MaryStella Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 yeah your logging lots of arm bike time. i do 10 minutes and done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 yep there's not much to keep you occupied on it, plus i think tea machine smells really bad. i should just clean it today. lb, let me know if you got chocolate mint flavor, i'll be there in 2 hours. Sunday:swimming!couldn't really kick, it hurt, so i just worked on my stroke. Awesome practice for long stretches, i could really work on details. Really sloppy at first, kind of on purpose, swam like a maniac. My new goggles are the shiz, they make life in the pool so much nicer http://www.tyr.com/shop/tracer-racing-p-849-c-68_70_71.html Workout 1swim: 30 mins fs 10 mins bs w/floatie Workout 21 hour legs/obliques circuit i really appreciated being able to focus on mostly my legs, i feel like it's getting me ready to hit the road, it got my heart going, and it felt really good. i worked to failure a couple times, also doing oblique move w/ 10# db Food:coffee/soySWIM2 scoops protein, tsp flax200 cal oatmealcoffee/soyGYM<<< 2 scoops proteinsome macadamia nuts500 cal tofu, eggplant, random other veggiesbuildergo freebuilder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobsteriffic Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Glad you're able to get back into the pool! Do you find the anti-fog on those goggles actually works? I have horrible problems with mine fogging. I bought some spray, I'm going to try that out tonight. But I've heard that the spray shortens the life span of the goggles. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalBrada Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Oooh yeah! Mac Nuts! Two words that I can totally relate too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 17, 2009 Author Share Posted November 17, 2009 monday such a fun workout (the part with ed) especially negatives 30 mins arm bikechest and bis w/ ed 30 mins arm bike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 18, 2009 Author Share Posted November 18, 2009 stupid, dark, dark day. one hour of straight back, tris, and abs, was gonna go arm swimming, but decided to just do another hour of back, tris, and abs. then fell down the stairs onto my broken foot. i am so over this. at least my tris are sore now along with my foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobsteriffic Posted November 18, 2009 Share Posted November 18, 2009 ouch, sorry to hear about your fall Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryStella Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 hope u didn't do any serious damage with the fall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 19, 2009 Author Share Posted November 19, 2009 yeah me too, i'm pretty sure it's ok, just extra sore. if it doesn't feel better i'll see the doc again. i'm really an idiot. i was thinking this morning about how when i started this log i made sure to focus on victories to keep myself going... positive reinforcement , etc. but i am just not seeing too many positives these days. i try to keep my head up, stay smiling, do what i need to do, have ed helping me, kick the ass of whatever needs kicking, but in reality, i am a bad grumpy patient, and i dont take to the sick role very well. i feel like i am de-training in all aspects of my fitness, carrying extra water, exra fat, the stress of this is making me look less happy, god only knows how all these freaking calcium bears are affecting my kidneys, and this stupid boot is starting to smell like the gym. i'm sick of wearing the clothes i am stuck wearing because of it, and i miss my bike. i really really miss my bike alot. my motto is the bike makes everything better. then it became the bike and juanes make everything better. now my motto is hurry up and heal you stupid fucking broken foot. god i am such a baby. lucky thing it's not anything less manageable than a broken foot. a broken leg would see me slitting my wrists. i'm gonna make a terrible elderly invalid, i just hope if i get alzheimers it's the kind that makes me obliviously unaware of what's going on around me. someone plz just make sure my toes get a pretty colored pedicure even though i won't know the difference. blah i needed to get that out. a guy at the gym said, everyone is saying, really, that i should wait 8 weeks b4 running instead of 6 to make sure i don't fuck anything up. i think im gonna agree. but i am going batshit fucking insane. i don't know, we'll see. i know that one of the biggest challenges of this whole thing, even more than training while my foot is down, is gonna be getting back up to speed and knowing how and when to push myself. i need to come up with some guidelines for distinguishing pain, soreness, and fatigue, and figure out when enough is gonna be enough. i know the fatigue part of it won't be a static variable. that's gonna be the tough part. fml. Tuesdaywas gonna just do legs but there were dead eyed zombies hogging up the very few machines i'm limited to. 30 mins arm bike1 hour legs with a a little shoulders and abs thrown in30 mins arm bike i think i feel better now/rant Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalBrada Posted November 19, 2009 Share Posted November 19, 2009 was gonna just do legs but there were dead eyed zombies hogging up the very few machines i'm limited to.You should of used that funky foot to lure a few away from the machines then with the quickness dart back to the machines. Or you could of lured them away then beat them down with your funky foot-fu! