What Was Your Work Out Today?
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Good for you! It's almost always better to do some movement that next day when stiff/sore (as long as it's overworked muscles and such, not an injury). Moving seems to loosen things up, almost "oil the joints" a bit, so reduce discomfort. Needn't be a full regular workout - whatever that may be; can just be some stretching or a short walk. You're doing the right things, @justanotherjen13!
Yeah, I think it really helped. When I first got up, I was so stiff (just from being on my feet for hours...carrying around 287lbs is rough on everything), I didn't think I could actually go on a walk. I ended up waiting a good 2 hours before I left and still had trouble getting down the stairs because everything hurt. But I went out, tried to stay in a flat area and went slow. I felt much better after I got home. I still had a little trouble getting up the stairs because my joints were sore but otherwise getting up and moving around felt better after the walk. I'm glad I went and will try that route again tomorrow (it's also nice having different houses to look at).3 -
I did the usual 15 minutes early morning elliptical and went to the pool in the afternoon. 1300 scm (short course meters, 25m lanes) mostly 100m front crawl but with a 100 IM mixed in towards the end for fun. Recovery feels better than after the last swim too, maybe assisted by another 15 on the elliptical this evening to help loosen up.3
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Paddled a new-to-me canoe that is 18 years old and mostly pristine. We paddled 18 miles. Eighteen year old boat and the same number of miles. I'm keeping the boat. I like it. I'm selling a different boat. Anyone need an ultralight Wenonah Encounter?
If you zoom in on the black specks, you'll see some Bald Eagles flying by....
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Yesterday's group ride was fun, though much hotter and more humid than I'd like. Rode 9 miles to the start, then the 25 mile course, then after some food/drink, 9 miles home.
I started the 25 mile route with my regular group, but after 5 miles I decided that I wasn't up to keeping their pace, and didn't want to work that hard during a fun ride. I dropped back and joined a more casual paced group to finish the ride. Hotter than heck either way. Lots of fluid, salty chips and a regular coke perked me up for the 9 mile ride back home.
Rest day today, with maybe a few minutes of jumping rope if I'm motivated, lol.4 -
I ended up going back to my old route for today's walk because someone swept through the neighborhood and overtook all the pokegyms so I needed to take them back for Team Valor, lol. That was all the motivation I needed for a harder walk today. I did skip the gym up the steep hill from my house because I don't have the energy for that hike right now. But I got the other three gyms during my 1.36-mile walk.3
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Friday
Climbing. This was was really good fun. I was in form on both slabs and overhangs. I got 4 new routes.
Saturday
I intended to have a rest day. But I got bored, so after lunch, I did a 21 mile walk. It was nice; there were many deer in Bushy Park. It drizzled for most of the walk .
Sunday
I was supposed to go diving out of Swanage, Dorset. But we were blown out.
So we dived a quarry instead. I needed to leave my house at 6 a.m., to get there on time. The bottom of the quarry was cold and silty (it was 8 Celsius at 28 metres.)
Edit: I had to Google pokegyms and Team Valor. I think I now understand some of the posts above mine.5 -
Didn't realize that's still a thing, lol. I remember when the craze first started, there was a pokegym located at the heart of my actual gym. Reportedly drew in a number of new gym members as a result, wonder how much the gym owner paid to make THAT happen, lol.0
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Didn't realize that's still a thing, lol. I remember when the craze first started, there was a pokegym located at the heart of my actual gym. Reportedly drew in a number of new gym members as a result, wonder how much the gym owner paid to make THAT happen, lol.
