroke, so I was pleasantly surprised to finish with a 1:59/100 pace. The best news is that I wasn't winded after the swim. I expect that the ocean swim at next week's race will be a bit rougher, but who knows.
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45 minute walk this morning, nothing special but good to be out in the countryside.
Was due to go to boxing class tonight but instructor cancelled so I went to the gym instead and did a full body workout, mainly focusing on different squats - Bulgarian split squat, one legged squat, standard and curtsy squats. Did some arm stuff but my tennis elbow is playing up a tiny bit so I didn't want to push it too much.4 -
Yesterday I biked for 40 minutes, from the swimming pool in my little town out to the lake and back, hills included.
Today I ran for 30 min, with a 10 min walk before and a 6 min cool down walk after. Pretty humid out there, even at 7 am, so I was sweating buckets.5 -
I was stuck in mu car for four hours today for work related stuff, so have only managed a 45 minute walk and 20 minutes yoga this evening.4
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Lap pool session at noon today. Usual 600 warmup (swim, kick, pull) then a 2x500yd main set and cool down. 1800 yds in total.
Shorter, higher intensity ride is planned for tomorrow to mimic next Sunday's Oly distance bike split.5
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