April 23, 2014

FromHereOnOut

FromHereOnOut

Hi all! Mid week and looking for the home stretch.

Laura, I'm curious about your hill runs. Do you happen to know the elevation, or the elevation that your trainer recommends; and also distance or elapsed time recommended? I used to do hill runs on the hillly park behind my house. But it wasn't running training, more like HIIT. I did something like tabata because the hill rises in levels so I could do about 20sec and level out for 10sec for about 3x to the top, come down and repeat. But unfortunately every rain cuts through the paths and washes stones & rocks more and more and it's become too dangerous (all loose rocks). I cover some pretty steep hills in my normal run and could repeat them, but not sure what is adequate elevation. I map my runs on walkjogrun.net and can see the elevations there, if I knew what to look for, I could find one hill and repeat it. So do you run them for running training, or sprint them for HIIT? I'm interested in more like running training, but could use some HIIT too. Sorry for the interrogation, but really wanting to learn about this. I think hills are so great for training.


So, today I'm going out ready for anything (gym, walk, run). I'll be dropping my son off and then I'll decide what to do. I'm leaning towards gym, since the weather is questionable. Might try to map out a slightly longer way there & back, as part of my prospective new plan for May+ calls for a longer daily run to/from gym.

Will check back in later. :happy:

PinkNinjaLaura

Jason didn't give me an idea of elevation. I picked a hill that was steep enough to be challenging but not so steep that I was worried it would kill me, and I needed it to be fairly long so I wouldn't run out of hill before I was done. He had run up it 30 seconds - not a dead out sprint, but run hard - then do an easy jog back down to catch my breath, and do that 6 times in a row. Jason is big on negative splits so each time I tried to go just a little bit further in those 30 seconds. My total run was 3.5 miles and I was at 1.67 at the end of the splits. It probably took me half a mile to catch my breath again.

FromHereOnOut

Okay, Laura, I think I get the gist of it. Thanks! This is something I need to do. I don't want to do...but I need to do.



So today I tested a couple of aspects of my new plan. First, a new way of running to the gym, that if done both ways will add a mile, for total 3.5 instead of~2.5 (sometimes 2.4, sometimes 2.6). It was "okay". High pedestrian traffic area, but the right distance. But then I tried the other new thing for my plan, which is to do my weight machines in the bodybuilding range of 4x10, followed by a burn-out set, where I lighten the weight and do as many reps as I can in one minute. OH.MY.GERD! I could barely walk (it was leg day). I burnt out my calves in only 45sec. I burnt out my hip flexors so bad I had to use my hands to lift my legs onto the next two machines!! HAHA! I was sweating like a racehorse the whole time (even too much for a gym--was getting stares, lol, my whole shirt was completely, wringing wet). Grabbed a protein shake from the vending machine and didn't even try to run back, did a very wobbly walk back instead. But I LOVE it! I need to make some adjustments re: running, since I don't think I'll be able to run after those burn out sets, but that's okay. Overall, a GREAT workout today and my legs feel great, my ankle feels better, even my knees were aching walking at first got better after my little run.


Hope everyone is having a really great day!

PinkNinjaLaura

Sherry I can't wait to hear how you feel tomorrow after that workout!

dianalee9

So I went home with all the good intentions of trying out JM Banish Fat Boost Metabolism, but apparently my internet connection had other ideas! GRRRR!! I was really mad cause I was looking forward to trying it out. I do agree that I probably won't like it as much because it's a longer workout, but it will work out for me anyway cause I'm wokring on getting my cardio workouts up to an hour.

I decided to try out Ripped in 30 instead and I LOVED it!!! It's only the first day of week 1, but based on the first one, I like it better than 30 DS.So I'm going to stick with this one for the next while. Once I get the weight set moved in, I will work on a new plan, but until then, this is what it will be. I have found that I need to have a plan and stick with it because if I take a break, I end up procrastinating and not getting back into it.

agingwithfitness

Great running you guys!

I am taking day off, have headache..,went to class yesterday then busy rest of day.

Have class again tomorrow then heading out of town for the day.

btsinmd

Work then dog classes then 30 minute run. Now sleep!