Mad Manatee Mentors 2013: CLOSED (exc/ Pop Tart bribes) (Page 363)

Touching base.

Still in a cast lol.  Getting on the trainer tonight - my new program while cast is as follows.

Run - 4 x per week.  2 speed, 1 long, 1 zone 2

Trainer - 4 x per week.  2 speed, 1 long, 1 strength

Strength - 2 x per week - squats, lunges, calf raises whatever i can do unimpeded!

Sportoga(yoga based) - 1 x per week

Stretching - after every session

massage - 1 x per week

soul destroying.

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by jobaxas

Touching base.

Still in a cast lol.  Getting on the trainer tonight - my new program while cast is as follows.

Run - 4 x per week.  2 speed, 1 long, 1 zone 2

Trainer - 4 x per week.  2 speed, 1 long, 1 strength

Strength - 2 x per week - squats, lunges, calf raises whatever i can do unimpeded!

Sportoga(yoga based) - 1 x per week

Stretching - after every session

massage - 1 x per week

soul destroying.

Not Soul destroying that looks good to me. At least you can still do all of that. Are they going to take the cast off eventually and give you a fiberglass one that you may or may not be able to wear when you accidentally fall into the pool and do some kick drills or one armed f/s

I'm having a follow up x ray on Friday - then will demand fibreglass one! 

Originally posted by jobaxas

Originally posted by StaceyK

Originally posted by jobaxas

Touching base.

Still in a cast lol.  Getting on the trainer tonight - my new program while cast is as follows.

Run - 4 x per week.  2 speed, 1 long, 1 zone 2

Trainer - 4 x per week.  2 speed, 1 long, 1 strength

Strength - 2 x per week - squats, lunges, calf raises whatever i can do unimpeded!

Sportoga(yoga based) - 1 x per week

Stretching - after every session

massage - 1 x per week

soul destroying.

Not Soul destroying that looks good to me. At least you can still do all of that. Are they going to take the cast off eventually and give you a fiberglass one that you may or may not be able to wear when you accidentally fall into the pool and do some kick drills or one armed f/s

I'm having a follow up x ray on Friday - then will demand fibreglass one! 

Glad to hear that you are likely getting a case "upgrade," now to get you all healed up and cast free!

That will keep you busy! Curious what the difference between the trainer speed and strength sessions were?

I don't really see the value in them. Some think they help make a more complete pedal stroke, but you have two legs that can share the work. Time is better spent focusing on what to do with the effort along with some cadence variation in there.

Kind of under the weather today.   I've plans to do a century ride this Saturday.     Not sure if I am up to it.    There are other distances to do.   There is a metric century, a fifty miler and a 34 miler.     Methinks I will wait to Saturday and decide which one I'll do.    

Sorry you're feeling sub par. Hope you're feeling better by Saturday.

I'm liking the massage once a week!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I suspect they may have been a contributor to my Achilles injury...I won't do them anymore.

Rather than doing those drills, you could up the anti by spending some time working in higher zones, e.g., you could do a workout where you warmed up for 20' then did something like 8' @ zone 4, 3' recovery, 10' zone 3 or 4 3' recovery ,10' zone 3 or 4, 10' cool down.  In other words, just work on upping the hard part of the workout, so you don't spend all your time in zone 2.

Due to our recent flooding (caused by rain amounts that some of you see daily) we've had some road closures. I thought you all would appreciate this road closure sign...

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Awesome!  Those are street names presumably?

That's great!

They are

A trainer speed session will be about 60mins with some high intensity zone 4 intervals.

A strength session lower intensity - nearer zone 2 maintained over a longer period in bigger gears.

I use the Macca workouts he uses on the trainer - some are brutal!

Listening to a Macca podcast a while back his coach says no.  Don't do them.  Plenty of strength exercises to work those muscles off the bike

the massage is going to keep me sane through this

That is so cool!

Survived session 2 of masters swim!  And (are you listening/reading, Chris?) today I got my first nuggets of wisdom on how to improve my stroke!   Boy, it is WORK to think about every arm movement, so much work that I at first struggled to keep track of my laps.  So my question to the fishy or in the know manatees, how long, roughly, will it take for these new movements/habits to become more natural, assuming I go to every workout 3 x week for ~75 minutes, working on those new techniques?  I also used a pull buoy for the first time ever today, I swear the first few laps it was trying to drown me!

On a different note, please send some prayers for my little Jack Russell.  Late Monday night she was showing signs of pain/distress/something wrong and a visit to the vet the next morning showed she has a slipped disc.  Poor dear is on an anti-inflammatory, a muscle relaxer, and is on mandatory rest for a week.  Yeah...tell a JR with an equally active 'sister' to rest...  Also, my father-in-law's health has declined and we are taking an unplanned trip to WV this weekend, so send some prayers for him as well.  Hoping the dog is well enough for the trip and that my FIL improves, although the way DH talks, he doesn't really want to improve.  He's tired of being sick and getting treatments and feeling bad, etc.  His spirit has definitely waned along with his health.