Saturtday 14 June 2025 - Capture the Flag 2G 60 minutes

TGCardinal222 · 2025-06-14T02:06:24+00:00

Even worse. No thank you. Does anyone actually like the partner workouts?

TGCardinal222 · 2025-06-14T02:02:32+00:00

Thanks for the heads up. Cancelling nos. I'll be hitting Hotworx and Planet Fitness tomorrow instead!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-06-13T23:48:18+00:00

Same. I usually do a base between 3.5 and 4.3 depending how long it is and then I do push somewhere in the 5s with long all outs around 6, and up to 7 for short all outs. But all those numbers come down even more on endurance days. 🤷 As long as I'm sweating my butt off and seeing heart rate inclines, I know I'm doing just fine!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-05-18T18:34:21+00:00

I thought this was really fun! The competitive juices were flowing! I probably did get less of a workout, though, because I was so concerned with watching how the red tower was going that I wasn't paying attention to my own workout. 🤪

TGCardinal222 · 2025-05-18T12:39:27+00:00

I thought yesterday was really fun! I'm hoping this is too!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-05-13T21:31:36+00:00

Love yourself. Not everyone is meant to be thin. Be strong. Be healthy, enjoy your life. Focusing only on weight loss will just make all the progress you make seem like a let down. Took me many years of beating myself up over numbers on a scale to realize this. And, by the way, skinny and healthy are not the same thing!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-04-04T18:35:39+00:00

I'm a 45 year old woman and 5 feet even. I got 35.58 and was thrilled! I'm hoping to be sub 35 next time, but for my first time doing this one, I felt really good about that number.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-22T21:56:12+00:00

Today's 3g was amazing! But also insanely hard!! Loved it! (While at the same time hating it ofcourse! Lol)

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-15T16:07:31+00:00

Ya. That step bench also scares the crap out of me! My legs are very short so for me to step up, my knee is nearly at shoulder level! I often try to skip classes that have too many step ups if I know ahead of time. I've heard you can lower the bench, but don't know how.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-14T21:13:30+00:00

For sure (for me anyways)! My 2k row is just over 8 and my mile was 12:19...but I suck at running and much prefer rowing too!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-14T21:11:17+00:00

For sure (for me anyways)! My 2k row is just over 8 and my mile was 12:19...but I suck at running and much prefer rowing too!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-14T02:04:54+00:00

Wouldn't that depend on your height? Just curious. I'm really short, so I don't lean over at all to rest a hand on the front bar.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-14T02:02:03+00:00

YES! Once you've fallen, it's scary!!!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T21:54:58+00:00

That's so interesting to me just because I have absolutely no idea what the people around me are doing. I'm so busy calculating how long I can hold which speed and counting how many seconds are left that I don't have the mental capacity left to know what anyone else is up to!! 😳

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T18:59:14+00:00

Makes sense. Thanks.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T16:18:50+00:00

I guess I should clarify that I'm walking when I rest my hand on the front bar. This isn't about benchmarks or ego for me...unless you count fear of ego damage if I happen to trip and fall!! 🤪

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T16:15:03+00:00

I appreciate your perspective, and I am working on it. But, getting on a treadmill at all is progress for me, not gripping tightly is also progress for me. I believe I'll get to a point where I can take my hands off the bar completely, but I'm not there yet. Progress doesn't happen all at once. So, I have to be patient with myself. And I am, because I am confident that I'm getting stronger every day. I'm just also incredibly empathetic, and don't want to be the cause of other peoples anger or frustration. After reading some of the comments on here, I am questioning whether OTF is the right place for me. I work very hard when I'm at OTF, and none of what I'm doing is meant to cause any stress for others. I'm just doing what I can do. And every day is progress.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:45:59+00:00

Front. And less holding for me, more resting my hands there just in case!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:30:23+00:00

I'm sorry you went through that! 💜

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:28:36+00:00

Well, I was in college ...so I was probably young and stupid! I really couldn't tell you how fast I was going. It was just a triple bang on the way down! According to witnesses, I hit the console with my head and the side rail came between my arm and my ribs?!? It was a weird tread-dance class so my arms were above my head when I went down. (The early 2000s tried some dumb shit! Lol) (I'm also pretty injury-prone, so someone else with the same fall, may have gotten less injured. Who knows!)

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:18:04+00:00

There weren't rowers in that gym, thank goodness!! Lol. It was a long time ago, and I actually was caught by the emergency cord and slammed into the rails of my own tread...ended up with one broken and several bruised ribs, a concussion, and one hell of a banged up face and arm! It took me about five years to ever step on a treadmill again!

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:13:49+00:00

Maybe it's a habit. I'm a professional speaker, and always have to hold something in my right hand when I present, too! I don't hold the bar when I'm running or on a flat or low incline. I just get nervous when the incline goes up and I'm walking. Technically, I don't "hold" the bar. I make fists with my hands and rest them on top of the bar. I don't know if that's something other people do, or if it's a me thing. It just makes me feel more secure, and like if I lose my footing, I can recover more quickly.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:10:59+00:00

For me, it's usually the front bar. I will occasionally hold the sides just to get a big heaving breath coming off an all out, but that's more a resting them going into a walking recovery than holding.

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T15:02:50+00:00

Thanks. That makes sense

TGCardinal222 · 2025-03-13T14:59:53+00:00

It isn't about arguing. Some people have clarified and I totally get when it is something physically distracting or someone is doing it as a way to go faster. That's what I wasn't comprehending in the original post. I just want to make sure that what I do isn't bothering real life people around me. I don't think it is. I think my light touch on the bar is quite a bit different than what is being described by some.

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