Cardio endurance

ikp883
ikp883 Posts: 1 Member
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Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on how to build cardio endurance? I have been going to boot camp for the past four months. I'm ok with lifting weights but I just can seem to build up any cardio endurance. And I do not enjoy running but my goal is to complete an obstacle 5k next summer. Any help is appreciated!

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  • MonkeyMel21
    MonkeyMel21 Posts: 2,396 Member
    Couch to 5k? I mean, it's running but it's not more than what you're hoping to accomplish.
  • pondee629
    pondee629 Posts: 2,469 Member
    "And I do not enjoy running but my goal is to complete an obstacle 5k next summer. Any help is appreciated!"

    Whether you enjoy it or not, if you want to complete a 5k course with obsticles on it, you're going to have to be able to cover 5k.

    I used Personal Running Trainer (free through Amazon) 8 weeks to 5k. Others highly recommend Couch to 5k. Either will get you up to 5k. You might even enjoy it. You might have to go to 10k to have the endurance to cover a 5k obstacle course.

    Another thought would be to use a body weight circuit routine, constant body weight exercises over a 30 to 45 minute period.
  • mbaker566
    mbaker566 Posts: 11,233 Member
    you could do elliptical for the time being, or spinning, but eventually, you will need to run as you are doing a 5k
  • PikaKnight
    PikaKnight Posts: 34,971 Member
    If your goal is to "run" a race, than the only way to really prepare for that is to run. There isn't getting any way around that.
  • Becoming_A_Butterfly
    Becoming_A_Butterfly Posts: 2,534 Member
    Step aerobics helped me a lot with endurance and strengthening my calf muscles.
  • LKArgh
    LKArgh Posts: 5,178 Member
    If you want to run in a race, you need to start running. There is no other way to accomplish your goal.
  • Working2BLean
    Working2BLean Posts: 386 Member
    Cycle in harder and normal exertion in a cycling or elliptical machine exercise format

    Getting the intense bursts helps you

    Running a 5K isn't a huge deal. If you want to do an obstacle course 5K then you will have to run
  • janet0513
    janet0513 Posts: 564 Member
    Couch to 5k. It really helped me with mine. If you have trouble, just repeat days if needed.
  • cwolfman13
    cwolfman13 Posts: 41,865 Member
    ikp883 wrote: »
    Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on how to build cardio endurance? I have been going to boot camp for the past four months. I'm ok with lifting weights but I just can seem to build up any cardio endurance. And I do not enjoy running but my goal is to complete an obstacle 5k next summer. Any help is appreciated!

    I don't like to run either, but when I was training for a sprint triathlon, I had to...the only way to be even a decent runner is to run...necessary evil is necessary. You're not planning on doing this until next summer though so you could hold off running until spring...in the mean time just find an aerobic activity that you do enjoy and do that...work at varying degrees of intensity and start going further...when you start going further, you will also start going faster on shorter workouts, etc...to increase aerobic capacity and endurance you have to do aerobic/endurance work.
  • MtnGirl38
    MtnGirl38 Posts: 37 Member
    cwolfman13 wrote: »
    ikp883 wrote: »
    Does anyone have any recommendations or tips on how to build cardio endurance? I have been going to boot camp for the past four months. I'm ok with lifting weights but I just can seem to build up any cardio endurance. And I do not enjoy running but my goal is to complete an obstacle 5k next summer. Any help is appreciated!

    I don't like to run either, but when I was training for a sprint triathlon, I had to...the only way to be even a decent runner is to run...necessary evil is necessary.

    This.
  • lporter229
    lporter229 Posts: 4,907 Member
    A lot of people don't like to run. And then they do. Give it a try...
  • BrianSharpe
    BrianSharpe Posts: 9,248 Member
    There's this word when it comes to training......specificity. If you're training to run a race you need to run.

    Funny true story, one of the swim coaches at my tri club swam at a national level is 30 years younger than me and incredibly fit. A few years ago his half-marathon time was about 9 minutes slower than mine but he could destroy me in the pool....
  • bubble_wrap0428
    bubble_wrap0428 Posts: 88 Member
    It took me 8 months to get my cardio endurance this high. Now I feel like I can do cardio for over an hour and keep going. I just threw myself into running now I can achieve literally a runners high and that's how I do it. It took a lot of miles of running to get where I'm at simple as that

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