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I just walked to my kegerator - AND, I walked back!!!!!! I may do that several more times . . . otherwise known as REPS! Inevitably I will take a side jaunt, or as i like to call it "a kidney cleario" . . . Then back into rhythm. A bit later I may take a quick break for some upper body stuff - some arm curls perhaps with a little pizza for added resistance followed by some gut extensions. Then back to the reps. At some point I will probably get in a little rowing, by working that little lever on the side of the Barcalounger, followed shortly thereafter by a well deserved cool down . . . . . I luv working out . . .
 
gunhaus said:
I just walked to my kegerator - AND, I walked back!!!!!! I may do that several more times . . . otherwise known as REPS! Inevitably I will take a side jaunt, or as i like to call it "a kidney cleario" . . . Then back into rhythm. A bit later I may take a quick break for some upper body stuff - some arm curls perhaps with a little pizza for added resistance followed by some gut extensions. Then back to the reps. At some point I will probably get in a little rowing, by working that little lever on the side of the Barcalounger, followed shortly thereafter by a well deserved cool down . . . . . I luv working out . . .
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Good on ya! It's inspiring to see someone making their health and workout routine a priority! Let's hope this isn't just new years optimism--you need to keep it up all year long!

I particularly like to do drop sets of arm curls... Each rep gets a little lighter than the previous; until I start a new set anyway...
 
I decided to go for more core in '24.

So 8 days in, I've done core every day. 80 minutes total, with 10 minute classes except for playing golf yesterday where I only did a 5 beforehand, and a 15 minute today to make up for it. Good news is that 5 minutes of core in the morning didn't screw up my golf swing lol. ]

The first few days of consecutive core workouts REALLY burned... But it seems like my body is starting to get used to doing it every day and the soreness is diminishing. So that's good.
 
Well, thanks to my son, along with my nieces and nephews all playing pass the germs at Christmas after spending a bunch of time in the bioweapons development labs we call schools, my January was pretty much terrible.

Time to get loosen up and prepare for February.
 
Kent88 said:
Well, thanks to my son, along with my nieces and nephews all playing pass the germs at Christmas after spending a bunch of time in the bioweapons development labs we call schools, my January was pretty much terrible.

Time to get loosen up and prepare for February.
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Sorry to hear, brother... Peloton-wise, I was at least lucky that I caught my crud towards the end of last year and it was after I'd hit my main annual goals, so I felt okay about just shutting it down and letting myself recuperate. If it was a January thing for me, I'd probably be fighting through it and not helping myself in the process.

I did see in my Feed that you got back on a ride, so good for you!

For 2024, so far things are going well:

  • I had a goal of hitting 15K minutes again, with a stretch goal of getting to the 18K or 20K number. I managed to be on pace for 20K at the 1K check-in date. I've dropped just slightly below that largely due to going to Paso and drinking wine (so I only did core for a few days), but I'm not far off where I need to be. I think I should be around 1667 today, and I'm at 1625. And I'm *way* ahead of the 15K pace.
  • I decided to do core every day. So far I'm 30 for 30. I won't actually hit 366 days this year, because I'll stop and take a true rest day when I hit my 60 day streak(s), but I should be pretty close to 360 days if I keep it up.
  • I saw in 2023 that I was averaging one ride per month of 75-minutes or longer. I want to make that 2 per month. As of my ride today, I now have two 90-minute PZE rides in the month of January, so I'm good there.

One thing I need to do this year is not to slack off on strength. One pillar of my accountability system in 2023 was needing to always hit Gold in the monthly strength challenge. But with daily core, I'll be smashing that challenge w/o ever needing to do weights. So I need to make sure I'm keeping myself accountable and not avoiding weightlifting due to not needing it to hit Gold in that.

I also need to stretch more consistently. Another aspect of daily core is that I get my blue dot and keep my streaks going from the core workout, whereas often my "active recovery" days in 2023 would be stretching. I'm slacking on stretching as a result and that's not great.
 
I've been working endless hours on a work project, where all of my morning time set aside for working out has been consumed by meetings with the European team. add in a bit of travel and I missed day 60 of a 60-day streak in Jan. it's gone downhill from there - but - this is my final week of the initial project push, so I'm hopeful that I won't be working this weekend and can get some PZE + Scenic rides in to start reclaiming what fitness I've been losing the past few weeks.
 
