What Was Your Work Out Today?
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I'd planned to go swimming yesterday, but procrastinated through the day, so it was later in the evening before I got there. Swim trunks weren't in the locker. I didn't think I'd taken them home but went home and checked anyway, no luck. Maybe I left them out somewhere? Back to the pool and asked at the desk if anyone had turned them in. Again, no luck. So I'm getting dressed this morning to go shopping for a new pair and noticed again how my pants have been hanging looser lately from weight loss. I got out an old pair of swim trunks that had gotten too tight some years ago. (Yes, I should throw away more stuff, but ...) They fit! Swimming today for 1750m.4
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30 min leg day plus cardio:
0.4 mile run in 10 mins
3 sets of squats (assisted) 15 reps each
3 sets of leg presses 12-15 reps
3 sets of box squats 12-15 reps
1 set of stiff leg deadlift 12 reps (ended early as I felt more in back than hamstrings)
3 sets of leg extensions 12-15 reps
3 Miscellaneous hip flexers (in and out) with ball 12 reps
3 sets of calf raises (25,20, to soreness + 10 reps)
0.4 mile walk back home3 -
Yesterday was full body workout at the gym, forget the full routine now but included leg press, seated leg curls, chest press, bicep curls, side planks, bridge, squats... and more!
Also went to pilates in the evening. Today I haven't booked anything in as not 100% sure how the work day is going to pan out but am hoping I can fit something in later.4 -
Why wait until Monday? The best day to start exercising is 20 years ago, the second best day is today! Kick it, sister, and post away!
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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
Yesterday I surprised my wife with a belated birthday present of taking her to the local baseball stadium to see her favorite team visiting to play here. Hot as blazes, no shade for our seats, she loved going but we both mutually agreed to leave early on account of being overheated. All she apparently needed was some time spent in the air conditioned truck drive home, where I actually was getting worse. Went from feeling normal to sick as a dog in under an hour, threw up as soon as I got home and laid down for an hour nap, got up feeling fully normal again, just a tad on the weak side. We suspect a case of food poisoning from the burger I ate there, the only thing I had she didn't. So I ate a light meal, went to bed early, and woke up this morning feeling like a million bucks, rarin' to hit the gym. Had to back off the weights about 5%, but otherwise got all my sets/reps in, and appetite today has been normal.3 -
5:30am 3 sets each of pushups, squats, resistance band rows, bicep curls. Gonna do the same circuit tomorrow switching bicep curls with pull ups from a dead hang cause I got a low doorway and adding resistance band shoulder presses cause I skipped that today. Hope I can get a good night sleep cause I'm going to bed before 10pm tonight3
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Quoting with selected snippies . . .
Welcome!Ms_Heffalumpy wrote: »Would you all mind if I joined the thread?
I just re-joined MFP a few days ago.
50s? Mere youth! (I'm 67.I'm in my early 50's (although somedays I feel much older), married (34 years & counting), I'm a mom and a grandma 🥰
Exercising, and moving around in general, is my biggest downfall, especially out here in this part of the desert where temperatures exceed 115 degrees during the Late Spring/Summer/Fall months.
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I predict that if you get this exercise/weight situation wrangled - as I'm betting you can - you'll surprise yourself with how much younger you feel in a few weeks of consistency, let alone a few months.
I didn't get routinely active until my late 40s/early 50s, didn't reach a healthy weight until age 60. Now, at 67, I definitely feel - am functionally - younger than I was at 45. I'm not special, just a hedonistic aging hippie with severely limited willpower. "Functionally younger" is a thing available to most anyone who's gotten depleted, I think.
But...it's the 'getting going' part that I'm having serious issues with. 🙄
During the day there is no one around here to kick my butt...or motivate me to get going so I end up procrastinating to the point of not accomplishing ANY of my exercise goals for the day.
I've had some success just telling myself that exercise is not a decision, it's just a thing that I DO, kind of like washing the dishes or brushing my teeth.
