What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Today's workout, if you can call it that: downhill bike to my local coffee shop (10 min); reading with a London Fog tea latte for an hour, then a return trip with only one semi-big hill involved (12 min). Total time was 26 minutes, including stops at three intersections.6
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Another easy-pace bike ride, just under 24 miles at 10.3 mph moving average, pretty much Z1/Z2 except briefly on a couple of hills.
I don't usually bike (non-stationary, anyway) on consecutive days like I did yesterday and today, but gotta do something outdoors on a windy day with otherwise decent weather. Yard work would be more virtuous, but bike is more fun.
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Another easy-pace bike ride, just under 24 miles at 10.3 mph moving average, pretty much Z1/Z2 except briefly on a couple of hills.
I don't usually bike (non-stationary, anyway) on consecutive days like I did yesterday and today, but gotta do something outdoors on a windy day with otherwise decent weather. Yard work would be more virtuous, but bike is more fun.
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Can I join this thread? Returned to the gym consistently about 4 months ago, had last week off and decided to mix up my routine when I went back on Wednesday. Was a little achey which was to be expected, Thursday I did boxing class and am really feeling the ache today so just did some yin yoga and walking today.4
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Hi laurachambers86! Anyone can join! Just post your workouts up.
Sorry I haven't posted in a while myself. Had that back injury, then caught the flu and was pretty sick for 2 weeks and chest wasn't ready to work out for another week after that! Pretty frustrating experience to be honest. Some friends down the street we invited for dinner for my daughters B-Day came sick. Wife caught it first, then I did. Wife was not happy at all with these friends, to say the least! They are 78 and we were super cautious around them for two years with COVID out of respect and then they come over sick and tried to say it was allergies. Well, we caught their dang allergies and were both pretty sick for nearly a month!
Oh well, they are older and we've decided just to move on from being mad.
Anyway, I lifted my two times last week and did Steady State Cardio four days last week. Today was the first day I did a lift followed by a harder row in my garage (that time of year I move it inside, next to the Swamp Cooler!). It was a 4 X 1K meter row, 2 minute recovery. Felt a lot more brutal than it should have. In part because the garage was 85 degrees, but also it's the first harder cardio I've done in 6 to 7 weeks. Terrible paces, around 2:14. Just trying to keep the HR around 160ish. Failed at that too -- it spiked to 172! Only up from here!5 -
Lower body hypertrophy day in the weight room, featuring sets of fifteen reps on squat. Followed up by an hour+ of pushing a heavily laden grocery cart around, shopping today instead of Saturday because I'm covering for a coworker attending a family funeral in Hawaii, which means instead of having a 3-day holiday weekend, I'll be in the office each day.3
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Just a basic zone 2 run today. 50 minutes following a 4:1 run/walk keeping the HR low.
This weekend will be my "high volume" weekend before the race in two weeks. We'll do a longish ride tomorrow, then a long swim/long run on Sunday. Long is a relative term, since no crazy mileage is needed for an Olympic distance event.4 -
Rowed 2 seat (engine room) in the quad, 7779 meters (a bit farther than usual) because we circled back to get the double that was out with us back in sight (safety thing because water still cool, and they launched after us, were slow to catch up). On the way back down stream, we did some power 10s, so some interval work.
I'm reasonably happy with how the power pieces feel, after Winter, and especially after a Winter where I limited machine rowing because of shoulder issues. So far, the shoulder's not only OK with rowing, but I've had only slight and rare twinges when we lift the boat overhead, roll it into or out of the water, etc. I guess the physical therapy did its work.
I'm sure the extra biking helped with leg conditioning, and of course legs are where the highest fraction of rowing power comes from. I've also felt pretty good on the bike - within my limitations as a cyclist - i.e., like I'm starting the season with a bit more endurance and maybe even a bit more speed than when starting last season.3 -
Ran 10 min, walked 10 min. with the dog this morning. This afternoon, my dad helped me put in a garden out back--we planted tomatoes, cucumbers for pickling, purple hull peas, some bell pepper plants, corn, two rows of Blue Lake green beans, and some crook neck and straight neck yellow squash. He's 77, I'm 47--and he totally out-worked me.3
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DiscusTank5 wrote: »Ran 10 min, walked 10 min. with the dog this morning. This afternoon, my dad helped me put in a garden out back--we planted tomatoes, cucumbers for pickling, purple hull peas, some bell pepper plants, corn, two rows of Blue Lake green beans, and some crook neck and straight neck yellow squash. He's 77, I'm 47--and he totally out-worked me.
I totally can relate! At about that same age differential - well, a little bigger, since I was born when he was 38 - I planted evergreen seedlings with my dad one time. He'd been doing a whole multi-acre field in stages, I think his solo pace was something like 1000 in a couple of hours or so. My husband and I helped with one set of them, could not keep up. Dad was 70+ at the time for sure. That generation knew how to work!4 -
An hour of boxing/circuits at the gym today. Instructor said my technique and footwork is improving which is good as I've barely been since January due to tennis elbow! Very hot and tiring though.4
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full body circuits with med balls TRX and resistance bands5
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Five of us decided to ride during midday hours to prep for the warm/hot conditions expected on race days in June. Three of us went 42 miles and the two riders who have a HIM race went 60 miles. This was a basic endurance effort at 16.5 mph. Hard not to love riding on days like today.
Next week I’ll ride a shorter but faster effort to mimic race day.