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 21, 2009 Author Share Posted November 21, 2009 I tried it. It worked. Thursday:14 hour work day, no physical fitness Friday:elliptical!the cybex elliptical is the only one i can manage for now. I have to go rly slow or the boot snaps my leg out, and i have to angle my broken foot out which i am sure is not good for my hips, and my old knee injury started complaining after 17 minutes, but it felt rly awesome. I could move to music, it was great, slow but great. i had to pace myself exactly this slow but it was still great http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f3wiU7VTAU 30 mins arm bike10 mins ellipticalshoulders (jarvek) abs and legs w/ ed plus some more after that20 mins elliptical i am so lucky that ed can help me with this. he knows exactly what to do, and he knows how i work. he's so fucking cool. I couldn;t be doing this without him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lean and Green Posted November 22, 2009 Share Posted November 22, 2009 ed's the man. I hope your foot feels better or how else are we going to cycle? Are you cool with cycling in the rain or when it's cold?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 23, 2009 Author Share Posted November 23, 2009 Definitely. Saturday I ended up dedicating the afternoon to swimming. I still couldn't kick so i used a floaty between my legs which made alot of me stick out of the water which made me get cold rly fast cuz i couldn't use the muscle groups in my legs to generate heat. i went from the pool to the hot tub to warm up back and forth for about 2.5 hours. i lost count of distance. fs is improving alot. 5-6 spb, no idea how that happened. then i went to the other gym and did chest and bis. i didn't think i went too hard on the pecs but aparently i dud cuz it's monday morning and im still sore. workout:swimmingchest bis food:i forgot, but i do know it was ~125 g carb and something like 1500 cal Sunday:killer. worked up a good sweat, even on the arm bike. this could be because i am detraining and everything is getting harder. i could go a little faster on the elliptical without snapping my knee out... it seems to be all in maintaining a semi-squat. idk but i feel like i am getting myself back. first workout since i broke my foot that i felt like i even came close to hitting it. 30 mins arm bike (r 6 ~130 bpm)20 mins ellipticalshoulders (jarvek) legs, obliques/abs20 mins arm bike paced on thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YutsXRzQjck food:2 scoops protein200 cals oatmeal4 rice cakes, coffee/soyWORKOUT2 scoops protein chamomile with a little agave300 cal tofu, artichokes, green beans, broccoli, builder bargo free bar, lunabarlunabar Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 24, 2009 Author Share Posted November 24, 2009 monday elliptical again! i won't be able to do this every day with the boot on, knee was unhappy for the first 20 mins then it must have warmed up or my glutes must have or something cuz it stopped hurting, i think the trick is to do it in a sort of squat. the second round my hips were way too off to go more than 20 mins. still slow but it felt pretty good to get moving. 30 mins ellipticalback/tris endurance ~1 hr20 mins elliptical food:am carb blitz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MaryStella Posted November 24, 2009 Share Posted November 24, 2009 swimming and elliptical ! at least your off the arm bike! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robert Posted November 25, 2009 Share Posted November 25, 2009 Cool seeing you training with Ed recently and always nice to see you at the gym! I'll be there at some point today. Enjoy your week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 missed ya. hope you had a good one. tuesday-30 mins elliptical, then started chest and bis but ended up getting a young friend oriented to the gym. still can't swim, went a lap without the floatie and it was not ok at all. wednesday-45 mins ellipticalchest, bis, abs15 mins elliptical Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobsteriffic Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 By floatie do you mean a pull buoy? Those are really good if you want to work on stroke improvement, you don't have to worry about your legs sinking. You can just concentrate on what your arms are doing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 26, 2009 Author Share Posted November 26, 2009 pretty much, the kind shaped like a dumbell. the problem with it is that it makes me float so much that being part way out of the water makes me get cold really fast. it really does free you up to work on the stroke though huh... i would love it if the water or the air was warmer. how often do you train with it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobsteriffic Posted November 26, 2009 Share Posted November 26, 2009 When I was in swim class we used it a couple times to work on our stroke. That just ended so I'm training on my own (or will be when comps are over), hopefully 3x a week. I'd like one day to really focus on form and drills where I would use things like the pull buoy, and then the other 2 days to work on endurance because mine sucks so badly. P.S. That