What Was Your Work Out Today?
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The kid and I did a 4 mile walk in about 75 min. We weren't moving very fast today, as it is getting hot again. ugh... Anyhoo, my HR was mostly in Zone 2, with frequent dips into 3 and 4 going up hills.6
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The usual roughly 7k rowing bow in the double (in a near-comatose state after a night of short and extraordinarily poor sleep), then a mostly kibitzing, meandering visit to the learn-to-row class - no vigor there, tonight (fine by me).6
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Crushed my workout goal by 6:30am.
Nice run and chest workout!
7km (short for my usual run but my ankle isn’t happy with me from driving through traffic constantly).
Still, great start to the day!6 -
Yesterday was a rest day, so I did 12 miles' walk. I should be able to get a climb in this evening.6
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I did a very gentle oly class with plenty of warm up and light (for me) weights.
I did a 12 minute emom of 2 power snatches at 15, 17,5 and 20kg for 4 rounds each, then 4 sets of a snatch balance and overhead squat, building up from empty bar (15kg) to 22,5kg. My back feels mostly okay.4 -
The kid and I went for a short walk today on mostly flat ground (gentle slopes or "false flats"). We covered about 2 miles in 30 minutes. HR in Zone 2 and 3. That was as long as either of us wanted to be outside in the heat.
After we came home I did some strength training. I'm experimenting with different exercises to find a set of things I like (for now, low weight & 2 sets only). Today's stuff: dumbbell bench press and rows, some shoulder PT exercises, crunches, bridges, 2nd position plies in turnout (squats hurt my knees, but plies in turnout do not!), lateral squats, dead lifts.
Not sure if I like the lateral squats. We'll see what the knees think.6 -
Supersets in the AM and then a hard, longer interval row at lunch. 4 X 2K w/ 4 minute rest. I did this same row at the beginning of the month. It's for my online (indoor Concept2) rowing club. Worst interval you count.
Last time, my worst interval was a 8:52 (2:13 pace). This time it was a 8:36 (2:09 pace) so huge improvement. Brutal workout. I did this a lot over the Winter and got down to 2:06.5 pace average with 3 minutes rest, so I'm not back to that level yet. Lost some ground but I've been doing less meters and more lifting with the heat. 2:08.0 average for all four.4 -
My usual elliptical but today I felt good at 18 miles so I continued to 26.25 miles once again. This time my pace was slower so it took me 372 minutes. When I did it before, May 29,2022, it was 337 minutes. About a 14+ minutes/mile compared to sub 13 minutes/mile the earlier time.4
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Yesterday was Leg Day, with squats, step-ups, leg presses and calf raises.
Today was Pull Day, with pulldowns, lots of rows, shrugs and preacher curls.3 -
At roughly the midpoint of today's bike ride, I rode by the kayak rental place. Not that I had kayaking on my agenda, but it had a sign posted: "Closed - Heat Advisory". 🤣
It was 96 degrees F at the time. Total ride 20.84 miles, moving speed averaged 10.8 mph, taking it pretty easy because it was a little warm-ish. Mostly Z2, some Z3, and about 3' even hit Z4, presumably hills.
Barely made it home in time to change and head off to learn-to-row class, where I didn't do much: Carried a few boats, wandered around, watched people learn to flip/recover, etc.6 -
Much needed de-load this week…6
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dralicephd wrote: »The kid and I went for a short walk today on mostly flat ground (gentle slopes or "false flats"). We covered about 2 miles in 30 minutes. HR in Zone 2 and 3. That was as long as either of us wanted to be outside in the heat.
After we came home I did some strength training. I'm experimenting with different exercises to find a set of things I like (for now, low weight & 2 sets only). Today's stuff: dumbbell bench press and rows, some shoulder PT exercises, crunches, bridges, 2nd position plies in turnout (squats hurt my knees, but plies in turnout do not!), lateral squats, dead lifts.
Not sure if I like the lateral squats. We'll see what the knees think.
@dralicephd it's great you're doing strength training! Monday was the first time in several weeks that I picked up the free weights again. I'm going to do some lifting today.5 -
I did the same easy back routine I did last friday except I only got in a minute and a half on the bike because they were all in use most of the time and I got bored. Birddogs feel the best for my back right now but deadbug varieties help too. I do have some walking to do today.
Tomorrow's a rest day.6 -
Push Day
Bench Press, Incline DB Press, Decline Cable Fly, Standing OHP, Lying EZ-Bar Skullcrusher5 -
I forgot my dang running shoes this morning...I was going to run during lunch as we have a break in the monsoon weather and it's nice and cool out. Hopefully I can get out when I get home, but the monsoons are supposed to kick up again around 3PM and go through the evening...heavy rain, wind, hail, lightening, etc...not fun to be out in. If all else fails I'll probably Zwift.7
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Tuesday
I lifted weights, doing:
Bench, 3 sets of 5, 55 kgs. I then tried 60 kgs, which proved to be too ambitious.
Deadlift, 2 sets of 6, 120 kgs
Hangboarding.
Wednesday
I climbed, lasting 2 hours. (I was very tempted to stay a bit longer, as I left half an hour before the gym shut. But I had some work to do, unfortunately.)
It was very fun. I got a couple of new routes, and repeated a lot of earlier sends.
I also got 8 miles' walking done.5 -
OMG... I am so sore from yesterday! I'm not sure which part was a little too much, but the lower body is on fire! Thankfully the joints are fine with yesterday's weight lifting experiment. So there's that.
Needless to say, today is definitely a rest day (other than some stretching stuff). Oof.5 -
More rowing than usual this morning, not by pre-plan, but because the (less experienced) double out on the water with us (we in our separate double) was slower, so we got in a extra increment of meters to finish around the same time as they did: 11.3k today, vs. the usual 7k. It was all low intensity though - we kept expecting the others to catch up with us. They're younger (like half our age), stronger, learning well, more athletic - should be faster than us (me 66, double partner 75), even though we're more experienced/skilled at rowing.
It turned out they had to switch boats (equipment problem), then they were struggling because one of them had one oarlock turned backwards (easy/common mistake to make when new), didn't realize it. Late in the row, we pulled up alongside to talk with them, spotted the problem so they could fix it. I joked that we didn't help them earlier just so we could row faster than they did, but of course it was really because we didn't realize they had a problem that needed our help.
Back at learn to row class tonight, but just carried a couple boats and some oars, otherwise sat on the dock in a nice breeze reading a magazine and taking photos of them rowing (lovely way to spend the evening), until they needed me to dockmaster them landing at the end.
ETA: Still hot, for here, but just 85-ish, instead of 95-ish.6 -
Same boring stuff yesterday. Did 30 minutes on the rowing machine and then 25 on the Assault Bike.
I was deleting old photos (I take photos of my workout times to have something to compare it to) and was really seeing significant progress on my Steady State rows again. Yesterday, it was an "easy" day and my HR was almost all under 75% max and felt easy. I averaged 2:24 pace. That's a five second or so improvement from just over the Winter on pace. Sometimes, the best indicator of progress isn't your race times, but more your effort on easier cardio days, so this is more encouraging than anything.6 -
No walk outside today since it was over 85F at 9am! Yuck. I'm still quite sore today, so I jumped on the elliptical to get the blood moving and keep up the habit. It took the first full mile to "work the rust out". I just kept a very slow pace. Once I felt less stiff, I could comfortably increase my pace for the next 2 miles, but I felt quite tired once I hit the 3 mile mark. Overall, I spent an hour on the machine and covered 3.2 miles. About 20 minutes of that was in HR Zone 3, the rest was mostly Zone 2. I finished out the day with some crunches.4
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