Winter Workouts -- What did you do today?

[BarbeyGirl]

This is the workout equivilent of the "what did you eat today" thread. Feel free to share!

I haven't worked out yet today (early to the office instead), but yesterday's WOD was a rapid-fire progression through:

Tabata thrusters
Side planks
Tabata stair hops
Hanging leg raises (straight and twisting sets)
Tabata mountain climbers (OWWW! Hard!)
Front plank

I also hauled a whole lot of buckets full of water out to my horse paddocks. :cool:

[Annika]

Today was my Body by Science day. I hit the gym to do a modified Big 5. My knees have been bothering me, and I think I have patellar tendonitis; I first cut out squats and lunges and switched to a leg press machine, but they still got aggravated. This week I cut out all lifting with my legs.

10 min on rowing machine to warm up
Chest press
Lat pulldown
Rows w/ 20# dumbbells
Overhead press w/ 15# dumbbells
Modified deadlifts w/ 45# bar (from bench, not floor, and not heavy, due to knee problems)
Plank
Tabata on stationary bike (not lifting, but sure as hell works my legs!)

[BarbeyGirl]

Thursday: I came home in a bad mood due to work issues, so I went for something simple but tough. Crank up the music. Pick a few (mostly bodyweight) exercises. Max out on first set. Do 3 more sets, in rotation, meeting the first-set max each time even if you have to break it into sub-sets. Results:

Pushups (w/ dumbbells): 30 / 25+5/ 17+7+5 / 20+10
Lunges (w/ 24 lb db): 20 each leg / 20 ea / 10x2 ea / 10x2 ea
Chinups (dead hang): 6 / 5+1 / 5+1 / 4+2
HLRs (knee to elbow): 15 / 15 / 15 / 15

[pkafka]

Nice thread, thanks Barbey.

I am traveling, so I have been walking a lot, and baning out sets of pushups and crunches. I always take the stairs, amd do pullupswenever I can.

-pk

[Micke77023]

5 minute warm up on treadmill.
10 minutes of intense rowing on erg machine.
3 sets of hang clean and press with a set of moutain clibmers in between each
3 sets of overhead shoulder press with aa of box jumps in between each
3 sets of one legged body squats using a box with 3 sets of bicep curls
shoulder stuff (raises)

[BarbeyGirl]

15 min walk/run warmup on treadmill, followed by 4x rotation of:

Incline pushups
Heavy squats
Pullups
Deadlifts
HLRs

[pkafka]

5 minutes of sprints on the bike.
3 sets of:
5 wide grip pullups
5 heavy dealifts
5 heavy RDL's
5 cleans
5 presses
4 minutes of jump rope sprints.

-pk

Nice workout Mick!

[Annika]

Snowshoeing!

[BarbeyGirl]

That sounds like fun, Annika! I hope to do some more snowshoeing over Christmas. :)

Yesterday's workout:
8x stair flight hops (1 minute sets of as many 2-footed jumps up a flight of stairs as possible), with 1 minute sets of overhead presses, delt raises, chest flies, and bicep curls in between.

Today:
6x rotation of pushups, heavy walking lunges, weighted dips, renegade rows, and chinups.

[pkafka]

What is snowshoeing? Sounds intense...

I have been getting into punching bag workouts. Just banging on those things for about 45 minutes to an hour a day.

-pk

[Annika]

Snowshoeing can be easy or super-hard, depending on the snow. Groomed trails are very easy and it can be just like walking. I have snowshoed in deep, soft, fresh powder, sinking in to my thighs each time, and was in a heavy sweat with a pounding heart in just a few minutes. Using ski pole gives you a little bit of an upper body workout too.