sucks about the water temp...the place where I was taking classes is the warmest pool in the city, it was so nice...like swimming in a hot tub. But now I am going to the university pool which isn't nearly as warm and has salt water...maybe that will cure my problem of ingesting too much water when I breathe, it tastes terrible and makes me ill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 29, 2009 Author Share Posted November 29, 2009 last year i barely trained with it. the advice i got was since i already had so much upper body strength and i had such a short time to train, i should work on straight endurance and speed. it worked, i finished well. but now i do see that my speed and efficiency can be really increased by working on perfecting that stroke. i hope they warm up the pools some more though it's pretty unbearable. you'll swallow less water the more you swim, don't worry. thursday:30 mins elliptical food:omfg, as my friend said, it felt like i swallowed a baby whale. overall, i don't think i overate that much, but my body isn't used to such rich food. there was so much food for dinner we couldn't even fit it all on the table. friday:30 mins ellipticalshoulders, legs, obliques30 mins elliptical food:2 scoops protein 100 cals oatmealcoffee/soyWORKOUT2 scoops proteina brazil nut300 cal tofu, salad greens, 2 go free barsgo free bara few spoons of soy dream saturday:30 mins ellipticalhour of abs15 mins elliptical food:2 scoops protein 200 cals oatmealcoffee/soyWORKOUT2 scoops protein300 cal tofu, artichokes and kale2 buildersa few spoons of soy dreama swig of martinelli's Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted November 30, 2009 Author Share Posted November 30, 2009 Sunday-workout1an hour of back and tris endurance workout 230 mins ellipticalsome leg band squats (not good on the foot)10 min stationary bike >100 rpm ~150-175 wattsbike felt ok food:coffe/soyWORKOUT2 scoops protein200 cals oatmealcoffee/soyWORKOUT2 scoops protein3 rice thins, some homous and baba ganoush, an applesome peppermintsgreen salad, 300 cal tofu, builder barlunabargo free bara swig of martinelli's wow that was alot of food Monday:still early but i want to get down my thoughts on training today, i won't train anymore today. stationary bike, 30 mins>100 rpm ~175-200 wattsmy first sustained effort on the bike after the break. i warmed up on the elliptical first. the first 15 was a good hard effort, but i was pretty much pedaling with one foot. i left the toe strap really lose. so i tightened it down and went to work on my pedal stroke. it was hard. i didnt want to use my left leg, i didnt want to pull with my left foot, so did 2 or 4 minute intervals of really hard effort, took it down to about 125 watts for the minute rest. i got really weak. my calf muscles are shit. 4 weeks. i could take it to the street but i don't really see the utility in it at this point. i put my bike in the shop so i wouldn't be tempted to ride it. i'm gonna leave it in there at least another week. i need to work on:even pedal strokesuplesse in generalgetting my calf muscles back, i don't really know how to without using my foot. once i tightened the strap down, my foot did hurt a little. idk maybe it's too early. i'll try again and see what happens. maybe it's just normal soreness and i'm not doing any damage? i did work up a good sweat though. it was my first drenching, snorting, huffing puffing effort in a long time. it felt fucking great. need to get back to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vivalasvegans Posted December 2, 2009 Author Share Posted December 2, 2009 tuesdayi think my biceps are getting stronger. not necessarily what i need, but it's pretty cool. they never get DOMS but they always hurt when i work em. 30 mins staionary bikechest, bis, abs20 mins ellipticalnegatives too, always fun a little improvement on the bike. first 15 sustained just under 200 watts i think using both legs better than yesterday. second 15 did intervals between 225-250 watts, it was hard at first but the work got easier. i think there are at least 2 things going on, i have to get my fitness back and i have to find my moves again too. i might try the calf press tomorrow with light weight. break is a little sore from yesterday, i ended up having to walk up a steep hill that the angle tweaked my foot on. i don't think i re-injured it, my doctor friend is assuring me everything should be pretty much cemented in place now. i would feel more confident if it didn't still hurt at times right where it broke. def not ready to try running, still can't walk right. but i can bike a little felt so good to really sweat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lobsteriffic Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 glad you're on the mend, you'll be back full force in no time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
veggieprincess Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 I just browsed the last couple pages to see whatcha been up to and I'm so sorry to hear about your foot!! How's that comin along? I'll read more when I have time but from what I've seen I've been impressed with your ability to push through this obstacle and still get your workouts in!!! You should be so proud of yourself for that!!!! Have a great day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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