Is anyone interested in starting a daily thread?
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A daily thread sounds like a great idea.
I have a queston or poll so to speak. Who has the advantage on the bike: Both athletes are the same fitness level, the 59 year old woman that weighs 149 and 24% body fat or the 48 year old woman that weighs 189 and 44.8% bodyfat?
I don't know the answer, but would love the discussion.0 -
Swim : Body Position Drill Set - 1600 Yards
Planned Duration:0:45:00
Completed Duration:0:42:00
Planned Distance:1400 yards
Completed Distance:1400 yards
Calories:490 caloriesWorkout Description:
For all of these you can use fins to help with body position.
4 x 50 Free Warm up. Focus on body position and small kicks from the hips.
4 x 50 Kick with kickboard. Relaxed legs. Kicking from the hips.
4 x 50 One arm out, one arm at your side (alternate between right and left sides)
4 x 50 One arm freestyle (alternate between right and left sides)
6 x 50 Freestyle with pull buoy
6 x 50 Freestyle -- no fins and no pull buoy
2 x 1 minute vertical kicking
Run : Water Running
Planned Duration:0:45:00
Completed Duration:0:30:00
Calories:440 caloriesWorkout Description:
Don't *****, you know this is good for you.
Lifting (circuits) and stretching.0 -
so glad I live I'm a more temperate climate. I don't think I could make it 30 minutes on the treadmill, let alone 50! So I'm impressed already!
I start up my next "season" of training tomorrow with a good swim. Going to record my stroke to see what I should work on this year. Excited to see where the next year takes me!
Yeah, long treadmill routines are the norm for awhile, yuck.
Great idea on getting a video of your stroke. I just finished a session w/ swim coach who pointed out several flaws. Would love to see them on video.0 -
A daily thread sounds like a great idea.
I have a queston or poll so to speak. Who has the advantage on the bike: Both athletes are the same fitness level, the 59 year old woman that weighs 149 and 24% body fat or the 48 year old woman that weighs 189 and 44.8% bodyfat?
I don't know the answer, but would love the discussion.
If the fitness is equal then given the power to kg ration the 59 year old would have the advantage. The same power output would push the smaller frame at a quicker rate.0 -
so glad I live I'm a more temperate climate. I don't think I could make it 30 minutes on the treadmill, let alone 50! So I'm impressed already!
I start up my next "season" of training tomorrow with a good swim. Going to record my stroke to see what I should work on this year. Excited to see where the next year takes me!
Yeah, long treadmill routines are the norm for awhile, yuck.
Great idea on getting a video of your stroke. I just finished a session w/ swim coach who pointed out several flaws. Would love to see them on video.
Hubby has a gopro so we record each other. Gonna check out the footage tomorrow. Wasn't a strenuous workout but definitely productive.
Also did some weight lifting. I really wimped out the past few weeks! I'll definitely feel it tomorrow!0 -
Gonna be a bit nippy tonight here in North Central Fla (high 20's that's F not C) so it looks like my run is going to be on the dreadmill also.0
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Yesterday - 5.25 miles road run Z2 + 6.5 miles bike Z2/Z3
Today - 5.25 mile road run Z2, 6.5 mile bike Z2
Went to the Gym yesterday to re-hack my schedule. Told the guy I want to do a triathlon . He said he can't help me but to hold on for 5 minutes. The door opens and in comes a half iron man, regular triathlete and board member of the local tri club. He talked to me about what I want to do and the races I've booked into, looked at my current schedule and ripped it up and spent an hour devising me a triathlon specific programme of 1/2 hr weights and then and hour cardio beasting. (HITT for an hour on rowing, bike and dreadmill). I'm sort of looking forward to it but it looks like its going to hurt.0 -
Bike : Bike - Stacker Down - 1:30
Planned Duration:1:30:00
Completed Duration:1:30:00
Completed Distance:27.11 miles
Calories:1275 calories
Workout Description:
Stacker Down (1:30)
Warm Up:
10 minute easy
5 minutes build effort - not too hard
5 x :15 build effort/:45 easy
Main Set:
10 minutes in strong effort, 75-80 rpms in a big gear/1 minute easy.
9 minutes in strong effort, 75-80 rpms in a big gear/2 minutes easy.
8 minutes in strong effort 75-80 rpms in a big gear/3 minutes easy.
7 minutes in strong effort, 75-80 rpms in a big gear/4 minutes easy.
6 minutes in strong effort, 75-80 rpms in a big gear/5 minutes easy.
Cool Down:
15 minutes easy0 -
Did my spin class today. It's a nice way to supplement my training and get some force workouts in. I'm not good at motivating myself when I'm alone, so having a whole class able to see your effort really pushes me!
