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.
Today’s title relates to the dubious results for today’s pushups session. There seemed to be no progress at all and an actual reduction in the number of pushups compared to a similar previous session. But I forgot to take 3 minutes rest after the sets for which 7 was the result and maximum. Instead of 3 minutes rest, I only took 2 minutes rest. So it’s possible that the results would have been better and there might have been progress. Can’t do it over, so there’s no way this side of heaven and omniscient God Almighty for me to know the answer to that question.
In addition to the pushups session, I rowed 10,500 meters at a very easy effort level.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing training session was not, because the last session of the 12 week training schedule was supposed to be the day before yesterday. The last session was not done, however because the day before yesterday was spent applying roof coating and getting thoroughly dehydrated in the process. Yesterday there was no rowing, because most of yesterday was spent with walking at the county fair.
So for rowing today, I simply did a moderate 6K, plus 4K of warmup/down. Before the 6K, there was a strength-training/pushups session. Both are documented below.
Happy rowing to you.
Although I’ve been rowing every day possible, for some reason today’s energy level seemed higher than the past few days. Maybe it was the spirit of TGIF, boosting the energy.
Before rowing, there was a strength-training session of push-ups. The thing that takes the longest about doing the push-ups is the rest time between sets.
The rowing today was a rest-and-recovery 6K.
Happy rowing to you.
To be more specific than today’s post title, there were no oars to bend, because today was another day of indoor rowing. But if today’s rowing had been done OTW like those in the photo above were doing, no oars would have been bent, like you can see the oars are being bent in the boat in the foreground of that photo.
It was a rest and recovery row, gently done. It was accompanied by another strength training session of push-ups.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session was 3x100r1000 within a 6K. I wasn’t inspired, stopped a few times and did quite a bit of rowing with only one hand while operating a remote control with the other.
Also did a strength-training/pushups session.
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s happy rowing on Friday started late because first I had to take the car for emissions inspection & registration renewal. Today was one day before it was too late and the registration expired. Nothing like waiting until the last minute. The lines were long, so there were plenty of others who had put it off until the day before the last day also.
After that, I ran an errand to the store and noticed that one of the tires was almost flat. So I stopped at the tire dealer to get that taken care of and learned that the six year old tires needed to be replaced.
By the time I could do today’s rowing and pushups session, the afternoon was almost over.
Today’s rowing was 4x1000r750 within a total distance of 8K, with a 2,750 meter warmup/down added on.
The spreadsheet display of pushup session results for today will be the last image below.
The results for today’s strength training pushups session is on the line for Week 5, F(riday) in the image below:
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s rowing session was preceded by another strength-training pushups session. It’s results are shown in the last image in this post.
The rowing session was patterned at 4x250r500 within 8K total session distance. Warmup/down was extra.
The results for today’s pushups strength-training are on the bottom line below:
Happy rowing to you.
After taking two days off from training, I was back at it today. Started out with strength-training/pushups session and finished with a belated-by-2-days rowing session.
The rowing session was patterned as 4x500r500 within 8K and there was a total of 2K warmup/down.
If you are looking for results of today’s strength training session, they are on the bottom line of the image below:
Happy rowing to you.
Today’s training session was a rest and recovery 6K. In addition to the 6K there was a total of 4K warmup/down.
Before the 6K, another strength-training pushups session was done, with a tiny bit of progress overall. The pushups results are in the last image below.
For today’s strength training, the total number of pushups done in the session decreased by 1 compared to the previous session but the number of consecutive pushups done in one set increased by one, from 10 to 11. So I count that as a tiny overall improvement.
Happy rowing to you.