What Was Your Work Out Today?
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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.
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At least 22.8 miles biking, though Garmin only caught 20.3 of it (I forgot to un-pause after my midway snack break). The part it captured, moving average 10.7mph. Still mid-80s F here, so staying mostly Z2, only about 8.5' up in Z3.
At learn to row class, I carried a few boats as usual, then after we got the class launched in singles, I put my single in and rowed a brief, relaxed 2388m (with a couple of stops to help class members with questions), returning to the dock first so I could help with dockmastering the class members' landings and boat/oar carrying.4 -
Ultimate.
And pulled a muscle on the first point. Played the rest of the game anyway. Leg is on fire.6 -
Gym day with trainer yesterday. The usual stuff. Heading off to a vacation week at the beach, so I'll get a lot of flat miles in on the bike, as well as some open water swimming in the bay.6
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So I'm not doing too well in the stairs at the mo. I hurt the back of my knee going up them to bed and then the next morning, I slipped on the last step and twisted my hip.
I'm really paranoid about falling down stairs not just at home but anywhere and so I'm always really careful but I was bleary-eyed and still half asleep. I think I need to move into a bungalow! 🤣
Anyway, I managed a 30 min walk yesterday and it's feeling better today so I'm going to up that to 45 mins today and hopefully get back to some strength training tomorrow 💪 😊6 -
Took yesterday off. Had an odd pain in my left foot. From where it's at and how it hurt, guessing it's from my Deadlift band device. I get lazy and use slippers to hold the band down when I do deadlifts. It's a 140 lb band and exerts a pretty hard load on the foot at the top of the lift.
Feels better today, I'll stick to doing KB swings today instead of Deadlifting just to be safe and stop doing these with slippers.5 -
Finished up with my cardio today. So far, knock on wood, no foot pain. Did 16 2 minute intervals again/1 minute recovery on LateralX and Assault Bike. Supersets this AM but no Monster Band deadlifts. Did 35kg KB swings and Goblet Squats instead (while holding my 25kg KB).
Have two or three more supersets to do this afternoon and I'll call it a day.5 -
8169m rowing bow in the double: We did a small extra partial loop because we were far ahead of the single that was out with us. We decided to keep rowing until she was ready to land, rather than land early ourselves and wait for her on the shore. (She needed our help to carry her boat.) And that was all for today.4
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3 miles in ~50 min. on the elliptical, almost all in HR Zone 3. Followed this with a lighter version of the strength training from the other day (minus the lateral squats) to maintain the habit, but prevent overdoing it. We'll see how I feel tomorrow.5
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Off today and no alarms set on off days. For some reason I woke up at 6 and tried for 30 minutes to go back to sleep. So I got up and did my Elliptical 200 minutes for 12.53 miles. My pace today was slower too. I'm going to try to get to bed earlier because I do work tomorrow.5
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Full Day Friday
Deadlifts, hack squats, DB presses, DB rows, DB front/side/rear lateral lifts, DB curls, DB extends
Next week I'll be camping the entire week. No gym time, doubt I'll do any calisthenics either, but I do expect to get in a TON of hiking, figure at least 12-15 miles per day minimum, with at least one day over 20 miles.5 -
Full Day Friday
Deadlifts, hack squats, DB presses, DB rows, DB front/side/rear lateral lifts, DB curls, DB extends
Next week I'll be camping the entire week. No gym time, doubt I'll do any calisthenics either, but I do expect to get in a TON of hiking, figure at least 12-15 miles per day minimum, with at least one day over 20 miles.
Enjoy your camping ⛺️ 🙂0 -
I went caving. We did Pwll Dwnr. It is a cave needing SRT - rope technique. There are 5 pitches, totalling 93 metres. It was hard work, taking 3 of us 4.5 hours. The cave is at the top of a large hill or small mountain, so getting there was work.
I got stuck at a rebelay for a bit. It took me 5 minutes to sortbout (I did a pistol squat off some nondescript wall, not a hold. This released enough tension that I could sort myself out.)
That was the only faff. Fitbit reckons my heart rate averaged 135 for all the 4.5 hours4 -
One hour elliptical, 3.3 miles, hr zone 2/3 border the whole time. And some crunches. 4
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Doing 250m sprint race timing for the learn-to-row class "graduation" and BBQ/potluck doesn't count as exercise, does it? Oh, well. Someone(s) there had active fun, and I had regular not-very-active fun helping them.4
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I intended to train yesterday but we went fishing for plastic on a boat in Amsterdam, which was great fun but sad that it was necessary. We got a full trash bag full and two glass bottles. It involved some pushing off the walls when the steering was slightly off and I learnt not to be scared on a boat and how to balance but aside from a little bit of walking it wasn't much of a workout.
Today I did myback routine at the gym. It's getting easier, which means my back is slowly getting better and my core is getting a little stronger (yay!). I did rest quite a bit between sets but it was less than previous times ánd it gave me the opportunity to stare at one of our coaches and one of the better athletes do a hang clean routine, going from hang power cleans to hang squat cleans. It's so cool. They got quite high weights and are both at similar levels of strength and fitness and possibly age too. Cool to know that could be me in 5-7 years. Before my strained back I was making very quick progress but I think this has been good for teaching me to slow down and listen to my body. At least a little bit.
Tomorrow a few people from our gym have a friendly lifting competition on the other side of the country so we're leaving at 6.30am to get there in time for the weigh-ins. It's only an hour and a half drive, since we're crossing the country west to east and it's a small country so it's gonna be a day trip. No exercise for me but it should be fun.3
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