There are quite a few other people in my neighborhood that actively hunt pokemon. Someone got to level 40 or whatever it is and started asking for gyms and more stops to be added all over. When we moved here in 2016 there were 2 stops within the neighborhood and the closest gym was over a mile away (which is a long hike back uphill to my house so I rarely went there). Since 2020, they've added 4 gyms within walking distance of my house and too many stops to count. The gyms are constantly changing colors. I keep going down to the lowest one to take it over and sometimes before I even get back home, someone on blue team has kicked me out (they must live next door to the gym). This morning I woke up to three of the gyms turning yellow and one was blue. I turned three back to red and just noticed someone else turned the last one red since I went on my walk. Pokemon Go has really helped my motivation when I don't really want to walk. I can't play the whole time I'm walking, though, because I only get 5gigs of data each month so I turn the game on when I get to a gym then shut it down until the next gym.3 -
Weights: Upper Power
Bench Press 5x5
Cable Row 5x5
DB Press <superset> DB Row 5x5
DB OHP <superset> DB Shrugs 3x8
Cable Pushdown <superset> Preacher Curl 3x8
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Saturday - still feeling the aftereffects of my migraine so just went for two 30-40 minute walks.
Sunday - finally felt better, went for my usual horse ride for an hour. Didn't go crazy but it was good for my soul
pony cuddles are always the best.
Today - spinning class this evening, didn't push as hard as usual but still feel much better for getting back at it.3 -
Yesterday I helped at a club event from early until after noon but otherwise called it a rest day. I used the elliptical this morning for 17 minutes. Just before lunch, I ran on the treadmill for a half hour and at the 30 minute mark just barely got up to the same peak heart rate as during a 20 minute run last week. Progress.3
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Did 1.44 miles today on my walk including going up the steep hill next to my house to start out then walking all through one section of my neighborhood and back for a different view.3
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Front squats 10x3
A1) Dips 4x6
Rest 30
A2) machine rows 4x6
B1) rope pushdowns (all the benches were tied up
B2) barbell curls 4x6
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GratefulWayFarer wrote: »4km run to work, 4km back then an 8km cycle with my kids bike trailer. I will also cycle home.. So will cycle another 8km. Total time 20 + 20 + 30 + 30 = 1hr40
You don’t live in the US do you? 😀0 -
Weights: Lower Power
Deadlift 5x5
BB Hip Thrust 3x5
One-Leg Press 3x8
Seated Leg Curl 3x8
Calf Extension 4x12
Cable Crunch 3x10
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Taking a recovery approach to this week. My wife and I are heading out for a 3 night camping trip at the beach. We're planning to do some cycling and kayaking as well as plenty of hanging around. I'm also going to continue learning to jump rope. That's been a big dose of humility so far, lol.3
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My walk was 1.41 miles today and I felt pretty good through most of it. I noticed my left leg was a little more sore because that was the side with the driveways (which puts that foot at a weird angle every time I cross a driveway and the houses are close together here so lots of driveways right on top of each other) but it didn't bother me too much. I was lost in thought most of the time and didn't even realize I was almost home at the end.
This marks two straight weeks of walking at least a mile every day. I'm thinking of adding some wall pushups. I used to try to do 5 every time I used the bathroom which can be quite a few, especially with my morning coffee, lol. But maybe a solid three times a day with ten wall push-ups each time. Just to add some upper body stuff.4 -
Three hours in the dentist chair....2
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Swimming early this morning, 50m lanes, 1800m all as 100m repeats with lots of rest. Just adding up some meters to get reacquainted with the swim. Shortly after getting home, I used the elliptical for 15 minutes at an easy rate just to loosen up. I've been eager to get back to some kind of cycling but lately its either been too smokey or severe thunder storm warnings. So to stay inside, I went to the gym this afternoon and spun the pedals on a stationary bike for an hour. I've yet to get the cycling trainer set up in the basement again but soon.3
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My usual Wednesday cardio day, an hour on the elliptical doing hills.3
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Did a 1.33 mile walk this morning. It smelled like smoke when I left the house but the smell went away when I got farther from my street so I thought maybe someone had a firepit going for some reason. But then I noticed everything looked kind of hazy, especially in the distance. The sky was bright blue with no clouds. But the haze was everywhere. Came home and found out a little bit ago there's a fire at a lumberyard about an hour north of us. Since then the whole sky has gotten smokey; no blue at all. Not sure how this is going to affect my walk tomorrow. I know I should avoid going out when the air quality is this bad (we're used to yearly wildfires here) but I don't want to ruin my two-week streak. I guess I could walk to the HOA clubhouse and use the treadmill instead. It would limit how long I'm in the smoke and I might actually walk a farther distance without all the hills slowing me down.5
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My wife and I joined a friend for a leisurely 20
mile ride through several shoreline towns around our campsite. The ride was mostly shaded, rural roads with almost no traffic. My wife enjoyed it quite a bit, since her e-bike has allowed her to climb hills and enjoy group rides.
