What Was Your Work Out Today?
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My wife and I took an easy spin around the neighborhood on our bikes this morning before I returned the rental bike. It was more of a sight-seeing trip than exercise.
I got in some laps at the outdoor pool after lunch. After warm up laps, it was a 12 x 100 set on 10-15 second recovery.
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I'm not in a good place lately and I haven't been into "working out" for a good year (or longer). Zero motivation, but...I tried to incorporate fun and I use my daughter's VR, playing beat saber, turning it into a dance, not just arm movements. I also added fitxr (or fitrx..or something like that), which has up to 13 min work outs of various intensities and target areas and styles...but that is also a victim of my lack of motivation (lately). I think that if getting to exercise is a very difficult move, video games that involve physical activity is a good start.3
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Haha! We were smiling because he was wearing black knee high compression socks! Last time my brother in law saw him, Joe was wearing flesh colored ones.
I noticed the knee highs in the photo too! I wear compression knee highs too (to work) but I'm a nurse!0 -
Tried to get in 2 power walks but I made the mistake of bringing my husband on the first and both husband and kiddo on second. We didn’t make it too far or too fast.
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Didn't report yesterday's 60'+3' stationary bike. Did my PT exercises like a good li'l ol' lady, too.
Today, machine row 2x2k (2:25.6 pace and 2:20.6 pace, both 21spm), less Z4 than last time (about 7') even though close pace, peak HR 154. Then stationary bike 60'+3' again, a little slower than last time (98W overall), more Z3 than Z2 but not lots more. PT exercises yet to do before bed.3 -
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Forgot to post yesterday, just did cardio because I had an early meeting, went well.
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44 minutes on the spin bike, avg/max heartrate: 136/168
31 minutes on the spin treadmill, avg/max heartrate: 127/142
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Today was a tough workout. I was in meetings from 7:30am to 11:00pm almost non-stop, so it was tough to drag my butt out of bed.
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36 minutes on the spin bike, avg/max heartrate: 137/165
25 minutes on the spin treadmill, avg/max heartrate: 121/140
32 minutes lifting weights
- Barbell Bench Press: 4*10@125lbs
- Wide Grip Lat Pulldowns: 4*10@120lbs
- Barbell Overhead Press: 4*10@65lbs
- Triceps Cable Press-downs: 3*10@40lbs
- Resistance Band Crunches: 3*15@80lbs
- Dumbbell Biceps Curls: 3*20lbs
- Kettlebell Side Swings: 3*8@30lbs
- Resistance Band Face Pulls: 3*80@80lbs
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It wasn't a great lifting day, but I got the work in, which has got to count for something!
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Hour elliptical, hills.
Did the same workout as Monday, but my calorie burn was 50 calories fewer today. Over an hour's workout that's about one calorie per minute. Must not have been pushing myself quite as hard today as I thought. Can't blame this one on lack of sleep...I forgot to set my alarm last night, so instead of waking at 4:45 I slept in til 5:45 when my body woke up without assistance. Combined with my dog not waking up middle of the night, and I actually got 7 hours of sleep, woke up feeling like a million bucks.2 -
Hour elliptical, hills.
Did the same workout as Monday, but my calorie burn was 50 calories fewer today. Over an hour's workout that's about one calorie per minute. Must not have been pushing myself quite as hard today as I thought. Can't blame this one on lack of sleep...I forgot to set my alarm last night, so instead of waking at 4:45 I slept in til 5:45 when my body woke up without assistance. Combined with my dog not waking up middle of the night, and I actually got 7 hours of sleep, woke up feeling like a million bucks.
Cardio bunny weighing in again here: Sometimes that happens, even at exactly the same intensity. (Both my bike and rower are "ergometers", so relatively reliable at gauging intensity/duration.)
I don't necessarily know why it is, but it can be lots of things: Sure, rest is one. But it can also be different HRrest that day shifting the response curve (perceived or measured), different intra-workout relative pacing, different time of day, fueling details, even artifacts of measurement. (Example: If it's a heart rate monitor, cooler ambient temperature or being slightly more well hydrated can mean a slightly lower heart rate, so a lwer calorie estimate. Machines vary, or in gyms maybe have been (mis)used since last time so are slightly differently worn or calibrated.)
