It has transpired that Nigel has a little bit of provenance on the water. Eric Phelps, an Olympic sculling champion in the 1930’s (who even had his visage printed on a collectable cigarette card) is related on his mother’s side. Not quite kayaking, but close enough.
Anyway, we met up at the gym again. With thoughts of past rowing champions we hit the imaginary water and set the rowing machines to power level 4. I completed my 15 minutes of sculling a few minutes before Nigel so I sat there counting down his meters compared to mine and generally hassling him to go faster for his last hundred strokes. (This is a taste of things to come for Nigel as I know I will nag just like this on the DW race. Come on. Faster. Only 120 miles to go. just a little bit further.)
I had left my tatty exercise card in the car so I scratted around looking for something to write on, in the end I settled on a scrap of paper hand towel which I have here in front of me.
Fifteen minutes of rowing machine. I managed 3220 metres, with 451 strokes. Nigel achieved 470 strokes, but only pulled out 3008 metres. Curious… I can only assume that I am doing a longer more powerful stroke whereas Nigel is pulling a faster stroke overall but isn’t pulling as far.
We both worked through our sets of weights again. We did pretty much the same as last time, though we did move the weights around a bit.
Leg press 45kgs 2 sets of 12. I did the same weight as Nigel this time without too much additional strain. I think I will keep it at 45kgs for next time.
Erector Spinae 39kgs. 2 sets of 12.
Lat pull down 32kgs. 2 sets of 12.
Shrugs 15kgs. 2 sets of 12. Nigel did the correct weight this time though. ;)
Shoulder press 27kgs 2 sets of 12. I completed it on an increased 27kg weight. Nigel had to drop it back down to the 23kgs to complete his sets. Though he had just worked through other shoulder exercises so he has a good excuses for lifting less than me.
Arm curl 18kgs 2 sets of 12. Nigel didn’t believe me when I told him it was a paltry 18kgs but after completing the first set, he agreed that 18 was more than enough for our spindly arms at the moment.
Chest press 25kgs 2 sets of 12.
Seated dip 36kgs. 2 sets of 12. I loved this machine and did a third set of twelve.
The plank. to failure for 2 sets and the hand to knee to failure for 2 sets. Nigel again suffered on these I am able to hold the plank for more and do more hand to knee reps though.
All of that took a little under 50 minutes, and we followed it up with 20 minutes swimming and a short while in the sauna. I have no idea what health benefits the sauna offers, it seems to be just a load heat to me, but it gives us a chance to have a chat about stuff so I have no issues with it.
After all that I have strained a muscle in my left shoulder though. I’m hoping that today’s day of rest will see it feel better tomorrow but I may have to go easy on the weights on Thursday.
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