What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Elliptical Interval setting, 150 minutes for 9.98 miles. HR Zone 2-3 & a bit into 4.1
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Woke up early to get to the gym by 5, note on the door said they wouldn't open until 8. No explanation given, but not a delay I could afford to wait. Went home, showered/changed, and got to work early. No cardio for me for the second day in a row, which bizarrely enough I actually WANTED to do today. For years as an avid weightlifter, I dreaded cardio day as a necessary evil to endure and get out of the way...now, this morning I was disappointed I could not do cardio. What is happening to me?!?
Uh oh, @nossmf, this is the first sign that you are approaching the slippery slope leading to cardio bunny status! It's not too late though, since early diagnosis is the key to managing the disease.
So as long as you don't start buying skin tight brightly colored Lycra workout clothes, or tracking your workouts on social media platforms like Strava, Training Peaks or Garmin Connect, I'd say there's still hope for a full recovery.
My recovery from surgery has been slower than I'd hoped for, since I had a reaction to the betadine solution used on my abdomen and I still have a lingering cough and congestion. Antibiotics haven't really knocked out the symptoms, though I'm making some progress.
I'll ride with the tri club tonight and again tomorrow night. This is all indoor stuff, even with mild weather.
I'm in a 3 week countdown to completion of kitchen remodeling and then a15 day trip to Fla. I'll make up for lost swim, bike and run time once I get to Florida.
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Uh oh, @nossmf, this is the first sign that you are approaching the slippery slope leading to cardio bunny status! It's not too late though, since early diagnosis is the key to managing the disease.
So as long as you don't start buying skin tight brightly colored Lycra workout clothes, or tracking your workouts on social media platforms like Strava, Training Peaks or Garmin Connect, I'd say there's still hope for a full recovery.
My recovery from surgery has been slower than I'd hoped for, since I had a reaction to the betadine solution used on my abdomen and I still have a lingering cough and congestion. Antibiotics haven't really knocked out the symptoms, though I'm making some progress.
I Love This! LMAO! I NEVER heard of a "Cardio Bunny!"
@Djproulx I'm sorry to hear you aren't recovering as fast as you hoped. Now you need to add Iodine & Betadine to your allergy list!
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Woke up early to get to the gym by 5, note on the door said they wouldn't open until 8. No explanation given, but not a delay I could afford to wait. Went home, showered/changed, and got to work early. No cardio for me for the second day in a row, which bizarrely enough I actually WANTED to do today. For years as an avid weightlifter, I dreaded cardio day as a necessary evil to endure and get out of the way...now, this morning I was disappointed I could not do cardio. What is happening to me?!?
Welcome back to the dark side! I know you did it in your youth a lot. Sometimes, it's way different when you have to versus when you have a choice and enjoy it.
Today it was like 32 outside in Tucson (we had two inches of snow on the ground yesterday!). So just did a simple interval set -- 5 minutes as hard as sustainable/1 minute recovery. 2 intervals (each) on the Treadmill, then LateralX, and then Assault Bike. HR got up to 91% max by the last one. Gradual steps up each interval.
I've been leaving the lifting till Friday and not doing it on Thursday with my hard cardio sessions. I'm enjoying it more that way. Not as brutal.2 -
Hike in the old growth and old second-growth spruce and douglas-fir rain forest for 7.77 miles.
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Woke up early to get to the gym by 5, note on the door said they wouldn't open until 8. No explanation given, but not a delay I could afford to wait. Went home, showered/changed, and got to work early. No cardio for me for the second day in a row, which bizarrely enough I actually WANTED to do today. For years as an avid weightlifter, I dreaded cardio day as a necessary evil to endure and get out of the way...now, this morning I was disappointed I could not do cardio. What is happening to me?!?
Cardio and Weight Lifting go hand and hand for me. I feel the cardio work allows me to lift harder, and recover faster between sets. Not to mention a hard cardio workout leaves me with a feeling close to that after lifting.2 -
Good workout this morning. Lower body, core and cardio.
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36 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 143/164
26 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 137/153
46 minutes lifting weights
Bodyweight Box Squats: 6*10
Crunches: 6*30
Resistance Band Twists: 5*10@80lbs
Kettlebell Swings: 5*10@50lbs
Kettlebell Romanian Deadlifts: 4*10@50lbs
Weighted Side Bends: 4*10@20lbs
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Went light and high rep today after the heavy leg session on Wednesday.