A calorie per minute seems large, but in relatively intense workouts like you're doing, it isn't necessarily a huge percentage difference. (You know where you are in percent terms, I don't.)
Definitely, at the margin when pushing pretty hard, small differences in actual intensity can be hard to perceive, too.1 -
For mathematical sake, Monday's workout recorded 803 calories, today's was 753 (drop of 6%). Same time of day (within 20 minutes start time), always exercise fasted first thing after waking.1
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For mathematical sake, Monday's workout recorded 803 calories, today's was 753 (drop of 6%). Same time of day (within 20 minutes start time), always exercise fasted first thing after waking.
I can only speak for me, but I wouldn't be startled to see a difference of 10% from one day to the next for at least moderately (subjectively) similar intensity of the same duration. If it's a heart rate monitor/fitness tracker estimate, vs. a number from the same exact machine not very many days apart, I'd be even less startled.
So much affects HR that isn't about calorie burn. So many think a fitness tracker delivers gospel because to them it's black-box technology that seems magical, but it's not. It absolutely can be close enough to be workable, but it's worse under some conditions, better in others, and to the extent it uses HR, that in particular has some peculiarities.2 -
Sometimes it's not a great workout, but at least I did it. Busy day, PT appointment, lots of errands, didn't get on the bike until after 10PM. Thought about cutting back to 10k, but got on and committed to the usual 60'+3', at a pretty anemic 89W for the whole way, almost entirely Z2 (45 seconds Z3! ), pretty much a slog for a reported 23,969 completely imaginary meters, going nowhere.
Physical therapy today was weights-y, including one oddball asymmetric carry exercise that was a kettle bell in one hand (held down at side in the common way) and a dumbbell in the other (held with upper arm extended straight out to the side of the body at shoulder level, then arm bent up 90 degrees toward the ceiling). They gave me a 25lb kettlebell and a 15lb dumbbell . . . the latter was still a challenge to the problem shoulder.2 -
Climbing, 2.5 hours. It was an odd session. I ended up doing quite well, but everything was hard. Some climbs took me many, many goes.
The highlight was a dyno. A vast horde of youngsters tried it many times; none of them got it. I (eventually) sent it. I went a different route to them. They all did a full jump with both hand off the wall to two hand holds. I kept my right hand on a hold and just popped up with the left.
The crux was probably the penultimate move, which took me a while to work out. (You move a high right foot onto a poor volume, and do a long reach rock-over to a poor crimp. I did this dynamically, as the crimp was miles away, which seemed to work.)5 -
I'm new to the group -Today was Back Day:
1.Deadlifts 6 x 5 (heavy)
2. T-Bar Row
3. High Pull Row (leverage machine)
4. Wide-grip pulldown
5. Single arm cable row
6. hyperextension
7. Drop set barbell curls
8. Incline dumbbell curls
9. Low pulley rope curls (low weight high rep finisher)
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I’ve been playing supernatural on the oculus. It’s a great workout and always super fun so I don’t get bored and I’m always able to stay consistent 👍🏼2
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Decent workout this morning. Lower body, core and cardio.
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36 minutes on the spin bike, avg/max heart rate: 134/167
26 minutes on the tread mill, avg/max heart rate: 131/144
41 minutes lifting weights.
- Barbell Box Squats: 10@45, 8@65, 8@85, 7@105, Drop set: 5@125, 6@85, 8@45
- Crunches: 6*20
- Narrow Stance Leg Press: 10@210, 10@300, 8@390, 6@480, Drop set: 6@480, 8@300, 10@210
- Weighted Side Bends, each side: 5*8@40lbs.
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60 mins football, 45 minute strength workout 20 mins recovery on the bike4
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I'm new to the groupsarahdipendee1 wrote: »I’ve been playing supernatural on the oculus.RegroupResetGoAgain wrote: »60 mins football, 45 minute strength workout 20 mins recovery on the bike
Welcome to all three of you, not just to our thread but to posting in the MFP forums in the first place! Here's hoping you feel comfortable enough to continue to post, for self-accountability as well as a sense of community with people of similar minds.4 -
Climbing, 2.5 hours. It was an odd session. I ended up doing quite well, but everything was hard. Some climbs took me many, many goes.
