What Was Your Work Out Today?
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@AnnPT77 get well soon!
We pushed our cave discovery on Sunday.
We ignored the danger of the chossy boulder choke, and got slightly over 100m of brand new passage, never seen before.
It can get a bit narrow; the photo is me reversing as head first didn't work for me on this hole.
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As a claustrophobic, where is the "aw, *beep* no!" emoji? 😶😨😱 lol2
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As a claustrophobic, where is the "aw, *beep* no!" emoji? 😶😨😱 lol
Makes you wonder why some men want a "cave" of their own.
I used to do some very mild caving. Nothing that required protection, although there were some spots we would have been wise to be on belay. And there was a couple times we went through very tight spots, but not that tight. I doubt I'd be happy to do that again. Last time I was in my "crawl" space (more of a "snake" space) I kind of freaked out and got the *ocelot* out of there and haven't been back since. Was that a decade ago? More? Yeah - not for me.2 -
Yeah, I'm with you guys. I definitely enjoy seeing @drmwc's photos and hearing about his adventures, which are really inspiring . . . I mean, being in a cave where probably no other humans have ever been before? Wow!
I'm not extra super duper claustrophobic, but that wouldn't be my jam, either. I'm a little risk averse in general. I find it both interesting and surprising that drmwc is meandering around in those places that I'd find quite scary, but at the same time avoiding doctors. (FWIW, I'm a big fan of mine, maybe especially the ones who've more than likely literally contributed to saving my life. For sure, the oncologists are in that category, and the recent neurology guys may be too, but I think I'm not quite out of that woods yet.
For sure, they're doing their best, and I'm sure have at minimum extended my life by stapling me up and stopping my brain bleed from spreading . . . so far. 
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I don't enjoy heights, either, at least not edges of heights. When my gutters need cleaning, or the roof needs sweeping, I'm hiring people (and relieved to be able to do so). My SIL was climbing around on her 2nd-storey roof well into her 70s (and lived
). But that's a big nuh-uh from me, even though I know many people do it safely.
Again, none of that is a criticism of anyone whose thought process is working for them, but is wildly different from mine. I find the diversity interesting and thought provoking.2 -
Treadmill - 1 hr, 3.0 mph, 12% incline
Spent several minutes before bed debating whether I wanted to do cardio at all during this holiday season, ultimately decided to keep at it so I don't have to encounter the dreaded "welcome back, slacker" level of fatigue/soreness which invariably occurs when somebody stops doing an exercise for a while and then resumes.
I did, however, indulge by stopping for donuts on the way to work. Not enough to override the entire calorie burn, but when you combine an endorphin high from cardio along with a perfectly iced chocolate donut...now THAT's a way to start a day! lol 🍩2 -
Thought I'd posted yesterday's (Dec 2) workout after Sunday's rest day, but oops, I guess.
Same boring thing, though - to do and to read (sorry!): Stationary bike, 18,993m in just under an hour, still crazy slow compared to normal (58W (! 😬) average; shooting for HR 115bpm but not over 120; hit 114 average, 118 peak). I do feel like it's getting slightly easier subjectively to complete each time, though I'm still really easily tired overall.
Still watching visual journaling videos to pass the time, just started watching a free series called Care December, but have only watched so far, not done any of the prompts in my mixed-media journal.
Currently at 37,965m of the 200k I need by the end of Christmas Eve to complete the C2 Holiday Challenge, assuming I can do it. Health/safety is a higher priority to me than the challenge, but so far it's going OK.
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Two 10 min. walks today with the dog. I wore my running shoes all day expecting I'd get to the gym but it just didn't happen. Maybe I can fit in some conditioning here at home in a minute . . .1
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Another stationary bike ride, about the same as all the other recent heart-rate-limited ones, except that for some reason HR was running a little hotter tonight, so only 52W average. 😐 🤷
Now at 47,434m of the 200km for the C2 Holiday Challenge (where bike meters count half), just under half a day ahead of my personal schedule.
As an aside, I stopped creatine while in the hospital. (They only brought me my thyroid meds, prescription meds related to the injury, acetaminophen and vitamin D. Not surprising, except I don't know what made the vitamin D special among the supplements. Doubtless they knew.)
Just restarted the creatine a couple of days ago. I was afraid to at first because I was having pretty strong shooting cramp-like leg pains from glutes to calves with certain movements, not sure whether related to the injury or too much time in bed. (Medical team has been uncertain about the cause, and mixed thoughts among them about probabilities.) I had some leg cramps around the time I first started creatine, unusual but not major, maybe unrelated to creatine. But I didn't want to risk a repeat of extra leg issues, so I put off creatine until legs were better, and I started working out again. OK so far. 🤷, again.2 -
Which version of creatine, monohydrate or HCl? If you recall, I cited a personal observation that cardio was easier for me with HCl, though the scientist in me will point out it's possibly a placebo effect and the truth was I was simply increasing relative fitness instead.1
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Which version of creatine, monohydrate or HCl? If you recall, I cited a personal observation that cardio was easier for me with HCl, though the scientist in me will point out it's possibly a placebo effect and the truth was I was simply increasing relative fitness instead.
