What Was Your Work Out Today?

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  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member

    A lighter workout with some variety today: 2 min warmup on the Helix; 20 min. stationary bike at a moderate pace; 10 min. rowing machine; 15 min strength and conditioning (2 sets: bicep curls, lat raises, squats with a 12# weight; after the second run through I added 20 shoulder half circles(?) with a 40# bar, a one min. plank, then stretches. Also 35 min. of walking with the dog and by myself.

    Now it's time for Only Murders in the Building!

    @AnnPT77 love the pic — thought of you for motivation today when I was on the gym's Concept 2 rower and struggling to make it 10 minutes.

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,987 Community Helper

    @DiscusTank5 , gotta say, boats are way more fun than machines (also technically more complicated). For reasons I completely don't understand, I always look miserable in photos of me rowing, and that photo is no exception. I don't get it, because I don't see how I could enjoy it more. 🤷‍♀️

    For me, the machine is just a way to work on some aspects of technique, and stay in somewhat adequate shape over Winter, so I don't have to start conditioning over from scratch in the Spring. I don't think it's worse than other machines in that respect, though! 😉

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,987 Community Helper

    Rowing port side stroke in the barge with my breast cancer survivors team again tonight. Once again, this was slow and quite easy: I only made it into zone 3 for about 2' - probably when we were joking about a power ten near the end. Lots of pause drills, only some continuous rowing. Only 3.4k, 37' moving time, 55' on the water including water breaks and such.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    Treadmill - 75 min, 15% incline, 3.0 mph

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,987 Community Helper

    The usual, rowing, 6.8k in 3 seat of the quad, on a lightly foggy morning. Nothing intense, cumulatively around 14' of zone 3 hitting that HR intermittently, but mostly zone 2 and below.

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member

    So at what % does the treadmill max out on incline??? I've got a feeling we (and by that I mean "you") are about to find out!

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member

    A 23.5 min. swim today, or 600 meters. My watch always misses a length somewhere in there. Also 30 minutes of walking outside.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    Good question, I don't know the answer. When I was military the base gym had two brands of treadmills, one capped at 15%, the other at 25%.

    Don't intend to go much beyond 15%, but then six months ago I never intended to go much beyond 10%, so who knows what six months from now will bring?

  • kmp9881
    kmp9881 Posts: 74 Member

    6 mile easy paced planned run for tonight turned into 3 miles of burst training 🤣 2 minutes at threshold/1 minute recovery. Fun workout with my training group and some friendly competition.

  • chaney3000
    chaney3000 Posts: 497 Member

    Think I forgot to post yesterday workout. Well, yesterday was a 6 mile run before the rain.

    Todays workout is a 4 mile run on the treadmill. Stretching and foam rolling.

  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 97 Member

    hitting the weight training today, then some treadmill and dog walking. averaging 13,000 steps this month!

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    Treadmill - 75 min, 15% incline, 3.0 mph

    Out of curiosity, I opted mid-workout to see what the max incline the treadmill could reach. Turns out it's 15%, already there. Only way I can make things more intense going forward will be to either increase time (fat chance, should actually reduce the time) or go faster.

  • Retroguy2000
    Retroguy2000 Posts: 2,157 Member
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    True for a vest or backpack, hadn't considered those. I won't do ankle/wrist weights, those put too much strain on joints.

  • mar_sbar
    mar_sbar Posts: 196 Member

    Upper body:

    Dips

    Hammer curls

    Overhead press

    Chest flys

    Dumbbell rows

    Lateral shoulder raises

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member

    4 mile bike ride outside at first light --actually kinda foggy -- and some guy in a truck was driving, angrily, on my side of the road and swerved back to his side just in time -- geez. (20 min)

    Later, 17 min (3.5 miles) exercise bike and 20 min strength and conditioning: two sets dead hangs, biceps curls, lat raises, 20# medicine ball throws with pylometric jumps, skullcrushers with a 25# weight, one 60 sec high plank at the end, 30 sec of tree pose for each leg. Lunges throughout.

