Structure/Discipline

[rebeccmeister]

I want to get myself into a reasonably consistent morning exercise routine across the upcoming weeks. I think it's going to look like:

Mondays or Tuesdays: Erg workout (depending on whether I have an 8 am Tuesday lab to teach)
Wednesdays: Strength training on my own
Thursdays: Team erg workout
Fridays: Strength training on my own
Saturdays: Team erg workout + short walking/running workout

The hardest part with the workouts on my own is that I need to be upright and moving around for at least an hour before I do anything particularly strenuous. This is based off of learning more last year about what happens to the spine and vertebral discs when one sleeps - they realign and it takes about an hour of being upright before one's back is ready for more strenuous activity.

When I go down to the boatyard to erg, this isn't a huge issue; I just get up early enough to assemble my lunch, do an ab workout, and then bike down to the boatyard, and by that time an hour has passed. I just need a decent equivalent home routine to help me fight off the bed magnets on my own. I think I have it mostly worked out; I just can't for the life of me remember what I did for this last year. The home version will probably look like: get up, put away dishes, feed the cat, make my lunch, hop on the BikeErg, & go.

In any case, it felt good to get in a strength training workout this morning. During the on-water rowing season, strength training is the thing that falls off my agenda first when I'm busy, but I can tell that the lack of strength training has been catching up with me. I just feel better when I include transverse and frontal plane movements in my life in addition to all of the sagittal plane movements provided by rowing and bicycling.

I'll likely be sore tomorrow, in spite of trying to go easy on the first day back to strength training.

Comments

[moodyduck]

I am trying to row more now that the weather is bleh--that was a big part of getting the erg in the first place--but I still struggle with feeling queasy when I'm done. (not from the effort--I'm going at an easy pace with my HR around 130, whereas during a run it's around 160 and I don't feel bad.) It's not every time but it makes me not want to try it until the evening when I don't have anything to do after. And then it ends up getting late and I haven't done anything.