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I’ve been doing workouts at home for a while now. I’ve been making adjustments to try to make it seem as close to my regular Orangetheory workouts as possible. I’ve been missing my workouts so much that I even went online to see if there was any way I could get a rower at my house. Turns out, there are companies that rent home workout equipment, but they were all sold out of rentals. And the rowers that I could buy were either cheap versions that I don’t think I would like or huge ones that I wouldn’t have room for once things were normal again.

Fortunately, the at-home workouts have been changing as time goes on and they are getting harder and longer. They started out being closer to 45 minutes and now they are an hour long. And they are adding a lot more work to them so they are getting difficult. I know that I am working hard and I’m noticing that I’m sweating more and needing breaks as I do in a normal workout class. So I have been feeling better about what I’ve been able to do at home.

I still really miss having a coach with me and pushing me. I miss having friends with me in class and feeling that support. And I miss all the different equipment and options I have when I’m in class. But I’m doing what I can and I know that I will need to do this for a little longer.

The Safer At Home order for Los Angeles has been extended through the middle of May. We’ve been doing this for about a month and as of right now we have another month to go. I feel like the order will be extended at least once more to be the end of May. But even if that doesn’t happen, I’m only about halfway through the length of time that I will need to be doing these workouts at home. I know I have made improvements over the last month of what I have been able to get done and I know I can do more improvements over the next month.

This past week, things were also a bit better because I was feeling better. I had only a little more nausea left so that didn’t affect too many of my workouts. And even though I’m still getting over being sick, I’m doing significantly better than I was before. I’m so grateful that I was doing better so I could do more and do a better job with the harder workouts. And I hope that this week is just going to continue getting better.

I wish I had more to say about the workouts, but I really don’t right now. As positive as I am trying to be about everything, there is no denying that this is a struggle for me right now. I have said so many times about how my workouts do so much good for me, and that isn’t happening for me. I know I would be doing so much worse if I wasn’t doing the at-home workouts, but I also know I could be doing so much better. I’m working on being grateful and appreciative of what I’m able to do and knowing that I’m not using this time as an excuse to do nothing.

Right now, what I’ve been doing is the best that I can do, but I want to see if this coming week if I can somehow do more. And if that happens, that will be awesome. And if that doesn’t, I’m going to continue to be happy that I’m just doing something.

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I’ve been getting used to doing my workouts at home, and that’s a good thing. I finally feel like I have some good workout equipment (although there are a lot of things I wish I had). I’m able to feel like I’m doing a workout and not just goofing around while doing it. I can get my heart rate up and I’m sweating a lot. And I’ve had some moments of muscle soreness which made me really happy. I know that I’m working my muscles if I’m getting sore.

But this past week, I struggled a lot too. It was a combination of things that affected my workouts. First, I’m dealing with being sick. I feel pretty certain that it’s bronchitis because of how I’ve been feeling. But that also means that I’m out of breath from just doing the workouts. I’m coughing constantly, and even more when I’m breathing hard. It makes the workouts even harder than normal and requires me to take more breaks than I normally would need. I’ve dealt with this before and I know it will take a long time to recover, but I will get better. And because of how my symptoms are, I still feel pretty certain that it’s not COVID-19, which is good.

But I also was dealing with my monthly pain and nausea. I’ve been dealing with that for long enough that I am very used to it. But I’m only used to doing workouts with pain and nausea when I’m at the Orangetheory studio. When I’m in class at the studio, there are so many ways I can modify things. There are different pieces of equipment that I can use to make the exercise easier on me or to do a completely different exercise. I don’t really have that option when working out at home.

For example, any plank work that I had to do was so hard on me. Normally, I would use the bench for my hands so I wasn’t really face down. I looked around my house for what I could use to replicate that, and I wasn’t able to come up with a good option. The closest I had was using a step stool, but it wasn’t stable enough when I was using my hands on it. I thought about just standing and leaning on my walls, but that made it not make me nauseous but I didn’t feel like I was working out. I’m going to keep looking around my house for things I could use since I know I will still be nauseous this week, but I’m open to any suggestions if anyone knows of anything I could try using.

