Training: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly.

[brooknichole15]

This seems to be a recurring theme for me (stopping & starting a blog). Most days it seems that I do good to eat my meals, sleep half way decent and get my training in. Since I last wrote, I DID complete the half marathon (last weekend at 1:59--pheww) & still consistently kept a weight training regimen. I will say that the strength portion was much different than I was used to doing in the past-- because I combined several muscle groups on the same day to get my lifts & runs in, but it was still sufficient for my overall goal to complete the race. I took last week as a recovery week and did some activity, but nothing to really talk about. Sunday started my next little training adventure. During the next 4 weeks I will have 2 days that I will do 3-5 mile runs, one day of sprints & abs, and 2 days that include sprints (either running or spinning) & full body strength training of 12-15 reps, 3-6 sets. I wanted to do a more intense transition to possibly do a 10k towards the end of the summer & still shred.

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

Sounds like a good plan, keep up the great work. Let me know if you need any tips & tricks in order to knock out a good 10km time !!

Hope your week is going well MF.

 

[brooknichole15]

Sounds like a good plan, keep up the great work. Let me know if you need any tips & tricks in order to knock out a good 10km time !!

Hope your week is going well MF.

Thanks, I really appreciate it! I am definitely not a "sprinter" by any means, but enjoy running & what it can do for the body. I just found a track close to me that I can use for sprint work, etc. Any thoughts on a good track workout?

 

[Mini Forklift Ⓥ]

Any thoughts on a good track workout?

TBH the athletes you meet at the track could probably give you some better tips for the track than I could ~ it's the one area that I have never done any training with. Some good hard track training is however on my 'To Do' list for this year !!

 

[brooknichole15]

Week 1 was a success. It was very taxing, but well worth it. I am really enjoying the change of "pace" (haha pun intended) & the opportunity to work on some speed. Yesterday after I warmed up I jogged for 5 minutes, did 10 tread sprints at 12.4 mph/2%, then jogged (8:28 pace) another 15 minutes. Afterwards, I did a core circuit & stretched quite a bit. I've been trying to work on stretching more because I know that's def. a weakness on my part.

 

[1bigun11]

Congratulations on the half-marathon! You did it crazy girl!!!

 

[any1uno]

Keep up the great work...

 

[brooknichole15]

Alright, anyone have any thoughts on a changing schedule? I will basically be adding 2.5 hours to my work day (which was the time I was spending working out before shift). Basically, I open the gym back up at 11:30pm (it's closed from 9:30pm-11:30pm only) -10:30am Tuesday-Friday & then Saturday I work 8:30a-5:00p. Yep it's a weird schedule, welcome to my life haha. Anyways, I've been working out before shift-- say about midnight & then showering, etc. before work. Now, I literally don't have the opportunity because we can't work out in the facility when it's closed. I have been working out the past couple days after shift---- and I feel like my workouts are absolutely shit. This 50 hour work week will only be for the next month, BUT I don't want to be getting fat as f*ck in the process-- my body is stressed enough trying to sleep while the rest of the world does their thing haha.