Gym Day

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RHR = 40

I haven't blogged about my gym days but I quite like the workouts and feel that they help to keep my healthy and happy (I'm happiest when I work out every day but I break down if I run every day).

My current pattern is 3 days per week of gym workouts, 4 days per week of running. My gym workouts focus on (after a thorough rowing machine warm-up) core strength and stretching and alternately (1 day per week) back, chest, and shoulder strengthening. So a lot of crunches and planks and back extensions and hip something somethings (I use a big inflated ball and roll it around) followed by push-ups or pull-ups or shoulder presses. All interspersed with stretching. The whole thing takes about 45 minutes. My back pain is gone (knock on wood) and I feel the workout somewhat mitigates the muscle atrophy that comes with aging.

Anyway, after wrestling with the what do I do in the winter question, my current thinking is that I can keep doing what I'm doing--switch my midweek runs to the treadmill and run both days on the weekend, after the sun is up.