Three days a week in the gym, will go to 4 days a week in mid-January. Two sessions a week are 40-minute personal training with cardio, weights and machines; the other two are/will be group sessions, core and cardio with minimal weights. I am bench-pressing 55 pounds and I want no laughter!
I haven’t bothered to weigh myself or worry about weight loss, because this is the over-eating part of our year, when DH goes all-out with cooking and desserts. Just in the last week we’ve had a cheesecake, an apple crumble, a half-dozen cookie varieties, Irish soda bread (to go with the full Irish breakfast today), sauerbraten from scratch with collards and beans and potatoes from my garden, homemade venison sausage, a carbonara pasta dish made from the leftover Christmas ham… on and on and on… oy…
It’s all good, I’m happy to be feeling a mite stronger at this point and I’m sure all will progress steadily.
I felt a little “tweak” in the right abductor/groin area, so I took New Years Day off and watched football most of the day.
The “tweak” felt better today and my workout consisted of working up to a heavy double back squat and then a few “back off” sets. Part 2 was working up to a heavy double of power cleans and in between sets of power clean, I did several rope climbs, since deload week didn’t have them programmed.
Part 3 was my HIIT, which was one of the CF benchmark workouts of 3 rounds of 500m rows (subbed row for run since no treadmill), 21 KB swings and 12 pull-ups. My time is considered average for all age groups, about 13 minutes. With a 400m run, my time would have been far better. Better runner than rower for sure.
With our area having an extended cold spell and with the gym treadmill being down, my running has suffered this winter. I really need to ramp it up in the coming weeks. And I also may do another powerlifting meet in May. The meet isn’t officially on the USPA schedule yet.
And I still will need to test my body fat test against the 27-year old powerlfiter in the gym. But judging from seeing him with his shirt off a few days ago, I’m thinking that I’ll win that bet.
I wound up skipping this morning. I woke up and it was pouring rain in the 30s and with 30+ mph winds with some sleet mixed in. I have one extra day this week, so I used it today. I’ll do the recovery day tomorrow, but now my run is looking iffy too. The < 1" of snow forecast is now at 3" and counting. It should melt somewhat quickly, but it will be 20* overnight and likely freeze. Ugh. I’d love to go to the gym, but with all of the new year’s resolutioners, no mask mandate and a daily case count of > 100 cases/day per 100K people and climbing fast, I’m trying to stay out of there as much as possible.
And note that it’s been in the 70s for the last several days. It was 79* over the weekend!
I finally got on the scale for the first time in weeks. I am happy to report that since the week before Thanksgiving, I only gained three pounds. That is over two holidays and ds1’s wedding. I am delighted with that number.
Just to catch up, Friday was an Oly lifting day with cleans and then the HIIT was 8-mins of cleans and chest-to-bar pull-ups.
Yesterday was a powerlifting day with a 3x5 of squats and deadlifts and the HIIT was 22 minutes of a rotation between the rope climbs, air bike, push presses and front squats.
And TODAY, YAY!, my first real “long” run in a month. With that treadmill in the gym being down, my cardio has been using the rower, air bike or shuttle runs. But today, with the weather being in the mid-60’s, I ran along the esplanade at the beach. I’m amazed that was able to run 5 miles and have it be just a breeze. Not fast by any stretch, but the run felt great.
You know, if I have to leave this world, then a day like today would be the way to go. Pacific Ocean, beach, beautiful. Or gripping and ripping on a barbell or the rig.
“not fast by any stretch” - Who cares? So glad you were able to get outside to run @sushiritto . Nice job on your continued fitness efforts.
I have a goal to exercise every day in January (not necessarily outside), even if it it just a little. Daughter cheerfully encourages me. She laughed at my “custom entry” for getting the large amount of Christmas stuff put away.
I had a first this morning. I often have to stop for the bathroom on runs. On my downtown runs, we built a very nice stand alone restroom right in the center of a plaza - made to match the warehouses even, lol, but I digress. This was the first time there was a homeless person in there. I’m always wary when I go in, but in the 6-7 years it’s been there, it’s been fine. And it was fine today. they were just sleeping with their bags in my preferred stall. I used the other and left.
It was a good run. They have been feeling better and better, though still not fast. Last week, I did an old route and I was just on the cusp on a time that I would have considered a normal slow day. So that’s progress I guess, lol.
I finished my first week of BeastX. I’m liking it pretty well, now that I’m adjusting to the format. One surprise is that my lifting days are a lot shorter than my corrective/mobility days. I thought it would be the other way around.
I just continue to do my thing almost every day. I’d stopped rowing for a couple of weeks because my shoulder has a long term injury that’s been acting up, but I think I’ll give it a try again. I have trouble going slow (for me) but I think that’s what I need to do.
Now that it’s cold, I have trouble getting started in the morning. I have a cat that plops herself down on my lap as soon as I sit to have my coffee, and she will literally stay for hours if I let her.
Do you have an opinion on collagen supplements? I may have bursitis in my left hip and definitely have sciatica. I’m doing the stretches and exercises the ortho suggested but still in a fair amount of discomfort. Walking uphill and upstairs is particularly problematic. My friend swears by collagen. TIA
It is winter, so I’m sure she was looking for warmth. But as far as relative temps go, it was in the 30s overnight which is the warmer side of average for us this time of year.
