What Was Your Work Out Today?

Just did a 50 minutes dance session courtesy of my online gym class💃💃💃

11.7 mile trail/mountain run with 2,126 feet of Elevation.

6 minutes of planks and isometric exercises.

Rowing 10 secs on 10 secs off x 2:40min x 3. Decline crunches in between.

I'd just put on my shoes for a little run, when I got an urgent email from a recruiter. Sigh. So no running today but answering questions. Still had 30 minutes left before the evening lockdown started, and so I decided to go on a stiff walk. Managed 3.5km, and that's all for today.

Dumbbell RDLs
Stability ball leg curls
Dumbbell bench press
One arm dumbbell rows
Dumbbell shoulder press
Decline sit-ups

Sunday
I climbed on my garden wall. I was way off form - it was a bad session.

Monday
Gyms in the UK reopened. I went climbing.

It was an OK session. It was definitely not brilliant, but I got most of the mid-difficulty level climbs I tried. I didn't really try any hard ones - I will work my way back.

It was just under two hours, which I was pleased with. (I expected my endurance to be very poor.)

4.2 mile run. Feeling tired, but will do a rebounding session tomorrow and some isometric exercises.

Push Day
BB Bench press x 5 sets
DB triceps ext x 5 sets
BB squat x 4 sets
Cable triceps push down x 4 sets
BB incline bench press x 4 sets
Cable triceps ext x 4 sets
Dips x 3 sets to failure
:20 on the dreadmill at 7:55 pace

Around 30' yoga - stretch - foam roll.
36' core-focus exercises.
5235m machine row.

I kind of wasn't feeling the rowing tonight, kept having to pay attention to hold my usual pace for moderate SS workouts (not a big thing, maybe just slip by a couple of seconds vs. usual 500m split). Funnily enough, I ended up with HR a few beats higher than that pace would usually cost, so maybe intuition about RPE is meaningful. 😆

There was around an hour and a half of fairly vigorous yard work in my day, too, not typical for me, bend/squat/lift/carry kind of stuff to do Spring clean-up in perennial beds, so maybe just that 2% more fatigued than usual before the rowing workout, dunno. NBD, just interesting to an introspective type.

It’s roughly a 50-55 minute walk to work so I try to do that at a moderate pace to start my day.

60 minutes of cardio. Same ol', same ol' for my Steady State day. 30 minutes on the rower, then 30 on the LateralX.

Only thing slightly different is I've been feeling less drained doing this and in better control of keeping the HR between 60% and 70% max. Nearly the entire workout again was right around 66%/67% of max HR after the first 9 minutes (the HR climbing slowly, like it should). Gorgeous day outside on the deck rowing.

My peace and serenity on the deck ends soon as I'm having 5 to 6 weeks of significant construction on my back yard pool and back deck soon. That will suck. Starts in a few weeks and will last most of May. Will have to move the rower to the garage if it's not too hot there (thus, the fan I set up yesterday -- huge and cool).

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Just finished fitness blender's toned and curvy workout. Weather's getting really hot here so I am doing less of cardio/HIIT and more of strength training.

3.1 mile walk.

Same routine as yesterday. Replace LateralX with Assault Bike -- 30 on the rower first, then 30 on the AD Pro. Kept the HR in check again (almost all under 70% max and over 60% max). Worked on my playlist during the Assault Bike ride, so the HR was a bit up and down . Playlists are looking better though!

Rooftop yoga this evening. Wife tapped out. Just me and my daughter this time.