Log Your Daily Exercise

[ms spock]

Walked the dog for about an hour, it is hard to be sure.

 

[Tanishq]

1.06 km power walk. I walked bit more.

 

[Anrish]

Running for 65 minutes - the fresh air was nice.

Extreme baking of cookies. :p

 

[Sweetpea76]

Just cardio on the weekends, 45 minutes total, as usual. Does sitting in the massage chair at the gym for 10 minutes count as exercise? :rolleyes:

 

[Kintsugi]

Three miles today with the big dog. Also caught all 75-ish lbs of him in the chest at full throttle. There was a cat incident. That has to count for something. :)

 

[anthony]

OMG... too funny. massage chairs, cat incidents...

Just finished a 5km run for the day. Feel much better having had two days off running, swapping them with cycling instead... my legs were getting to a point that the muscles were so tight I thought they were honestly about to snap or something. I had a period of nearly a month where I ran 5km nearly every day, maybe one or two days off in that month... which likely caused the muscle tightness to begin with. Feeling good though now...

 

[Kintsugi]

@anthony, do you think lactic acid build-up could be a culprit? Rock climbers get lactic acid build-up in their arms, and there is a technique called the "shake-out" we do while climbing to help alleviate the feeling of our muscles being "pumped."

 

[anthony]

Na, I know what lactic acid build-up fields like, and it wasn't that. It was literally as though my muscles were pulling so tight, so they felt like they were at breaking point. Stretching them helped, but its taken two days of non-running rest for them to work themselves out a bit. Saturday they were still tight, Sunday they were tight, but loosening, and on awakening today they had relaxed... so I went for a slower run and stretched them well, and they still seem ok at present. I was pushing pretty hard over a week ago. Last week when I had the issues with it, I slowed right down to easy jogging pace, but prior to that I had been stepping up my running to sprinting by the end of the 5km.

I think I've just been really hard on them, and considering I'm nearly 43... I've resigned myself to the fact that I just can't punish them as much as I used to be able to and get away with it.

 

[DesiretoThrive]

Just starting to emerge from the house. 5 minute power walk every 3 hours. Daily yoga with mindfulness and breathing about 15 minutes. It's a start. Using muscle milk and protein to aid in body strength, too. Great reading here, thanks

 

[City Slicker]

Another awesome fresh-air day. A 15k run and then back inside for Chest and Back P90X with abs. Krav Maga class Monday - probably just the Krav Maga class as I am really behind on my shopping right now!

 

[Tanishq]

0.5 km power walking today!

 

[City Slicker]

I am also coming up to the point where I will have to rest my legs by doing some non-impact exercise to avoid potential muscle exhaustion or worse, injury. I hear you @anthony about that tightness different than lactic acid. I find it does usually mean we are coming up to needing rest (curses again ; ) )

I once did a fundraiser where we had to walk up a tower of 1776 steps as I recall but they were the industrial steps so a very tall leg movement and the stairs went around in circles all the way to the top. I was in good shape but after only a few rounds of the stairs I felt the lactic acid right away and my legs suddenly were like lead. It's when people generally began calling for the emt's. But after a few more rounds the acid moved through and I was limber again. But for those few moments...yikes.