So I survived the 'vid... Confirmed with a positive test that I had it. It was mild, thankfully.

I managed to keep up my daily core streak through it, but didn't do much else until yesterday. Did a 20 minute core, 30 minute chest & back workout, and then a 60 minute PZE. I made it through the PZE in my zones the whole time (and with the new auto-resistance mode on the Bike+ in PZ rides, I was stuck right in the center of them no matter what cadence I was at lol).

So now I'm back at it. Falling a little behind the numbers I should be if I want to get that 20K badge this year, so I've got some catching up to do.
 
If you have any interest in the Guide, get on this deal ASAP:

https://www.onepeloton.com/shop/guide/guide-starter-package-us

Guide, plus 2 sets of dumbbells, mat and water bottle for $135. You can pick any weight dumbbell, i.e. you can buy the 25# and 30# sets which are massively expensive individually, and can probably resell those dumbbells locally for almost the $135 you pay if you already have dumbbells.

Unfortunately I don't have a good place to set up and use the Guide, and just do my strength workouts via the Roku app on my TV. Otherwise I'd be jumping right onto this. The Guide adds some features like rep tracking and the ability to show a "self" mode so you can check form on exercises, etc...

And for anyone who doesn't have Peloton equipment today, the Guide can give you up to 5 user accounts so the $24 monthly membership cost would be more cost-effective than two or more people in the same household working out via individual app accounts.
 
I've been keeping up with my "75+ minute ride twice per month" goal for 2024 by taking Matt's most recent 120-minute ride today. So that's now 4 on the year.

I gotta say... it felt... good?

I did think at the 75 minute mark "only 45 to go? I'm going to be sad when this is over!" But at the 119 minute mark--I was REALLY glad for the cool down and to get off the bike lol. But I knocked it out and stayed in my zones the whole time, and didn't go above heart rate zone 3. By the end the fatigue was setting in, but I got around it by dropping cadence a bit and relying on leg strength instead of cardio.

I tried to make sure I had adequate electrolytes and nutrition, having both a banana and a chocolate/peanut butter bar available to munch on during the ride, and my normal water plus a Kirkland sports drink. I've definitely noticed that when you get past 1 hour of riding, you need that stuff to make it to the end. I don't do 90-minute rides any more without it.
 
I hit my 60 day streak today! That includes core workouts every day in 2024. Of course I didn't realize it was streak day and did a core workout as my first of the day. When I hit my 45-day streak I did a recent on-demand ride with 500+ people on and I think ended up getting something like 230 high-fives lol...

I'm going to extend to 61 tomorrow just based on schedule, as Wednesday will be a more convenient true rest day. Then nothing on Wednesday, and the daily streak starts again Thursday!
 
I've realized based on my rides this year that I'm doing a lot of PZE, and not enough PZ rides. I thought that the various "music" and fun rides would basically achieve the same thing as PZ rides as far as blocks of working on the higher zones. But I've done two PZ rides this year (both with Wilpers) and, uhh, the music rides are NOT the same.

One was a 60 minute ride with a pyramid of 8/6/4/6/8 with the 8m blocks in Z3, 6m in Z4, and 4m in Z3, with 4m Z1 recoveries after each. Holy crap, I didn't realize what 4 straight minutes in Z5 was going to feel like. I was crushed. The funny thing about it is that the first Z4 block seemed hard, but the second one (after a Z5 block) seemed SO much easier.

The one I did today was 45 minutes (great playlist--Emma did the playlist for Matt) and it was two 6m blocks of Z4 followed by 2m recoveries in Z1, then three 3m blocks in Z5 with 3m Z1 between. By the end of that third Z5 block I was STRUGGLING! This was the opposite of that other ride in that the harder zones were all at the end. It would have been easier to swap the order and do Z3 zones first, but one thing about Wilpers is that he doesn't program "easy".

I need to build in more PZ work, and that probably means more PZM work too.
 