It's been monohydrate so far. I might try HCl at some point, but I'm in the midst of a cannister of monohydrate, so I'll at least wait until that's running low.
Based on my reading, it seems even monohydrate has some potential benefits in the realm of endurance cardio, but another factor that matters to me is that it may have some neurological benefits. As one example, I have a friend who has early-onset dementia, and her neurologist strongly encouraged her to use creatine. (That alone wouldn't persuade me; reading has also suggested their may be benefits in that realm, and that there are quite limited downsides to using it.)
Personally, I don't sneer at placebo effects. I know that placebo effect isn't "all in one's head", but that some reasonable research has shown it can affect certain hormone levels and other physically measurable phenomena that aren't easily manipulated. If I feel better or do better because of a placebo effect, I'm happy, as long as there are no downsides.2 -
Same deal, heart-rate-controlled stationary bike ride for just under an hour, average HR 114 bpm, peak 119 bpm, right where I was aiming. Still very low intensity objectively of course, this time 55W average.
Tonight's ride started shortly before 9PM, after what was a fairly busy day for my current energy level, so even this easy ride felt tiring. (I was out running various errands with a friend, me driving because she's still in a boot from an ankle injury so driving is awkward. Bright spot: We got takeout from a local (to my taste very good) Ethiopian restaurant. I've been trying - and ironically struggling a bit - to eat a couple of hundred calories above normal maintenance, but sometimes failing . . . when if I have any eating issue in more normal times, it'd be overeating. Libra thinks my weight is dropping fast right now, which is not what I want while healing! Eating a bunch of injera and spicy legumes plus nice sides maybe helps. 
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I have a CT scan scheduled Friday; fingers crossed that will look good and the not severe but weirdly variable headaches will be within the expected range of healing rather than a sign of something. 🤷 Sorry - seems easy to feel a little paranoid right now, so I guess I'm venting off topic here. I've never had a head injury like this before.1 -
Just stay away from WebMD, my dear. I have had to counsel my wife to stay away from there, as more than once she went to investigate something minor (sunburn, hangnail) and walked away with a self-diagnosis of some terminal disease.1
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Treadmill - 1 hr, 3.0 mph, 12% incline
My gym has multiple rows of treadmills, each row a different brand. Turns out all treadmills are NOT the same, did you know this? All my usual treadmills were already taken, the ones which allow me to login to a centralized account which has my workouts tracked and logged, so all I have to do is hit one button and the treadmill will take it from there, adjusting incline and pace automatically. But as I said, they were all taken today, so I shrugged my shoulders and went for a different treadmill, figuring I can easily enough manually adjust settings during my warmup/cooldown.
Problem is, my usual brand treadmill does not have a time limit for how long a workout can last (or at least one longer than I need), whereas the treadmill I jumped on has a hard one-hour limit and kicked me into cooldown when I still had ten minutes left on my expected workout. (I don't include the ten-minute gradual ramping up period in my hour report.) I was able to manually increase the incline/pace back up to workout levels, but one minute later the cooldown kicked things in half again, so for the entire 5 minute "cooldown" it was a battle between the machine trying to cut intensity and me trying to squeak in as much of my desired workout as possible. Eventually the cooldown ended and the machine shut off completely. I could have reset to another workout, banged out the last five minutes at pace and worked the cooldown myself, but I was already mildly annoyed and figured I'd gotten close enough to just call it a day.1 -
Just stay away from WebMD, my dear. I have had to counsel my wife to stay away from there, as more than once she went to investigate something minor (sunburn, hangnail) and walked away with a self-diagnosis of some terminal disease.
Totally on board with that. I'm a bit more likely to trust info from my doctors' patient education info, outfits like Mayo Clinic or similar well-credentialed medical centers, some of the mainstream health-condition-centric sites (like American Cancer Society in my case), the US government entities posting about things on-mission to the agency (even though some think the government is bought and paid for).
I also tend to trust examine.com, which I like enough to have a paid membership. But I pretty much always look at studies in peer reviewed journals, and think about the research quality to the best of my understanding, with consensus there counting more than individual studies, of course.
WebMD, HealthLine, and some of those sites are mixed quality at best, IME.
Having worked at one, I don't trust major research universities, either, necessarily. There can be goodness there, if a person exercises caution . . . but "academic freedom" pretty much means that any idiot can put anything in their blogs, and some researchers/professors - based on my acquaintances there - can be idiots, and some will speak way outside their scope of education besides, even some who are pretty nice, well-intended people IRL.
