Question for runners

3 days of running, 2 days of strength training, 1 very short and easy run day and 1 day of no exercise so the muscles have time to breathe a little. Here's my schedule:
Monday: Run day
Tuesday: Strength day
Wednesday: Run day
Thursday: Rest day
Friday: Run day
Saturday: Strength day
Sunday: Easy run day

Maybe you just need to find a different strength training routine. I use All Pro, which is a 3 day full body routine, and I'm training to run a full 5K 3 days, then one rest day.

I lift weights on Mondays and Fridays and run the other five days

fitmama0914 wrote: »

Does your body quickly remember how to do it?

Technique isn't your issue, joint readiness is. If you've not been running then a C25K will help to mitigate injury risk.

I lift in the morning and run in late afternoon or evening. I try to do both in the same day because I run 6 to 9+ miles typically and don't want my run to compromise my squats and deadlifts if I only have 12 hours of recovery.

M: Lift & Run
W: Lift & Run
Th: Yoga
F: Lift & Run
S: Yoga
S or S: Run

Alternate schedule - when I am trying to catchup on my lifting. With this schedule I don't do both in the same day due to Tuesday evening commitments and Thursday evening yoga class.
S: Lift
M: Run
T: Lift
W: Run
Th: Lift & Yoga
F: Run
S: Lift & Yoga - Gym opens at 7 and yoga is at 9. These days are the hardest yoga classes I have ever had, especially when I don't get to the gym until around 8. My arms and legs are already tired from lifting and I am already warmed up so within a few minutes of yoga starting I am covered in sweat. I have had a few bad dismounts out of crow and slid off my mat.
S or S: Run

Muscle memory works for running, your legs will remember how to run. Unfortunately the problem is your lungs and legs may not be physically ready to go as far as you want.

After nearly 10 years only running intermittently, I discovered a marathon near where I grew up and decided that needed to be my first marathon. My first training run was two 1.4 mile loops around the neighborhood. I was ready to die during the first lap and walked a large portion of the 2.8 miles. However I kept at it and 5 months later finished the marathon.

Due to work and some knee issues I fell out of running for nearly a year and a half before I restarted in late September. I started doing yoga and aerobics classes last March and started lifting around the same time I started running. When I started running again it was a lot easier than the previous times. Within a couple sessions I was able to run 4 miles non-stop and as previously stated I now regularly run 6 -9 miles. I think the aerobics class helped with my cardio conditioning and made it easier when I started running.

If you have not been doing workouts that really push your cardio then initially running might be difficult. However the c25k program is a good program. My wife, who has never been a runner, is on week 6. I went with her for the last session of week 5 and after a 5 minute warmup she ran for 20 minutes nonstop. Before she started c25k she would have thought it was impossible for her to run for 20 minutes.

fitmama0914 wrote: »

How often do you strength train? Could you give me an example of your weekly schedule? I've always liked running, when I did it years ago... But I've been doing bodyweight workouts for 3 weeks now, 3 days a week, and I think I've discovered that I hate strength training. So I'm trying to figure out how to fit running, strength, and yoga in the week. I've been doing 3 days of strength, 2 yoga, and 1 cardio. But I don't know where to go from here to switch to a running based week.

1 fullbody workout a week, only major lifts, get it done quick in 30 -40 min. Sprint after this if you like the feel of running dead tired.
Rest day after to get max benefit.

1 upper body lifting some other day, with true HIIT routine, hopefully hill sprints, done as basically lifting for your legs again, only sport specific.
Rest day after to get max benefit from recovery.

Then 2 other days of running, and then yoga.

5 days.

zipa78 wrote: »

fitmama0914 wrote: »

I do get bored pretty quickly with my routines, so I end up changing them every few days. I don't have access to a gym, so I have been doing home workouts and I find that YouTube helps me stay focused.

Don't do that. You should allow your body some time to adapt and compensate for the training that you put it through, that is where the gains and benefits come from.

If you really can't go to a gym (mind you, inconvenient is not the same as "can't go"...) then get a kettlebell and/or a sandbag and use those alongside the bodyweight training that you are doing.

The biggest problem is that you don't seem to enjoy it? If you aren't enjoying what you are doing, chances are that you won't be doing it for very long. Your best bet would thus be to find some form of strength training that you do enjoy. Doesn't matter what it is, as long as you just find it enjoyable, or at least tolerable...

I switch up all the time and reap great benefits from it. Keeps me from getting bored.

OP, I hate strength training with a passion. So I typically try to incorporate it with my cardio. So like i'll run with hand weights, work in some push ups, etc.

Prior to my recent injury I would do 2 short runs (2-4 miles) and one long run (4-7 miles) then cross train 2 days a week. Typically i'll take a bootcamp or zumba class, swim or horseback ride. Whatever feels groovy that day.