What Was Your Work Out Today?
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45 minute walk today!
Bust foot felt pretty good, I'm hoping it's on its way to recovery 🤞
Brrrrr it was 31F this morning... yay for fleece lined leggings 🤣3 -
Did get in a machine row yesterday, just didn't post until now. Planned rest day today, but happy to have been at 6 row/bike workouts this past week without fatiguing out of doing any, though I admit the mid-week ones were sub-ideal intensity even though normal length.
Once again, I accidentally deleted the workout from my Garmin 🙄 but I think my fault not the device's. Same 3 x (2k on, 2' off), slightly faster than last time (2:33.9 per 500m pace instead of 2:42.6) but close spm, so all I lost was HR response data.1 -
Rest day yesterday.
Today's workout: 21 min. of biking a 4-mile loop of rolling hills around my neighborhood (11.7 mph average). I'd love to get that avg. higher. Then the dog and I walked 23 min. in another direction--today was beautiful (60s), esp. for early Feb.2 -
Not so much about my workout, but about an experience at the gym.
Just a short workout. Pool was full, so no swim. Decided to hop in the steam. It was lovely for about nine minutes, then something shut down. I reported it to staff, walked back into the locker room, and continued my hot soak in the sauna.
As I entered, there were a few other folks in there. Two of them were young men who obviously were friends and working out together. They were in the middle of a dialogue. One asked, "What is polyamory?" The other guy said, "That's the kind of love you have for your mother or sister." Um... no. Never mind that the word is a misfit because the first part (poly) comes from Greek and the second part (amor) is from Latin. The rest of us just sat there.
One of them had a phone with them, and it started buzzing. I'm not a fan of folks bringing devices into the sauna, but whatever. Then one started talking about how he was a feminist. He spoke unintelligently about suffrage. Clearly he wasn't aware of what suffrage meant; he likened it to being spanked and mentioned he was writing a book about it.
They got up and left. The three of us left in the sauna kind of gave each other an understanding head shake.
Maybe tomorrow I'll get to swim. I hope they fix the steam. It really is a luxury.
Oh the things I get to observe from time to time.3 -
BB Day
Bench Press 5x5
BB Row 4x10
Incline Bench Press 3x10
Pullups 30 total reps
BB Shrugs 3x10
Seated BB OHP 3x10
Preacher Curl 3x10
Cable Pushdown 3x10
Cable Woodchoppers 2x10
Cable Pallof Press 2x10 sec3 -
Clearly he wasn't aware of what suffrage meant; he likened it to being spanked and mentioned he was writing a book about it.
Similar to a couple years back, when a WR in the NFL, earning millions of dollars to play a game, complained to the media about how strict his coach was during practice and compared it to "modern day slavery." Really, dude?0 -
Clearly he wasn't aware of what suffrage meant; he likened it to being spanked and mentioned he was writing a book about it.
Similar to a couple years back, when a WR in the NFL, earning millions of dollars to play a game, complained to the media about how strict his coach was during practice and compared it to "modern day slavery." Really, dude?
Uh... Wow.
I suppose if the WR had no other marketable skills, then they may have felt forced to continue their career. I think many of us feel boxed in by career at some point. I'm glad I graduated from that and can now just pick up part time work that I enjoy - or not pick it up.
I refrained from writing what they actually said about spanking. I don't think it would be appropriate for this forum.0 -
Clearly he wasn't aware of what suffrage meant; he likened it to being spanked and mentioned he was writing a book about it.
Similar to a couple years back, when a WR in the NFL, earning millions of dollars to play a game, complained to the media about how strict his coach was during practice and compared it to "modern day slavery." Really, dude?
Uh... Wow.
I suppose if the WR had no other marketable skills, then they may have felt forced to continue their career. I think many of us feel boxed in by career at some point. I'm glad I graduated from that and can now just pick up part time work that I enjoy - or not pick it up.
I refrained from writing what they actually said about spanking. I don't think it would be appropriate for this forum.
I have to say, I know I'm missing context because you're being discreet, but analogizing suffrage to spanking kind of gave off incel vibes, despite that weird feminism claim in there. No matter whether that's the case or not, that incident sounds truly surreal.0 -
Clearly he wasn't aware of what suffrage meant; he likened it to being spanked and mentioned he was writing a book about it.
