The above photo shows one way to combine pushups with use of a rowing machine. But that’s not how I did it today.
Today was 1/2 marathon of rowing interspersed with pushups and other stuff. In other words, the 1/2 marathon was interrupted multiple times while the clock that was timing it kept on ticking, which is why it took so long.
Happy pushing and pulling with a rowing machine.
Today’s rowing was another easy half marathon with breaks.
Happy easy rowing to you.
I’m still doing a half marathon distance each day, in the effort to build up a comfortable “distance cushion” for those days when I’m not able to do any rowing.
Today I thought I’d do the half marathon online, in the company of at least one other person. But when I logged onto Oarbits, the name of the online rowing community’s get-together place on the internet, there was nobody else there. There was one other person showing to be there, but he didn’t respond when I spoke to him. This is “normal” … as “normal,” at least, as logging on and happening to find a lot of people logged on, chatting and doing things. I never know what I’ll find until I go there.
Today it was a virtual ghost town, as you can see from the screen shot below:
So I did the half marathon distance alone, but took several long breaks and rowed very slowly, watching videos about chess and also a video about exercise benefits.
Happy solo or otherwise rowing to you.
The guys in the above photo are definitely straining, but my rowing today was of the no-strain type.
Last night, I didn’t get much sleep, so today when doing a half marathon, I did it with plenty of breaks and at a very, very slow pace.
Happy strainless rowing to you.
The above picture was found on an Irish rowing website. If you’re in Ireland and want to check it out, the website is called Rowing Ireland.
Today’s activity for me was some strength-training/pushups sets mixed in with a half marathon total distance on the Concept 2 Model D, which is the same kind as the machines you can see in the photo above.
I used the first few minutes of the half marathon as a warm up for the first sets of pushups, did those sets and then rowed some more before doing the next sets, etc until the strength-training was completed.
The half-marathon dragged out for quite a few hours because of that and also because I did a few other things and had a few conversations with Diane at various times before finally finishing the half-marathon after Diane left the house to do some grocery shopping.
As a result, I didn’t work up much of a sweat but nonetheless managed to burn about 1,200 calories or perhaps a couple hundred calories more (?) if you include whatever calories were burned with the strength-training.
The latest results of strength-training program will be found in the menu area, “Current Plan”.
Happy long, drawn out or otherwise rowing to you.
Believe it or not, when I used the search terms “take a nap and then go rowing” to look for images, the above image was one of the top results. It doesn’t show napping or rowing. It shows a yoga pose. Mysterious.
I really expected results which were less non sequitur than the above image. But it’s interesting, so it won the contest today. It’s from a Pinterest assortment of images related to yoga, most of which were more eye-appealing than the few images among the results which actually showed rowing. I’d rather row, so I did my usual of rowing instead of my never-ever tried of yoga.
They each have their unique photogenic aspects.
Today’s rowing was 11K done very easy. It was done so very easy that it burned 58 calories less than the same easy 11K done yesterday. But today is Sunday, which is considered to be an apt day for rest by many people.
The title for today’s post is in reference to the fact that I only got about 1/2 a normal night’s sleep last night and then was wide awake before dawn. I tried to go back to sleep but just got warmer and more awake. Since I still haven’t found the master control for my body’s metabolism, I got up, had coffee and breakfast and than a few hours later took a long nap. Then I went rowing on my Concept 2 model D.
Happy restful rowing to you.
After rowing, Ness was happy. But even if your name is not Ness, there is happiness for you after rowing because aerobic exercise that is sufficiently vigorous significantly elevates the happy mixture your body is capable of manufacturing and spreading throughout your body. Which includes your brain. Which is somehow connected to your mind.
The above photo addresses another subject related to happiness: a person’s relationship to God. I found this photo while looking for rowing photos, even though it doesn’t show any rowing. It is located on a blog relating to its pictured theme, at THIS LINK.
Today’s rowing consisted of 11K while watching two DVDs about the next strength-training/pushups program I’m going to do. Here’s a hint: It won’t be a continuation of the “7 Days To 100 Pushups” program. It will be something different and in my opinion better, but it will still focus on pushups as its general exercise specialty.
The DVD-watching of the two instructional videos seemed to help enhance being focused while rowing. The only break I took while rowing was for the purpose of swapping DVDs. The session was done at a mostly constant, easy pace with the exception of the aforementioned break and a moderate sprint during the second-to-last of the 20 splits into which this session was divided by RowPro software.
Yes, my happiness level was enhanced afterwards.
Below is a view of today’s session from its information screen in my Concept2.com online logbook:
Much happiness derived from rowing to you.
But of course if you are racing, like the two you see above, rowing easy is not the thing to do.
Today was another day for easy rowing. The session was 11,000 meters and it was done mostly easy, with a few more vigorous parts. There was one long interruption somewhere around the middle of the session, so I could use the telephone to order Chinese food take-out.
Long, easy aerobic sessions, whether rowing, running or anything else, all have healthy benefits so don’t be afraid to row slow.
Happy easy rowing to you.
You can take the applied meaning of the phrase “just ducky” in reference to today’s rowing either way and you will be right. By “either way,” I mean you can take it literally in the most common sense or sarcastically.
Today’s rowing was partly used as warmup and rest activity during a strength-training, pushups workout. That part of the rowing was just ducky in the sarcastic sense.
The last 2/3 of the session was done partly to music and partly in synchronization with videos of people rowing. That rowing was nice, in the more common, non-sarcastic use of the phrase “just ducky.”
Below are screen shots of today’s rowing results and the strength-training session.
Below are the strength-training results. You might notice that I didn’t make any progress and in fact seemed to regress. I guess that was a result of taking a whole week off. I was really surprised – thought that taking 7 days off would leave me the same or a bit stronger, though I had no scientific or experiential reason for those thoughts except that I thought that the week-to-week, every day muscle-soreness which I’d been having ever since starting the strength-training indicated that my muscles never recovered from the workouts from session-to-session and that if they were given enough time to stop being sore, maybe they’d be stronger than if they were never given enough time to lose the soreness.
Guess I was wrong and a constant, low level of soreness is a good thing?
Happy just ducky rowing to you.
The above photo was found on the row2k website, at THIS LINK.
Today’s session was an easy 11K, done while trying different videos and music.
Happy and restful Sundays to you.