What Was Your Work Out Today?

Ran one of my favorite local trails this morning.

Not a dang thing since it's a rest day. I had some walking to do to get my errands done (~10k steps) and I biked to the gardening store early in the morning for calendula, echinacea, and marigolds plants to propagate at home for making my herbal concoctions.

Two Chloe ting workouts

This morning was a couple of hours spent on the water kayaking with my boys. More fun than exercise, but at least we got some vitamin D. If I manage to finish my paper soon, I might go for a short bike ride (and then reward myself and the fam for a job well done with steamed crabs for dinner).

@nighthawk584 - way to go!

My workout for the past two days was clearing about 300 square feet of head-high brush with a 6" brush cutter blade and a rake.

I did an hour's yoga just after breakfast

Then I had a bit of a climb this afternoon. It was fun. With warm up and warm down, it ended up being just under three hours.

I did an evening walk, which left my plan of doing a minor bulk off to quite a bad start. I ate 3,200 calories, but was still nearly 500 below exercise adjusted target.

Anyway, here is me climbing:
https://youtu.be/pEmFQ1dzM4w

Too much smoke in the air. Two huge wildfires near Tucson from lightening the other night. Both are nearly 1000 acres now and one is growing rapidly.

Did 30 minutes on the AD Pro and 30 on the LateralX, which actually worked for calorie count today, which is really odd. 350 calories in 30 minutes, which is about right. I guess I was just on fire the other day burning 800 calories in less than 8 minutes! Must have been a glitch.

Some progress on the local huge fire today -- 10% contained but the hotshots are fighting massive winds, which doesn't helps. I did get my row in this AM. Nice temperatures and favorable winds not blowing the smoke toward my house. Those guys that fight these fires are pretty impressive. They are going to be dropped in by helicopter today and fortify lines to keep it from spreading. Went from 150 acres to 1500 acres in two days. Dramatic pics of the mountains on fire here.

One hour row today, all keeping HR under 140. Shouldn't have gotten that high, to be honest, but I pushed a bit early on and my legs were sore from the LateralX machine yesterday. Temps were great - 67 degrees. Other than the fires, we've had some nice cooling temps. Back to hot by Wednesday again. 2:30 pace/20 SPM average. Big drop in pace on the second half. I upped the Drag factor a bit, that had some effect.

This...we had to do it in less than 15 minute. Then started working through a 300 rep portion of the workout...I think I only got to 100.

11 miles was on my schedule to run. Didn't get started till 9:30 am it was so hot. Went through 2 bottles of powerade.

Full body workout today!

Each circuit is 5 minutes long do AMRAP within that time.

Circuit 1:
Alt DB Snatches: 6reps each side
Box Hop: 8reps

Circuit 2:
Bent Over Rows: 8reps
DB Squats: 10reps

Circuit 3:
Wall Balls: 10reps
DB Push Press: 12reps

Circuit 4:
Deadlifts: 10reps
DB Thrusters: 12reps

Circuit 5:
Ball Slams: 8reps
Walking Planks: 6reps

Circuit 6:
Push Ups: 6reps
Squat Hops: 8reps

Yesterday was a 27 mile bike ride, today will be a short eliptigo session.

Had to move back inside today. Air filled with smoke. Of all things yesterday, some idiot put his drone up after every news cast had said that putting a drone up risks the firefighters in the air, so all activity had to be stopped temporarily -- both on the ground and up in the air (because you have to see from the air if there's risk to guys on the ground. Hope they find this moron and press charges. Coming up on the seventh anniversary of the loss of the Granite Mountain Hotshots (an entire crew from AZ lost fighting the Yarnell Fire in 2013). So wildfires around here with the winds are no joke. Not as fast spreading as CA fires, though.

Article on the fire.
https://tucson.com/news/local/wildfire-near-oro-valley-grows-winds-pushing-smoke-into-tucson/article_fd8f2900-a9cc-11ea-8d0f-ef6fa993f169.html

16 minutes of intervals (8 short intervals) on the LateralX, then 40 more minutes (8 more intervals) on the Assault Bike.

If this keeps up, I'll likely put the rower in the garage until the fires are out, which might be a while. No view, but minimal smoke.

Bari_Tone wrote: »

We (4 to 6 of us) do push-ups at the office every M-W-F, about once per hour, just to break up the day and to quit staring at the computer screen for a minute. We track our push-up count on a spreadsheet.

Yesterday we surpassed 2,000 total push-ups in the past 6 weeks.

What a fun place to work!

MaltedTea wrote: »

Bari_Tone wrote: »

We (4 to 6 of us) do push-ups at the office every M-W-F, about once per hour, just to break up the day and to quit staring at the computer screen for a minute. We track our push-up count on a spreadsheet.

Yesterday we surpassed 2,000 total push-ups in the past 6 weeks.

What a fun place to work!

I have done similar for years. It's amazing how much just 3 to 4 minutes, once an hour 3X a week adds up. I also find if I do it that way, it doesn't seem like a lifting workout as much and I don't dread it as bad. It takes me around 3 minutes to do 25 pushups, 25 weighted squats/KB swings or KB deadlifts and 15 single arm pressups (each arm). On top of my rowing, that keeps me in pretty decent shape.

I do miss the heavy lifting from the gym once a week or so, but this is a lot better than nothing and most would underestimate how much strength that 200 pushups a day, 3X a week will give you. Plus, it's proven to help with mental clarity throughout the day.