Similar to a couple years back, when a WR in the NFL, earning millions of dollars to play a game, complained to the media about how strict his coach was during practice and compared it to "modern day slavery." Really, dude?
Uh... Wow.
I suppose if the WR had no other marketable skills, then they may have felt forced to continue their career. I think many of us feel boxed in by career at some point. I'm glad I graduated from that and can now just pick up part time work that I enjoy - or not pick it up.
I refrained from writing what they actually said about spanking. I don't think it would be appropriate for this forum.
I have to say, I know I'm missing context because you're being discreet, but analogizing suffrage to spanking kind of gave off incel vibes, despite that weird feminism claim in there. No matter whether that's the case or not, that incident sounds truly surreal.
Today was much better. Just friendly people doing their thing. No wait for any station or machine. Pool was full, but that's OK. Steam was working again. I even felt stronger, and no weirdos on the workout floor or in the steam.3 -
Walked the dog early (11 min); in the afternoon walked across campus to the gym and back (16 min); at the gym, spent 21 min. on the elliptical trying to get my heart rate up to aerobic activity (did not work, even on the 6 setting --usually I go with 3). May have to push harder next time. Then free weights and mat exercises (candlesticks, hip thrusts, planks, stretches) for 20 min.
I went up from 10 to 15# weights for bicep curls. Someone promise me I won't get bulky from doing this! I was going to go from a 15 to 20# dumb bell for standing skull crushers but the biggest guy in the gym took the 20 lb weights before I could get to them. What would he need with those? And no, I didn't look over to find out--too many loud grunting noises from that side of the gym.
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Starting off the week with stationary bike 60'+3'CD again, which is the planned pattern for a while. As y'all know, I usually prefer to alternate bike/row in Winter when I'm at full health and energy level (to which I think/hope I'm now getting close?), and I now have rowing team practice on Tuesday evenings. A little quicker tonight without suffering for it, 92W average, a little over 24k, just under 70% of the workout Z3.
@mtaratoot, I think I jinxed myself by replying about your surreal sauna conversation. Usually I meditate in the sauna, but today in the sauna at the Y got in a startling conversation with a nice, friendly woman I'd never met, wide-ranging and some politics, but all cordial. I'm also going to be discreet here. Somehow, we got to a point where she commented rather specifically on types of acts men should not ever expect women to do, with a lively side excursion into how excellent her husband was at the things married couples should do. I'm not easily shocked, so I wasn't, but I was surprised at ending up in this conversation with a complete stranger.
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DiscusTank5 wrote: »Walked the dog early (11 min); in the afternoon walked across campus to the gym and back (16 min); at the gym, spent 21 min. on the elliptical trying to get my heart rate up to aerobic activity (did not work, even on the 6 setting --usually I go with 3). May have to push harder next time. Then free weights and mat exercises (candlesticks, hip thrusts, planks, stretches) for 20 min.
I went up from 10 to 15# weights for bicep curls. Someone promise me I won't get bulky from doing this! I was going to go from a 15 to 20# dumb bell for standing skull crushers but the biggest guy in the gym took the 20 lb weights before I could get to them. What would he need with those? And no, I didn't look over to find out--too many loud grunting noises from that side of the gym.
@DiscusTank5, I can honestly promise that it won't happen so very fast that you can't stop in time to prevent it, and switch to a maintenance routine.
If you keep going progressively indefinitely, working hard at it and consistently, plus get plenty of protein and other good nutrition . . . you'll end up wherever your genetics can take you. That's probably not "bulky", but (1) everyone seems to define "bulky" differently, and (2) I know zero about your genetics.
My friend J. has been lifting consistently and pretty hard for around 40+ years; I've known her for about 20 of them. (She's now 78, and still lifting.) She's not remotely bulky, but she does look more like she's in her 50s, and keeps up at the rowing club with pretty-fit people in their 30s. I think that's a more probable outcome than "bulky".
Keep going, it's a good plan.3 -
I went climbing. It was fun; I was in the best form I've been in for a while.
On Sunday, I did a short walk (8 miles). The weather was stunning; cold but cloudless.
