What Was Your Work Out Today?

MikePfirrman wrote: »

Of all things, my left hand was really hurting last night. Guessing it's from increasing the Drag Factor on the rower and learning guitar at the same time.

I think my shoulder irritation from last month was a combo of trying to increase pushups and learning to play piano. Apparently music and working out requires some careful balancing!

Hope the hand feels better soon.

Only a 1000 metre row today, which took me just over 5 minutes.

Rowing machine, same ol' 3 x (2k on, 2' off/CD). Not excited about it, just decided to try to hold under 2:30 split, letting the rating (spm) fall someplace that wasn't very strength-y. (That's to be knee-sparing, in the context of adding some early-Spring outdoor walks this week: Walking has an edge, for me, need to manage the narrow border between "hurts while I do it" and "causes more damage". I don't think there is a "feels fine" for me, but staying conditioned to some few-miles walking is important to my overall quality of life.)

So, 6,762m rowed overall (with the CD and row in/out) in about 35:41. Mostly Z3 (24'), about 5' at the end in the lower half of Z4, remainder below; peak HR at 75% reserve, 83% max.

2k pieces at:
9:55.7, 2:28.9 pace, 23spm, 106W.
9:51.6, 2:27.9 pace, 22spm, 108W.
9:49.3, 2:27.3 pace, 20spm, 109W.

I don't much mess with the DF, last I checked it was . . . can't recall exactly . . . somewhere between 100 and 110? I just try to make it feel "boat-y", for my commonest boats.

It's still episodically pretty cold here, not to mention rainy, windy, and sometimes snowy . . . but I'm getting pretty out of patience with this indoor workout stuff, TBH.

dralicephd wrote: »

MikePfirrman wrote: »

Of all things, my left hand was really hurting last night. Guessing it's from increasing the Drag Factor on the rower and learning guitar at the same time.

I think my shoulder irritation from last month was a combo of trying to increase pushups and learning to play piano. Apparently music and working out requires some careful balancing!

Hope the hand feels better soon.

That's alarming . . . so far, I haven't had any cross-injuries between rowing and banjo playing. Maybe the secret is to be truly awful at the musical instrument part? 😉😆

I won't try to convince either of you to try s*cking at music, though . . . and I hope you're able to find a happy solution, plus speedy resolution of any acute issues!

AnnPT77 wrote: »

That's alarming . . . so far, I haven't had any cross-injuries between rowing and banjo playing. Maybe the secret is to be truly awful at the musical instrument part? 😉😆

I won't try to convince either of you to try s*cking at music, though . . .

I never said I was GOOD. I just try really hard! (Clearly, a little too hard.)

Stationary bike, of course, 10k + 3' CD. On the bike, I just set off, get myself above 75-80W, then settle in wherever it feels good that day . . . and play games on my phone as a distraction. Or should I say, stay seated in aero position? That sounds better than "hunched over my phone playing games" . . . 😉.

Today, apparently I failed to hit the start button on my Garmin, so no details. Bike said 103W on the 10k piece, which took 28:19 overall including the CD, and accumulated 11,091 pseudo-meters. HR seems to have peaked at around 75% reserve and 83% max, based on what Garmin saw without a workout started . . . but it might have gone a little higher (from past experience), dunno.

Tomorrow's a rest day, which might be good. Left ankle is a little wonky for some reason, maybe hyperextended at some point doing I dunno what? I did raise my bike-seat height by one click, but I don't think the ankle thing is that. Hoping the rest day will take care of it, whatever the trigger.

10 km morning walk. Took me 97 minutes.

yirara wrote: »

I cycled 70km around a lovely lake and marshland yesterday while geocaching. It was sunny, great weather, perfect to get the racebike out. If not... I have some muscle problems in the thoracic spine at the moment and am getting massages. This helps. But it also loosened my muscles in the lumbar spine - and that for me always means lower back pain (the joy of being hypermobile). Basically, near the end of the ride I had to stop every 5km or less because my back was hurting so much. Ouch!

Wow!! Kudos!! You really cycled 70 kms? In a day? How many hours did it take? Do you workout like this everyday? I mean obviously that would speed up the weight loss right? I'm just genuinely curious, I hope you don't mind??🌸💐

did one round of my current kettlebell workout with a 10k kettbell. I think I can do most exercises with the heavier weight. Will need to work myself up with clean and press, and obviously still need to work on Turkish getups with the 8kg kettbell, but otherwise things look good.

I find doing light workouts work best for me. I have PCOS and I find if I am wanting to lose weight it is best for me to walk on the treadmill for an hour on incline is more effective than running for 30 minutes. I also enjoy doing fitness by Marshall sweat sessions! They are so much fun and I feel great afterwards
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Getting really grumpy about Winter workouts. It was mostly in the 20s F today, think it hit 30 in later afternoon, but for sure below freezing. Most of the weekend's snow has melted. I try to avoid complaining about whether because why: Changes nothing. But Spring is coming late this year, and my floral Facebook memories assure me I'm not making this up.

So, a ticked-off rowing machine workout, on the short side, late in the day (9:45PM). 2 x (2500m on, 2' off/CD), then an extra 5' CD because, well, I felt like I needed it (2nd 2500m piece was a little strength-y-er). Total 6420m overall including the extra CD. This time more Z4 (about 27%), remainder Z3 and below. Peak HR at about 80% reserve, 86% max (and 1 bpm above 220-age 😆).

2500m pieces at:
12:19.1, 2:27.8 pace, 22spm, 108W.
11:52.8, 2:22.5 pace, 21spm, 121W.

Tested the DF, it's 100, so pretty light. (Splits and watts adjust with DF, so they're comparable across DFs).

The extra CD was timed, not a "rest interval" as usual, so I got splits and C2 calorie estimates. I'd figured I usually CD around 2:40s, 2:50s. This one was 2:51.2 pace. C2 says that's still a rate of 539 calories/hour for their imaginary 175 pound rower, and 458 per hour for me. I could do that pace for a steady hour, except for the boredom. The 2:22 pace for a steady hour, for 634 weight-adjusted calories per hour? Not so much. 🤣

Gym session this morning was a high rep affair. Bunch of different movements done as 20 reps x 2 sets. The sets of hamstrung curls done by lying on back, holding a bridge and using sliders to extend and retract legs almost killed me.

Will do a Zwift ride tonight, probably from the FTP Booster series.

Getting into running again. Just 2km on a 400m track because I happened to be at a shop opposite the track.

I did 186 minutes on the Elliptical for 14.25 miles.

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Trained shoulders today

The usual: Elliptical. 45 min. HR Zone 2/3. Keep on, keepin on...