Tomorrow more weight lifting. Hubby is going to help and make sure I'm doing squats correctly. I get to "sleep in" tomorrow so I'll hopefully get some good sleep!0 -
Swim : Swim - Body Position/Kicking - 2000 Yards
Planned Duration:1:00:00
Completed Duration:0:54:00
Completed Distance:2000 yards
Calories:630 caloriesWorkout Description:
1 x 200 easy (mix in some drills and odd strokes)
1 x 300 kick w/ fins (alternating 50 super fast, 50 very easy repeat for 300)
6 x 50 (3-5-3s take three stroke, breath, 5 strokes, breath, 3 strokes breath)
12X50 pull with pull buoy
Repeat in cycles of 3
#1= Pull buoy at crotch
#2 = Pull buoy at knees
#3 = Pull buoy at ankles
Shifting the pull buoy around will shift your balance. Your job is to adapt to the balance shift through pushing down more on chest, rotating, squeezing butt.
No interval take your time to do this right!
1 x 300 kick w/ fins (alternating 50 super fast, 50 very easy repeat for 300)
1 x 300 Cool down
Take this time to re calibrate your stroke
Run : Run - ZR Recovery Run - :30
Planned Duration:0:30:00
Completed Duration:0:30:51
Completed Distance:3.03 miles
Calories:452 caloriesWorkout Description:
Keep your HR in ZR throughout this run.
The purpose of this run is to get blood to your connective tissues and add some additional easy volume for durability. The purpose is NOT to see how fast you can run in ZR. The goal should be to see how slow you can run.0 -
Did my spin class today. It's a nice way to supplement my training and get some force workouts in. I'm not good at motivating myself when I'm alone, so having a whole class able to see your effort really pushes me!
Tomorrow more weight lifting. Hubby is going to help and make sure I'm doing squats correctly. I get to "sleep in" tomorrow so I'll hopefully get some good sleep!
There was an article about the benefit of spin classes to your training. Damned if I can find it though. My opinion is that riding outside>riding on the trainer>spin class>other cycling junk. The BEST spin classes are where people bring their bikes to a class with a whole bunch of trainers.0 -
12X50 pull with pull buoy
Repeat in cycles of 3
#1= Pull buoy at crotch
#2 = Pull buoy at knees
#3 = Pull buoy at ankles
Shifting the pull buoy around will shift your balance. Your job is to adapt to the balance shift through pushing down more on chest, rotating, squeezing butt.
No interval take your time to do this right!
As a fairly new swimmer, I've been working on technique and only swimming with a pull buoy at the suggestion of the local tri club swim coach. Will try this cycle. Thanks for posting.0 -
Made the best of a dreadmill session yesterday. 200/200 progressive workout ended up doing 25:20 time for 3.1 miles. Happy with this since 1/2 of the workout was at recovery pace of 10 min/mile.
today was a swim day, 12 x 50 with pull buoy w/ rest after every third lap. This was a recovery day effort focused on my swim technique, which still needs lots of work.0 -
Swim this morning:
WU:400
4 x 75 - 50 drills/25 swim
2 x 100 w/ tennis balls
Next set 4 times:
2 x 100 - 1st and 3rd sets = drills 2nd and 4th sets = swim at 1:40 pace
1 x 50 Recovery
Rest 30
1 x 50 sprint on :50
1 x 50 easy
CD: 2000 -
45 minute nice easy run to test out the knee. Little bit of tightness but no pain. YAY!!0
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Evening trainer ride
1 hour:
Gayley - 4x8-minute intervals right at Functional Threshold Power (100% FTP) with 4-minute recoveries between intervals..0 -
Did my spin class today. It's a nice way to supplement my training and get some force workouts in. I'm not good at motivating myself when I'm alone, so having a whole class able to see your effort really pushes me!
Tomorrow more weight lifting. Hubby is going to help and make sure I'm doing squats correctly. I get to "sleep in" tomorrow so I'll hopefully get some good sleep!
There was an article about the benefit of spin classes to your training. Damned if I can find it though. My opinion is that riding outside>riding on the trainer>spin class>other cycling junk. The BEST spin classes are where people bring their bikes to a class with a whole bunch of trainers.
Ah, but with three kids under the age of 5 and a hubby that works long hours this order is trumped by "time I can workout where someone else will watch my kids". Spin class falls under that category. I still get a good long bike in on the road once a week, but have to take what I can get.0 -
4 mile recovery pace run yesterday
5 x1000 repeats today. Felt lethargic this am. Difficult to finish workout and I was struggling the whole time...but its done.0 -
Bike:
Baxter
90 minutes of non-stop aerobic conditioning where the effort changes based on cadence.0 -
1:20 aerobic run0
