I have always worked out and run by feel. And I don’t particularly like wearing anything while I workout or run. In my programming, there are generally set periods of work and rest and if during a work period I feel it’s time to rest, then I rest.
Sunday was a rest day for me and took a day trip with the family to Monterey and Carmel. Federal holiday today and so far a lazy day for me. I slept in until 10 AM and took Sushipuppy to the dog park.
While I’m a shoe maven, I’m also a barbell maven as well. I ordered a new barbell today. The center portion is coated bright pink in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month:
They’re discounting them $50 I assume because Breast Cancer Awareness Month is October as I’m sure we all know. Anyway, I love bright colors and I’ll know exactly which barbell is mine at the gym. Plus, some of the proceeds go to a great cause.
Off to the gym. Monday’s are squat days in this cycle. Snatches and core to finish off the workout.
Just ran 20 minutes straight which I have not done in a very very long time. Plus had a great visit to Muhlenberg with S21, so a wonderful day all around!
I switched off the HR monitor on my fitness bracelet because it didn’t seem to be all that accurate – and it’s a drain on the battery. The main thing I found useful was that it gave me a good sense of my resting heart rate.
Also, I don’t really have a goal tied to getting the heart rate up – I wanted the monitor when I first started exercising to make sure that I wasn’t overdoing it. After all, at age 65+, going from a sedentary lifestyle to a new workout routine is not entirely without risk. But once I figured out my routine, then I think I am fine focusing on the overall time that I am exercising rather than the heart rate.
Ending out the end of crazy crazy season in the next 2 weeks then it will be back to diet and fitness. Ive been putting in about 15-20 miles on my bike each week along with walking (non cardio) about 70-80 miles a month.
I would like that pink bar, @sushiritto ! Do you leave it at the gym?
Managed 30 minutes on the elliptical and 15 on the bike (10 on the spin bike and 5 on the recumbent). Knee holding up well even with way more walking at the giant convention center than I should be doing. 1 more day of that… At lease I feel like I’m doing something! I was going to do the bench press but someone put gigantic disks on the ends right as I was going to head that way. Maybe tomorrow…
@Midwest67 I come from a family of female worriers. My grandmother was the worst. It was debilitating. I’m not near as bad, but I tease myself that I’ll always have something to worry about. A former coworker once told me “I’m not a worrier. I figure I’ll deal with whatever when it happens.” That thought just blew my mind. I try to follow that and also remember that worrying about things I can’t change it pointless. It sometimes helps. Sometimes.
And add me to the list of high HR people. I used to run my hour long pace runs at 190-200 in my 30s. By the formulas, I should have been dead long ago.
I’m still doing my usual. The aerobic portions have been a struggle. Everything is trying to bloom and wrecking my lungs and eyes and such. Blech.
Has anyone played with the Rogue Ohio stainless steel bar. The knurling feels great and it is zero maintenance. Does not have much whip to it but I like it a lot.
@abasket , Maybe I should have pointed out that I didn’t tell you how long it takes me to run those five miles and that I live in a very flat area. Truth be told, I should have said I run for an hour–usually that’s about 5 miles, but I’m visiting my parents (and those hills!) and yesterday it was all of 4.3 miles. I’m proud of myself, though. Normally I would not worry about skipping exercise on vacation, but I ran after driving 6.5 hours yesterday and managed to use my computer for videos for a workout today. I feel pretty rigid right now with food and exercise, which will probably need to mellow at some point, but I figure at least until it’s habit fear+rigidity gets me moving.
Lightweight checking in. Went to the gym all 3 days of the weekend. Today I had a friend come over the put paint splotches on the wall and try and help us decide the colors to paint our house. Then I took her to the gym as my guest. We did an hour on the bike (2 different kinds) and then a couple of arm/back/stomach thingS, and off to the jacuzzi we went. (Last time I went to the jacuzzi was probably over 5 years ago). We also went into the steam room for just a few minutes. The eucalyptus smell is so nice, but I never do it on my own. Too much trouble to change clothes multiple times at the gym. Normally I just wear my gym clothes and come home to shower. But, it wasn’t bad for a change. I don’t take advantage of all the free classes they offer, that’s for sure. I keep thinking about doing spin or yoga. When I retire I will certainly do more classes, or at least go to the gym more.
