Last 10 days of workouts

I was sore and my body felt better stretching on this day

Outdoors! Distance wasn’t working so average speed was off. This was a leisurely ride.

The workout videos I use

I workout based on my heart rate. That is, I watch my heart rate so that it doesn’t go beyond approximately 145-155 bpm, and when it’s close to that, I rest until it slows down. This way, I prevent asthma attacks yet still get sweaty. Some days, I feel like I can do more, and some days, less… some days, I just feel tired or sore or burnt out, so I go easier. In any case, I have to do mostly low impact movements (no jumping) to prevent asthma attacks. Just so you know, low impact doesn’t mean easy! If there’s jumping in a workout, I just take the jumps out. Here are a selection of workout videos I use on my full body days.

Workouts since April 7

I took the weekend of the 9th and 10th off due to 2 birthday parties in a row.

Workouts since March 25

Between the 25th and the 30th, I went climbing twice but didn’t want to record anything.

I couldn’t find my heart rate sensor so the first 10 minutes of this workout I used my watch. I remembered where the sensor was 10 minutes in…

Workouts since March 1

By this time I’d found out that my chest-strap heart rate monitor would go “offline” whenever I did any exercises on my front (like Supermans or swimmers). Also it felt like I had a super thick and tight bra strap on. So I bought a smart watch, thinking it would feel better. But the watch had a much shorter list of exercises to choose from so I couldn’t choose “climbing” and it wasn’t as good as capturing heart rate or calories. I logged 2 workouts with the watch and went back to the chest strap.

Work and workouts

I like the erase board thing so far!

And here are my workouts, with the exception of rest days.

Past 2 weeks’ workouts

Not pictured rest days, yin yoga, fun bouldering sessions on Sundays

Past 2 weeks of workouts

I was helping to house-sit for my sister and used her spinning bike this week.

Rock climbing over the weekend.

Did rock climbing on weekends! And I didn’t record any yoga sessions.

My workouts so far

A week or so into January I found a heart rate monitor I bought last year before all my medical issues started. Since I know that if my heart rate reaches a certain level I start having asthma issues, I decided to experiment working out based on my heart rate. If it got too high (greater than 150 bpm) then I’d rest until it slowed down to about 130ish. So far this has worked wonderfully when I do HIIT workouts at home. After about a week, I wasn’t using my inhaler as much. The heart rate monitoring doesn’t work so well in the climbing gym when 80% of the way up a route, my heart rate goes into the red zone. On climbing days, I’ve ended up in a zone where I can hardly breathe. There has to be a way for me to see what my heart rate is while on the wall without bringing my phone up with me!

I wasn’t good at recording every workout at first. Plus, I don’t record when I have a rest day, or do a full body deep stretch, or yoga-ish stuff.