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[SvennoJ]

I don't know all the technical terms but my routine has been pretty consistent for about a decade now.

One day lifting weights, the other I go running (used to be cycling but too many accidents)

I use 20 and 40 pound weights. Lots of reps rather than extra weight since I dislocated a rib with 55 pound weights which took months to heal.
Curls and press ups? (laying down pushing up, bench press without bench I guess) with the 40 pound weights, 200 reps, rest with the 20 pounders.
Next to that 300 sit ups, 200 push up and plank.

Usually while watching TV or enjoying the sun outside.


And the other day I go for a run, 16K shortest route, 22K longest, usually 20K on varying terrain, road, hills, trails. Takes me between 1h15 and 2h depending on the length. Sometimes I go exploring, following deer trails and stay out for 3 hours.

Tomorrow is gonna be the first tough day for running, -2c feels like -9c in the forecast. No more shorts, gloves, sweater, hat until I warm up enough.


Running calms my mind, during stressful days I'll run every day to combat stress. Rain or shine, light or dark. I've ran through some huge storms in summer, welcome cooling. Some days it was so hot I dip in the river I run along and cool down at a cold water spring.

I'm mostly 'training' to stay in shape and for endurance next to stress relief. My rest heart rate is just above 50, often dips below. When I was getting a ride in an ambulance (after getting hit by a car while cycling) the alarm kept going off because my heart rate was too low. (I was fine, just scrapes and a sore leg. My bicycle helmet was cracked though, always wear a helmet!)

Actually I still cycle every weekday since I cycle along with my oldest to his high school. It's only 11K round trip though.


In summer I also like to swim. We have a pool, 40 laps for a km, 60 laps for a mile. I try to get in the pool every day while it's in season, from 70F water temperature up. (Not doing 40 laps in 70F water though, eff that, 10 and a hot shower lol) The pool is closed now, bah winter.

(Yeah I'm Canadian, we use Feet/Km/Celcius/Fahrenheit/Pounds/Kg/Liters/Gallons to mix things up haha)