What Was Your Work Out Today?

MikePfirrman wrote: »

dralicephd wrote: »

The physiology of stress is real, y'all. The pandemic is making my work week very stressful and you can see it in my heart rate: It was at Zone 2 when I first stepped on the elliptical! Overall, I did 45 min. with ~35min. in Zone 3, ~5 min. in Zone 4, and ~5 min. in Zone 2. Nuts.

Anyway, the endorphins were greatly appreciated. Also, the burned calories will allow me to have some comfort food.

I have really gotten into meditation the last few years. Really helps a lot with anxiety and feeling overwhelmed and stressed out. I also have a controlled breath/lung exerciser which has seemed to calm and make my breathing deeper. Allegedly (I have seriously low BP anyway), it's supposed to improve your blood pressure.

10K today unstrapped (with the bungee again) on the rower. Very easy stuff. Also did an hour yesterday split between LateralX and Assault Bike, again all easy steady state.

Interesting. I meditate daily, although in a slightly eccentric way. I do deep breathing exercises, which culminate in seeing how long I can hold my breath on an exhale under a cold shower. It's hard to time, but I think I'm at around 2 minutes now. The cold shower is noticeably more bracing in winter. I haven't been doing this too long, in the grand scheme of things - around 3 years.

7-8 am:
Mobility - (30m)

GtG - (15m)
HSPU 1-2-3-4 (10)
Pull-up - 1(50lbs)-2(25lbs)-3-4 (10)
Dip - 1(50lbs)-2(25lbs)-3-4 (10)
Ab Wheel 1x10 (10)
Pushup 1x10 (10)
Row 1x10 (10)
Swing 1x10 (10)
Squat 1x10 (10)

3-4 pm:
RDL -175lbs - 3x3 (9)

Managed 45 min. on the elliptical at a slower pace, hugging the HR Zone 2 and 3 border the whole time. Earlier in the day I was tempted to skip it, but my back relaxed as I moved around more, so I thought it might help to keep moving. We'll see tomorrow (when I'm back on my feet at work) if that was a good decision or not!

The great body experiment of 2021-22 continues...

Finally tried out a Apple+ workout. All I can say it was definitely a challenge doing an interval treadmill session. Wife walked by when I was huffing on one of the all out intervals.

Treadmill run for 2 miles with inclination, the beast abs workout Crunch - 4 sets
Russian twist - 4 sets
Hip up - 4 sets
Crossed tuck in - 4 sets
Cobra - 4 sets
Spider-Man crunch - 4 sets
Bucket drop - 4 sets
Windshield wiper - 4 sets
Beast abs - 4 sets

Feels the burn. If I can do this 2-3 times a week, I’m sure I’ll have the definitions that I want! 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻

Gym this morning. 4 rounds of TRX pull ups, elavated pushups, KB deads, KB lunges, then 3 rounds of stability ball body saws, turkish get ups, overhead dumbell press.

Maintaining good form on the complete TGU's when bridging/lunging section is done while using my left leg/side. Still weaker balance and less range of motion on the right side, so limiting the weight when performing TGU's on that side.

Planning to join my tri club pals for a one hour group ride on Zwift tonight. Looking at the list of riders, I expect it will be a true sufferfest.

Today was technically my rest day, but I went on 3 walks that totaled about 45 minutes.

Swapped up the schedule a bit this week. Machine rowing today, the usual 3 x (2k on, 2' off/CD) format, 6689m including the row in/out and CD, 2:26.4 pace/19spm on the 2k pieces. Each of Z4 and Z3 represented 42% of the time (about 15' each), the remainder of the time in zones below. HR peaked at 157 bpm, around 82% reserve or 87% max. That's definitely "short sentences only" territory, for me. (220-age estimate fails again!).

Followed that with 44' playing with dumbbells.

I'd almost talked myself out of doing today's workout, then I remembered that this one wasn't optional. 😉

yirara wrote: »

My workout today was to briefly sit on the bed to put on fresh socks for running... then sleeping for nearly two hours. I'd say I totally smashed it

@yiyara, I had an equally nonstandard workout day yesterday, but - shockingly - mine was more premeditated. I went out for brunch and a beer with a friend, figured it was a better planning to skip any serious workouts after, stick with chores/errands for the rest of the day instead. Not sure I should consider that an extra recovery day . . . . 😆

Got the booster jab yesterday and the annual flu shot as well. I had a bad incident back in April after the second Covid shot where my HR went up after a 1K sprint (3 days after the shot) and I had exercise induced asthma -- scary as hell. So today, it was relatively easy.

Did four weight supersets and then 10 or so 100m fun sprints on the rower. Hit some nice 1:30s. Ended with a C/D 2K @ 2:25 pace unstrapped.

Another boxing video today. I didn't love this one, but it was alright.

https://youtu.be/YJ3QuchrUNA