The highlight was a dyno. A vast horde of youngsters tried it many times; none of them got it. I (eventually) sent it. I went a different route to them. They all did a full jump with both hand off the wall to two hand holds. I kept my right hand on a hold and just popped up with the left.
The crux was probably the penultimate move, which took me a while to work out. (You move a high right foot onto a poor volume, and do a long reach rock-over to a poor crimp. I did this dynamically, as the crimp was miles away, which seemed to work.)
That sounds like a good climbing session. The penultimate sounds pretty difficult. Was the final move much easier, or just a little easier? Sometimes it's that second to last item that's the biggest challenge; then we get a little break for the ultimate maneuver.4 -
Hour treadmill incline walk, 15% incline by 3.0 MPH, set and cruise while distracted by Sportscenter, lol.
I'm afraid my iPod finally gave up the ghost. (For any young folks not sure what an iPod is, for a while it was the most common portable method of playing music.) Lasted about 15 years of heavy use in the gym, so reckon I got my money out of it. But now I'm faced with the problem of replacing it before April when I can leave the cardio room with plenty of headphone jacks and to the weight room.
Obvious answer is to just load my music onto my phone, but I don't want to risk carrying my phone around the weight room for fear of it slipping out of my pocket and getting crushed. Next answer then is getting bluetooth headphones to connect to my phone while it sits safe in my gym locker, but I'm not sure about the range, nor am I wanting to splurge on headphones if I can find a cheaper solution. (Yes, I'm a tightwad when it comes to spending on myself...all my money goes towards my wife/children.)
Buddy of mine thought I should look in pawn shops, figuring people may have sold one off when it no longer suited their cutting-edge needs. Or I may look on Amazon or similar, see if one's available online, or at Best Buy if push comes to shove. Fortunately I didn't lose any music, all my mp3 files are on my laptop, I just need a portable player to jack into and workout with.3 -
Hour treadmill incline walk, 15% incline by 3.0 MPH, set and cruise while distracted by Sportscenter, lol.
I'm afraid my iPod finally gave up the ghost. (For any young folks not sure what an iPod is, for a while it was the most common portable method of playing music.) Lasted about 15 years of heavy use in the gym, so reckon I got my money out of it. But now I'm faced with the problem of replacing it before April when I can leave the cardio room with plenty of headphone jacks and to the weight room.
Obvious answer is to just load my music onto my phone, but I don't want to risk carrying my phone around the weight room for fear of it slipping out of my pocket and getting crushed. Next answer then is getting bluetooth headphones to connect to my phone while it sits safe in my gym locker, but I'm not sure about the range, nor am I wanting to splurge on headphones if I can find a cheaper solution. (Yes, I'm a tightwad when it comes to spending on myself...all my money goes towards my wife/children.)
Buddy of mine thought I should look in pawn shops, figuring people may have sold one off when it no longer suited their cutting-edge needs. Or I may look on Amazon or similar, see if one's available online, or at Best Buy if push comes to shove. Fortunately I didn't lose any music, all my mp3 files are on my laptop, I just need a portable player to jack into and workout with.
I bought a very small waist pack to use for running and for the gym. I wanted a way to carry my phone and an ID/insurance card and similar when I'd go for a run, just in case something happened. The one I bought is made by a company called "Amphipod." It has a somewhat elasticized waistband, and a tiny pocket big enough for a phone, keys, and a few very minor essentials. It even has little exterior pockets that I suppose I could put some "fuel" in for longer runs, but I don't run that far. The model I bought is called "Airflow Endurance." It works very well for running AND for the gym. Wireless earbuds in ears, and I can move the pack to my front if I'm on a bench. Light, comfortable, and convenient. It's way better than bouncing a phone around in my pocket. I tried one of those things you wear on your upper arm. I liked it not at all and returned it before I used it during a workout. Really did not like it.2 -
Sometimes it's not a great workout, but at least I did it. Busy day, PT appointment, lots of errands, didn't get on the bike until after 10PM. Thought about cutting back to 10k, but got on and committed to the usual 60'+3', at a pretty anemic 89W for the whole way, almost entirely Z2 (45 seconds Z3! ), pretty much a slog for a reported 23,969 completely imaginary meters, going nowhere.