There were a few other things that I would have loved to have modified if I had more options with my weights. I am very limited in my house with what I can use as weights. Even the weights I bought only are a fraction of what I’m used to using. So I know there are some exercises that I’m doing with weights that don’t feel like they are doing much. It’s better than doing nothing, but it’s a bit annoying when I know I could do more if I had what I needed.

I know I’ll have the same struggles this week because neither issue will be better. The pain and nausea might not be an issue at the end of the week, but it might still be. But the issues from being sick will be something I probably will be dealing with throughout this month. I do need to figure out how I can modify things without having all the stuff I’m used to using. I’m planning on reaching out to some of my coaches to get their advice, but I know that a lot of things that others have suggested to me are not things I have in my house. Maybe I’ll need to do some more online shopping to get more equipment just to be able to do it. But I’m hoping my coaches will be able to suggest different exercises I can try in place of the ones I can’t do.

There are so many things I miss from my normal life right now, and my workouts are a big one that I miss. I miss my friends, my coaches, what I can accomplish, and feeling so strong. I never knew I could miss workouts this much. I know that everyone around the world is going through this same thing, so everyone is missing stuff. And at least I have the at-home workouts to make it as close to normal as possible. And I just have to keep pushing myself however I can so when we are able to be back in class that I’m ready to get back into it full force!

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This past week of workouts was just odd. Everything is just odd right now. There’s no denying that. But I tried to do everything I could to make it seem like a normal week. I struggled with pain and nausea for the first part of the week and was hoping that was going to be the worst of it. And physically, that was the worst. But the second half of the week was mentally a struggle. I tried my best and I think that I did pretty ok.

Monday’s workout was an endurance day, and I was definitely struggling with nausea. I didn’t have too much pain like I sometimes do, but it was there. But my nausea was really bad and I knew it would be another workout where I just had to try to do my best.

For cardio, we had 3 blocks. But like I have started to do on my bad pain/nausea days, I didn’t really worry too much about doing the push paces or all outs. I pedaled when I could and took a break when I needed to. I don’t like not following the workouts because one of the things I love the most about Orangetheory is having a coach to push me. But when things are this difficult for me with my body, I really can’t do much else. I could try to do things a bit more as planned, but I’d rather not have to rest when I don’t necessarily need to because everyone else is in a recovery minute. Especially if I just took a break to let some nausea pass. I feel like it’s better to just keep going and that’s why I have started to focus a bit less on the specifics on those days. And it’s not all the time that I feel like this, so I know I’m getting the coaching in on other days.

On the floor, we also had 3 blocks. I knew ahead of time that there were a lot of things I would need to modify and my coach and I were able to go over those things before the workout started. That helped a lot because I wasn’t feeling confused about what I should do and felt more confident about what I was going to do each block. Everything that was done with an ab dolly was something that I had to modify. But I think I got some good things to replace them with. The first block had single-arm low rows using the bench (I did them as hip hinge low rows so I wasn’t facing down too much) and ab dolly rollouts (which I did as rollouts on the straps). The second block had seated low rows, pikes on the ab dolly (I did plank leg lift using the bench), alligators on the straps, and push-ups to knee tucks on the ab dolly (I did these as push-ups and mountain climbers separately using the bench). And the last block had plank Spiderman (again, using the bench for my hands), sit-ups, and a 300-meter row. It wasn’t easy to get through all the floor blocks, but I did it.

Wednesday’s workout was a power day. I wasn’t doing a lot better than I was feeling on Monday, but at least it was a little less pain and nausea. But I still had so many modifications I had to make to every part of the workout.

