What Was Your Work Out Today?

drmwc wrote: »

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.

nossmf wrote: »

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.

Elliptical 150 minutes on HIIT setting, 10.15 miles zones 2, 3 & 4.

mtaratoot wrote: »

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.

swimmom_1 wrote: »

They used to be called "Fanny packs." But I'm hearing that isn't politically correct terminology anymore.

Glad I'm not the only person who was thinking it! lol

swimmom_1 wrote: »

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.

swimmom_1 wrote: »

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.

mtaratoot wrote: »

drmwc wrote: »

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.

The last move was actually really easy - it wasn't too far, and was to a jug. This was a really short boulder - it only had about 4 moves. I found 2 of them hard, though, as they were beyond reach and needed dynamic movement.

Elliptical, one hour, hills.

Friday weigh-in day, dropped 0.1#, following my standard progression of 1-2# one week, fractions (if any) the next. Maybe next week's weigh-in will break that 180 barrier.

AnnPT77 wrote: »

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.)

Sorry to hear? Maybe the time change? I don't have trouble with them but some people it can take quite awhile to adjust.

swimmom_1 wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

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.)

Sorry to hear? Maybe the time change? I don't have trouble with them but some people it can take quite awhile to adjust.

I think not the time change: I'm retired, so I pretty much kept the same schedule, there was just a different number on the clock when I went to bed and got up. Thanks for the empathy! I suspect this will pass as long as I don't do anything really dumb. I've had sleep interruption insomnia for over 20 years now, and sleep quality has its ups and downs. (Yes, I've had sleep studies and tried all the home remedies, and most of the medical ones.)

So, I assume it's probably something about sleep, but it's hard to tell. My fitness tracker reports my sleep laughably incorrectly, and I know it, so it's not giving me any trustworthy insight here.

Good workout this morning. Just cardio today as I have to be out of the house early.

Stretched

50 minutes (14.2 mi) on the spin bike, heart rate avg/max: 145/169
32 minutes on the treadmill, heart rate avg/max: 134/147

Stretched

I was able to push hard on the bike today, and it felt good!

Regular rotation, so machine row plus stationary bike.

Row, 2 x (2k on, 2' row out/in or CD), 2:25.4 at 20 spm averaged across both 2k pieces, plus 543m on the row out/in and CD. About 4' Z4, 13' Z3, 5' Z2.

Bike, 60' (96W) + 3' CD (72W), pretty close to half and half Z2 & Z3.

PT exercises before bed, of course.

Tomorrow (Sunday) is usually rest day, but high odds I'll do maybe 10k bike. Monday is scheduled to be weird, they're taking my power out to cut trees around my entrance wires, so I need to shower at zero-dark-thirty for a doctor's appointment late afternoon (if I want actual hot water! - demand hot water heater here), and it's my osteopath so I don't usually like to work out after. Means I probably will not work out Monday, take that as my weekly rest day instead.

nossmf wrote: »

AnnPT77 wrote: »

I let the intensity level drift with how I feel or what happens naturally out of my energy level, but once I've planned a workout, I tend to do it unless there's a major reason not to (like being ill or injured, occasionally a schedule issue). If I don't, I can easily work my way into a pattern of procrastinating or skipping workouts, getting into doldrums, cranky mood, and other bad things.

This is one of the major reasons I do my workouts first thing in the morning after waking. Energy level is highest, fewer time sinks clamoring to take away my workout. Yes, I sacrifice sleep during the week in order to get that workout in, and once or twice per month I have killed my alarm and rolled over when I simply wasn't feeling it, but those times are rare enough to convince me that if I do it, my body must have REALLY needed the sleep.

I do nothing in the morning that can be done at some other time. I wake stupid-slowly (always have), need to delay eating these days because of AM medications dictates, won't work out fasted because for me fasted workouts absolutely s*ck. So, minimally, medication delay, then breakfast, then workouts. Usually I wait until afternoon/evening.

I absolutely understand that individual factors rule how this stuff works, so not questioning your approach in the slightest . . . as applied to you. When I was working (vs. retired, as now), I did evening workouts, after work - best for me. My best energy is afternoon and evening, with - unfortunately - a 2nd wind very late. If I plan first thing morning workouts . . . I skip them.

Elliptical HIIT Interval setting 150 minutes for 10.06 miles.

Yes we are all different. I need to do my workouts first thing, even before I eat anything, on my days off, or it doesn't happen. Not sure it's an energy thing. More like my motivation wanes as the day progresses.

This is it...my final week before I resume lifting next Monday! I already have a routine setup for those first few weeks of lifting to gradually work my body back into the swing of things with minimal soreness. Seems a bit TOO gradual of ramping up for my preference, but if I mentally rephrase it as the next step in rehab with incrementally increased workload to prevent injury recurrence, it makes it a lot easier to swallow.

My daughter had to be dropped off at the high school super early this morning, but not SUPER early...in other words, the time right during what would be the middle of a workout. So I skipped my workout today, which may prove to be a bad idea depending on what my son's planning on cooking for dinner tonight...it's a LOT easier to stay under calorie-budget on the day if I work out. We'll see.