My entertaining overeheard sauna conversation is from about 3 years ago. Someone was explaining where his uncle was. "He's inside for <expletive deleted> armed robbery. But it can't have been <expletive deleted> armed robbery; he only had a <expletive deleted> replica."
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Treadmill - 1 hr, 3.0 mph, 12% incline2
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DiscusTank5 wrote: »Someone promise me I won't get bulky from doing this!
I can promise you that you will NOT get bulky from doing this. As a woman, you have to put for a lot of effort and intention to become bulky; you lack the necessary body chemistry to flop accidentally into large muscles. STRONGER muscles are in your future, absolutely; BIGGER, BULKY muscles require an entirely different level of effort.I was going to go from a 15 to 20# dumb bell for standing skull crushers but the biggest guy in the gym took the 20 lb weights before I could get to them. What would he need with those?
Some possible ideas come to mind:- The guy is working out with somebody else who needs the smaller DBs and offered to grab them
- The guy is performing lateral raises, an exercise which even big, strong lifters often find challenging and thus use small(er) weights
- The guy is warming up using light weights to get the blood flowing before moving on to heavier weights
- Lifters often cycle periods of heavy weights with a week of light weights, allowing the muscles to go through the motions while recovering and healing
- The guy is recovering from an injury and needs the "light" weight for rehab exercises
- The guy is performing an exercise technique called a "drop set" where he performs an exercise with one weight, then picks up a smaller weight to immediately do the same exercise with fatigued muscles and keep pushing them to even further exhaustion
...and many more. I know you did not mean to come across as judgmental of big, strong lifters, so I will not take offense. (I don't consider myself a "big, strong" lifter compared to some, but do acknowledge I may appear so to others.) But the truth is we never know a lifter's intentions just by looking at them, they may have a perfectly valid reason to select the weights they are using. Hopefully that reason is not "let me risk injury in order to impress the pretty lady" but that's a different discussion.3 -
It was Leg Day for me. Didn’t do everything I like to do because i had to get to work but it was still a great workout. 🏋🏻♂️4
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I got on the treadmill for 35 minutes. I’m trying to be more consistent with working out everyday. That way if something happenes and I miss a day it’s ok. I also do weights around d 3 days a week.5
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Anybody notice you can’t track hip thrust as a weightlifting strength training whatever exercise on this app??
Or am I missing something?
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I run my Garmin wrist device when I do a strength workout. It's pretty good at identifying many of the movements. Quite amazing actually.
When I get home, I go on the computer and fix the few that are wrong or unidentified. Hip thrust is an option in Garmin. Then I just let Garmin tell MFP what I did and how many calories I burned.
I don't think that MFP is the best option for logging actual strength exercises. Before I realized how easy it was to use my Garmin device, I just entered "strength training" as a cardio exercise and told it how long I was at it. Garmin kind of does that, and as a bonus it tells me how long I'm resting between sets and how long I'm actually moving things. It's neat that the calorie numbers work out pretty similarly; MFP must assume that you're resting during a strength workout.
Not that strength training is a good calorie burner, but it's a good thing to do!2 -
DiscusTank5 wrote: »Someone promise me I won't get bulky from doing this!
- The guy is working out with somebody else who needs the smaller DBs and offered to grab them
- The guy is performing lateral raises, an exercise which even big, strong lifters often find challenging and thus use small(er) weights
- The guy is warming up using light weights to get the blood flowing before moving on to heavier weights
- Lifters often cycle periods of heavy weights with a week of light weights, allowing the muscles to go through the motions while recovering and healing
- The guy is recovering from an injury and needs the "light" weight for rehab exercises
- The guy is performing an exercise technique called a "drop set" where he performs an exercise with one weight, then picks up a smaller weight to immediately do the same exercise with fatigued muscles and keep pushing them to even further exhaustion
...and many more. I know you did not mean to come across as judgmental of big, strong lifters, so I will not take offense. (I don't consider myself a "big, strong" lifter compared to some, but do acknowledge I may appear so to others.) But the truth is we never know a lifter's intentions just by looking at them, they may have a perfectly valid reason to select the weights they are using. Hopefully that reason is not "let me risk injury in order to impress the pretty lady" but that's a different discussion.
@mtaratoot , @AnnPT77 : I'm clearly missing out by not having a sauna in my gym! Ann, your friend in her 70s who lifts and looks / acts like she's in her 50s is who I aspire to be. Or you know, you and your rowing club.
