What's a tough workout?

[Veronica]

I know I've worked hard when I feel the effort required to open my classroom door or to lift my arm over my head to write on the whiteboard.

How do you know when you've worked hard?

Veronica

[Irulan]

When my upper abs hurt the next day, usually from lots of ball pikes. And how the heck do you stretch that out?

[Catrin]

When I literally collapse to the ground at the end to either stretch or breathe...and I am usually not alone when I do that (group training).

[ny biker]

I think my definition of hard work is different from yours.

[lph]

When I have trouble lifting my cup of tea to my mouth afterwards, or my handwriting goes all wobbly (happened a lot at university when I'd climb in the mornings before class.) Or when my dh gives me a friendly pat or gentle squeeze and I yelp from pain.

[Crankin]

When I think I'm going to pass out as I stand up from doing one minute of burp-ees (the auto correct keeps changing this to burps) at the end of a class where I've done one minute of everything, including several sets squat thrust push ups with weights/tricep curls, jumps, etc.

[OakLeaf]

Any run over 17 miles. Never yet have come back from one feeling refreshed.

I know all that means is that I need to do them more often... and keep working on form ...

[Catrin]

When I think I'm going to pass out as I stand up from doing one minute of burp-ees (the auto correct keeps changing this to burps) at the end of a class where I've done one minute of everything, including several sets squat thrust push ups with weights/tricep curls, jumps, etc.

hmmm, you SURE we don't have the same trainer?????

:)

[Crankin]

They do sound suspiciously similar. We just don't use the weight machines you have.
And she's the one I like!
The other one just does millions of repetitions of everything. It's overkill. I switched one of my days to avoid her class, but since September, they've not been following the regular schedule because of the evil one's family commitments and the other one's work schedule.

[lph]

Any run over 17 miles. Never yet have come back from one feeling refreshed.

I know all that means is that I need to do them more often... and keep working on form ...

You expect to run for 17 miles and come back "refreshed"??

:-D

[Catrin]

They do sound suspiciously similar. We just don't use the weight machines you have.
And she's the one I like!
The other one just does millions of repetitions of everything. It's overkill. I switched one of my days to avoid her class, but since September, they've not been following the regular schedule because of the evil one's family commitments and the other one's work schedule.

We rarely use machines in the group training - very occasionally we do but not often. He focuses more on body weight exercises, kettlebells, barbell and squat complexes, and then the weird stuff.

Good luck on avoiding the evil one!

[Melalvai]

Having injured myself repeatedly in the past 3 years attempting to workout, I've sworn off tough workouts. From now on it's regular gentle gradual workouts. Maybe it will take me a decade to increase to a half marathon (or the equivalent in weights or swimming) but I don't care. I will never injure myself again!

[Crankin]

Catrin, maybe I was mistaken by your use of the word barbell. We have bars, but no weights to go on them, just weighted bars. I was using the heavy one, but it seemed to be inflaming my neck/shoulder, so I went back to the 6 lb. bar except for dead lifts.

[Catrin]

Catrin, maybe I was mistaken by your use of the word barbell. We have bars, but no weights to go on them, just weighted bars. I was using the heavy one, but it seemed to be inflaming my neck/shoulder, so I went back to the 6 lb. bar except for dead lifts.

It sounds like an understandable confusion, every gym has a different set-up. Of course we have lots of machines, but we/I rarely use them outside of the leg-press machine. Our barbells weigh either 35 or 45 pounds without weight, then we add plates to them for our desired weight.

In the past I've had a weighted 45-lb bar for deadlifting, and an unweighted 35-lb bar for overhead work. Right now, however I am not doing overhead work or pushups at all...not until I've been released from PT. Thankfully anything below my elbows doesn't hurt, so I still get to work on my heavy deadlifts. Really hoping once I am released that I can FINALLY start building some upper body strength - slowly but surely...

[OakLeaf]

You expect to run for 17 miles and come back "refreshed"??

:-D

:D :D That is the Chi Running ideal, and adherents claim to experience it...

[Kathi]

A tough workout is when I feel that I have been using all the muscles in my body after a day of downhill skiing. I will sit in the car for 10 minutes before I have enough energy to remove my ski boots. The other night after a day of skiing bumps and powder the only strength I had was to lay on the floor and do some rolling.

I recently found a warmup program that I use before and after skiing and it seems to be activating core muscles as well as glutes, quads, hamstrings, thoratic spine, etc. It's as if my body just "flows" down the mountain and I have movements that weren't there before. Never felt this way with all the weight lifting I used to do.