I hear you on the music rides not being the same as PZ, as I have the same observation. In my workouts prior to the big project in Jan/Feb, I was taking the PZE or PZ roadmap and using it as reference for what I would do on a timed scenic ride with Spotify playlist of my choosing. Wilpers had several class outlines that worked perfectly for this approach, and it kept the music playlist to my preference while also giving a scenic visual

Two months away from PZE/PZ was harsh on my fitness level, and I'm working back into shape with 30 min PZE classes. Gone temporarily are the days of a 60 minute ride with 10 minute out of the saddle sections at Zone 4 followed by 2 min Zone 3 recoveries and a 5 min Zone 5 out of the saddle and Zone 3 recoveries. I'll get back to that place by end of April

Good news in all my limited activity is that I kept to under a 5 pound weight gain despite the lack of rigorous exercise and high stress. I was quite happy with that, and see it as proof that the changes I've worked these past 18 months have taken a solid hold in lifestyle change thanks is large part to Peloton engagement and social interactions here
 
Well I'm feeling better than I have the past few months, and a big community bicycle ride is coming up and I want to participate. My free subscription through health insurance has expired, and I apparently never put a real card on file. So today I went to set everything back up and actually pay for it. I didn't realize there are tiers of app membership. All the advertising I've seen has exclaimed that I can have access to workouts for $13/month.

Now, if I'm reading this right, I'm finding that for $13/month I can follow along with 3 cycling classes for the month. 3 per week, maybe I could have tried that out. Three per month? Nah. I guess I'm giving the $25/month tier a try.

Definitely motivates me to look for alternatives once this community ride is done. I was already planning on putting my account on pause for the summer while I try to ride outdoors.

We'll see how things go and I'll have a decision to make in September or October.
 
Kent88 said:
Well I'm feeling better than I have the past few months, and a big community bicycle ride is coming up and I want to participate. My free subscription through health insurance has expired, and I apparently never put a real card on file. So today I went to set everything back up and actually pay for it. I didn't realize there are tiers of app membership. All the advertising I've seen has exclaimed that I can have access to workouts for $13/month.

Now, if I'm reading this right, I'm finding that for $13/month I can follow along with 3 cycling classes for the month. 3 per week, maybe I could have tried that out. Three per month? Nah. I guess I'm giving the $25/month tier a try.

Definitely motivates me to look for alternatives once this community ride is done. I was already planning on putting my account on pause for the summer while I try to ride outdoors.

We'll see how things go and I'll have a decision to make in September or October.
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Yeah, they changed the app pricing late last year. If you don't want to do "equipment" classes, i.e. cycling/tread/row, the lower-cost app is fine. But if you want to do cycling classes on your own bike, getting only 3 per month is rough.

One workaround *IF* anyone else in the household wants to participate is to just wait for a good sale and buy the Peloton Guide. I've seen it as low as $95 on Amazon recently (although it's back up to full price now). With the Guide subscription ($24/mo, same as the full-scale app cost), you get full access to all of the "equipment" content and you can add I think either 4 or 5 additional profiles to the account beyond yourself for no additional cost. So for two people it would be less expensive than you each getting the 13.99 app membership, but get more content. And if it's 3 or more people it'll pay for itself quickly.
 
Just checked off an accomplishment. Peloton workout #1000!

Since June 2022, I've now amassed 380 rides, 337 strength, 241 stretches, and a smattering of other modalities to round it out. And since I basically don't do warmup/cooldown rides, and do a lot of PZ work, I checked my average for the last 100 rides and I averaged 44.9 minutes per ride. So that's a lot of minutes and a lot of miles.
 
milestone day for me yesterday: took my 600th ride in the afternoon's replay of Kendall's latest Pop Punk ride. was #52 of 417 in the replay's leaderboard. feeling good about working my fitness back to where I was at the beginning of Jan when that unending project upended my schedule thru March

I don't like afternoon rides, as I'm usually stiff from sitting at my laptop all day. I could tell last night that I'd have had cramps in my calves if it'd been a 45 min ride. I could still feel the stiffness this morning even after stretching ahead of a 30 min PZE ride. took a follow-up 30 min scenic ride to flush out the legs and combine arm weights in the middle 10 min for some added conditioning.

definitely not where I was 18 months ago when I had a sit-down with my doc. thankful this hasn't been a short lived passing fad, but is now a solid part of daily life. thanks to those here who have been encouragement and inspiration these past 18 months!
 

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