What Was Your Work Out Today?

Super easy 50 minutes today -- 30 on the indoor rower and 20 on the Air Bike (yah!, it's fixed). Had a nasty headache all morning. Too much coffee, stress, overtraining or a combination of the above.

Stressful weekend with my dog, Toby. They said he's got bad joints, basically. Really bad ones. I just want to slap some of these designer "breeders" that think they are cute combining dogs. He's basically got a lab head on a Bassett's body with thin, Lab legs (and one leg that's deformed because it couldn't figure out what it wanted to be, a lab or a Bassett). It's just a horrid combination and he's got this thick body with legs too thin to support him well -- only 3 semi decent ones. I've known for a while he would likely wouldn't live what most would term a "full life" for a dog, but he's going on 6 this year. I'm not giving up on him yet. He's a fighter and a sweety. Likely wouldn't have made it out of the shelter if we didn't take him. The vet, of course, was saying do surgery on his leg he injured until we asked how would he do that on two legs -- no answer of course. He's on antiinflammatories and lots of love and cuddles (and me carrying him a lot) for now. Just hoping he recovers enough to have a few more happy, spoiled years.

AnnPT77 wrote: »

Back on the water, rowing bow in the double for the usual 7k +/- , sticking to moderate intensity steady state so we could practice some of the things we learned in yesterday's rowing camp.

(Among other things, working on loading at the catch via a combination of factors including hip positioning, "up and out" movement to further turn the oarlocks going into the catch, listening for the "click" as the blade connects with the water (or however you think of it - not the sound non-rowers might expect though) before leg pressure, relaxed proper grip, etc.). Both of us still experiencing the occasional bladework "oops" from trying things, so not trying to power it up too much, as a swimming-avoidance strategy in the 50 degree F weather. )

This all sounds so familiar In sweep land I am working on my bad habit that is not loading up the blade before the drive. It's taken me months to actually notice my progress. My main coach was quicker to notice the small steps that I've been making towards that goal.

I haven't actually gotten that feedback with sculling, but I don't know if it's that I just understand the drive (and the very end of the recovery) more innately or that it's an issue of "let's work on this long list of other things before telling him to work on this".

An hour and 5 min on TrainerRoad. I decided to just skip week 5 (the week that I missed due to being sick) and move on to week 6 which is a recovery week and the last week of that plan. I think it makes the most sense to do that and perhaps a second recovery week and then move onto Sweet Spot Base II which is the second half of TR's sweet spot base.

Monday

30min boxing session with PT, had some horrid news and asked her to change from usual recovery upper body work to the boxing. Lots of exercising my brain with different punch combos.

2mile recovery run - yep up that hill again slow and painful but if I can get up there the day after a half then I can do anything

45min circuit class - far too many burpees.

Today is the first day in around 2 years that I am not on a race training plan. It feels very, very strange and I'm still deciding how to plan my running weeks with no needing to get a long run.in

Today my usual morning workout (40 min) in my home gym, but mainly groundwork today as well as a 5m=km run and heading out shortly by bike to my in-laws Return trip is about 10km

66.9km | 41.57 miles | 02:24:33

I am exhausted. Lots of achievement beeps on the bike today. Bike for some reason defaulted to XX.9 after 38km on goals, so everything above that was XX.9, hence 66.9 and not 67.

Tuesday

40min interval run, yes including that hill again. Strava is thoroughly sick of that hill, only 23 days to go.

30min PT, full of DOMS but no sympathy, hill sprints broken up with 100 squats, 100 burpees and 100 press ups (all on my toes). Let's just say I swore a few times.

45min zumba - I wasnt as bouncy as usual thanks to the DOMS

No classes this evening and I was banned from doing any cardio or strength training. What I was advised to do was a PiYo workout from Beachbody on Demand. I picked out an hour long one that was very similar to what we do in class. Felt so much better after the final stretches.

30 minutes on the rower again today (easy again) and 27 minutes on the Air Bike (very easy). Two days of easier workouts and I seem to be feeling better. It's amazing how backing off the intensity when you feel awful can help quickly get you back to feeling good.

Legs is on the schedule but my gym is going through a bit of a renovation so theres no room for farmers or sleds...so I'm skipping to the next day in schedule and doing log presses and some shoulder accessories. I'll make up for the legs with bike rides.

Ended up taking two days off of working out which was not in my plan, but I did start a new retail job that has me on my feet all day. Today's workout was also not according to plan because this woman was doing goodness knows what in the squat cage for probably a half hour -- at least. By the time she was done the line for the cage was so long I decided to skip squats for the day. Not too satisfied with what I got done but Thursday (next lift day) is a new day.

Foam rolling
Leg press
Deadlifts
Dumbbell overhead press
Crunches
Hip dips

20 min elliptical