What Was Your Work Out Today?
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@bojaantje3822 The struggle is real! Hang in there and rest when you need it.
The "old standby" for me today: 45 minutes on the elliptical; ~2.6 miles; HR mostly in Zone 3, with a few dips into Zone 4 (I think when I was laughing at the video I was watching
). Followed up with my small strength training routine. I was able to add weight to a couple of exercises, so that's good. Overall, I'm feeling tired today, so I'm happy with what I was able to do. We'll see how it sits in the body. 3 -
Weather being cooperative, so back on the water today, just under 7k in the quad. My friend J. volunteered to bow (the steering position, which I usually do) but asked me to stroke (the rower all can see, so sets the rhythm/cadence).
Usually the stroke should be the best technical rower, and I think I'm not that in most boats, but I work hard at it when I'm in that seat (spend most of the row even-counting "in, out, three, four" under my breath!). I feel good that I offered a correction to the boat at our first break that really seemed to make a difference in our power and smoothness. ("Patience on the last quarter of the slide, square up when hands pass somewhere between knees and ankles, but keep sliding until hands come out over the gunwales, then (as J. has been reinforcing for us), feel the water on the blade before the push.") This really helped me get my weight suspended between foot-stretchers and oar-handles, let bodyweight decompress from the seat a bit, apply power to the blade face. Felt good!
Now I need to focus on a clean tap-down release before feathering with fingers, because on some strokes - especially when we're under a "hard starboard" turning command - I'm getting a loaded wrist out of neutral alignment and cranking on it riskily by feathering out instead of tapping out.
So many little bladework nuances to work on, after a winter on the rowing machine!
TL;DR: I rowed a boat, and blah blah mysterious technical stuff in obscure terminology that only on-water rowers would understand or care about. 😆
After the row, a couple of us carried singles out of the house, washed them, carried them back into racks - work we didn't finish during our Saturday clean-up, that needs to be done before the learn-to-row class starts in a week. We only have 4-6 boats left to do.6 -
Leg Day lifting weights, plus walking a mile each way to eat at the burger-burn being put on by my company at the far end of the parking lot.5
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Rest day today. Finished mowing the lawn and kept plugging away at the big pile of mulch sitting in the driveway.4
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Oh no another day of no exercise. Mostly busy but mostly no excuse either. I did so well last week. Can someone kick me a kick up the bum and tell me to get back to it - please!3
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Oh no another day of no exercise. Mostly busy but mostly no excuse either. I did so well last week. Can someone kick me a kick up the bum and tell me to get back to it - please!
(Virtual kick). Get back to it, @Bodenista!
Did that help? No? I thought not. 😉
Sadly, I think motivation and accountability are solo sports - at least they are for me. A thread like this just works on my thoughts/feelings about myself, so I self-motivate a tiny bit better as a result.
Maybe find some exercise that you find more fun, or more convenient? Tell yourself exercise is a thing like tooth-brushing that you just do when it's time, not something you make decisions about whether to do or not do?
You can do this.5 -
Oh no another day of no exercise. Mostly busy but mostly no excuse either. I did so well last week. Can someone kick me a kick up the bum and tell me to get back to it - please!
Why do you want to exercise? If you can answer that for yourself, then you will be able to kick your own bum into action.
Also, everything @AnnPT77 said.
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Thank you Ann and all dralicephd
I do like all the workouts that I do, it's just down to motivation some days and I don't want to ruin the work that I put in last week.
Back to it tomorrow and I really do appreciate your replies xx4 -
Bike today. Not really a training ride though. We just upgraded my 12 year old to a Specialized Hot Rock 26...basically a junior MTB. Going to hit the single track down by the river this afternoon and do the 12 mile section.7
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Chest/shoulders day lifting weights. One could almost say the shower after was another form of exercise, as the cold water prompted VERY quick motions to get clean and out from under that stream, lol. (Not by choice...just a one-off problem at the gym, no doubt fixed by tomorrow.)5
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I was a bit apprehensive about exercise today but I had no negative consequences from my period tonight ánd my twisted ankled healed to where it was before I twisted it, which is still not 100% fixed but much, much better.