For cardio, we had 2 blocks that had different intervals of a push pace, base pace, and an all out. All of the all outs were 30-seconds long, but the push and base paces changed. I wanted to do the intervals the way we were supposed to and I was able to do a little faster pedaling for the push paces and all outs. But I still was doing a lot of pedaling when I could and resting when I needed to. It wasn’t exactly the same as what I did on Monday and it wasn’t doing what I can do when I feel good. It was somewhat in the middle.

The rowing was one long block. We started with 3 rounds of a 100-meter row with squats with a medicine ball. Then it was 3 rounds of a 150-meter row with squats to shoulder presses with a medicine ball. And the last section was 3 rounds of a 200-meter row with ground to presses with a medicine ball. I did ok for the first section with the regular squats. But the squats started to make me feel a bit nauseous so I didn’t do any squats in the second section. I just did shoulder presses with a medicine ball between each round. I was working on my first 200-meter row when the block ended so I didn’t have to worry about what I would do to modify the ground to presses.

And on the floor, we had 2 blocks and I did a lot of modifications by using the bench for my hands. The first block had deadlifts with weights, burpees (I used the bench), and plank jacks (using the bench again). And the second block had lunges and planks with in and out with our hands using a mini-band (again, with the bench for my hands). Anything that had a plank element in it made me very nauseous and I took a lot of breaks in the middle of doing all the reps. But I knew this could happen so I was prepared for needing those breaks.

Friday’s workout was themed for Friday the 13th and I knew it would mean we also would also mean we had a lot of burpees since those tend to happen on Friday the 13th. I was finally feeling normal, but the mood in class was not normal. We usually have a full class, this time we didn’t. I think everyone knew that people were going to possibly avoid coming to class because of coronavirus. But it was still weird to see it not as full as we are used to. I know there are reasons to not come to class, but I feel like it’s one of the better places I could go to work out. The classes are small, everyone has to use an anti-bacterial wipe to clean up everything they touch. And I think most of us are feeling so anxious and we need something to keep us calm. And for many of us, that thing is our workouts.

The cardio was all about 1s and 3s. We had 3-minute distance challenges and 1-minute recoveries and all outs. I was able to do my biking work a bit more normal and that really helped me feel better. I wasn’t able to do the biking as hard as I know I could, but it was so much more than I had been able to do for the past week. And I did take the recovery time to be able to go really hard for the all outs.

On the rower, we had one long block. We did 100-meter rows and 13 squats between each row. I was really trying to do my rowing as fast as I could since 100-meters is a sprint, but my endurance wasn’t quite there. I know that whenever I am getting over when I’m nauseous that I usually need to do a workout or two before I’m back to my best ability. But I think I might have forgotten that a bit in the workout.

And on the floor, we had 3 blocks. In the first 2 blocks, we had 2 exercises and both exercises had 13 reps. The first block had burpees and bicep curls. And the second block had burpees and triceps with weights. The last block was timed and we had 1 minute of burpees, 1 minute of bicep curls, and 1 minute of triceps.

Saturday’s workout was something I really needed. My work shift on Saturday morning was just insane, and I needed my workout to recover from the mental stress I was under at work. I still laugh when I think about how I look at workouts as a way to get over stress or to feel better, but I guess that’s what happens when you get into a regular workout routine.

The workout was strength-based so we had incline work for cardio. We had 2 blocks and both the blocks were similar with all the work being at a base pace but alternating between no incline and incline work. The intervals on the first block were a bit longer than the ones on the second block, but they were both tough. And I was feeling good enough to do all the inclines the way I was supposed to. I also think it was helping me get some of my frustration out over how I was treated by some customers during my shift.

On the rower, we had different types of rowing for stroke drills. We started by doing 15 stroke tests to see how far we could get for 3 rounds. Then it was a 45-second row for 3 rounds. And we finished with 150-meter rows for 3 rounds. Every time, we were supposed to focus on rowing slowly to get as much power into our rows as possible. And between each row, we were supposed to lunge jumps. But I really can’t do those and it’s always tough for me to get on and off the rower, so I did regular squats instead.

