Yesterday I did an hour of mostly-steady paddling in the harbor. My right arm continued to feel not so bad in the wake of the workout I'd done on Thursday. Go figure.
As predicted, the temperature plummeted overnight last night, and as I drove downtown this morning the temperature display in my car said it was 23 degrees Fahrenheit. The sun was shining, and that made it seem better, but there was also a stiff north wind blowing, and that made it seem worse. I went to the same part of the Greenbelt Park, maybe two-thirds of the way from the Hernando DeSoto Bridge to the mouth of the Wolf River, and did my dry-land routine with nearly thirty degrees less warmth than I'd had on Friday. That gave me plenty of motivation to keep moving from one exercise to the next.
I've been saying frequently that I pay close attention to stroke mechanics when I'm in the boat, but the same is true when I do cross-training activities like I did today. I try to keep my body relaxed and practice good form in both the running and the core exercises. In The Barton Mold by Bill Endicott, Greg Barton has this to say about his observance of good technique in strength training:
I feel that if you start cheating, really jerking around a lot, there are two things that happen. One is you're starting to pull into play muscles other than the ones you are targeting. Secondly, what happens when you get into the boat? Are you going to start jerking around there, too? Start pulling all over the place? I think some of that carries over. If you use strict technique in the weight room, you're thinking in that mode and it's a little easier to transfer that into the boat. I think people who bang out as much as they can in the weight room tend to paddle that way, too.
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