Carry on exercising - the August 2022 edition

Welcome @Goostacean 🖐

Do you row on water too, CrimsonAlligator? My bil, niece and nephew are very involved in their rowing club (always seem to be heading off to regsttas!) and are preparing for their overwintering programme now.

I just did 1000m at the pool. Whoop whoop! And it was a nice way to ease out the aches from yesterday's class.

Days exercised 119

Today’s exercise: 10 x 1 km fast rows. It was a little bit easier than I thought it would be, which got me thinking about what time I can realistically aim for when I do my 10 k race in November. May be I should be a little bit more ambitious than I’ve been so far?! 🤔

Welcome to the thread @Goostacean

@PeloAddict 👏
Just done 45 mins Pilates (HARD) and off for a 30 min swim (easy) then pretty much deskbound for the day (wfh).

Glad you've recovered a bit iloveeverykindofcat.

Hello Goostacean! Welcome to the thread! Running and pilates on Fridays sounds a great place to start. Good luck!!

No sign of life from Caroline girvan Roonetta. Thinking about it, she usually starts talking about new programs end of August. I think I might try her complex series (one week) next. It was either that or pyramid one and the pyramid looked a bit tough!

30 min power zone ride done. Week 1 of the challenge completed and I got platinum so max points

Hi all, may I join? I’m on the final day of a VERY decadent holiday and am feeling pretty sluggish from it. I also need to seriously improve my core strength as it’s causing me issues when I work (sat at a desk). I’m not working on Fridays for the next 10 weeks so am thinking C25K plus Pilates on the Fridays is a good place to start!

Hope the exercise is helping Pelo

Hello @iloveeverykindofcat 👋 like
Others have said, I fins doms values a lot but its always less bad when I'm more used to whatever it is I'm doing.

Pump class today. I wasn't really in the humour for it and the music was terrible, but at least it's done.

Days exercised 118

@SophieLion they seem to have recovered today! Onwards. @PeloAddict I'm new to this thread but very sorry to hear of what you've been through. Or what the guy chose to do to you I should say.

Oh that's horrible pelo. What a !?%#. Sending you a hug and how awful for her too. 10 years...

I was thinking that carline will probably start a new program around now when her children are back in school Roonetta. I hope she does!

Hello Iloveeverykinfofcat, in my experience whenever I use muscles that I haven't used in a while (whether that's because I haven't exercised for a while or because I try something new), it hurts after. Sometimes I feel mildly sore and other times can hurt for up to 3 days. The more they get used, the less they hurt. And obviously a good warm up and stretching after always helps.

Inspired by professor today and did a 40 mins yoga with Tim session today. Plus a short lilly sabri abs workout.

Days exercised 162

Pressed send to soon. I'm not exactly new to fitness - I've always swum, and used to be county level in my younger days (though I'm certaintly not anymore). But I'm fairly new to strength and swimming is much more of upper body workout than lower. Funnily enough, short legs are an advantage in swimming (check Michael Phelps' legs in comparison to his total height). Your legs create drag in the water.

Thanks. I think I didn't stretch enough. Must work on that

Pelo, I’m so sorry. Better to know than not (for you and his girlfriend), but that won’t be much consolation just now.

I did an actual yoga class with real people today. Days exercised 136.

iloveeverykindofcat it shouldn't last too long, do lots of stretching. Stretching helps immensely. Have a bath the next day too if you need to. It shouldn't get too bad after a few times of doing it. I don't get sore after any workouts now, but I make sure I do a full stretching session after.

@PeloDramatic that’s awful. What a bastard!

(I like your name change by the way 👍)

@roonetta what does WWL stand for in your post? I can’t work it out!

Today’s exercise: 3 x 4K steady row. I did it in a sleep deprived state, which wasn’t ideal, but at least meant that my heart rate didn’t shoot up. I’m supposed to keep it under 150 on longer rows, which is usually really hard, but somehow gets a lot easier when you’re half asleep on the rower 😂

@iloveeverykindofcat I’m not sure I am well placed to answer your question as that’s not really the kind of exercise I do, but for me muscle ache rarely lasts for more than a day. It used to last a lot longer when I was just starting out, so I guess your body gets better at dealing with it.

45 min bike done after I told his girlfriend. They've been together 10 years and she had no clue

Question for the more experienced fit people:
You know when you're trying to go from skinnyfat to lean
How long are your legs supposed to hurt after leg day? 😫

Oh my god thats awful pelo, I'm so sorry. 😔

I'm really sorry to hear that, Pelo. What a shit

(Slight NC)
What a week. Period from hell and then I find out my boyfriend isn't actually single. So that's great really impressed he didn't mention that in the last 9 months
Planning to hide myself in exercise after I've had a couple of days to mope

Yoga done tonight. I’m so creaky I could be the Tin Man this week.

Days exercised 135.

Thanks everyone 😊

Those squats sound hard, waterbottles!

Hill walk this morning. It's ages since I did it so I was glad I brought the dog and had sniff breaks as an excuse to catch my breath! Was worth it for some beautiful views of the sun coming through the clouds over the sea. I'll be stuck at my desk all day tomorrow so probably going to have to have it as a rest day.

Days exercised 117

God you guys are all doing so well. 😄shall use it as inspiration to catch up!

I did a 60 min walk on Tuesday, weights workout at home as couldn't be bothered travelling in to the gym on Wednesday, and pt last night. I can finally do a squat and not fall back onto a box! While holding 10kg! Hips are finally getting some strength back 😂and I have kept to my workout plan.