Fraser Young

[Fraser Young]

4 Oct

Rowing Machine – 2 x 10 mins (6 mins) DF 123, avg pace 2:10.2/500m

My back was killing me yesterday, it got much worse as the day progressed. Rubbed Perskindol on my lower back before bed and slept with a pillow between my legs, then woke up with my entire back really stiff. Took a long hot bath this morning and did stretches on hamstrings, glutes etc. to reduce overall tension in the muscle. Perskindol again in the early afternoon and around 4pm I did this workout. It was meant to be 3 x 10 mins but I’m pushing my luck already and it’s possible the painkiller is masking me further damaging my back. Rowing was with a more rigid torso and I felt no discomfort at all, able to do the full warm up with no issues either. Confident about completing the rowing workouts and I’ll need to take it easy in the gym, possibly no more front squats for the rest of the month.

[Fraser Young]

3 Oct

Rowing Machine – 6 x 1 min on/1 min off DF 137, avg 1:53.0/500m
Power Clean – 3 x 4 x 60kg
Front Squat – 75kg x 5, 5*
Weighted Push Ups – 5kg x 20,20
Batwing Rows – 15kg x 16,16
Front Planks – 2 x 40 secs
Side Plank – 2 x 30 secs

*tweaked back. I went for a 6th rep on the front squats and as I changed direction at the bottom of the squat I allowed my elbows to drop and felt my lower back go. I bailed immediately and skipped RDL. It’s probably going to take 7-10 days given I plan to keep rowing with it (assuming pain free) so I’ll drop the weight to 40-50kg this time next week and ease back in. Ironic that the weights are mainly for injury prevention for rowing. Probably my fault for treating them more like a normal weights session and still pushing quite hard with reps.

[Fraser Young]

1 Oct

Step Test – 3 mins. 15 sec heart beats = 35
Estimated VO2max = 52.53 ml/kg/min

Rowing Machine – 2 x 16 mins (6 mins) DF 121
avg 2:12.5, 2:13.2

My heart rate was 144 when I tested 4 weeks ago, and today it was 140 after the step test. It was really accurate with the VO2max calculator based on 2km rowing time, and my new VO2max would put my 2km row at 7:47, down from 7:55. Confirms that I should be trying to hit the suggested pace of 7:40-7:50 when training and I’m happy with the progress I’ve made. When I do the final 2000 metre row I’ll do the Step Test as part of the warm up and then use the result to predict what my 2km time should be to allow me to judge my pace.

[Fraser Young]

27 Sept

Rowing Machine – 3 x 8 mins (6 mins) DF123
avg 2:07.6, 2:07.1, 2:07.3

30 Sept

Rowing Machine – 2 x 5 mins (2.5 mins) DF 130
avg 1:59.7, 2:00.1

Legs are feeling quite heavy this week and general recovery feels slow. I am following The Longevity Diet for this time period and my reduced protein intake (80g/day instead of 140g/day) is noticeable in the way my muscles don’t repair as quickly between workouts. I skipped weights on Friday and Sunday as they are meant to be more for injury prevention and complementing the rowing, whereas right now they are just making everything more challenging.

Tomorrow (1st Oct) I will do the Step Test for VO2max to see if there’s any difference in my fitness levels.

[Fraser Young]

26 Sept

Rowing Machine 6 x 90 on/90 off DF 137 average 1:53.9
Power Clean – 60kg x 5,5,4
Front Squat – 4 x 6 x 75kg
RDL – 4 x 6 x 75kg
Pushups – 2 x 18 x 5kg
Batwing Row – 2 x 14 x 15kg
Leg Raises – 3 x 12

This was quite a difficult pace in the rowing, finally feel like the sessions are a challenge. Eased off on the power cleans down to 4 reps so I can focus more on quality.

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