Time is doing Strange Things at the moment. I can't believe it's a week since I last posted. There's work and training and even my watch is telling me "Take a recovery week!" now. 8 days straight of exercise with no rest days kinda just happened. And there's sort of a reason for it.
I blame Paul. He put the idea there. He'll know what I mean and I'm not ready to really talk about it yet. But I've bought and read a lot of books and there are still a few left to read in the pile. And there's some more talking and thinking to do, but I'm pretty much decided. Thing is, when I've decided on something it's really kinda hard to not think about it and it colours almost everything I do. And it meant that I was distracted from scheduling training properly and I "forgot" about recovery. It meant I got quite tired as I went from very little cardio to a buttload of it without ramping it up properly.
I'm going to re-brand my blog when the time is right. I finally have a new name that I think will fit nicely - it's taken a while and it finally came to me this evening. I need to find a better layout so I can categorise the various aspects of the blog a bit better than it is at the moment, so if anyone has any helpful hints on that with Blogger templates it'd be handy to have a chat.
Showing posts with label HRM. Show all posts
Showing posts with label HRM. Show all posts
Wednesday, 18 May 2011
Sunday, 23 January 2011
*blarf*
Well, it was a hard session for a few reasons I think.
We had a bit of a chat about where I'm at, what I've done and what I want out of my gym sessions and then set off into some warm ups on the TRX. I did mention I won't usually want to use those as my gym local to work doesn't have them but this was a getting-to-know-you session so it didn't matter so much. That wasn't so bad, and there was some nice stuff to get the core going with bodyweight exercises on the TRX straps. Then we launched into... kettlebells! Yay!
And, gosh, either I was really not physically up to this session (tail-end of a nasty cold, plus perhaps not well fuelled enough either) or they really are a bugger the first (few) time(s). Each set made me feel light-headed and vomitous (no idea what my heart rate was but given the feeling I had, I'm guessing well over 180) but I pushed on through. I think I get it a lot better now that I've had Geoff explain how to do the various swings and snatches and it's very different. More practice required. A few bits and bobs with some cables and we were done.
Warm up on TRX -
My HRM really isn't playing ball at all these days. I've replaced the battery in the transmitter, washed the strap umpteen times, made sure it's really sopping wet each time I use it and there's no low battery warning on the watch itself so that's fine. But it still craps out and registers stupid heart rates like 221 randomly and the heart symbol flashes erratically instead of with my heart beat. Very tempted to throw in the towel and get a new watch. It'd be a shame as I've got 176,6xx kcals of exercise on the totaliser on this watch and it'd've been nice to break 200,000 with it, but... it's just getting too frustrating now to keep plugging away with it at the moment.
Anyhoo... first proper session booked now with Geoff (silly moving work deadline permitting) and I'll have a few more goes with the kettlebells this week beforehand (if I get to go to the gym during the week this week).
We had a bit of a chat about where I'm at, what I've done and what I want out of my gym sessions and then set off into some warm ups on the TRX. I did mention I won't usually want to use those as my gym local to work doesn't have them but this was a getting-to-know-you session so it didn't matter so much. That wasn't so bad, and there was some nice stuff to get the core going with bodyweight exercises on the TRX straps. Then we launched into... kettlebells! Yay!
And, gosh, either I was really not physically up to this session (tail-end of a nasty cold, plus perhaps not well fuelled enough either) or they really are a bugger the first (few) time(s). Each set made me feel light-headed and vomitous (no idea what my heart rate was but given the feeling I had, I'm guessing well over 180) but I pushed on through. I think I get it a lot better now that I've had Geoff explain how to do the various swings and snatches and it's very different. More practice required. A few bits and bobs with some cables and we were done.
Warm up on TRX -
- incline pull ups - 2x10
- incline W pull ups - 2x10
- incline push ups - 2x10
- jackknifes - 2x10
- cycling legs - 2x2x10
- rotating jackknifes - 2x10
- pikes - 2x10
- 2 arm swings - 2x10 (16kg)
- 1 arm swings - 2x2x10 (12kg)
- 1 arm squat and snatch - 2x2x10 (12kg)
- 1 arm swing and snatch - 2x2x10 (12kg)
- Military press - 2x10 (2x8kg)
- 2 arm row - 2x10 (??kg)
- 1 arm row - 2x2x10 (??kg)
- Squat with row - 2x10 (??kg)
- Incline row - 2x10 (??kg)
- 2 arm lat pull-down - 2x10 (??kg)
- 1 arm lat pull-down - 2x10 (??kg)
My HRM really isn't playing ball at all these days. I've replaced the battery in the transmitter, washed the strap umpteen times, made sure it's really sopping wet each time I use it and there's no low battery warning on the watch itself so that's fine. But it still craps out and registers stupid heart rates like 221 randomly and the heart symbol flashes erratically instead of with my heart beat. Very tempted to throw in the towel and get a new watch. It'd be a shame as I've got 176,6xx kcals of exercise on the totaliser on this watch and it'd've been nice to break 200,000 with it, but... it's just getting too frustrating now to keep plugging away with it at the moment.
Anyhoo... first proper session booked now with Geoff (silly moving work deadline permitting) and I'll have a few more goes with the kettlebells this week beforehand (if I get to go to the gym during the week this week).
Monday, 22 March 2010
Back from hols
And "only" 800g gain (probably quite a bit of "transit" still going on) despite beer every single night (magic beer with no hangovers at all!) and piles of chips or huge hunks of bread at every other meal. Wooo!
Oh and I broke my coccyx at the end of the first day's skiing, so that was fun... still, my HRM says 6,774kcals burned not including 4 hours of hill hiking the day after I broke my butt ;o)
So, training for the triathlon on Easter Monday is more than likely out of the window. I'll see what the doc says tomorrow about whether I'm allowed to do any weight training (lifting anything more than my own hands and arms and I can feel it in my butt-bone!) or running, never mind cycling. I'm sure swimming will be allowed, though.
Oh and I broke my coccyx at the end of the first day's skiing, so that was fun... still, my HRM says 6,774kcals burned not including 4 hours of hill hiking the day after I broke my butt ;o)
So, training for the triathlon on Easter Monday is more than likely out of the window. I'll see what the doc says tomorrow about whether I'm allowed to do any weight training (lifting anything more than my own hands and arms and I can feel it in my butt-bone!) or running, never mind cycling. I'm sure swimming will be allowed, though.
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