    Also a half hour plus of walking outside.

  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 97 Member

    @nossmf I use a weighted vest on the treadmill. It really Ups the workout. See if you can borrow one before you put out the money to buy one.

  • drmwc
    drmwc Posts: 1,171 Member

    I have been busy. I went scuba diving in Northern Spain last weekend; it was lovely. We flew to Bilbao and did quite a lot of walking around there and San Sebastian between dives.

    I went climbing on Monday. I was terrible; maybe it was due to sleep. (I woke up at 3.30 a.m. to get the flight home.)

    I lifted on Tuesday.

    I climbed on Wednesday. I aimed for a short session, but stayed for over 3 hours as it was so fun. I got many v4s and a couple of v5s, which were probably feather bagged. (Like sand bagged but in reverse.,)

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    Cardio (Warmup): Jogging, 1 mile

    Strength: Upper Body

    DB Bench «superset» DB Row 4x10
    Incline Bench Press «superset» Pullups 3x12
    DB Shrugs 3x10
    Cable Shoulder Triangle (Front / Lateral / Rear Lateral Raises) 3x10
    Cable Curls 3x12
    Cable Overhead Extensions 3x12
    Cable Side Crunches 2x10 «superset» Overhead Palloff Press 2x10s

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    @nossmf I use a weighted vest on the treadmill. It really Ups the workout. See if you can borrow one before you put out the money to buy one.

    Reasonable suggestion, and one I'll think about down the road if/when I'm ready to try to increase intensity yet again. I just recently upgraded to the 15 degrees angle, and based upon how soaked with sweat my gym clothes are after, I'll stick with what I'm doing for a bit before going another step harder (pun intended).

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member
  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member

    Twenty-one minutes jogging on the treadmill (muscle pain, left leg); 15 min walking at 3 mph with 5% incline. Also 25 min or so walking outside. Lots of stretching and lunges after the treadmill.

  • kmp9881
    kmp9881 Posts: 74 Member

    5 mile run yesterday, 6 miles tonight. Also gave my debit card a workout replacing some worn out gear yesterday. My poor husband was sadly mistaken when he assumed outwardly low maintenance meant inexpensive 🤣

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  • chaney3000
    chaney3000 Posts: 497 Member

    Today workout was a 6 mile run.

  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 15,436 Member

    Cardio Warmup: Jogging (One mile)

    Strength: Lower Body Day

    Squat 4x10
    Rack Pull 5x5
    Hack Squat 3x20
    Seated Calf Raises 2x10, 2x20
    Leg Extensions 2x12
    Seated Leg Curl 2x12
    Machine Crunches 3x15
    Stretching 15 minutes

  • BigDfromNJ
    BigDfromNJ Posts: 97 Member

    zumba class today

  • AnnPT77
    AnnPT77 Posts: 37,987 Community Helper

    Last of our Saturday AM coached rows for this season. Because the coach is thinking race prep for next weekend's head race, he had us do a "dress rehearsal", full course (around 3500m course) after our warmup, at something close to race pace. (No, I'm not planning to compete, but I don't mind a good workout. 😉)

    I was in stroke seat of the quad. Around 5 seconds into the piece, I hit HR zone 4, and stayed there or above for about 16:30 (mm:ss) continuously. A small bit, around 1:27 of it, was zone 5. Most of that was above 220 minus age bpm, peak at 16bpm above. I'm happy with that, speaking as a 69 y/o recreational athlete.

    I feel OK since . . . surprisingly so, because I only slept maybe 3 hours-ish last night (insomnia). Maybe that a"feel OK" part is from the post-row lattes, though. 😆

    Full row, with warm up and cool down, was a bit over 8.6k.

  • DiscusTank5
    DiscusTank5 Posts: 943 Member

    A short walk with the dog, then 55 min outdoor biking, 11.25 miles. No coffee shop stop-- had to hustle home to take my kids to their events.

  • kmp9881
    kmp9881 Posts: 74 Member

    20 mile peak training run today. Last high mileage run for this cycle and hitting taper time for the next 3 weeks.