What Was Your Work Out Today?

10 min. walk with the dog; then at the gym: 11 min. on the Helix Trainer; 6 min. rowing machine (not like Ann, but you know, something), then 20 min. various free weight arm exercises.

A friend is visiting from out of town, staying in an AirBnb--we see each other every 2 years after having been BFFs in high school and college years ago, in another state. And I invited said friend to come over for lunch earlier today but instead she's shopping and eating lunch down town with her son (5 min. from my house) and is going to come over much later, after the wedding she came into town for. Maybe I should just shrug this off, but I feel ridiculously hurt, undervalued, wondering why she's here at all, etc.

3.14 mile walk. 15:30 average pace. It's getting hot and sunny earlier in the day. I might have to change my walking time. OR - go to a shady park.

I’ve been doing 7 miles on the NuStep at level 4
I bumped it to level 5 a few days ago.
Tonight I am trying 10 miles as a stretch goal.

I think I might actually make it!

So in addition to the weight machine workouts I post here, I also shoot for at least 10k steps per day. 7500 at an absolute minimum. I am averaging just over 13k steps per day so far this month and about 9k steps per day this year, which includes multiple weeks where I was quite ill (I had a 3 week stretch in January where I had 3200 steps/day, then 929 the following week, then 5400 the week after that, and then a 2 week stretch at the beginning of April with 2600 and 2800 steps per day average).

Front pulldown 3x12 (80lbs)
Mid row 3x10 (125lbs)
High row 3x12 (70lbs)
Row 3x10 (120lbs)
Lat pulldown 3x10 (70 lbs)
Bicep curl 3x10 (15lbs) single arm
Abdominal 3x12 (125lbs)

Upper Body - Thursday

Bench Press 3x10
DB Bench Press 3x10
BB Row 4x10 (2 sets pronated, 2 sets supinated)
Pulldown 3x10 (1 set each hands over, under, neutral-grip)

Weights: Lower Body - Friday

Squats 4x10
BB Step-Ups 3x12
Leg Extension 3x12
Lying Leg Curl 3x12
Calves Extend 4x15 <superset> Cable Crunch 4x10

Finally got online to post results of these two workouts. Seriously thinking of taking my once-per-quarter break from the gym this next week, let my body fully recover from this abdominal virus which has kept me in bed for two days now.

Saturday, the storm cleared off just in time to let us row. Someone else was willing to bow (take steering responsibility), and I sat stroke (the rower in stern that everyone can see, responsible for keeping the right steady rhythm). I'm not a natural at this. I think it went OK, though. It was a row followed by a coffee then lunch moveable party for a club member who's returning home to Istanbul in a week.

I didn't row on Friday; I was there, but there were 5 of us, and it was quite windy/choppy, so I volunteered to cox a quad. (Cox = coxswain, person who steers the boat with lines to a rudder, so no rower needs to worry about watching over their shoulder so they can avoid hitting stuff. ) I'll probably need to cox in our learn-to-row class coming up in June, so this was good practice with more-skilled rowers.

There was one newer person in the boat (from last season's class), so we did some drills, including some eyes-closed rowing. (Most boats row better eyes closed, if not absolute beginners.)

DiscusTank5 wrote: »

10 min. walk with the dog; then at the gym: 11 min. on the Helix Trainer; 6 min. rowing machine (not like Ann, but you know, something), then 20 min. various free weight arm exercises.

@DiscusTank5: Hey! No shade to you, even from you. :flowerforyou:

You do really nice mixed workouts - good stuff, and still in rehab mode besides. I'm almost close to rowing obsessed, have been for 20+ years. In particular, I rarely do strength work, and that's admittedly a Bad Thing. 🤷

3 rounds of 9 kettlebell/barbell/bodyweight exercises plus a bonus exercise at the end

3.1 mile walk, 16:10avg pace, 123avg HR

Rowed again. It was windy, felt cold (even though it was around 60 F/ 15 C), light mist when we were launching. (I actually said "I do this for fun" out loud as a sort of self-affirmation. ).

As usual, it was plenty warm once we got rowing, and thankfully the misty rain stopped. In the quad, I got to be in engine room (middle pair of the boat, neither steering nor setting cadence), which is a rare treat: Lets me focus on my own rowing technique.

Front pulldown 3x12 (80lbs)
Mid row 3x10 (125lbs)
High row 3x12 (70lbs)
Row 3x12 (120lbs)
Lat pulldown 3x10 (85lbs)
Bicep curl 3x12 (15lbs) single arm
Abdominal 3x12 (145lbs)

Two days of paddling.

Yesterday a canoe for 19 miles along a river.

Today for only two miles leading a group of seniors who were trying out kayaking, many for the first time. More of a workout loading 14 boats on and off and off and on the trailer than the actual paddle.

.Everyone had a good time both days. We saw 17 Bald Eagles the first day

DiscusTank5 wrote: »

Helix trainer, 4 min.
Elliptical, 12 min.
Free weights and conditioning, 20 min.

Also a 25 min. walk around the neighborhood in the evening. Sore feet today. Wah.

Moooorrre rowing, 3 seat (engine room) in the quad, usual distance, nearly perfect morning for rowing, with flat water and temps in mid/high 50s F (around 14 C).

DiscusTank5 wrote: »

DiscusTank5 wrote: »

Helix trainer, 4 min.
Elliptical, 12 min.
Free weights and conditioning, 20 min.

Also a 25 min. walk around the neighborhood in the evening. Sore feet today. Wah.

I'm sorry.

Dunno what chemo you had, so maybe this is irrelevant, but mine had peripheral neuropathy as a side effect. I had a less severe case than some of my friends, so it only persisted post-treatment for a while (long while), and tended to be painful if I either walked much more than usual, or if I was feeling generally fatigued (poor sleep or whatever) and walked a more moderate but unusual amount. I haven't had a bothersome bout of it in years, but chemo for me was 23+ years ago now.

ETA: For me, rubbing in Burt's Bees peppermint foot cream helped. One of my friends who has worse PN swears by ice.

Also a 25 min. walk around the neighborhood in the evening. Sore feet today. Wah.[/quote]

Dunno what chemo you had, so maybe this is irrelevant, but mine had peripheral neuropathy as a side effect. [. . .] and tended to be painful if I either walked much more than usual, or if I was feeling generally fatigued (poor sleep or whatever) and walked a more moderate but unusual amount.

ETA: For me, rubbing in Burt's Bees peppermint foot cream helped. One of my friends who has worse PN swears by ice.[/quote]

Ann, I take Capecitabine tablets (generic for Xeloda). I started with 4 tabs 2x/day, now down to 3 tabs 2X/ day because my feet turned dark red with blistering. They are peeling now, and so are my fingertips. Sometimes in the evening they get pretty bad, and I wake up in the night with my feet hurting, so that stinks, but then I can still get to the gym most days and do shortened versions of my old workouts, so that's something. I've got 40% urea cream and it helps. I'll give Burt's Bees peppermint a go.
Perspective: the instructions the Rx came with actually say, "this medicine has killed people." So that's comforting. Or as we said in the 90s, "NOT!" --Amanda