What Was Your Work Out Today?

@AnnPT77 should've said I learnt they were easier *for me! But your comment is very interesting. I can't do any push up or box dip stuff the normal way because of my wrists and have to use handle-type things (DBs for push ups, some kind of contraption for "box" dips) to position my wrists okay. I can't do overhead squats with the proper wide grip either and need to go as narrow as possible while still being able to squat all the way down and heavy snatches also hurt my wrists more than they reasonably should (though at least that pain is getting less with regulsr training). So why are planks on the hands easier...? I'm gonna bring it up with the pilates coach for sure. I'm very curious!

I occasionally do a 5 minute plank. Because it's really boring, I'll do one minute front plank on elbows, one minute left side plank on hands, one minute front plank on hands, one minute right side plank on hands, and finish where I started - one minute front on elbows. The endeavour is hard work and not that rewarding, so I tend to only do it once a month or so. I tend to do it after climbing, as static stretches are recommended post workout but not pre (for climbing, I don't know about other stuff.)

I didn't really exercise much on Monday, as I drove to Norwich after work. I did get 12k steps in, at least.

Tuesday was my Dad's memorial. I managed more steps (24K) and got a quick kettlebell workout with a 24 kgs wieght (100 swings; 15 goblet squats.)

I wen climbing on Wednesday. It was a 2 hour session, good fun. I wasn't in very good form, although I did get one v4.

@Lietchi I have no idea

@drmwc we rarely do them but sometimes they're programmed as accessory work. The normal core accesory is v-ups, russian twists, hollow rocks and hollow hold but I can't do 3 of those because of my back right now so I'm happy when they schedule something different. Sometimes it's pallof's presses or split squats and lately it's been planks and flyes.
Sideplanks are often in the warmup but you kinda need a strong core to get into position so I only managed to get into position on my knee a few months ago. A real sideplank off my feet is going to take a lot more time and patience.

Anyway, tonight I have drinks with some colleagues so I had to go to the gym at noon. It was 3 rounds of
1 min plate hold (with two fingers if possible, one plate in each hand, very hard to do)
A clean into 3 front squats
6 deadlifts (my back hurt so I did strict shoulder presses instead at 22,5kg)
A clean into 3 front squats
1 min plate hold
2 min rest
The rx version for women was 55kg but I can't clean that much I'm so frustrated because I can jerk that much, I can front squat way more, my snatch is only 7kg away from my clean. I just want to improve this.
I ended up doing 45kg, which mostly hurt to clean but my frontsquats looked very good. Some of the guys were muscle cleaning in a way that looked much too easy but I guess they might've wanted an easy workout for once. I finished in 16:18 iirc including the 4 min rest.

I'm skipping tomorrow's workout because it involves a lot of rowing, thrusters and muscle ups but I'm doubling up on the open gym because a gym friend wanted to work out with me and practice cleans and frontsquats I think and then I still have the gymnastics homework.

Treadmill run today, for stress management.
7km in just under 48 minutes, 8.8kph. Felt quite hard, especially the last few km. Humidity, TOM and/or allergies? 🤷🏻‍♀️ Runalyze says my vo2max improved, but might be because my HR is lower during that time of month (resting HR supposedly 43 today according to my Garmin!).

Quick spin b4 werk. Which is another 50+km of cycling

I seem to have COVID, so no workouts for me. It's a bit annoying, as I had scuba diving holiday booked on Sunday. I was supposed to fly to Narvik in the Arctic Circle in Norway. I suspect I picked the lurgy up at my Dad's meemorial; quite a few people have tested positive.

Unimaginative, I guess: About 6500m rowing 2 seat in the quad again, shorter than usual because - apparently? - today's bow rower, who hasn't bowed much this season, was worried about getting too close to the bridges at either end, so called weigh enough and spun the boat quite a way from both bridges. We did some nice power 10s along the way, though, in pleasant weather, and got the splits down by 30" or more from our starting pace each time, which was good.

This despite what seemed to be an organized demo of two fancy, shiny new pontoon boats doing circuits from the public boat launch . . . while ignoring the standard US default "keep right" traffic pattern for such waterways, plus making an unpredictable turn into our path at one point (we should have the right of way, as a human-powered, less maneuverable craft). WTF, people who ought to know better?

Today on my intended rest day I realised I must have clicked on the wrong pickup location for a package I ordered, so that's a 8 KM brisk walk on the books.