@nossmf -- NO! Please don't feel judged. I'm always glad to see the heavy lifters in the gym and am consistently impressed by the work they put in to look the way they do (and it's a *good* look).
The guy I'm talking about had been working out for awhile and looked like he could do bicep curls with #50 or more. It was just funny to me that he'd go for a lower range free weight, but CLEARLY I have loads (pun!) to learn about lifting since, until you mentioned it on the list above, I'd never heard of a "drop set" before. And that makes lots of sense about lateral raises: I find them challenging only performing 2 sets of #10.
Here's where I do get just a tad judgy: my gym has signs about not dropping the weights, but guys still do it. Often. Sometimes it makes me jump. I've wondered if they really are that exhausted or if it's showing off. Or maybe both, but hey--that's okay. This is a college gym after all. Some level of showing off is expected.
Anyway, I'm more serious about weights than I've ever been before because I'm now at the age where I will start losing muscle mass if I'm not working to keep it. And I've been losing weight steadily these last few weeks and want it to be fat loss, not muscle.
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Today's workout:
First, an early 10 min walk with the dog;
Later at the gym: 21 min treadmill (7 min running, mostly at a 5 mph pace, then a min at 6.5 mph). The rest of the time was 3.0 mph at 5-6% incline. Sit-ups, machines for inner / outer thigh muscles, lunges, and stretches followed.
I can't really do longer workouts right now because I'm consuming lower calories (@ 1400 today). My TDEE is much higher, so this isn't sustainable long-term, but boy am I glad to see the pounds I put on during chemo coming off.1 -
@tetonrivertim947, I'm with MTaratoot that MFP is not a very functional app for recording strength training exercises. There are apps specifically designed for that, including some free ones, that offer more functions. I remember that there have been some threads here where people shared their favorites, probably in this Fitness and Exercise topic area, or in Goal: Gaining Weight and Body Building. With apologies, I'm not able to link you to a specific one of those threads, because I wasn't paying close enough attention. I lift only for occasional time periods, have experimented with a couple of apps, but never found anything I preferred to my old-school tiny notebook/pen.
If you want to keep using MFP to log reps/sets in order to keep everything all in one place, that's a reasonable decision, too, of course. I know you can add custom personal exercises in the cardiovascular part of the MFP database; I'm pretty sure you can do that on the strength side of the database, too. There's a "My Exercise" tab in the strength section of the Android app, and mine has something in it, presumably from long ago. You could handle your hip thrust by adding a custom exercise, if you want to stay with MFP for strength workout recording.
Unlike MTaratoot, I don't find Garmin helpful at all for identifying the lifts that I do. For whatever reason, it thinks a lot of things are bench press that aren't remotely similar to bench press, misidentifies others, and can't figure out some of them at all. Even the counts are way off for me. I tried using it, but correcting its misperceptions was way more work in my case than recording from scratch in some other way. I had to keep track some other way during the workout, in order to be able to correct it later. Not helpful! I do start a strength workout on Garmin when I do one, because it does give a reasonable calorie estimate, IMO. Maybe it would work for you as well as it does for MTaratoot, no way to know.
@mtaratoot, I read someplace that since HR is so misleading for the purpose, some of the good fitness trackers now estimate strength training using METS. I'm not sure which ones . . . but if Garmin is one that would explain why its estimate is close to MFPs, an observation I've found to be true in my case, too.
I also read somewhere here on MFP, from one of the very knowledgeable long-timers who's sadly no longer around, that the MFP strength training METS estimate does assume normal short between-set rests. Probably someone who was inclined could verify that by checking METS values in the Compendium of Physical Activities, seeing if those are close to the MFP METS, and checking the underlying research (which is usually linked in the Compendium, IIRC). I'm undermotivated, personally. Meh, seems close enough.
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Breast cancer survivors rowing team practice again. Brief warm-up, some pre-workout stretches, a few glute activation floor exercises, about 15 minutes of stroke progression and pause drills on the rowing machine with technical corrections (and university rowing team members on machines amongst us to mimic, too), then 5 x (5' on, 2' off) with some row in/out during the "off" and individual technical coaching/corrections throughout, ending with another few minutes of post-workout stretching.
