What Was Your Work Out Today?

nossmf wrote: »

Elliptical, one hour, hills.

Ultimately, I chose NOT to choose. Why am I losing weight? Not for medical reasons, or with a deadline in mind. This is just for overall health and wellbeing (plus a touch of vanity). And while not going over on calories for a single day may be good for the body...

...making s'mores with my daughter, laughing and sharing a moment, is good for the soul.

Yes and they grow up to quick too! Precious memories you don't want to miss out on!

MikePfirrman wrote: »

Could also be I'm losing a much needed 10 lbs. Not tracking currently, but I let myself get up to 210. I'm back down to 204 already, but I still need to lose around 8 more lbs or so. Sounds crazy saying I don't need to get below 193 or so, but that's where I'm at with muscle mass currently. I'm only 5 foot 10 inches. All my health numbers are ridiculously good at present, so it was just not liking seeing a small gut.

It's odd how personalised weight is. I'm also 5 foot 10, but I was really unhealthy at 180-ish pounds. I cut to 140-ish 4 years ago, and have hovered at that level ever since. (I'm currently 142; my highest in the period was 147 and my lowest was 139.) The annoying thing about the loss is feeling the cold a lot more; and adult male belts no longer fitting me. (They tend to market themselves as 28 inch minimum; but these tend to be too big for me.)

Anyway, my workouts since Tuesday have been:

Tuesday
Lifting:
Squat, high bar, 4 sets of 7, 70 kgs
Bench, 3 sets of 5, 50 kgs
I tried hangboarding, but it felt like my fingers would fall off, so I guess I'd not recovered from Monday's climbing.

Wednesday
I meant to go climbing, but I cooked a chicken spinach curry that took longer than I anticipated, so wouldn't have had time for a decent session. I went for a walk instead, doing 11 miles.

Thursday
Climbing, I went to CroyWall for the first time in a while. It was not a bad session; I got a shedload of v3s and 1 v4. It was not outstanding, though; I'll try to go back soon as there's some stuff I want to retry, 2 hour session.

Elliptical HIIT 150 minutes for 10.08 miles, zone 2, 3 and a bit of 4.

Today was leg day for me
sqauts,
glute bridge,
stiff legged deadlifts
lunges
and 30 minutes of cardio.

After working out i almost fell down some stairs leaving the gym because my legs were soo beat from working out.

It was Friday-ish!

Started with a nice walk with a friend on the river trail in the early afternoon, only about 3.7 miles at a casual pace, very nice being outdoors, with good company.

While I was getting ready to do that, one of my out-of-town rowing buddies texted, planned to be in town, wondered if we could meet. So, after the walk with friend A, I rendevous-ed with friend B at a local brewpub, indulged in good craft IPA and a pizza (yes, a whole 12" pizza, just for me).

Luckily, even last night even before knowing about that, I'd planned to shorten up to a 10k stationary bike workout after the walk, so I did that on the poor quality (but tasty) fueling once I got home. Any speed was OK with me in circumstances, so 80W on the 10k, 81W on the not-a-CD, all but the first tiny seconds Z2. It'll do. Overall, a nice Friday.

PT later.

I declared this positive self-talk Saturday, so talked myself into working out.

Just the usual plan, though, for (yet another) day with freakin' sleet outside:

Rowing machine, 3 x (1500m on, 2' row out/in or CD); plus 20" on, 20" nada. (I've been adding that last weird seconds thing to understand what my CD split is. Turns out it's mostly in the 2:50s.) Pushed a truly tiny bit, for splits of 2:25.6, 2:21.5, 2:20.0 on the pieces, all of them around 21spm. For reference, that's 113-128W at my DF, and divided not super unevenly among Z2-Z3-Z4. Average HR 135, peak 156, last 500m-ish all above 220-age bpm. Total meters, 5329 (3.3mi.)

Then, right after, stationary bike, just moderate pace: 60' (95W) + 3' CD (90W) like usual, predominately Z2, but about 16' Z3. This would be a theoretical 24.5k (rounded)/just a skosh under 16 miles, and Concept 2 says equivalent to a 2:34.3 split.

PT exercises before bed, rest day scheduled tomorrow. I'm at 615 Garmin activity minutes for the week (of 150 default goal), 21 of 25 needed days for the Concept 2 mud season madness challenge (need 4 more by 3/31, should get it).

Feeling like I should be doing more mobility and strength work . . . but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Just glad to be able to get in some discomfort-free rowing again, even though what I really want is boats on water with my friends.

I went caving for the weekend.
Saturday
SRT training. This was advertised as advanced, to have rescue practice. But a bunch of beginners turned up. So I a mainly practiced on my own. I went up and down loads, and got decent rebelay practice in amongst other things.

It didn't go quite as well for done of the newbies. Two gir stuck at the tebelay, one needing a ladder to rescue him. A lass's harness didn't really fit, so she only went up one thing.

I had fun, though, and improved my skills, so it was good

Sunday
Caving. I had two beginners I was leading, so I did Notts 2. I didn't want to rig SRT; and I wasn't confident in my ability to sort out issues with the newbies SRT. That left limited choices.

It was lovely; a truly stunning cave. I got a little cold after getting drenched in a climb down a forceful waterfall into waist deep water. But I managed to move quickly from then, so stayed warm enough to continue.

4 hour trip.

Ultimately decided to not hit the gym this week, but I'm working from our backup facility all this week which has a mile walk from parking lot to office, so I'll be getting plenty of walking in all week. Upped my calories slightly, will weigh in Friday to see if anything changed before I jump back into lifting next week along with adding creatine to my morning drink.

@Djproulx -- that trip sounds wonderful! Glad you got to unwind!

Just two days of easy steady state cardio for me -- yesterday and today after my hard workout on Monday. Neck is feeling much, much better. Feeling like myself again.

Crushed a 20 minute Peloton Ride so far. Love AT’s Hip Hop rides

Tuesday
Climbing. 2 hours. I was a bit disappointed in the session. I guess it wasn't bad; I got two new v4s and vast horde of v3s. It was all really hard, I didn't flash anything; one the v4s took about 20 goes. This one was about 10 moves, which is long by my bouldering standards.

Thursday
Climbing.
2.75 hours
Again, my flashing skills were poor. However. I did get 3 new 6B routes. One took me about 20 goes; I fell off the top a lot. (The top wasn't hard, but it was also very long. So I was always pumped when I got there.) Good fun.

My slab climbing seems to be pretty strong at the moment. Another new route only had about 3 holds, but in my previous 7 sessions I couldn't work out how to start it. (I was trying to dyno ti a poor thumb catch; by shifting my feet against the volume I could do the move slowly.)

Did a quick 6 X 5 minute hard interval cardio session yesterday (one minute rest) -- my new favorite if I can't row -- I row on my deck and the winds were like 30 MPH yesterday. No way I'm rowing in that wind. Did first two intervals on treadmill, next on LateralX and last two on Assault Bike. Gradual HR climb from first set at around 80% max to last one at 92% max.

I have a handyman coming today. Hope to get a lift in and a steady state cardio session at lunch. We'll see, will have to play it by ear.

Elliptical HIIT setting 150 minutes for 9.99 miles, zones 2 & 3.

Handyman came and went in time for me to get my lunch hour 60 minute cardio session in. I did have to shorten my lift from five sets to four, but that's fine. Not a terrible disruption from my routine!

You know you got the workout bug when the first thing that ever comes to mind when scheduling something is, "will it interfere with me getting a workout in??".