@illneversaynever I live in flat country as well. Yesterday I went to a local park to run that randomly has some small hills - it was a challenge and I needed some short walk breaks! I bow to those who do hills!
A light exercise person- did a Pilates fusion mat class today. Fusion being they incorporate Pilates exercises into a core strengthening class that uses weights. It’s amazing how much you can sweat and get your heart rate up when the majority of the class takes place on the floor. @1214mom about 3 years ago I made the decision to try some different group fitness classes at my gym. I am loving the classes I take and I’ve met a lot of nice people. We encourage each other and notice when someone isn’t there. I find for me I push myself harder in a class. I also like that some of the instructors will go around the room and correct form. I also discovered mat Pilates and I’ve added a lot of Pilates exercises into my routine when I exercise on my own. I went to one spin class and I swear I was sopping wet when I was done.
It’s been one year since I had my meniscus clean up surgery. Knee is better but it’s not where it was prior to the tear. I still don’t has full range of motion and if I run it swells up and gets fluid buildup. I don’t know if I’ll ever do a pigeon pose on that knee again. I can use the elliptical and I have added back in 30 minutes of mainly brisk walking with 1/2 a loop of running thrown in here and there. I can’t help myself. When I bike I hit a hanging piece of scar tissue or something and the knee swells.
My father in law is 89 and he recently bought an electric assist bike. He is biking 25-40 miles a few days a week.
Tomorrow is 30 minutes on the track, 60 minute strength training class and 50 minute Pilates class.
One trend I’m noticing at my gym is that they are adding a lot of Les Miles branded classes.
This little “light fitness” runner has been sick / not running for more than a week. I have done reasonably well on food (which is good - often if not exercising I end up slacking on the healthy eating habits). I did get in one nice walk.
I am hoping to find a way to get back outside for a walk or very slow run soon. If not, I may need to do 7minute workout (I did load the app) or use the trainer bike (boooooring to me, but maybe it will encourage DH to start using it again).
At home, I have several bars for various tasks: deadlifts, squat and Oly lifting. But the gym is a power lifting gym, so they have lots of barbells for deadlifts (longer), squats (center knurling), bench press (stiff), etc. The owners just got a couple of these beautiful used 32mm stainless steel bars used from the US Open (of weightlifting). What they don’t have are a lot of Oly and general purpose bars.
Much of what I do in CF is rotating quickly between various types of lifts, so a bar with good whip, bushings for good spin and standard knurling (so no center knurl to rip my skin).
As an example, a portion of tonight’s workout had both squatting and snatching tonight. Tomorrow, my workout has a combo of deadlifts and overhead presses.
Yes, MoWC, my plan is to leave this new pink “Ohio” bar at the gym. The small membership there is trustworthy and I leave other items there as well.
Monday was lower chain and core. Double racked KB squats, deadlifts, step back sandbag lunges with rotation and about 90 yards of KB suitcase carries. Then some additional ab work. Then dinner. Good way to end a day after training 2 clients from 8:30 - 10:30 followed by 7:30 hrs of lawyer stuff.
Here’s my light report. My scale jumped up over 5 lbs from Sat-Monday. Yes I know there are fluctuations. Yes I know it is not recommended to weigh oneself every day. Yes I know my trend of losing every week will someday come to an end and have a blip up, as long as the overall trend is good.
I have WW weigh in tomorrow and I’m positive it will be the first gain since I started this time in October. I am tracking everything. I had some high points days, including when I ate a full bag of sun chips, but I didn’t go over my weekly points. I have buckled down the last few days staying at the low end of my “healthy eating range”
My personal training is done and I did a free week of classes at the gym. I have one more cycling class to do, the one I want to do meets at 6:30 two days and 12:30 one day which conflicts with work meetings. In a week or so I will cancel the meetings and do that class. But the schedule is such that I don’t think I would get enough out of the classes to do a membership.
I do some workouts at home with weights and bodyweight exercises, I do the free fibit ones and also tried an app “fit on”. I am hesitant to pay for apps/subscriptions, so if anyone has any other free suggestions, I’d love them. I went for a walk yesterday but in general have not been as active this week, lots of driving to places and other household jobs taking up the time.
Plus, some of the proceeds go to a great cause.
That’s a hefty fitness day in my book.