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Got my hour on the treadmill, the one which elevates all the way to 30 degrees incline. Rather than a series of hills or series of speed variations, kept it simple...start at 1 degree and a fast walking pace, EMOM increase by 1 degree and decrease by .1 mph until I hit 30 at the halfway point, then spend the second half-hour doing the opposite, slowly decreasing incline while increasing speed.
In doing some reading online, I realized something I should have already known, that my smaller upper arms was likely not a product of actually having lost muscle but rather a decrease in glycogen stores since I'm not actively lifting. As soon as I pick up the weights again, those stores will rush back, and I'll be my old size again. Load off my mind!4 -
Elliptical Interval setting, 150 minutes for 9.91 miles. HR Zone 2-3 & a bit into 4. Pushed to try to hit 10 miles but just didn't happen.
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Opened a cough drop early this AM. The wrapper has some inspirational sayings and I think they apply to us.
-Conquer today
-Let's hear your battle cry
-Push on
-Be resilient
-Don't give up on you
-Impress yourself today.
All of these on a little cough drop wrapper!!!!3 -
Got my hour on the treadmill, the one which elevates all the way to 30 degrees incline. Rather than a series of hills or series of speed variations, kept it simple...start at 1 degree and a fast walking pace, EMOM increase by 1 degree and decrease by .1 mph until I hit 30 at the halfway point, then spend the second half-hour doing the opposite, slowly decreasing incline while increasing speed.
That was one of my favorite workouts during lunch at work, though the treadmills there didn't go to 30 degrees. It's amazing how much work it takes to walk up a steep incline, even at a slow pace. Hits different muscles than walking or running on flat ground. The constant changes in speed and incline keep you from zoning out as well.
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Another hike.
This time much more local. Only a five mile drive to the trailhead, then a ten-mile hike up one creek, over a ridge, and down into another watershed. My plan was to hike about four miles up the one creek. There is another hike about seven miles; I figured I'd save that hike for another time. I had been planning to explore both of these trails for quite some time, especially since a local land trust obtained a key property and built a connecting trail.
Well, as it turns out, the trail up the one creek now continues all the way over. The other trail used to go along gravel roads. The new trail goes through many different habitats and trail types from narrow mud to wide gravel road. At the top, I checked my GPS device and saw there was a loop I could do named after a local leader in conservation. Then I decided to add one more little loop that included a STEEP muddy descent down a single track and a huff back up to that first loop. All nice.
From the top and a few other places, I could see several of the Cascade volcanoes as well as the highest peaks in the Oregon Coast Range at the same time. I got back close to my car and had to hoof it a quarter mile up another trail and then back so I could log exactly 10.01 miles. I like palindromes.
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Woke up early to get to the gym by 5, note on the door said they wouldn't open until 8. No explanation given, but not a delay I could afford to wait. Went home, showered/changed, and got to work early. No cardio for me for the second day in a row, which bizarrely enough I actually WANTED to do today. For years as an avid weightlifter, I dreaded cardio day as a necessary evil to endure and get out of the way...now, this morning I was disappointed I could not do cardio. What is happening to me?!?Woke up early to get to the gym by 5, note on the door said they wouldn't open until 8. No explanation given, but not a delay I could afford to wait. Went home, showered/changed, and got to work early. No cardio for me for the second day in a row, which bizarrely enough I actually WANTED to do today. For years as an avid weightlifter, I dreaded cardio day as a necessary evil to endure and get out of the way...now, this morning I was disappointed I could not do cardio. What is happening to me?!?
Uh oh, @nossmf, this is the first sign that you are approaching the slippery slope leading to cardio bunny status! It's not too late though, since early diagnosis is the key to managing the disease.
So as long as you don't start buying skin tight brightly colored Lycra workout clothes, or tracking your workouts on social media platforms like Strava, Training Peaks or Garmin Connect, I'd say there's still hope for a full recovery.
My recovery from surgery has been slower than I'd hoped for, since I had a reaction to the betadine solution used on my abdomen and I still have a lingering cough and congestion. Antibiotics haven't really knocked out the symptoms, though I'm making some progress.
I'll ride with the tri club tonight and again tomorrow night. This is all indoor stuff, even with mild weather.