I admit, I mostly do things I find really fun. In Winter, though, I use that "not a decision" concept a lot.
If it's okay with everyone I'd like to come back next Monday and start logging, daily, my completed workouts so I can keep myself accountable 😊
I'm with nossmf: Start now.
Welcome to the thread!3 -
Didn't manage to get anything done at the gym yesterday as was working until much later than planned. Didn't get home until late and had to make dinner and do a few chores. Not the end of the world, I did get out for a walk, it's the best I could do!
Today I was sat in meetings all day and my steps really took a battering - less than 1000 by 4pm! But I made it to the gym after work, mainly focused on arms and core as lots of the machines were in use when I went. Remind me never to go to the gym at 5.30pm on a Friday!2 -
Felt really groggy this morning: My CO2 detector decided to start depleted-battery chirps about an hour before my alarm clock went off, and once I dealt with that I couldn't get back to sleep. Silly Garmin said my silly "body battery" was at 47 of 100. That thing is iffy, but it wasn't a good start, TBH.
We had enough rowers for a quad. The only other person who's ever willing to bow (steer & run the workout) felt too tired to do it . . . but also wanted to do another workout with lots of power intervals.
OK.
So I sat bow, did all the steering, stroke counting, shouting. We warmed up to the upstream bridge, did power 10 (stroke) and power 20 intervals to the downstream bridge (plus one 20 after the turn), then cooled down back to the dock. It was a decent workout, and felt decent technically (whole boat).
I finished the run feeling pretty burned out mentally and physically (down to 33/100 ). Coffee helped a little.
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Been sick the last couple of days and didn't exercise. Missed lifting yesterday, so decided to go today even though I also lift tomorrow. Every session is full body so two days in a row is a bit tough. So I went for a slightly slimmed down day:
- Warmup
- Deadlift- Two sets of three and a set of 9 reps at the end, some Sumo pulls for fun
- Overhead press- Two sets of three and a set of 9 reps at the end
- Chinups- 5 sets of 3 (last two sets with +10kg)
- Chest supported rows- 4 sets of 8
- Cable crunches- 4 sets of 15
- Weighted back extensions- 3 sets of 5
- Hanging leg raises- 3 sets of 5
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Thank you for the welcome.
@AnnPT77
I didn't always feel 'so old' but I had a stroke back in late December that knocked me for a loop and since then I do have my days where I feel much older than I am.
Like you, hopefully, once I get back into the 'swing' of things (pun intended 😂 🤣 gotta love kettlebells) I'll start feeling closer to my actual age, if not younger.
Right now, my 'exercise' workout schedule (up and over normal daily activities) is 4 days a week.
Monday thru Thursday.
Fridays, as well as the weekends are my 'rest' days...
Now if including everyday activities like housework, dishes, laundry and so on, is allowed then I've been exercising my butt off today 😂 🤣
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I got a nice run in today outside for around 20 mins. I took a break for some sightseeing and then went to bike ride home for 10 mins3
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To the gym! Have an ouchy in my shoulder so skipped barbell bench press.
- Warmup
- Front squats- 5 sets of 10
- Incline dumbbell bench press- 5 sets of 10
- Chinups- 7, 5, 6, 6
- EZ-bar preacher curls- 4 sets of 12
- Cable tricep extensions- 4 sets of 10
- Lateral raises- 3 sets of 8
- Chest-supported rows (high position)- 3 sets of 8
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We had another farewell party for one of our rowing club members, this time one returning to London, England. It was a 9k-ish row in the quad, most of it moderate pace because we went upstream past the bridge where we usually spin, up to a less populated area of the river to see more wildlife.
On the way back, we did some short power pieces for variety. I was in engine room (2 seat) because someone else volunteered to bow. That made me very happy, because it was early, I was groggy, and it's stressful picking through the bends, shallows and snags in that upstream area.
