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I'm pretty down about fitness this week. There's a minor tummy bug going around my house and I've just felt lethargic so I haven't worked out (or done much other than working, Rainbow 6 Siege, reading and sleeping).
Otherwise I'm having a hard time fitting all my fitness goals in. I joined a football club last year and it's great to get 2+ hours of cardio in a week and socialise, but my knees and ankles have started creaking. So I started doing https://www.gowod.app/ - the hipster crossfit warmup app. That helps and mobility is always worth doing but it's another 15 mins a day.
Then I've got my new years resolution - row 5k twice a week. I'm keeping up with it so far and it's nice to finally be using the rowing machine that's been gathering dust in my garage for four years, but it's even more time. Every morning I wake up thinking "shit I need to row today/play football and it's leg day and then I need to do my stretches, and I need to eat every few hours" and I just end up feeling stressed.
It doesn't help that even though I'm doing all of these things then I'm not investing enough time in any to really get great at them. I thought a 5k row was good cardio but most rowing enthusiasts don't even consider that a warmup (and some r-slurs even row 5k as warmup before lifting). Football gives my weightlifting a purpose but I'm not doing ball drills at home so I'm not really getting better at that. So weightlifting gets kicked to the curb which makes me feel sad because weightlifting is the thing I want to do the most.
I'm a lost boy.
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What kind of weight lifting split are you running? I've found that bodybuilding splits like ppl, ul, and bro splits are only sustainable if building muscle is the only thing your devoted to. Full body splits and low volume/high frequency routines work better for people who have other fitness goals.
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Good point - I'm doing a 4 workout bro split. It's about 60-70 mins per workout. I'll look at some full body workouts... How do crossfitters get big? Are they just working out for hours a day?
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IDK, probably either steroids or running a mass building program every once in a while. I stay away from CrossFit.
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I used to run cross country and ran 50+ miles a week and played soccer an hour or two a day after that. Idk how I did it. I elliptical or row 30 minutes+ a day 6 days a week now and it's fine, but I go to run two miles on a track every three weeks to see what my v02max is on my watch on it makes me sore for half a week. Getting old sucks.
Rowing is good cardio. I doubt you are comparing your running to marathon runners, who care what skinny twink indoor rowers do
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XC bros in the house.
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Good advice thanks. Comparing against anyone online is a bad idea. Rowing neurodivergents are fricking crazy and a 5k really does feel like good cardio.
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Rowing has really helped my upper body endurance for lifting. That's all I care about. I started seeing consistent rep gains after switching to mostly rowing for cardio for two weeks. I'm only doing 6-7.5k, my butt would fall off if I stayed on that thing long enough to do 10k
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University rowers do 30k/day and lift on top. I'd be bored out of my mind.
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lol I'm pretty content with 30k a week. I haven't done it enough to have a solid technique. I could see myself doing maybe 40k a week as I get better. I don't mind actual rowing. I set my phone up with the telemetry and put some videos on on my iPad. It's the longest I get to sit and watch something all day. My butt just gets numb after 25 minutes. I'll get my million meter t shirt in a couple months, that seems like a lot of rowing doing just 6-7k a day.
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