What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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. ;)
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    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. ;)

    AMEN.
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    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.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    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.
  • Djproulx
    Djproulx Posts: 3,084 Member
    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.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 503 Member
    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.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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!
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    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.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    edited May 2023
    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.)
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    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.
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    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.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 503 Member
    @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.
  • J72FIT
    J72FIT Posts: 6,009 Member
    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)
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 503 Member
    Today I got in a 65 min. bike ride, out to the lake and back.
  • laurachambers86
    laurachambers86 Posts: 152 Member
    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.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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).
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 12,073 Member
    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.
  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 34,620 Member
    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.
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 503 Member
    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.

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