Later I did some casual walking, but it was at a local small-town food festival (lots of food trucks and stands), so it was pleasant but the calorie balance was pretty dire. 2 -
StrongLifts beginner
Got weak on overheads - After a good workout with military press, I increased weight again the next workout and bombed. I immediately dropped back to previous weight and bombed that too. Fine, I figured I just exerted myself too much. Next session did previous weight and could not complete all reps. What the heck?
Next time, I’m going to make sure I’m well hydrated (I struggle with that) plus carb up beforehand. And I may switch to push press maybe. I’m struggling at the bottom of the press, not sure what that means. I can grind at the top but at the bottom I’ve got nothing. Just a teeny little kick at the bottom and I can take care of the rest, but I don’t want to cut corners.
Deadlifts getting painful/fun - I hate doing them. But last time I had spaghetti legs for about 20 minutes after and that part was fun.
About to hit novice level rows - Next A session. 💪
Dumbbell bench - I don’t have a rack so I’m using dumbbells to bench press. One drawback is that there is a bigger jump, relatively, when increasing weight. I can 5x5 my current weight but am nowhere on the next weight up. So I’m just working on increasing reps. Yeah, I’ve taken liberties with the program, what can ya do. I have bookmarked this cheap standalone rack that would let me bench plus rack up for squats and overheads, but not sure if/when I’ll pull the trigger on that. Don’t call the cops on me but I have currently rigged boxes for my squats (and overheads if I can push past my current block). But it won’t work for benching.
Definitely seeing results outside of weights - For example, I live on a short hill with a 20-25% grade (no exaggeration, many companies actually refuse to deliver to my house). Going for walks always sucks because coming home is quite a slog. Just from doing deadlifts and squats, and no extra walking, suddenly the hill went from a groaner to easy peasy and fun. In fact I started doing laps down and up just to hit my step goal for the day. I’m opening jars other people struggle with and reap hate for it. 👍4 -
Had a busy day yesterday at work but did manage to get a 30 minute workout in at the gym, did a fair bit of arm work which was probably a mistake as my arms were tired from Friday! But got through it.
Today I went for my usual horse ride, he was a little excitable today, the wind was up which always makes things interesting but we still had fun. My other half came along and ran alongside which my horse always likes for some reason! I've also done some yin yoga stretches.1 -
Lower Hypertrophy
Squats 4x15
BB Step-Ups 3x12
BB RDL 4x10
Leg Extension 3x12
Seated Leg Curl 3x12
Calves Extend 4x12
Suitcase Carry 3x40s
No backing off on weight this time, in fact was able to increase on a couple lifts!2 -
Cardio today- 45 minutes incline treadmill walk.
I see people in the gym using much higher inclines than I use (I use 7.5%). But I find that if I let the incline go much higher it is hard to keep my back straight. And if I walk with a bent lower back, my back explodes. Fun. Anyway, this gives me a nice sweat and by the feel of it, it keeps me nicely in 'Zone 2'. I say 'by the feel of it' because a long time ago I did all my running with a chest strap HR monitor and got reasonably good at guesstimating my HR.2 -
herringboxes wrote: »StrongLifts beginner
Got weak on overheads - After a good workout with military press, I increased weight again the next workout and bombed. I immediately dropped back to previous weight and bombed that too. Fine, I figured I just exerted myself too much. Next session did previous weight and could not complete all reps. What the heck?
Next time, I’m going to make sure I’m well hydrated (I struggle with that) plus carb up beforehand. And I may switch to push press maybe. I’m struggling at the bottom of the press, not sure what that means. I can grind at the top but at the bottom I’ve got nothing. Just a teeny little kick at the bottom and I can take care of the rest, but I don’t want to cut corners.
You use your shoulders more at the bottom of the lift, and triceps more at the top.
