Just got home from day seven of daily gym trips. Wife and I are going, with goal of going every day until work & school kick back in for me - then we'll be going on my days off. I'll be doing daily PT in school, so I'm not missing out on daily workouts anyway. Might seem crazy, doing daily exercise, but I've got some mandatory benchmarks I need to hit by December, and my ass has never been much of a runner - but I've *got* to run. Specifically, I've got to be able to run 300 meters in under 80 seconds, without dying. Since Texas has been parked in close orbit to the sun for the last three months, running outside without dying hasn't really been possible, so we went and got a Planet Fitness membership. I've also been working on rowing 500 and 2000 meters under times - my best 500 has been 1:55 right now, and my best 2k row has been 8:05 - I want to get those numbers down.
We've hit the gym every day straight for a week and I can honestly say that aside from general muscle soreness one gets from working out - I'm feeling good about it. I figured out exactly how fast I have to run to make that 300 meters in 80 seconds benchmark - which is 8.12mph roughly - so a few times I've pushed myself and managed to hit it every time. The last couple, I bumped the speed to 8.3mph, and today I hit that for a sustained 100 seconds - impressive for me. I'm not just focused on the sprints - I've actually been more endurance focused figuring the sprinting will come as I am able to sustain runs for longer. Four months of daily work outs should get me where I want to be.
Besides the treadmill I've been hitting the bike and doing at least a couple miles a session on it with medium-high resistance. I'm incorporating some weight machines in every few days right now - will probably do more weights as I get further into this but my number one focus right now is running / cardio. Hoping a side effect of the exercise will be shedding weight / building muscle, but honestly as long as I can make my run & row times, I could care less.
We've hit the gym every day straight for a week and I can honestly say that aside from general muscle soreness one gets from working out - I'm feeling good about it. I figured out exactly how fast I have to run to make that 300 meters in 80 seconds benchmark - which is 8.12mph roughly - so a few times I've pushed myself and managed to hit it every time. The last couple, I bumped the speed to 8.3mph, and today I hit that for a sustained 100 seconds - impressive for me. I'm not just focused on the sprints - I've actually been more endurance focused figuring the sprinting will come as I am able to sustain runs for longer. Four months of daily work outs should get me where I want to be.
Besides the treadmill I've been hitting the bike and doing at least a couple miles a session on it with medium-high resistance. I'm incorporating some weight machines in every few days right now - will probably do more weights as I get further into this but my number one focus right now is running / cardio. Hoping a side effect of the exercise will be shedding weight / building muscle, but honestly as long as I can make my run & row times, I could care less.