And on the floor, we had 2 blocks. The first block had squats with weights, plank pull-throughs, and double crunches; all of those exercises were using weights. And the second block had sumo squats with weight, plank shoulder taps, and side plank pendulums. There was so much plank work and I’m so glad that I was finally feeling ok enough to be doing that. I know I could have modified things if I needed to, but I’m glad I didn’t have to because it’s tough when almost everything had to be modified.

This week, I have no clue what will happen. As of right now, I plan on going to my workouts. I know the studios are doing everything they can to keep things clean and safe for us. But as I’ve learned this past week, things can change so quickly. I really hope that I’m still able to make it to my workouts because it really does do amazing things for my mental health. It puts me in a better headspace and helps to keep me feeling like I have a bit of control in what feels like an out of control world. But if things change, they change. And I’ll just have to be ok with whatever does happen.

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I went into this past week of workouts knowing it was a high probability that it would be a bad week for me. I was hopeful that it wouldn’t be, but I’m also realistic and have dealt with this enough. And I was right, it wasn’t a good week for me. But I still did what I could and I have to be ok with that.

Monday’s workout was a strength-based class and it also had a bit of a run/row to it. I was excited about this class, but I was having one of the worst hip pain days that I’ve had in a long time. Usually, my hip pain is either an on-going dull pain or occasional sharp pain. This time, it was an on-going sharp pain that spiked with every step I took. The pain was a bit scary because that can mean that I need to see an orthopedic surgeon, but I wasn’t going to freak out too much. But it did affect my workout a bit.

The cardio was split into 3 blocks and the middle block was the one that had the run/row. The first and last blocks were similar. The first block had a 90-second push, 45-second base, 90-second push at incline, 45-second base without incline, and a 90-second push at incline. The last block was the same work, but done in reverse (so starting with the 90-second push at the incline). After the first block, we had to remember what distance we got to so we could use it for the run/row. The run/row was rounds of half the distance from the first block and a 200-meter row. For all the cardio work, I had to go a bit slow on the bike and be cautious with the resistance levels I used. And it took my time getting on and off the rower so that took up some time that I wish I had been able to be working. But I did my best and I was pretty happy with what I was able to do.

The floor also had 3 blocks. The first block was mini-band work with squats to side kicks, hip raises, and lateral walks. The second block had goblet squats, plank side rotations, and bicycle crunches. And the last block had sumo squats to upright rows, step-ups (which I modified to be lunges), and more plank side rotations and bicycle crunches. There were a few exercises that were extra hard on my hip, but I was just patient with myself and made sure that I felt ready before starting each rep.

Wednesday’s workout was a mix of endurance, strength, and power. It was also a day that I had a lot of nausea. Fortunately, my hip pain was almost completely gone (so I don’t need to worry about seeing an orthopedic surgeon) and even though I was nauseous I wasn’t dealing with cramps at the same time. It’s not the best situation to work out in, but it wasn’t as bad as it could have been. It was also a switch day so we were switching a lot and I didn’t have to worry about being in one section of the room for too long. We had 2 blocks at each section (6 blocks total).

For cardio, the first block started with a 2-minute push pace. Then we had a 1-minute base pace before a 2-minute base at incline. And we finished with a 30-second base without incline and a 30-second all out. The second block started with a 2-minute push just like the first block did. Then we had a 30-second walk before a 1-minute all out. Then it was 2 rounds of 30-seconds of walking and 30-second all outs.

The first block on the rower was all about stroke drills. We had 15 pulls on the rower to get as far as we could. After 15 pulls, we had squat jacks (which I modified to be regular squats) and we continued doing rounds of those until the block ended. We had to remember what distance we got in that first block to use when we got back to the rower for the second block. The second block started with 25 squat jacks (which I did as regular squats) and then we were supposed to row the distance that we got in the first block. The second block wasn’t about doing stroke drills, we just rowed normally. I just got to that distance when the block ended.