Best I can do as an amateur and idiot myself, anyway.
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Chest press 1x10, 1x8 (65 lbs), 1x10 (60lbs)
Pectoral fly 3x12(55lbs)
High row 3x12 (90lbs)
Row 1x12, 1x9 (85lbs), 1x12 (80lbs)
Shoulder press 3x12 (60lbs)
Lateral raise 3x12 (30lbs)
Triceps press 3x12 (105lbs)
Bicep curl 3x12 (55lbs)
Abdominal crunch 3x12 (125lbs)
Back at it, been way too inconsistent lately.2 -
I have a CT scan scheduled Friday; fingers crossed that will look good and the not severe but weirdly variable headaches will be within the expected range of healing rather than a sign of something. 🤷 Sorry - seems easy to feel a little paranoid right now, so I guess I'm venting off topic here. I've never had a head injury like this before.
Vent all you want! My scan got moved, so we'll both have CT scans this Friday, albeit on different bodily areas.
Yesterday I dropped my autistic son off at school at 5 am so he could go to State Special Olympics in bowling. He came in 3rd and I'm a proud mama. Not a lot of options for things to do at that hour in my town, so I took myself to the gym for a 40 min. stationary bike ride, then 10 min. of walking, followed by sit-ups and lunges for the final 10 min.
I'm only doing a few short walks today so I won't throw any measurements off during tomorrow's scan.3 -
Treadmill - 1 hr, 3.0 mph, 12% incline
Problem is, my usual brand treadmill does not have a time limit for how long a workout can last (or at least one longer than I need), whereas the treadmill I jumped on has a hard one-hour limit and kicked me into cooldown when I still had ten minutes left on my expected workout. . . . but I was already mildly annoyed and figured I'd gotten close enough to just call it a day.
My gym had the kind of treadmills that kick you off after an hour back when I was logging 8+ mile workouts, and that was SO ANNOYING. So glad they got a better kind, even though I'm not pushing the limits these days.
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Most distance I've ever done in one shot for a workout* was 10km (6.25mi). Had dreams of doing a marathon back during my running days, but that was 30 years and 40 pounds ago, lol. Much of that weight difference is muscle (I was really lean back then) which I want to hang onto, so marathons remain on the back burner of my imagination.
* - I have gone on 20+ mile hikes during camping and hunting trips, but I consider those situations different from an intentional workout.3 -
Grumpy. Weird symptoms today, not severe but a change. Called primary care, don't need to go to ER unless symptoms multiply/worsen, but I'm skipping biking today, hoping tomorrow feels more normal (using the recent definition of "normal"). Frustrated.
Thanks for the permission to vent, @DiscusTank5. I hope your CT tomorrow brings you good news!
I don't walk much because of trash knees these days, but I think the longest intentional walk I did in recent times (i.e., during weight loss and maintenance) was around 8 miles on the paved trail system here. Couple of summers ago I was walking 5 miles on other paved trails (all mostly flat) 2-3 times a week after rowing in summer. I'm for sure not conditioned to that now, and not sure that I could do it within a tolerable pain range, because I think my knees have worsened some. PCP and I had plans for me to try knee PT again before referral to an orthopedist again, but that's on hold for the moment for obvious reasons.
This is another area in which @drmwc outpaces us all (pun intended). 3 -
@AnnPT77 I hope the symptoms ease.
I gave up my Fitbit about a year ago; I started to find it too intrusive. I'm pretty sure walking doesn't count unless it is tracked by expensive electronics; God knows how our ancestors coped. (My replacement watch is a £10 Casio digital. It is superb; almost indestructible and if I do somehow kill it, I don't cry at the cost of replacement.)
I went climbing on Monday. I wasn't very good.
I lifted on Tuesday.
We had our work team lunch yesterday. There was no expectation of going back to the office afterwards, so the others stayed at the restaurant drinking. I don't really drink any more, so I got bored and decided to go for a climb instead. It was really good, I was in form. So I stayed just over 3 hours. I got three v4s, and close on a v5. We had another team do in the evening, and I mis-judged the walking distance from the gym to the venue; my estimate is that I probably got around 30,000 steps in (which would be around 15 miles).3 -
Upper Body - Hypertrophy
Incline Bench Press 4x10
DB Bench Press 3x10
BB Row 4x10
Pulldown 3x10 (1 set each hands over, under, neutral-grip)
Machine Reverse Fly 3x10
Machine Lat Raise 3x10
DB Shrugs 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10 (3-second negatives)
Cable Pushdown 3x10 (5-second negatives)
Perloff Press 3x10, 20, 30sec1 -
I was going to go do leg day but then I got distracted with a task that, while it needed doing, was not urgent, which ballooned into cleaning out my whole closet and an old armoire that we replaced with a dresser and wall mounted TV 6(!) years ago, but which has remained. I discarded ruthlessly, and made a large haul to goodwill. This applied also to the upstairs bonus room and closet. I also did 4 loads of laundry, including switching to winter flannel sheets. I dusted several ceiling fan (bedroom and living room), the bedroom and closet and the living room too. I organized my pantry and food cabinet. I broke down boxes and took them out. I vacuumed the rooms I dusted. None of these things were on my plan for the day. I also ran some errands after going to goodwill at 6pm, including making several returns. I did not end up going to the gym. Or taking the final two chemistry tests I need to do by Monday night to finish this semester.
