What Training Have You Done Today???

[old] Rocket Roy · Post by **[old] Rocket Roy** » December 25th, 2004, 8:18 am

Sir Pirate, Ho-Ho-Ho, no the diet remains, so far just a pickle and a small glass of egg-nog, bottle of water. Gym closed until monday. Maybe a rest day tomorrow and a crack at 1k on monday (that should be a laugh!)

[old] Jon Goodall · Post by **[old] Jon Goodall** » December 25th, 2004, 8:21 am

............ and there was me thinking I was sad doing a session today Mind you, i've hardly been on the erg this month apart from Cardiff & Amsterdam. I need a shower now coz I is a bit stinky now Jon

[old] ranger · Post by **[old] ranger** » December 25th, 2004, 8:25 am

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>What rest did you take between the 500's & 250's? was it active, wolverine style?  </td></tr></table> Cheers, Sir P. Happy to see you are back in form. Merry Christmas. Yes, I am just taking active rest, although not paying much attention to recoveries at the moment. I'm watching my heart rate. Glad to see my heart rate relaxing nicely between intervals. It was coming down under 110 bpm before I geared up for the next interval during the 500s. This is _very_ relaxed rowing. I am curious about what my heart is doing at various steady state paces with light stroking. I'll report these things as they turn up. The movement from light stroking to heavier stroking in these workouts is a nice progression. I have been really working hard over the last nine months with the high power rowing. The light stroking is much easier. The light stroking early on warms me up nicely for the heavy stroking later on. It occurs to me that a pretty good measure of 2K pace might be the pace you can (indefinitely) repeat 500s with 500m active rest and stay comfortably under your anaerobic threshold. I will work these 500s at 1:36 up to a half Zatopek (20x), or perhaps even a full (40x). ranger

[old] Paul Smith · Post by **[old] Paul Smith** » December 25th, 2004, 1:18 pm

No erging today, just into the garage for a quick weights session. Happy Christmas everyone <img src='http://www.click-smilies.de/sammlung030 ... ey-022.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />

[old] Rocket Roy · Post by **[old] Rocket Roy** » December 25th, 2004, 2:07 pm

Another 15k this afternoon. 30k for the day.

[old] Byron Drachman · Post by **[old] Byron Drachman** » December 25th, 2004, 3:21 pm

A guilty conscience made me row today. I've eaten like a pig the last couple of days. Now that I've rowed, I think I'll go back to the *** DELETE - SPAM *** and finish off that pumpkin pie. There are some cookies left and other goodies that need to be finished off. I know I'll eat them eventually so I might as well get rid of them today. I'm the only who has no self-control around the holidays, right? Byron

[old] GeorgeD · Post by **[old] GeorgeD** » December 25th, 2004, 3:23 pm

A great quote from a Xmas present recieved yesterday goes something like this and relevant for some people of late and all of us no doubt at some time: "Champions experience two types of training session, good ones,- and ones they learn from." I guess if we have this sort of approach (to a bad session) then we should never say a session was wasted if we take the time to learn what happened and why! - George ps I like the one where when being interviewed by a reporter after coming from no where to win a major even the athlete said in reply to a question: - "Yes it has only taken me 10 years of training to become an 'overnight' success" - Sometimes we need to remind ourselves there are no shortcuts

[old] Mark Keating · Post by **[old] Mark Keating** » December 25th, 2004, 5:36 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (Byron Drachman @ Dec 25 2004, 07:21 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>A guilty conscience made me row today. I've eaten like a pig the last couple of days. Now that I've rowed, I think I'll go back to the *** DELETE - SPAM *** and finish off that pumpkin pie. There are some cookies left and other goodies that need to be finished off. I know I'll eat them eventually so I might as well get rid of them today. I'm the only who has no self-control around the holidays, right? Byron </td></tr></table> Byron, your strategy sounds similar to mine regarding the excesses of the festive season. Get rid of (read: "eat")all the goodies as quick as you can, hopefully through over-consumption one will develop choco-toxemia and be turned off the sweet stuff forever. It hasn't worked yet, but where there's a will, there's a way right? In the meantime I take solace in the fact that by eating everything in sight I am reducing the likelihood that my kids will suffer from obesity. I'd like to chat some more, but it's time to waddle over to the supper table again.

[old] Mark Keating · Post by **[old] Mark Keating** » December 25th, 2004, 5:43 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (GeorgeD @ Dec 25 2004, 07:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Sometimes we need to remind ourselves there are no shortcuts  </td></tr></table> Sound advice George. I occasionally have to remind myself that it took 15 years of relative inactivity to take me from being a reasonably fit, relatively good athlete to being a fat guy with little muscle tone; so I shouldn't expect to recover all that I've lost in the first 15 workouts or even the first 15 months on the erg. Gotta think long term, gotta think lifestyle change.

[old] Bill · Post by **[old] Bill** » December 25th, 2004, 8:11 pm

Hello, After two months off .... bashed my shins on a car trailer ..... some colourful bruises and swearing 25/12 slow steady 8k 2:09 avg pulse 149 26/12 steady 10k 2:10 avg pulse 146 Plan is to do two weeks slow steadies as above and then slowly become more serious back up to 8k s10ps @ 1:57 that gets me back to where I was ............then get a bit better again Then the elusive 7:00 2k Bill

[old] Byron Drachman · Post by **[old] Byron Drachman** » December 25th, 2004, 8:27 pm

<table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE </td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>In the meantime I take solace in the fact that by eating everything in sight I am reducing the likelihood that my kids will suffer from obesity. wink.gif I'd like to chat some more, but it's time to waddle over to the supper table again. </td></tr></table> Mark, I should remind you that it is well known that slivers of goodies eaten while leaning over the sink contain no calories, and broken cookies contain negative calories. So just lean over the sink and break those cookies and you'll lose weight. So you can back off a little on the erging. Furthermore, I read recently on the internet that ice cream is an excellent food for people trying to lose weight. Ice cream contains no calories. You see, a calorie is a measurement of heat, and since ice cream is frozen, there is no heat and therefore no calories. Since I read that on the internet, it must be true. Byron

[old] chickenlegs · Post by **[old] chickenlegs** » December 25th, 2004, 9:56 pm

rowed 13 km at 1:50.0 @ 21 spm. still a pain in the glutes - fortunately a fellow erger sat on the erg next to mine and rowed the last 2 km with me, stroking the same rate. always a bit harder by yourself, I think.

[old] Rocket Roy · Post by **[old] Rocket Roy** » December 26th, 2004, 7:22 am

nice row there Chicken legs, some power there Day of rest for me today

[old] Sir Pirate · Post by **[old] Sir Pirate** » December 26th, 2004, 12:10 pm

Recovery row today. 21097m 1:57.8 (82:52.3) at 22spm. Sir Pirate

[old] ranger · Post by **[old] ranger** » December 26th, 2004, 12:18 pm

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td class='genmed'>QUOTE (Sir Pirate @ Dec 26 2004, 11:10 AM)</td></tr><tr><td class='quote'>Recovery row today. 21097m 1:57.8 (82:52.3) at 22spm. Sir Pirate </td></tr></table> Sir P-- Do you wear a heart rate monitor? If so, what was your heart rate during this row? UT2 for you is 1:51 at 22 spm and 120-140 bpm. ranger