Physical therapy today was weights-y, including one oddball asymmetric carry exercise that was a kettle bell in one hand (held down at side in the common way) and a dumbbell in the other (held with upper arm extended straight out to the side of the body at shoulder level, then arm bent up 90 degrees toward the ceiling). They gave me a 25lb kettlebell and a 15lb dumbbell . . . the latter was still a challenge to the problem shoulder.
@AnnPT77 WOW! I just now had to put my arms in that position to imagine it. Weird. What were they trying to emulate? Carrying a kayak, a ladder?
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Elliptical 150 minutes on HIIT setting, 10.15 miles zones 2, 3 & 4.2
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Hour treadmill incline walk, 15% incline by 3.0 MPH, set and cruise while distracted by Sportscenter, lol.
I'm afraid my iPod finally gave up the ghost. (For any young folks not sure what an iPod is, for a while it was the most common portable method of playing music.) Lasted about 15 years of heavy use in the gym, so reckon I got my money out of it. But now I'm faced with the problem of replacing it before April when I can leave the cardio room with plenty of headphone jacks and to the weight room.
Obvious answer is to just load my music onto my phone, but I don't want to risk carrying my phone around the weight room for fear of it slipping out of my pocket and getting crushed. Next answer then is getting bluetooth headphones to connect to my phone while it sits safe in my gym locker, but I'm not sure about the range, nor am I wanting to splurge on headphones if I can find a cheaper solution. (Yes, I'm a tightwad when it comes to spending on myself...all my money goes towards my wife/children.)
Buddy of mine thought I should look in pawn shops, figuring people may have sold one off when it no longer suited their cutting-edge needs. Or I may look on Amazon or similar, see if one's available online, or at Best Buy if push comes to shove. Fortunately I didn't lose any music, all my mp3 files are on my laptop, I just need a portable player to jack into and workout with.
@nossmf I have one better the Walkman and then the portable CD players prior to the I Pods!
For your phone, what about a arm strap that runners use.0 -
I bought a very small waist pack to use for running and for the gym. I wanted a way to carry my phone and an ID/insurance card and similar when I'd go for a run, just in case something happened. The one I bought is made by a company called "Amphipod." It has a somewhat elasticized waistband, and a tiny pocket big enough for a phone, keys, and a few very minor essentials. It even has little exterior pockets that I suppose I could put some "fuel" in for longer runs, but I don't run that far. The model I bought is called "Airflow Endurance." It works very well for running AND for the gym. Wireless earbuds in ears, and I can move the pack to my front if I'm on a bench. Light, comfortable, and convenient. It's way better than bouncing a phone around in my pocket. I tried one of those things you wear on your upper arm. I liked it not at all and returned it before I used it during a workout. Really did not like it.
They used to be called "Fanny packs." But I'm hearing that isn't politically correct terminology anymore.
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Sometimes it's not a great workout, but at least I did it. Busy day, PT appointment, lots of errands, didn't get on the bike until after 10PM. Thought about cutting back to 10k, but got on and committed to the usual 60'+3', at a pretty anemic 89W for the whole way, almost entirely Z2 (45 seconds Z3! ), pretty much a slog for a reported 23,969 completely imaginary meters, going nowhere.
Physical therapy today was weights-y, including one oddball asymmetric carry exercise that was a kettle bell in one hand (held down at side in the common way) and a dumbbell in the other (held with upper arm extended straight out to the side of the body at shoulder level, then arm bent up 90 degrees toward the ceiling). They gave me a 25lb kettlebell and a 15lb dumbbell . . . the latter was still a challenge to the problem shoulder.
@AnnPT77 WOW! I just now had to put my arms in that position to imagine it. Weird. What were they trying to emulate? Carrying a kayak, a ladder?
I think not so much trying to emulate a particular activity, more trying to reinforce some posture changes we've been working on, and put useful stress on some stabilizers around the shoulder/shoulder blade that I tend to under-recruit . . . but I'm guessing, probably should've asked!
It felt . . . interesting, for sure.2 -
@nossmf I have one better the Walkman and then the portable CD players prior to the I Pods!
For your phone, what about a arm strap that runners use.
I still have my old Walkman from 40 years ago, lol. Somehow I have it but don't have any of the tapes, however.
