2026 Strength Training Accountability Thread

[nancipants]

Doing my race week workouts this week, focusing on arms and core. Did one yesterday evening while watching Make Some Noise on Dropout.

 

[GuinnessRunner]

Doing my race week workouts this week, focusing on arms and core. Did one yesterday evening while watching Make Some Noise on Dropout.

My DDs got me into watching several shows on Dropout. Their tour is coming to our area next week and taking my one DD at home to go see it. Very excited!

 

[GuinnessRunner]

After taking last week off while on vaca, got back to it yesterday. Decided to try something new to keep things interesting. Found a whole-body routine geared toward runners and oh boy did it kick my butt. Was definately sore when I went out for my run this morning. It uses supersets of two exercises with no rest between the exercises (e.g. 4 sets of deadlifts and bent over rows with no rest between the exercises but 1 minute rest between sets). Full workout consisted of deadlifts, rows, goblet squats with weight shift, box jumps, leg thrusts (was supposed to be single leg but that was too much for me), negative pushups, prone hip IR, wall marching, skiers and hip extensions into the wall.

Not a shock, but definately showed that I've still got lots of areas where I need the work!

 

[nancipants]

My DDs got me into watching several shows on Dropout. Their tour is coming to our area next week and taking my one DD at home to go see it. Very excited!

My husband watches a bunch of their stuff, but I really only watch Make Some Noise and Game Changer. They're soooo funny!

 

[WillRunForPizza]

It uses supersets of two exercises with no rest between the exercises (e.g. 4 sets of deadlifts and bent over rows with no rest between the exercises but 1 minute rest between sets).

I've done routines like that before - they are way harder than you'd expect!

 

[Herding_Cats]

Hahaha. Tonight’s workout included pushups. I can barely do “girl” pushups at this point.

 

[SheHulk]

Hahaha. Tonight’s workout included pushups. I can barely do “girl” pushups at this point.

Oh lord same same. Part of my PT is a lower back stretch where I keep my legs & pelvis on the floor and just push the upper half of my body up. Have to do this multiple times a day and my arms are so tired it's pathetic

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Yesterday wound up being an unconventional day- home version. I wasn’t thrilled about it but I think it was better than taking a break day and having a late night gym session in OKC Friday, after a long drive and late dinner. It was very similar to last week’s unconventional but I implemented more extension and dance flourishes into the barre portion, I stuck with lighter weights for shoulders since I’ve had minor irritation since sleeping kinda funny, kettle bells were nearly the same, and I added more to core with the ball. Bike was strong but I do sometimes wonder how accurate my home bike really is. I was extremely sweaty so I know I worked.

Speaking of the weekend, DD19 is bringing me as a guest to Pilates. I have only done Pilates along with videos, so I’m curious to see how this goes. At least I found three decent options for getting in my mileage for the weekend.

 

[SheHulk]

Speaking of the weekend, DD19 is bringing me as a guest to Pilates. I have only done Pilates along with videos, so I’m curious to see how this goes. At least I found three decent options for getting in my mileage for the weekend.

Let us know!

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Last night was pretty standard. Elliptical felt moderate and my distance was just a hair above average but my Garmin felt some of it was vigorous… which surprised me. It was an upper body day. Only thing I skipped was shoulder press since I focused a lot on unconventional day. I also used the good crunch machine but changed it from three long sets to five shorter sets. Not sure which I like better.

 

[Herding_Cats]

whoa. I was not ready for leg day. I definitely made the right call going super light with my weights so I'm not in full baby giraffe mode today as I have a new 1st grade student I'm 1:1 with (possibly for the rest of the school year.)

Also, I have questions about weighted vests here in the running thread.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

whoa. I was not ready for leg day. I definitely made the right call going super light with my weights so I'm not in full baby giraffe mode today as I have a new 1st grade student I'm 1:1 with (possibly for the rest of the school year.)

Also, I have questions about weighted vests here in the running thread.

I have one but I don’t know how helpful I will be. I went a bit too heavy with it and consequently rarely use it. It’s 25 lbs. It really digs into my shoulders and isn’t something I can tolerate for more than 3 miles…which is below my minimum. I do, however, take another approach with rucking from time to time. I enjoy photography and my camera backpack when fully loaded up with all of my lenses/bodies is in the 14-15 lb range. So, sometimes I’ll wear that for similar benefits, more maneuverability/distance and less discomfort.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Quick check in- Last night was elliptical and lower body. Nothing too out of the ordinary with any of it. I did swap out doing the Elevate Core machine in place of rotary torso. I think it was set to level 6. I bumped up my reps to 12 for each set. Really starting to get the hang of that thing.

 

[SheHulk]

Also, I have questions about weighted vests here in the running thread.

I'll be watching, I'm so curious about them.

 

[Dopey 2020]

Friday check in, admittedly not my best week but I knew it was coming. Wednesday was multiple trips up and down AKL stairs with luggage and groceries, plus a couple sets of push-ups and crunches. Today was a faster than planned 5K, a walk around EPCOT, and a day at the pool. Close enough

 

[marty3d]

Back to three for three this week!

 

[SheHulk]

Weekly check-in: Still doing mostly stretches for my at-home PT and I did all of them for the week. Only strength is clamshells every day.

When I'm at the PT office they have me doing some strength. I'm told nerve issues take longer to work out, but I'm pretty impatient. I am allowed to run up to 20 miles a week currently... On one of those runs in this past 2 weeks my leg felt totally normal, and my "easy" HR pace was about 0:30-0:45 per mile faster than it had been, I assume from getting power from both legs. I couldn't believe it, it seemed like a miracle! But... the next day's run it was back to that leg being dead. PT said that's normal though. Going to keep plugging.

 

[TiggerTrigger]

Friday was a break day after putting in my standard early morning mileage. Yesterday was not supposed to be a break day but I think I did enough on Saturday to cover both Saturday and Sunday. Yesterday was recovery mode after an overindulgent evening, a less than stellar Sunday walk on the hotel treadmill, and a long drive home followed by weekly grocery shopping.

Saturday, I started out doing a pilates class with DD19. It was actually one of those with a blend of pilates and barre. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it either and I'm still experiencing some soreness. So, it clearly worked me in ways that I don't normally work. It was a 45 minute class that I think was supposed to focus on upper body, but I'm feeling it mainly in my hamstrings and glutes. I'm not big on class settings...often preferring solo endeavors, but I did reasonably well for a first timer and felt pretty strong through most of the movements. DD was even shocked that the instructor praised me a few times. My only real beef is that it irritated my right hip to the point that I could feel it while running. It's improved though, so not too awful.

After putting in a 10k on the OU campus (I was hoping for 8 miles but it was super peoply) and then grabbing lunch and doing some shopping, I hit the gym. I only did half my standard time on the elliptical because I was using it more as a warm up and then did an abridged arms circuit with lat pulldowns, triceps press, bicep curls, seated row, and chest press. I skipped abs because I got plenty of that in pilates and skipped everything involving shoulders because there was a lot of shoulder work in it as well.

 

[BradleyCB]

I'm back for a check in. I ended up deferring on our upcoming half marathon. Things didn't feel right at all on Saturday after just over a mile. So I will take the time I need to heal properly. I'm at peace with it. Besides, much better for something like this to happen before a local half rather than before WDW marathon week in 2027!

I have been keeping up with strength training to keep the habit going. My mini goal over the next 3 weeks is to take a core class 3 days each week.

 

[The Expert]

Back from WDW and went to the spicy 1.5 level Pilates Control class today. We did a LOT of splits-type work and focused on hips, glutes and hammies. It was HARD but such a fantastic class for runners!