There's lots of tweaks and things you can do (and are supposed to) for your overhead press. But at the end of the day it's a fiddly lift and often stops responding to linear progression programs early on. Before too long you will probably have to switch to an intermediate program, at least for that lift.Definitely seeing results outside of weights - For example, I live on a short hill with a 20-25% grade (no exaggeration, many companies actually refuse to deliver to my house). Going for walks always sucks because coming home is quite a slog. Just from doing deadlifts and squats, and no extra walking, suddenly the hill went from a groaner to easy peasy and fun. In fact I started doing laps down and up just to hit my step goal for the day. I’m opening jars other people struggle with and reap hate for it. 👍
Awesome!
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@williamsonmj1
Thanks for the info, that is useful.
Thinking of adding lateral raises to help shoulders.
Have always had better arms than anything else. Want to catch everything else up.2 -
Sunday is usually rest day. This one was my first ever dragon boat race: Just 3 races, around 250-300m, so pretty much pure sprint. Low calorie expenditure, somewhat higher fatigue factor, pretty darned fun.
Our team - which was all women, lots of newbies, and an ad hoc pickup team that doesn't practice other than at the event - finished at 5 out of 10 teams. I don't feel bad about that. In the top 4 were 2 teams that have boats and practice regularly, plus a team formed around a fitness center. (Ours was formed around the local Women's Center, which was also the beneficiary of the event's proceeds.)
It was fun. I put a high value on fun active stuff.
I'm happy. 4 -
50 min of low impact aerobics and some stretching. Burned 450 calories3
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An hour of yoga by a local lake this morning, beautiful even in the rain!
And an hour in the gym this afternoon, I felt able to push myself further today. Not sure if it was the music I was listening to or just in the right headspace but I found myself able to do a couple of extra reps here, an extra unplanned set of exercises there. Did full-body which is my usual, lots of squats, side planks, pull-ups, overhead dumbbell press, rows, can't remember everything else but I ended by holding a squat on a bosu ball for as long as I could just to work on balance. Hopefully I don't feel too sore tomorrow!1 -
Fifty minutes incline treadmill walk today.3
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Today I swam 850 yards. I alternate swimming with the recumbent bike or elliptical.4
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Of course I rowed. It's Monday, and it didn't storm.
Usual 7k-ish, 2 seat of the quad, a few power 10s and some timed full-power pieces, plus practicing race starts (even though the head race coming up will not require race starts ).
They told me my obliques would be sore after the dragon boat races. Not so much: Maybe I was doing it wrong, maybe 3 x about 1 minute wasn't enough stimulus for that?
I was trying hard, no objective evidence whether that was effective or not. If anything, I have a little upper pec tightness, which makes sense based on what the dragon boat paddling motion is like (not like canoeing!). Those muscles don't get much work in rowing, which is all upper body pull, and lower shoulder/back/arm muscles. Dragon boat paddling, the inside arm goes way up (overhead), and the motion is kind of a straight stab down into the water, then a push/pull-like sequence as the blade moves right next to the gunwale, mostly vertical paddle angle, from around one's feet to the mid/upper thigh area, with a bit of body twist. (I'm probably describing it poorly, and probably did it poorly, first time out.)4 -
Upper Power
Bench Press 5x5
Cable Row 5x5
DB Press <superset> DB Row 5x5
Seated Smith OHP <superset> BB Shrugs 3x8
Cable Pushdown <superset> Preacher Curl 3x83 -
Not much formal exercise lately with two long weekend trips plus bike wheel out for repair.
I did get back to the gym for a trainer led session. A full body workout: push/pull/legs/core.3 -
Another multi-day river trip.
The same launch and take-out as the last one, but this time five days instead of four days. We had thought about doing a layover, but we instead just decided to do five short eight-mile days. Nearly historic low water level made it challenging. We saw six bears. The weather was great except a couple smokey days and some hot weather - but the heat made it nice for swimming. All our camps were really nice. I'm considering going back for another lap.5 -
20 minutes stretch, light Pilates. 30 minutes of cardio with low impact weights. I'm considering doing one day 30 min. Pilates and the next day 30 min. cardio. The scale isn't really budging.4
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