I've thought about the arm strap, but wonder how much it would interfere with my muscles moving through any upper body routine, tensing/releasing bi's or tri's etc.1 -
For your phone, what about a arm strap that runners use.
Be sure to try it out before you remove the tags. I don't know how people tolerate the things. I thought they might be a little annoying. I was wrong. I really did not like the one I tried AT ALL.They used to be called "Fanny packs." But I'm hearing that isn't politically correct terminology anymore.
I used to call them fanny packs back in the '80s. They have had many names over the years. They used to be worn on the front of the body, and I reckon that's why they got that name - it's slang in the UK for a certain part of the female anatomy that MFP's censor would not let me write here. So in a way, it's kind of funny than I can write FANNY all I want and it won't turn it into *kitten*. I had Canadian friends that called them "Bum Bags." They keep your possessions more secure if they are worn on the front where pickpockets can't slice them and take what's in 'em. I'm not so worried about that when I'm running or at the gym, although I do shift it around at the gym if it would be in the way otherwise. When I see them for sale these days, they are mostly called "waist packs." Works for me.
I also have a Lumbar Pack that I like a lot. It's too big to use at the gym. It's nice for hiking when you want to carry more stuff, like water, lunch, extra layers, camera, whatever, but don't want a backpack to hold in sweat on your upper body. I had wanted to get one for years, but the nice ones were always too expensive. I found a close-out and decided to give it a try. Too many compartments and zippers, but it has a surprising ability to move the load around to keep it comfortable to carry a fair bit. The weight is all on your hips, just like a good-fitting long-distance backpack where the shoulder straps are mostly to keep the load close to your body. I also have a couple backpacks. So makes sense - waist, lumbar, back.
Funny - no matter what system I use, I always tend to carry the full force of any load... on the bottom of my feet.
I did a nine mile hike today out in the woods and did not carry a single thing. No backpack. No lumbar pack. No waist pack. No fanny pack. No water bottle on a sling. Nothing. Just a hat that I took off when it got warm enough. Good hike. Just short of 2000 feet of elevation gain. I went back out to a land trust that I was at a few weeks ago, but I accessed it from the top instead of the bottom. I got to explore the trails and roads I hadn't set foot on yet as well as several I had. I got to see a few birds, lots of blue sky, and walk along the river plus hike up and down and soak in the peace of the forest - once I got away from the two people who arrived about the same time I did, followed me down the weird trail I started down, and would not stop talking in a LOUD voice. After ten or 15 minutes, I got to a road and turned in a direction I thought they wouldn't go. I was right. I actually didn't think they'd go down the first trail section, but I was wrong. That's the primary reason I hiked where I did. Turned out to be a good decision; it wasn't very crowded, and the creeks were flowing.
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For some reason, I'm dragging as this week goes on, maybe just poor sleep quality (a fact, but I don't know the "why" - my sleep is always bad, just a little worse than average recently). Whatever, the drag affects workouts. I'm only at 553 Garmin intensity minutes (including today), pretty normal by Thursday, but feeling more fatigued than usual. WTH? Just fed up with Winter, maybe? (ETA: HRrest is up 2-4 bpm these last couple days, for no obvious reason, suggests some kind of fatigue or overload, maybe.)
Today was machine row + stationary bike day.
I intentionally kept the row easy, the 2 x (2k + 2' row in/out and CD) that I've been doing recently, but just trying to keep a little under 2:30 pace. Got 2:28.6/23spm & 2:28.1/21spm, pretty much in line. It was mostly (78%) Z3, 132bpm average, 144bpm peak. Zero shoulder pain or discomfort: Yay!
Bike was the usual 60'+3', 90W and 81W average respectively. I try to drop sub-aerobic in the CD (under 125bpm), so needed to back off a little because of HR drift, even though I was at 121bpm average and 128bpm peak on the 60', so all of it had been mostly (97%) Z2.
Will do physical therapy exercises before bed, but thinking to do some of the less strength-y ones. (I'm prescribed to do some mobility/stretch/massage ones daily, then supposed to mix up a bunch of others so I do each 2-4x per week. Some are more strength-y or otherwise physically stressful, some more moderate.)Snowdrops don't care: When it's time to bloom, by their reckoning, they bloom. Be like snowdrops! (Yeah, my yard, mid-lower-Michigan, between snow/ice storms, this week.)
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