And on the floor, we were supposed to use heavy weights but my nausea wasn’t really allowing me to. I hated that I had to go a bit lighter on the weights, but I knew it was what I needed to do. The first block had bicep curls, front squats, neutral half thrusters, and squats. And the second block had deadlifts, low rows with weights, burpees (modified using the bench), and double-tap crunches. The floor work in both blocks was a bit of a struggle with my nausea and I didn’t get as much done as I wanted to.

I also had a workout on Thursday. I couldn’t do my workout on Saturday so I had to fit in an extra class somewhere else. Every time I do a workout in the afternoon I seem so thrown off by them. And it’s weird because for years my workouts were in the afternoon so I should be used to them. But it is a good way to mix up things since I usually am pretty set in when I work out. And I don’t know if this was due to the workout being in the afternoon or it was just that day, but it was a bad nausea and pain day for me. I took all the medications that I could to manage it, but it wasn’t helping.

The workout was an endurance day and it was a 2 group class. The cardio had 3 blocks and the floor had 1 long block. For cardio, I know there were different push pace lengths, but I wasn’t really focused on that. I was pedaling when I could and resting when I needed. I didn’t think too much beyond that. I hate when I can’t really follow the workout, but for cardio sometimes I have to do that. And I know that when I do that on cardio that it’s not a horrible distraction or anything to the others in the class so I don’t feel as guilty.

On the floor, we started with a 500-meter row and then we had the exercises. We had a hip hinge swing with weights, lunges with lateral raises and front raises (I split them up and did the lunges on their own and the arm movements on their own), hip hinge reverse fly, hamstrings on the ab dolly (which I did as hip bridges), and roll-outs on the ab dolly (which I did on the straps). After completing the exercises, we went back to the rower and decreased the row by 100 meters each round. Between some of the modifications taking longer than the assigned exercises and needed to take breaks, I only made it through 2 rounds on the floor even though it was all one long block.

I was feeling a little better on Friday, but I still wasn’t doing great. It was a strength day, and I was able to do more than I could on Thursday which was nice. But there were still lots of breaks that I needed to take and I wasn’t doing as much as I could do if I was feeling ok.

For cardio, we had 2 blocks. Both blocks had a mix of push paces and base paces with and without incline. I was using the resistance levels for the incline work but I was going much slower than I normally would go on the bike. But it did feel good to push myself a bit more than I had on Thursday even if it wasn’t quite what I wanted to do.

On the rower, the first block was rounds of 200-meter rows with squats to shoulder presses with a medicine ball between each row. I was doing ok with doing 200-meters and only needed to take a break once in the middle of a row. And the second block was another stroke drill block. We had 20 strokes each time and the same exercise between each row. The 20 stroke drills took longer than 200-meters so I had to take breaks in the middle a lot more. The nausea was getting really intense on the rower, but it wasn’t as bad as it has gotten at times.

And on the floor we had one long block split into 2 mini-blocks. Each mini-block was supposed to be done 3 times before moving on. The first mini-block had push-ups (I used the bench to modify them) and single-arm hip hinge rows with a weight. The second mini-block had chest presses, plank pull-throughs (I modified these to be plank shoulder taps using the bench), and single-arm low rows on the straps (I modified these to be using both hands instead of just one). Even though I modified so many things on the floor, it didn’t feel that way to me and I was happy that I was using close to my normal weights for the weight work.

Just like how I was going into this past week, I am aware that this week might be a tough one for me. But I also know that hopefully after this week I’ll be back to feeling normal for about 2 weeks. And even if I feel awful and I am barely doing anything in the workout, whatever effort I can do is better than what I would be doing if I wasn’t in class. And sometimes that’s all I can tell myself when I’m really down on myself and my ability.

