Awesome. Sub 20 minutes here we come!!
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Ok I’m doing this charity rowing thing for 30 minutes. Just started training a little on the rower at the gym. I’m going to shoot for 7500m in 30 minutes.
I have long arms and my weight actually helps with momentum (on the machine, not in the water). I’m built for rowing.
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It’s taken a few weeks but I’ve settled on a maximum 2:1 protein to fiber ratio to avoid a certain painful issue (or non-issue, to be more precise). Yes, Im talking about poop.
I havent been working out properly for a while. Plagued by two injuries.
Some decent progress today tho. Ive finally figured out what movement dysfunction ive had since i broke my leg. Something about rolling my foot or using my little toes instead of using my big toe to stop forward movement. Now ive figured it out i need to retrain all my movements.
Secondly. Just tried the rower for the first time since October last year. Ive had really bad tendonitis in my elbow thats had me avoid ALL pressing and pulling.
Just a very slow 500m, but will see how it feels later today.
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I don’t think this is a particularly interesting article but this is definitely my new favorite fitness model.
Is it Daniel Negreanu in a cheap disguise?
7/30: 5000m - 20:50.4
8/1: 5000m - 20:34.3
8/3: 5000m - 20:19.1
8/8: 5000m - 20:08.4
8/11: 5000m - 20:19.0
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I haven’t been following along: But are you doing any interval sessions between 5000m efforts?
Not really. New father and back at work full time so my working out time is a bit limited. If I can do 3-4 5ks a week I’ll be happy with that.
Rugby can give you a lot better info than me, but imo doing 2 x 5000 m, 1 longer steady state row, and 1 interval row per week will improve the 5k times faster. (If that’s even what you’re looking to do.)
Rowing is a lot like lifting. The longer you do it the more complex your training needs to get.
Just starting out, so long as you get on the rower fairly often, work hard, and keep improving, you will be fine for a couple of months.
Yeah I wouldn’t say that I’m looking to decrease my times as quickly as possible although getting better and in better shape is Def the goal. I mostly post them here as an accountability measure and to just have somewhere to track them and see if I’m making progress over time
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The only advice would be to work harder. A really good rowing session should be painful, and you should be really really gasping by the end. Rowing is a lot about living with that discomfort.
Anyone have a recommendation for protein powder?
I’m using muscle milk right now. I’m not even working out consistently but wanted to increase my protein intake as I switch over to a vegetarian diet.
Went through a container of a cheaper supplement before that with way too high cholesterol content. Did have taurine and creatine in it which I could feel the energy boost from.
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We saw before that you generally can’t change your body’s rate of energy expenditure in the long run by diet or exercise. Now we find out that as an adult, nothing else will change it either.
Btw I went to the endocrinologist. He said he doesn’t prescribe semaglutide because of concerns about retinopathy. My Dad has glaucoma and I have high pressure in my eyes due to plateau iris. So I definitely don’t want to fuck around with anything eye-related.
He said he does prescribe a couple of other drugs in the same family though. I forgot the name. Insurance doesn’t cover it and it costs about $1000/month.
Seemed to be something diabetics mostly take. I wonder what the results are on a garden variety fatty like me.
Interesting, quick look at this may be overblown and is an area of controversy. Way outside my knowledge base though.
Yesterday, I ran my first race in almost 2 years - the Shawshank Hustle at the Ohio State Reformatory. It was fun to be back in a live race, and I only felt a little bit awkward when I was in the corral at the start. (I was wearing a disposable surgical mask in the starting gate and took it off when the crowd thinned out after about a quarter mile. I was the only mask wearer I saw.)
Anyway, the most notable item was that a goddamned train interrupted the race, and I (and several other runners) had to stand there waiting for more than 3 minutes for it to pass. Which took my good (for me) “true moving” pace to a meh overall pace:
It was infuriating. Anyway, it was good to run, and it prompted me to sign up for a local half marathon next weekend.
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I’m sure I could figure it out mathematically given the info posted, but I’m lazy. What was the length of the race?
They advertise it as a 7k, but I’ve run it twice and my watch has it closer to 7.5k.