What Was Your Work Out Today?

Boot camp this morning - D/L, KB swings, rows, stairs, lunges, etc. And a 4.7 mile run at lunch with speed work.

Yoga, weighted pull-ups, single arm DB overhead press, and side lateral raises...

pierinifitness wrote: »

@J72FIT, been noticing your weighted pull-ups work. I've done weighted in the past and really liked it. Don't belong to a gym currently so I'd have to buy something to strap around my waist. Favorite weighted pull-up work for me in my yesteryear days was progressive singles, one rep advancing the weight going up to my max over 6-8 rounds and then a final set with bodyweight only. After taking the weight off, I found I could fly over the bar. Keep up the good work.

That sounds cool. Will give it a try. Currently doing 5 x 5, heaviest weight first then tapering down.

3 miles. Had so much time on my hands with such a short run I didn't know what to do with myself the rest of the morning before work. HA!

Yesterday was leg and shoulder day, followed by cardio day today to help with recovery.

Lots of personal bests, really been messing with my diet to get a ton more protein while I lose these next 30 pounds.

These were the best sets:

21 sit-ups for 3 sets
Squatted 175 to 7
Shrugged 175 to 10
Started military press and that's super hard, only did 55 well
Leg curled 130 to 8
Dumbbell lateral raises 40 to 7
Dumbbell shoulder pressed 60 to 10. I imagine I would have been able to go higher if I didn't start the military press.
Leg pressed 450 to 10

And then today it was a personal best on the AMT cardio machine. 1234 Calories in 65 minutes.

...there are too many daily protein shakes in my life right now.

I work out twice daily and I work out at home doing a mixture of Pilates, power yoga and body weight exercises. I have a really screwed up left knee and I have to take it easy on my knee. I only do low impact exercises because I learned the hard way that my knee will not tolerate anything high impact.

Morning
10 minutes of arms
11 minutes of abs and butt
4-10 minutes of abs, it depends on the video length
20 minutes of power yoga
Sometimes an additional 14 minute power yoga routine

Evening
11 minutes of arms and abs
10 minutes of thighs and butt
15 minutes of Pilates

AM Workout:


New Workout and new FTP. Couldn't complete at 100%. Next time will try it at 96%

Then I did a 4 mile run with my dog, recovery pace, and then some stretching.

Yesterday was beautiful out so finally got to do an outdoors run:
4.2 mile run and then walked home (1.4 miles)

Rest day. Much deserved, but so bad at it.

10 Min warm-up jog
30 Cab Drivers
30 Military Press
30 Tricep Press
30 Tricep Pulldown
30 Shoulder Press

Good day!

18 mile run. Thank goodness for marathon training. It’s been great motivation to go outside and run even thought it’s cold out.

8 mile run. Tapering this week. Marathon is in 8 days. Trying not to get the taper crazies and I lower my weekly mileage even more next week.

pierinifitness wrote: »

@RunnerGrl1982, do you have any special eating plan from now until race day to be well-fueled?

Hey @pierinifitness ! Actually, no specific eating plan other than to follow the same basic nutritional guidelines as I've been doing for my long runs. I definitely am not going to be introducing anything different into my meal plan this week; so there are no surprises by the time race day arrives.

You basically do what you know works...at least for me, anyways! I figured out what helps fuel me for my long runs that has worked successfully over a period of trial and error. So, I don't want to mess that up! LOL. I don't necessarily "carb load" or anything. Just making sure that throughout the week my glycogen storage slowly fills up, so by race day morning I'll be energized and good to go by the time I need to start fueling within the marathon itself.

Honestly, I just try to get a well balanced meal of protein and carbohydrates throughout the day. Nothing special. Oatmeal, greek yogurt, banana, peanut butter, lots of veggies and chicken. Those are my main go to's for the day before a long run. It just works for me.

Snowboarding for 5 hours. So sore.