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This past week of workouts was a pretty good week for me. I wasn’t dealing with nausea at all. And I wasn’t dealing with hormonal pain. That’s always a win for me. But I did have a week where I was dealing with hip pain for most of the week. It wasn’t the worst hip pain I’ve had, but it was affecting things for me. But I’m used to that type of pain so it wasn’t too bad to have to push through it.

Monday’s workout was a power day, and it was the first time I was almost late for class! There was an accident blocking the freeway exit I use to get to my Monday class, and I made it 2 minutes after class started (we have to be in the room within the first 5 minutes of class). Since I was late, I had to start on the floor. I really don’t like starting on the floor, but it’s better than missing class completely.

We had 2 blocks on the floor. The first block was split into 2 different sections. The first section had lateral lunges, skater lunges, and plank punches. We did 2 rounds of those exercises and then had a 200-meter row. Then we had reverse lunges, hip bridges, and crunches. We were supposed to do 2 rounds of those and then have another 200-meter row, but I didn’t make it through 2 rounds of that second section. The second block had toe taps and step-ups on the benches. I modified those to do smaller movements and holding on to the straps for balance while I was on the bench (I don’t always do this, but my hip was doing ok so I felt like I should push myself). We also had double crunches and sit-ups for that second block.

For cardio, we technically had 2 blocks but it felt like one long block. The first block had all 2-minute distance challenges. After each distance challenge, we had a walking recovery that was between 1-2 minutes long. We had 4 of those and then 1-minute distance challenges with walking recoveries between 1-2 minutes long. Again, we had 4 of those challenges. I kept the resistance level on the bike at my base level for the entire thing and I really did try to increase the wattage and pedaling speed each of the distance challenges. It was not easy, even when we had the 1-minute challenges, because I was getting tired. But it was a good cardio workout and it felt different from so many other cardio workouts we have had.

Wednesday’s workout was the 12-minute distance benchmark. I was really looking forward to this workout because I wanted to see what I could do this time. I’ve had too many benchmarks that happened when I was experiencing a lot of pain and nausea. But this time, the benchmark fell right in the middle of when I was feeling my best!

I didn’t have a lot of strategy for how I was going to do the 12-minute challenge on the bike. It’s hard for me to plan as I did on the treadmill because my pedaling speed or resistance doesn’t set how far I can go the same way the treadmill speed does. I know what my previous PR was and I wanted to beat that. And I figured out what distance I needed to get on the bike at different checkpoints so I could get there. It’s still very different planning on the bike, but I at least had a bit of a plan going into it. And I was doing really well right from the start. I was on pace to just beat my previous PR from the first checkpoint I had in my head. I did have to take 2 quick breaks for water, and I panicked that those screwed things up for me and I would miss beating my old distance. But I guess that panic made me pedal faster because I beat my old PR! I was hoping to do .1 better, but I ended up doing .2 better!

I was using the bike for the rower again and I knew I wouldn’t be biking too hard after completing the 12-minute challenge. I did set the bike at my normal base resistance level (it was a bit below that for the challenge because I knew my base might be a bit too much). The rowing started at 400-meters and went down 100 meters each time before going back up by 100 meters. I just did it by time on the bike with the plan of 30-seconds for every 100-meters (so 2-minutes for 400-meters, 90-seconds for 300-meters, and so on). When we were decreasing the rowing distance, we had frogger squats between each row. And when we were increasing the rowing, we had lunges between each row. I usually don’t do lunges when rowing, but since I was using the bike, I was able to get on and off easily so I did do lunges but holding onto the bike for a bit of support.

And the floor was one long block. We started with single-leg bicep curls which are always a struggle for me with my balance. But I took my time and went slowly so I could do them. Then we had seated torso rotations with weights, knee tucks on the ab dolly, rollouts on the ab dolly, low rows on the straps, and triceps on the straps. It wasn’t the hardest floor workout, but it felt much harder than it was because of how tired I was after the benchmark.