My son, diagnosed with ADD, got home from work at 5:00pm or so, chatted with me briefly about our days, then said "It's genetic, you know." lol4 -
@nicsflyingcircus: Oh, that I should be that productive! Sounds kinda exercise-y at least in spots, too.
Me, I got back on the bike for another sloooow ride of just under an hour with 55W average, 114bpm average HR. HR did peak up at 127 briefly, way beyond my current intended max of 120, when I stupidly grabbed my landline phone that rang, and got one of those supposedly-medicare-help fake-interactive robo-call things . . . at 9:44PM, besides.
I didn't try for any make-up meters today after skipping exercise totally yesterday. The other stuff I needed to do today mostly blew out my current low energy budget, so just convincing myself to get on the bike had to be good enough. I'm about 1/3 day behind where I'd prefer to be for the Holiday Challenge, but it should be easy to catch up as long as I don't need to take any more unplanned days off. We'll see.
I won't get the results of today's CT scan until next week sometime. I do have the disk with the images on it, but (of course) I don't know how to read a CT scan. 🤷3 -
Lower Body
Squat 4x10
BB Hip Thrust 4x10
Leg Press <<superset> Leg Press Calf Raise 4x10, 15, 20, 25
Seated Leg Curl 4x10
Cable Crunch 4x10, 15, 20, 25
Gym was incredibly busy today for a Saturday. Normally I walk in to see maybe a dozen or so regulars; today there were at least 50 people lifting, including using all 8 squat racks, the leg press machine and the hip thrust machine. No BB curls or OHP either; all squats, deadlifts and Olympic cleans. Had to wait 15 minutes before a station opened and I could begin.2 -
Another not-quite-hour of ultra-slow stationary bike again, as it will continue to be for a while longer at least.
Today, 57W average, average HR 113bpm, peak 118, so on target there. No make-up meters yet, but as of today only 315m behind if I assumed steady daily progress on the Holiday Challenge. However, I will take a regular rest day tomorrow.
I actually think I have enough S.L.O.P. built into the plan that if I do all future planned days (and planned rest days), I don't need extra catch-up meters. I wish I could row some instead of all biking, but I know myself well enough to know it would annoy me to row slowly enough to keep my heart rate down sufficiently.
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AM
Yoga
PM
Kettlebell swings
10x5x32k
Kettlebell Get Ups
20x1x16k
Ab Wheel
1x10
Loaded Carries
2x60s (32k)2 -
Upper Body - Power
Bench Press 5x8
Cable Row 5x5
Mac Decline Press 5x5
Machine High Row 5x12, 10, 8, 6, 4
Seated BB OHP 3x12
Preacher Curl 3x8
Cable Pushdown 3x10
Cable Woodchoppers 3x102 -
Chest press 1x12, 1x10, 1x8 (65 lbs)
Pectoral fly 1x12 (60lbs), 2 x12 (55lbs)
High row 1x10 (100lbs), 2x12 (90lbs)
Row 3x12 (80lbs)
Shoulder press 1x8 (70lbs), 2x12 (60lbs)
Lateral raise 3x12 (30lbs)
Triceps press 3x12 (105lbs)
Bicep curl 3x12 (55lbs)
Abdominal crunch 3x12 (125lbs)3 -
Good news: my CT scan was clear. Next one in six months.
Workout today: rowing machine, 14.5 min; free weights and calisthenics, 15-20 min. Walks: 15 min., maybe a little more.
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@DiscusTank5 - Such good news about the CT! Hooray, and congratulations! It feels really, really good IME to be boring to an oncologist.
Today's workout, guess what, more ultra-slow stationary bike, the usual recent deal; a leisurely 57W average, average heart rate 113 (!), peak 120.
It seems like my resting heart rate might be coming down a little. Of course it jumped way up right after the fall when I was first in the hospital, dropped to around normal at the end of the hospital stay and a few days after, then climbed up to around 9-10bpm higher than usual, which kind of ticked me off. The last couple of days, it's dropped at least a few bpm again. I hope this means some semblance of normal is on its way. Soon would be nice.
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