Tomorrow we plan to do some kayaking .5 -
I went climbing yesterday. It was a pretty poor session, although it was good fun. I did flash a v4 slab, which was truly terrifying. (Most v4s I get are probably softly graded. This one actually felt quite hard; I made some good decisions en route.)
I lifted today, doing:
Hangboarding, quite light as I had an A4 pulley injury recently. (I ignored it, and it seems to have gone away.)
Finger curls. Again light, I went to 40 kgs.
Bench, light (notice a theme?), 49 kgs, 3 sets of 10.
Squat, light, 60 kgs, 3 sets of 8.
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I have been slacking on the reports!
Monday, 7/17, rowed a double with a guy I've never rowed double with before. Silly-big weight differential (he's 210, I'm 130), and the boat's rigged weird so I have to row bow (usually you'd put the heavier person in bow). It was a little rocky - literally! - at first, but we made some adjustments including foot position (the shoes are attached to the boat, but you can move them closer to stern or bow) . . . and it ended up fine.
Yesterday, just a short and lovely meandering walk in a local garden with a friend.
Today, 7/19, I rowed a double again with the same guy. Right after, I and another club member moved a bunch of boats/oars displaced when workers installed a French drain at the boathouse. (I think the robin that had been nesting in our oar rack was scared off, sadly!). Tonight, I volunteered at open rowing, but merely carried a few boats, and did a tiny row to demo/teach river turns for one of the new rowers. (River turn = back on one side, row on the other . . . but don't think of it that way because that overcomplicates things!).3 -
I did the early morning 15 minutes elliptical yesterday but got distracted (or lazy) and didn't do a planned run. There are other commitments later today so if any workouts were happening then I had to start early. That got me to the pool in time to use the 50m lanes again. 2100m in a few longer continuous swims. Then shower, change, home, a quick piece of fruit, and change again to run on the treadmill for 20 minutes. All done before 8:30.3
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Weights: Upper Hypertrophy
Incline Bench Press 4x12
Machine Fly 3x12
BB Row 4x10
Pulldown 3x10
Machine Lateral Raise 4x12
Machine Curl <superset> Machine Pushdown 3x10
Perloff Press 3x15sec
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Went on a slightly longer walk today in another part of my neighborhood where there wasn't such a steep incline on the way home. Did 1.48 miles but my knee was bothering me the whole time. It was doing well for a while but now it's back to aching and creaking really loud. At least the smoke cleared sometime last night so I didn't have to worry about that.4
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Cycling for work today (I work as a carer so cycle between clients) so rest day from the gym.
Yesterday though was weightlifting so
Full body stretch
Warm up with barbell
Clean + jerk
Clean pulls
Back squats
Running to the bus stop and skipping the accessories
Night time shoulder stretching for rehab
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shadow2soul wrote: »I workout at home. Today was
Jillian Michaels Slim 60 - Intermediate Day 16
Alternating Squat to Curtsey lunge
Stiff leg Deadlift
Jump Squats
Pulsing Lunges (left side)
Front Lunge to Side Lunge (left side)
repeat (changing from left to right side)
Hammer Curls
Bicep Curls
Rock Star Jumps
Warrior 3 (left leg)
Crescent Pose with Reverse Flies (left leg)
repeat (changing from left to right)
Alternating Renegade Row
Alternating Leg Press in Bear
Bear Kicks
Superman Swimmers
Extended Plank
Repeat
And Just Dance for 30 mins nonstop shuffle mode for some cardio.
Love me some just dance. Always fun. Same with learning new K-pop dances haha0
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