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Fitness thread--what was your workout today?

Callistemon said:
Can you ride that on gravel roads, Gerald? Or does it have to be sealed road? It looks great and efficient, but having never ridden one before I think I'd get really nervous riding one of those on a road shared with cars. Is that an issue?

We have bicycle trails nearby and take our bikes there sometimes - also old rail trails. My husband rides a mountain bike and I a road bike with touring tyres, which handle gravel as long as it's not too soft.



This is our bicycles locked up on a share trail in Denmark (a town, not the country) - while we're off to the bakery to have lunch. Nice rural trails. We really need to go again!
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Having three tires makes much more rolling resistance on loose surfaces so I tend to ride on pavement. Around home people are used to having cyclists on the roads plus I have a flag and flasher to make myself visible. That is great that you like riding and enjoying the local things. We have rail trails here as well as ones made new and improvements are being done constantly. This summer there are plans to extend pavement 20 km between two small towns and both places have good lunch stops. With the bike club my spouse and I lead one trip in the Summer and we are planning a trip on a trail that runs through rolling, orchard country, past a couple of wineries. Here is my spouse on her CatTrike 559 last summer by an old potato barn along that trail. (added) Note the clipless pedals, on these trikes you set them pretty tight. You don't want your foot coming off the pedal and going under the crossbar at speed.

I especially like bicycling because you are experiencing things at a human scale.
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Callistemon said:
Better today. Started with a 2km loop around the bushland, at a decent walking pace, and at the halfway point I picked up a 5ft fence post we'd cut months ago when cleaning up the firebreaks and carried that back, which slowed me a little but was a good arm/shoulder/core workout. It wasn't that heavy because it was Blackbutt, not Jarrah. When I got home I dug a hole with an old post hole shovel, which wasn't too difficult because the ground was soft and the weather quite cool. That counts as exercise. Then I re-assembled the tie rail in which I had replaced a rotten post - so now I can work with the horse again.

I also did more arm and shoulder work by trimming the hooves of one of our donkeys. To do that you use big nippers to clip, then a big rasp to file it all smooth, while holding up the hooves (I wish I were an octopus). Using the nippers is hard on your hands and finger joint arthritis, and using the rasp is a bit of a workout, especially if you're trimming a large donkey or horse and it's summer, which makes the hooves hard. This was a small donkey with quite hard hooves.

Because some of you have posted such nice photos here, I wanted to post one of hoof trimming. This is of a now deceased horse being trimmed (he lived to age 34) but the photo also has Sparkle in it, who is the donkey I trimmed today. Sparkle is blind but has excellent GPS and other senses. She likes to get up close and personal when I'm trimming anyone else's hooves.



If I'm really good, I'll do some stretching later, but between those things and general chores I'm pretty much done for today.
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I love seeing the pictures you post! And Sparkle seems adorable.
 
I cycled for about an hour today, to and from appointments. And I got a deep tissue massage, which really helped my sore muscles.
 
Started my day with a 45 minute workout on my spin bike. I feel great. And as a plus, I won’t have to humidify the plants in my office/workout room because I sweated hard enough for the windows to get foggy :laughing:
 
90 minutes of cycling on my messenger bike outside. It’s a beautiful spring day, so I went for a ride in the fields.
 
Well l would love to take a picture of my stationary bike, but it refuses to leave the shipping box it arrived in.

But l biked 20 mins at gym. 40 on Mr Treadmill. And l flirted with 2 other cardio machines meaning less then 10 mins. And l ate protein to build up body after workout.
 
40 minutes of upper body strength training. I can’t wait to do a barre, dance or body combat class again though.
 
I have mostly been pottering around the house and garden and exercising my jaw muscles on good food this weekend, although we did take a horse and dog on a walk down to a wildlife camera whose memory card needed changing, in an effort to multi-task several objectives. Today we're planning a 90-minute coastal walk after lunch. Hope everyone is having a good weekend. :)
 
45 minutes of upper body functional strength training. I can notice my technique is getting better and I can handle more weight. It’s great to notice progress.
 
My Achilles tendinitis has only gotten worse. I really hurt myself walking down the stairs, so no exercise for me today. And I fear not for a while. Except for some isolated upper body and core training, I guess. I’m going a little stir crazy because I can’t even go outside for a walk.
 
30 minutes of very careful floor barre. I can barely walk, but at least I got some low intensity exercise :)
 
30 minutes on the bike this morning, didn't get to go walking until 5:30PM, but I did. However, too many vehicles were pulling out in front of me to keep the pace I wanted to keep, because no one around here has any respect for pedestrians, or cyclists for that matter. Also, I had one car honk at me, while I was walking on the very edge of the road--he clearly had enough room to go. Granted, I could've gotten on the sidewalk, but for power walking, I HATE SIDEWALKS!!
 
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