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Rowed 3 seat in the quad today, went the usual distance, just under 7k, with some power 10s for interval work. (Fewer 10s than recently, because we were rowing on the water with a freakin' bass tournament!)
We were supposed to vet a new club member who learned to row at another club, is now joining ours. If she's safe to row, she gets a boathouse key. She sat 2 seat, right in front of me, so mostly my job to check her out, report back to the club board's president. (She was good to go.)3 -
40 minute horse ride this morning, most of our usual routes weren't accessible as they're setting up for a massive racing event next week, so we had to use the roads. Sun was out and it was quiet so it was an enjoyable ride. Then I went for a quick swim, only 16 laps, just my second swim of the year (I hate swimming in winter).5
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I did a 55 min bike ride today--still a little chilly in the morning, though that's about to change as June arrives!5
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Technically it was a rest day, and it actually was in terms of official exercise.
But I ended up heavy-pruning a line of woody shrubs (Weigelia) that I'd been neglecting, and cutting many dozens of seedling/sapling volunteer trees out of a couple border areas, including half a dozen or so close to or beyond a diameter as big as my wrist and 15+ feet tall, with a pair of loppers and a pruning handsaw. Dragged/carried and stacked all of that, plus started raking an area where 6 stumps were ground and some wet soil was brought up from out in back to fill in. More to do on that.
It's not official exercise, but it was physical effort, so maybe it counts. I'm definitely giving myself a little calorie wiggle room, vs. a normal rest day.5 -
Eighteen mile canoe paddle.
Saw a rescue attempt to un-flip a jetboat that had been flipped and sunk. Yikes.
Dive shift at the aquarium tomorrow and Wednesday, then more paddling Thursday.5 -
90 minute trail run yesterday. Really nice day running a woods trail along the river. I must have been daydreaming towards the end, since I tripped on a root and fell, lol. No injuries, just lots of dirt!
Trying to decide if I'll swim today, or just be lazy.5 -
Mag bar Lat Pulldown
Deficit Deadlifts
Dumbbell Staggered Stance Deadlift
Half - Kneeling Bottoms - Up Kettlebell Press
Dumbbell Side Lateral Raises
Machine Reverse Rear Delt Flies
Dumbbell Zercher Carry Walks
Weighted Sled Push
Battle Ropes
Dumbbell Farmer's Walk
Tire Flips
I'm working on strength but also on cardiovascular fitness (without running not my fave haha) and improving my grip strength since it's limiting my deadlifts
Time: around 90 minutes (not this day but bench and squat days take longer since I have to wait for racks and benches)5 -
Did an hour of free weights/machines in the gym (although I have a list of exercises I pick from I'm not as organised as @carolinepowell885 and didn't keep a record!). Also got an hour or so walk in locally at an Equestrian Cross Country course.3
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Heavy upper body day, featuring 5x5 bench press and cable row. Felt like a monster today, weights were flying up and increasing.
After coming home, spent time collecting garbage for the weekly truck visit, including hauling super heavy bags filled with yard refuse. In terms of calories, I just added that time to my gym time for a total of 90 minutes.3 -
@AnnPT77, cutting down 15 ft. tall saplings?? That's some heavy duty yard work! I need to plant a few more azalea bushes soon in the backyard.
20 min run + 20 min walk with my senior labrador this morning. She was struggling in the heat. I think for the summer I'll need to do shorter runs with her, then circle back to the house and drop her off before setting out again. This way I'll also get a water break without having to carry it with me.2 -
Yoga
15min
Iron Cardio.
20 sets of clean, press, squat snatch (1 rep of each per side).
160 reps.
16kg
20 min
HSPU - 6x4r (24)
Chins - 6x6r (36)
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Today I got in a 65 min. bike ride, out to the lake and back.3
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Full body workout at the gym today, 45 minutes, plus 30 minute walk. Not as much as I'd like because of work but I knew that ahead of time which is why I hit the gym first thing.4
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Yesterday, Monday (US Memorial Day) another row in 2 seat of the quad, not very intense because we were trying to keep a rower in a single in sight most of the time for safety reasons, and we had some issues with boat set (staying level side to side).3
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Heavy leg day, featuring 5x5 deadlifts. Been very nice the last couple days, working a swing shift (starts 2pm) instead of day staff (starts 8am), so instead of waking at 4:30 to get a workout in, I slept in until 7 each day. When you actually get enough sleep, the workout really works out, kwim?
Tomorrow, however, is the first of two mid shifts (10pm-6am). I'll get my weekly cardio in before the first one, but no workout Thursday between mids as I'll be focusing on catching up on sleep. Am debating hitting the gym Friday after my second mid. Or more accurately, debating what I'll do that day, whether a second round of cardio or do a light lifting day. Probably will depend on how I'm feeling at that time.3 -
Another all-too-functional workout, raking, shoveling, breaking up clumps in the heavy clay soil the stump-grinding guy brought up with his bobcat from my wild zone out back, when he took the wood chips out there to dump them. Also raking up some remaining wood chips, especially ones that were in my neighbor's lawn. (Tree stumps were along the property line.)
Still quite a bit to do there to break up clumps (after they dry more) and get the area to some kind of reasonable contour for re-seeding. Thinking I should add some gypsum (may even have some in the basement), and may need to bring in some compost and/or topsoil as well before reseeding.
Big fun.3 -
24 min. pool swim, then a 10 min. walk with the dog. Really overdid it biking yesterday--I had to keep a heating pad on my quads for a couple of hours before bed.4
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