This is good stuff from a technical standpoint, plus I can't overstate how enjoyable it is to have members of the university team giving us coaching and rowing in with us: These are delightful young women in a social sense, and knowledgeable/skilled rowers. I'm enjoying it So Much.
I got in 7926m, mostly around 20spm when we were rowing continuously (vs. pausing), the biggest chunk Z3 (22:23), but 9:09 in Z4.
@DiscusTank5, I can't recall how old you are now, but my impression is that you're young enough (compared to me ) to have tremendous upside potential if you keep being consistently active, strength and cardio. I'll never be my friend J. - so smart to start younger, and so disciplined. I didn't start being routinely active until about my late 40s, after cancer treatment. That didn't lead to world-beater results, but I surprised myself (and some old friends) by how much progress a former "chosen last in gym class" kid could make at that late stage. You're doing the right things. Keep doing them!
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@DiscusTank5 it boggles my mind how you GAINED weight during chemo. A buddy at work had to deal with chemo, beat the cancer, but along the way lost a lot of weight due to simply being unable to keep down any food from the nausea.0
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@tetonrivertim947 I have been lifting for 15+ years, and the entire time my lifting logs have been kept in a paper journal which is there with me during the workout. It's falling apart now due to age and use, but I can flip back in time to see what my workouts were like five years ago, a decade ago, 15 years ago. I have from time to time recorded things online or in an excel spreadsheet as well, but those apps have come and gone in terms of keeping my interest, yet the paper log remains.3
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Treadmill - 1 hr, 3.1 mph, 12% incline2
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@DiscusTank5 it boggles my mind how you GAINED weight during chemo. A buddy at work had to deal with chemo, beat the cancer, but along the way lost a lot of weight due to simply being unable to keep down any food from the nausea.
The popular press coverage of chemotherapy isn't very nuanced, and the popular understanding of it tends to follow.
Some chemotherapy types are associated with weight gain. Chemo isn't all one thing, with one common set of side effects. Even one cancer type like mine - breast cancer - can involve different chemotherapy drugs for different cases, or stages with different drugs for one person. The differences between drugs for different cancer types can be vast. Side effects differ from one person to the next, even with the same drugs, besides.
Not all regimens cause nausea, vomiting, or malabsorption. Some drugs during the regimen can increase appetite. Some drugs depress metabolic rate. Most forms of chemo cause fatigue, sometimes extreme fatigue, so trigger inactivity. On top of that, depression is often associated with cancer or its treatment, and we know how that can contribute to weight gain.
My medical team told me to avoid losing weight during chemo to the extent possible. (I assume that's common.) It's been long ago so hard to remember, but I think I did lose a very few pounds, a couple of which were surgical. Unfortunately, I was more reactive to one of the drugs than most who take it, with one side effect being an inability to keep down not just food, but even water and anti-nausea pills, for some days during each 3-week cycle, with nausea persisting longer. If not for that, I probably would've been closer to weight stable, maybe even gaining.
This is a digression: I think the popular coverage pressures people toward rejecting chemotherapy. It's painted as the worst thing that will ever happen, multidimensionally, because drama makes for good clickbait stories. IME, it isn't fun, and it's a slog. But in my case - which isn't universal of course - it wasn't the worst I'd ever felt. It was more like having a really bad stomach flu on predictable 3-week repeats for 3 months, then another set of unpleasant but less dramatic symptoms with other drugs for another 3 months. I wouldn't do it for the amusement value, but I'd do it again in similar circumstances. Mostly, it just lasted a long time, got depressing and exhausting. I suspect some people with chronic health conditions have it worse, permanently.
I'd encourage people not to reject the idea out of hand, when it's appropriate treatment.2 -
Thank you for taking the time to educate me.2
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@tetonrivertim947 I have been lifting for 15+ years, and the entire time my lifting logs have been kept in a paper journal which is there with me during the workout. It's falling apart now due to age and use, but I can flip back in time to see what my workouts were like five years ago, a decade ago, 15 years ago. I have from time to time recorded things online or in an excel spreadsheet as well, but those apps have come and gone in terms of keeping my interest, yet the paper log remains.
That’s really cool actually. Maybe it’s a good time to start. 📝🗒️📓😊💪🙂2
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