Java is best in the morning, but experience tends to indicate that it’s better to do a daily workout first.
One reason (and probably the main one) it’s better to do the workout first is because the time it takes to consume morning coffee can stretch out to a long time and usually includes food. I can row on a full stomach but prefer otherwise.
Eagerness to immediately commence today’s workout was hampered by a desire for coffee before too much more time passed in the morning. A compromise was reached, which involved a reduction of total workout time.
The first session was on the SkiErg and the compromise was to ski only 200 Calories instead of 250. The other session was on the rowing machine. The rowing machine compromise was to limit the distance to 5,000 meters instead of 10,000.
The first half of the SkiErg countdown was done at a leisurely warm up pace. The second 100 Calories of the SkiErg session included intervals to make it a bit more fascinating.
For the 5K rowing session, I did something similar to yesterday and played a YouTube rowing video to race against. The video was titled Indoor Rowing 5K and 5K and WarmDown 04112018. It consisted of two 5Ks and a warmdown as the title implies. I raced against the first of the two 5Ks, because it was the slowest and would be easy to beat. Lazy John!
But even though I chose the slowest of the two 5Ks to race against, I wasn’t too awfully lazy about it and finished about 1,000 meters ahead of it. Hurray for John! 🙂
Happy rowing to you!