At some point in the past - yesterday? Last week? Who knows - I convinced this random dude at the gym to come do oly classes with me on tuesdays because all my regular pals stopped coming to the class
for various, very valid reasons. Whatever, I did a sales pitch and two people showed up!
One complained that it was all my fault that he was suffering 😂 but he's committed to showing up every tuesday now (yay!) and the other one said he had so much fun at the class so I'm hopeful. Though idk how he'll feel after we do overhead squats...
The actual workout was a 12 minute emom (every minute on the minute) of one snatch high pull and one (squat) snatch as low as you can go, 4 min at 60%, 4 min at 70% and 4 min at 75%. Then 8 sets of 4 reps of snatch grip deadlifts (no set time limit but we had 15 minutes left of class time) at 110% of your 1RM snatch. And it went well! The coach said I was consistent throughout, good at every set (which never happens so yayyyyyyy!!), and he always suggests we go up in weight a little more on minute 12 and I did and that went well too! And in my own opinion my high pulls have never been better!
We did a 1RM snatch 2 weeks ago and it was the first time we actually worked towards it consciously since I started taking oly classes. Until a month ago I'd stuck to max 27,5kg, thinking that was my 1RM-ish, but then 3 weeks ago I did 30kg and 32,5kg power snatches so my mind was already blown but at test week 2 weeks ago I got to 40kg. It was 100% fear holding me back from doing more. My goal was 35kg and that seemed terrifying so 40kg took A LOT of (mental) support from very experienced lifters but I did it. And then today I casually and fearlessly did a 32,5kg squat snatch. So maybe I can do a 40kg squat snatch too and maybe even more?
Anyway, my hands are a mess, blisters everywhere, but I feel so good.7 -
My 5 week old refrigerator decided to stop working today, so I cut my workout short. Did supersets in the AM and then rowing sprints (just like 5) and went to get a small refrigerator. Lowe's is bringing us out a new one on Thursday.
Hard to feel too sorry for myself on a day like today.
Walked in to see the news in TX. Just so horrible and predictable at the same time. I'll just leave it at that. 7 -
I did about an hour of light gardening this morning (cutting the spent spring bulb leaves to the ground.. see you next year!). After a pretty lazy day, I felt like moving some more but I didn't want to overdo, so I did a slow, easy 30 minutes on the elliptical (Zone 2 and below.. only 1.5 miles).5
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Elliptical 190 minutes for 13.05 miles today.6
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Huffed and puffed through a very slow trail run tonight. Gawd, I really need to step up my running.
Will drag my lazy butt out of bed to swim tomorrow am and look forward to a bike ride after work.7 -
Snuck in a bike ride after running errands today, by missing the first part of the rowing club board's Zoom meeting. (I'm not a board member. I'm just an active member, and the board welcomes members attending their meetings.)
We have a lot of rain the in the forecast the rest of the week, so I wanted to get a ride in today. It was getting toward the low-angle evening light that I don't like being on the road (with cars) during, so I didn't go crazy.
So, 13.62 miles, 11.4mph average moving speed, just over a minute of Z4 (some hill someplace? 😉), some Z3, mostly Z2. The rest of the week could be indoor-ish. Or lazy.4 -
Thank you all for your comments. I deeply appreciate each and everyone of you. If you would like to keep in touch please befriend me.2
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On Monday, I was a bit time constrained. So all I did of note was front squats (3 sets of 5, 45kgs.)
Yesterday, I went climbing. It was really fun. I was in the gym for over 2 hours; I left when they threw me out. I got a couple of hard routes right at the end. This was on a wall which was reset recently; I got none of the routes last time.
I got over 10 miles walking both days.
I am unsure of my plans for next week. My initial idea was to go to Wales for some caving on Saturday and Sunday; come home on Sunday as I'm giving a couple of people a lift; go to Wales for some canoeing on Monday; go to Dorset on Wednesday to pick up my drysuit from repair and get some scuba in; come home on Sunday.
I think this may be a bit insane. So I am likely to skip the canoeing portion if the plan
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pool swim this morning, after a 2 week break to clear up a sinus infection. Nothin' fancy. 1800yds done as 600 Warm up (200swim/200kick/200 pull) then main set of 6 x 100 on 10R, then 1 x 400, then 200 cool down.
75 degrees and sunny today, so I'm going to take the bike off the trainer and get out for some climbing.5
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