What Was Your Work Out Today?
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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
I went at a very high intensity.3 -
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 -
Slacking on the posts, but updates from the last few days:
Tuesday - pilates class
Wednesday - arm and core work at the gym, finished with 20 minutes on the bike
Thursday - yoga
Not been able to get my steps in as much as I'd like this week because of work, will try to do some extra at the weekend.3 -
Not scheduled to go to open row session, went anyway; rowed around 6k in bow of a double with one of our new learn-to-row guys (nice guy who's probably 1/3 my age
). He's rowing quite well for this stage, so I rowed in most of the time with him. (Usually I spend a lot of time setting up - i.e., stabilizing the boat - so the new person can row more without tippiness. He was doing well enough not to need that.)
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Yesterday - seven or eight hours of paddling to survey for invasive aquatic weeds. We explored lots of back channels and sloughs. We did find some offenders, and we had people with us to spray them out. We did fine one large infestation that will have to get sprayed another time - we didn't have staff or enough herbicide to take care of that one. We found a known infestation that was treated last year. It was much better, and we did the second treatment that might eradicate it as a source of future infestation. That felt good.
Today I did about five hours of hiking to see wildflowers up in the Cascades. I explored an additional trail I hadn't been on yet, and it was more of a route than a trail. Kicked my butt. Part of that was probably breathing the wildfire smoke that was in the air. Part was just being up over 5000 feet and hiking in the hot sun.
Tomorrow I go spend a few days paddling a river I love and camping with friends along the way.7 -
@mtaratoot - You post the best scenery pictures. Paddling and camping in that area must be a great getaway.
Back home from a beach camping trip. Rode the bikes both days and did a nice kayaking trip on Long Island Sound yesterday. Got lucky with two sunny days in a row. Rain on us today during the ride home.
Tomorrow, I'll join a small group of friends who are preparing for a HIM race on Labor Day. It's one of my favorite bike routes. The weather forecast calls for sunny skies. Will see.
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back/pull day.
In order:
5x5 barbell bent over rows (strength focused workout today).
2x12 ez curl bar pullovers
2x12 Standing staight bar pulldowns (lat isolation, getting too much activation of my triceps on the ez curl bar pullovers today)
3x12 ez curl bar curls standing. Feels good to get in a cheat rep or 2 on the last set.
das it.4 -
@mtaratoot - You post the best scenery pictures. Paddling and camping in that area must be a great getaway.
Back home from a beach camping trip. Rode the bikes both days and did a nice kayaking trip on Long Island Sound yesterday. Got lucky with two sunny days in a row. Rain on us today during the ride home.
Tomorrow, I'll join a small group of friends who are preparing for a HIM race on Labor Day. It's one of my favorite bike routes. The weather forecast calls for sunny skies. Will see.
Thanks for the kind words. I've really been soaking it up since I retired. I will keep sharing.
The picture that is looking down a ridge is the view from Cone Peak (~5600 feet) over towards Iron Mountain (~5400 feet). The first picture is a Cascade Lily; I've never seen one before that I know of. The picture of the mountain that's below the lupines along the trail is looking back up at Cone Peak. The rock gardens were full of flowering sedum and other small plants. There were obviously lupines. There were lomatium. There were columbine. There were huckleberries for a quick snack. So much to see.5 -
I'm sure you'll be super-surprised: I rowed this morning, bow of the double, usual distance. Pretty perfect day on the water.
It'd been a while since I rowed double with this guy, so we did a certain amount of "just row", but we did throw in a few more intense power pieces. In between, we worked on some focused technical improvements, and each power piece was a little faster than the previous one, which was fun.
ETA: @mtaratoot, I'm envious. Michigan has way too few mountains for best visuals. Yeah, we have things called "mountains" in the Northernmost peninsula (the "Porcupine Mountains"), but they're only called that in contrast to the flat extreme South of the state, I'm pretty sure. Your photos are excellent.4 -
Weights: Lower Hypertrophy
Squats 4x15
BB Step-Ups 3x12
BB RDL 4x10
Leg Extension 3x12
Seated Leg Curl 3x12
Calves Extend 4x12
Suitcase Carry 3x40s
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2 Days Push Day -Bench press, push downs, lateral rise & 2 Days pull days lifting pull ups and 1 day legs & 2 days rest 1 days in between.3
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Nothing yesterday as I was in a job interview/assessment all day, did get my steps in walking around London though.
Boxing class today along with a trip to the dump with a very heavy door! And lots of cooking and cleaning so far just getting odd jobs done. Every little helps.
Nothing but wind and rain here this afternoon (summer? What summer?!) So definitely indoor jobs for the rest of the day.2 -
Rode one of my favorite routes today under sunny skies and lower humidity. Four of us did a 55 mile out and back route with a loop at the top. We faced a stiff headwind on the way out, but the air was refreshing for a change. The big rains have left our rivers swollen, so we enjoyed lots of white water viewing for much of the ride. Rode at a 15.7 mph ave pace, which is a base building effort according to Garmin.
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Another coached row today, total around 9k. We had 3 singles, a double, and a quad in the group, with me in bow of the quad. There were several timed pieces, multiple practices of racing starts (most of them going into a timed piece), and one 2k piece.
Two of the guys in singles are racing Canadian Henley in a couple of weeks, so they did the 2ks according to their race plan. Those of us in the other boats (race plan-less) just worked for a strong pace we thought we could sustain for the distance. We also did some one- and two-part pause drills, and a couple of different "cut the cake" drills.
I have to say, steering - my job in bow - is more difficult and stressful when rowing faster, and with that many boats strung out across the width of a non-straight river, plus other more-beginner rowers out here and there in singles and a few fishing boats besides. My performance was sub-ideal, but we didn't hit anything, at least. Kinda close, though. 😬2
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