Category: Boring Workout

Today’s rowing session was interrupted by interruptions and so I ended up far behind the lady in her pace boat. It’s okay to let the pace boat win once in a while. It was still a worthwhile session, of 11 kilometers distance, easy but invigorating pacing. The strength training that was supposed to be done yesterday was not done today either.  Maybe tomorrow?

The above photo is one of the random images that was found when I searched for images using the search terms “she won this race”.  I don’t know who the rower is, but it looks like she’s rowing with a good effort.

Happy invigoration to you.

The above indoor rowing photo was found on a general fitness website with ladies in mind.  It is called Fit Bottomed Girls and is found at this link: fitbottomedgirls.com. The page which the above photo was linked to was on a page about indoor rowing found at THIS LINK which is titled “Indoor Rowing: What You Need to Know – and a Workout to Try”.  The “workout to try”  seems to be a set of intervals patterned as 6x400r200.  That amounts to about 1.5 miles of sprinting and 3/4 miles of resting in between and after each of the half dozen 400 meter sprints.  Sounds like fun, so maybe I’ll try it sometime. If I remember….

But … the next set of intervals I will do is this month’s C2CTC challenge, which is 10×0:30r60 which also sounds like a lot of fun. It’s results will be posted here sometime before this month is over.

Today’s activities were a duad.  You might not know what that word means, but if you don’t you can look it up like I did, when I discovered it is an actual word(!) in the Words With Friends game that I play with Diane.  Too bad, I never got an opportunity to make that word… Diane used that space when it was her turn the next time, so I had to look elsewhere on the board for whatever word I settled for.

The duad was two activities: strength-training via pushups and also rowing 15K in bits and pieces as combination warmup/down for pushups and in between doing each pushups set.  Had to interrupt the whole thing in the middle, to take Diane for an eye exam which required dilation of the limpid pools of her lovely blue eyes. That’s why the 15th split of the 15K is over two hours – that’s when I performed the job of chauffeur.

 

 

 

Today’s strength training/pushups results all fit on the bottom line labeled F (for Friday) of the screenshot below:

Happy bottom fitness attainment to you.

The above indoor rowing photo was found on a website called FitWit, whose site is at THIS LINK.  The particular page where the photo was found was called “5 Reasons to Try an Indoor Rowing Class” located at this particular link.  The physical location of the facilities seems to be in the Atlanta area, but you might find the website is interesting even if you don’t live near Atlanta.

Today’s session was strength-training/pushups and 11K of rowing during warmup/down & rests between sets for the strength training:

May you have a happy journey rowing to fitness and health.

 

The above photo was found at THIS LINK.  And that link is just one of many pages on an excellent British rowing website called British Rowing, which you can find at THIS link. I say the site is “excellent,” because it looks nice … I haven’t really explored it or spent much time there at all.  I did try exploring what it had to say about doing online challenges but ended up just going in circles, so the website might need a little bit of refining at least in that particular area.

Today was a day to do another strength-training session.  Since I also wanted to log at least 10,500 meters, it was made more efficient by combining the two activities and doing the rowing in bits and pieces during times for warmup/down and rests associated with the strength training.

The strength-training results:

Smiley rowing to you.

For quite a few rowing sessions now, I’ve only felt inclined to row easy or mostly easy.  While I ponder various things, including whether I want to do a marathon this season and do it at any sort of competitive pace.

Today’s rowing was set to a distance of 10,500 meters and was done while alternating between rowing easy and switching from one Netflix video to another, until finally settling on one that held my interest, though just barely. Some parts of it were so predictable that I’d grab the remote and fast-forward through the predictable and boring parts.

I’m still sore from the strength-training/pushups session yesterday.  In addition to the pushups recorded in the log whose image is displayed in yesterday’s post, I did more sets after the 7th set and total of 70 shown in the pushups log entry for yesterday.  The actual total was 164 pushups yesterday, during an elapsed time of about 90 minutes for all the sets and rest times.  The motivation for doing more was to enhance sleep quality last night and it worked.  Slept soundly and longly. Longly is not a word, according to the spell checker.  Actually, I knew that but it’s okay to be loose with the language as long as the writer has the proper license, which I do.  Its called a poetic license.

Anyway – here are the relevant screenshots for today’s bit of indoor rowing:

Happy rowing to you.

Today’s rowing session was only done during times for either warmup before or rest between pushups sets.  The reason for doing so was to keep the total time required to do both pushups and rowing down to a minimum.  Previously, I had spent the time by walking for rest between pushups sets.  By rowing instead, I got the same number of pushups and overall rowing meters for the day, but saved at least an hour of total time to do both.

Happy rowing to you.