Friday’s workout was a mix of endurance, strength, and power but it really felt like an endurance day to me. I was feeling awesome after doing so well on the benchmark on Wednesday and wanted to continue having awesome workouts for the week. And I think I did just that, but I may have overdone things a bit.

For cardio, we had 2 blocks. Both blocks had a push pace to a base pace before having a few rounds of all outs. The first block had a 90-second push pace, 90-second base pace, and 2 rounds of 1-minute all outs. And the second block had a 3-minute push pace, 1-minute base pace, and 3 rounds of 30-second all outs. I was able to get some good speed on the bike for those all outs, especially the 30-second ones. It did feel like the resistance was heavy because on Wednesday I was lower than my normal level. But I needed to be back to my normal one because I want to still work on increasing it.

I was on the bike for the rower again for this workout. The rowers started with a 400-meter row which I did as a 2-minute bike. Then it was supposed to be squat jacks to overhead presses with a medicine ball. I did them as regular squats with overhead presses. The rowing went down by 100-meters each round (so I decreased the bike by 30-seconds) with the same exercise after. Once we did 4 rounds of that, then it was just rowing (or biking) for distance until the block ended.

And on the floor, we had 2 blocks. The first block had clean to press with weights, low rows on the straps, single-leg v-ups (which I modified to be full sit-ups), and plank hip dips. And the second block had lateral lunges to single-arm upright rows, y-raises on the straps, and plank shoulder taps. I had been dealing with a bit of a bad hip day that morning, but nothing I was doing should have bothered my hips too much. But by the end of this workout, I was in a lot of pain and I felt it a lot the next day as well. Since there was nothing that should have bothered me too much, it might have been just bad luck causing the pain. But it was odd to feel that much pain when I couldn’t pinpoint what exercise might have been the reason.

Saturday’s workout was another endurance, strength, and power day. I was dealing with the hip pain that I had on Friday plus some muscle soreness, so I knew I would need to be a bit easy on myself. I didn’t want to do anything that could actually hurt me, but I also had to push through the pain a bit. Fortunately (or unfortunately), I’m so used to figuring out this balance so it’s not hard for me to do that.

We had 3 cardio blocks. Every block had a 90-second push pace, a base pace, and an all out. In the first block, the base pace was 90-seconds and the all out was 30-seconds. Each block, 15 seconds were taken off of the base pace and 15 seconds were added to the all out. It was a good cardio workout for me, especially for dealing with hip pain. The blocks were all short so there was time for me to rest, and I didn’t have to feel like I needed to do anything harder than I could do.

The rower also had 3 blocks. And 2 of those blocks were crew rows, which is when we are supposed to sync up with one person on the rower and all row together. The first block was supposed to be about 24 strokes per minute and the second block was supposed to be 26 strokes per minute. Getting my strokes to be at the right cadence wasn’t too hard, but it is very hard to sync up with everyone else. Even if we are all rowing at 24 strokes per minute, you aren’t necessarily doing every part of the row the same. So I had to focus on matching everyone else and not as much on my rowing. The last rowing block was just a row for distance and we didn’t have to sync up with anyone else or be at a specific stroke per minute.

And on the floor, we had one long block but it was split into 3 mini-blocks. Each mini-block had 2 exercises and we did 3 rounds of those before moving on to the next one. The first mini-block had ground to press with weights and seated knee tucks. The second mini-block had froggers and double crunches. And the last mini-block had push-ups and sit-ups with torso rotations. I did minor modifications for a few of the exercises to make it easier on my hips, but nothing too big like the modifications I have to do when I’m nauseous.

This week, I know it might be a tough workout week. I’m hoping that my hips don’t continue to hurt me. But I know that I will likely start having pain and nausea at some point during the week. The only thing that might work in my favor is that I had to adjust my workout schedule to be slightly different so there is a chance I might actually be done with my workouts for the week before the pain and nausea hits me. I’ll just have to wait and see.

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