I'm in a 3 week countdown to completion of kitchen remodeling and then a15 day trip to Fla. I'll make up for lost swim, bike and run time once I get to Florida.
LOL, yup, @nossmf - one foot on the slippery slope (of your incline treadmill), for sure: Some cardio can be addictive!
I've not turned to skin tight bright lycra (unless you count the fluorescents I wear as "powerboat don't hit me" colors, only the jackets of which are lycra), nor Strava/Training Peaks. But I was literally called a "cardio bunny" here on MFP by some guy who was hyper-focused on strength training, fully dismissive of cardio.
Gotta watch out, nossmf - this could happen to you!
@Djproulx, sorry to hear recovery's not maximum speed, but it sounds like you're well on the on-ramp to your normal routine. Sending continuing well-wishes for steady improvement!
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I took an originally unscheduled rest day yesterday, other than doing my home PT exercises. I got to thinking about how I'd been feeling, a little too much accumulated fatigue, felt like muscle fatigue not muscle soreness. I think I'm going to back off strength training to a couple of times a week rather than three while twice a week physical therapy is happening (especially given my taskmaster new PT guy), and keep an eye on how I feel.
Today, just the stationary bike ride, a little faster than Wednesday, but it felt substantially easier after the extra recovery day. The usual 60' (93W) + 3' CD (76W), about 80% Z2 and 18% Z3 so still pretty moderate. Bike claims this is a bit over 24k/15mi, 2:36/1k split which supposedly equates to similar time but for 500m on the Rowerg. I haven't machine rowed a solid uninterrupted hour in years, so I dunno, subjectively.
@swimmom_1, @dralicephd, it's nice to see both of you back here on the reg after your various machine-related challenges and what-not!
Home PT stuff later, before bed, as usual.5 -
Good workout this moring, Upper body, core and cardio.
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40 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 138/164
31 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 136/151
41 minutes lifting weights
Superset
- Barbell Bench Press: 10@135, 10@145, 10@155, drop set: 10@165, 10@145, 10@125
- Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns: 10@120, 10@140, 10@150, drop set: 10@160, 10@140, 10@120
- Dumbbell Overhead Press: 10@25, 10@30, 10@30, drop set: 10@30, 10@25, 10@20
Superset:
- Rope Triceps Press-Downs: 3*10@30lbs
- Crunches: 3*25
- Cable Bicep Curls:3*10@25lbs
- Landmine Twists: 3*10@55lbs
- Resistance Band Face Pulls: 3*10@80lbs
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Dragged a few weights up. Few exercises to see what's possible at the moment after having lost pretty much my complete deltoid (and lots of other muscles) to a complex fracture. Used a 6kg bar.
Benchpress 6kg: 25reps, 5 sets
Bentover rows 16kg: 12 reps, 5 sets (just about)
Deadlifts just for form before and after
Biceps curls 8.5kg: 12 reps, 3 sets (biceps? What biceps?)
Benchpress 8.5kg: 25 reps just because.
Kneeling pushups: 6, 5, 3
Oh well... it's a start
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Thought I'd maybe row and lift today, but shoulder hurts so I decided to nope that. More stationary bike, once again 60' (91W) + 3' CD (82W), 34% Z3, 64% Z2, remainder below, felt pretty easy tonight . . . as it should.
Probably rest day tomorrow, not sure about Monday because I'm driving a ways to another city for some Presidents Day social nonsense with rowing buddies at a brewpub. We'll see how it goes.4 -
Good workout this morning. Cardio and Core.
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48 minutes on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 133/162
32 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 131/147
24 minutes of core exercises
- Crunches: 5*30
- Weighted Side Bends, each side: 5*10@40lbs
- Landmine Twists: 4*10@65lbs
- Kettlebell Romanian Deadlifts: 4*10@50lbs
Stretched
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I did a very modest run/walk session for 40 minutes today. Did a 3 min run/1 min walk for 40 minutes at a very slow pace to be sure I stayed pain free. I only went 3.5miles.
While my run fitness is lousy now, at least I'm able to get back at it. I plan to do 3 easy runs this week to supplement the bike work. I'll get some pool days in as well.
I've got sixteen weeks until the first race of the season, an Olympic distance tri. That's plenty of time if I do the work and avoid injury.5 -
Elliptical Interval setting 150 minutes for 10.0 miles, zone 3 and a bit in 4.4
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