Background

The continuing quest to get as fit as I possibly can at the age of 41!
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Attempting to Regain my Fitness at 40!

The background story for this latest quest to raise my fitness level lies is the fact that I've turned 40.

Being a Physical Education Teacher and having been around sports and fitness most of my life I believe I have an excellent understanding of how to gain and regain fitness in a short time period.

That is what this page of my blog 'Fitness' will be about, a diary of my quest to get back my personal fitness after a hiatus from hard aerobic training of about 4 years!

In this return to regaining my fitness as quickly as possible I have set myself a number of rules which I will try to follow and nodoubt break along the way.


The first rule is, if you want quick results you need to get out on the road!

Easier said than done... So rather than smash my untrained joints up, I have started the roadwork slowly... doing a day in the gym, in-between the joint jarring roadwork!

The second rule is, don't get involved in long boring sessions!

The plan is to keep up the intensity and drop the hours...

Finally the third rule is, change the routen everyday(ish)!

I've discovered I'm much more motivated if I take 10 minutes and use my underpinning knowledge of what I require for that day and plan a whole new route and workout.

It should be noted that rule number three, the need to create new workouts on a daily bases... my weights routen does not change so much. In this case after being around weights for over thirty years, I believe I have the perfect short, sharp routen that works for me.

Please note, the days may not necessary run consecutively over time, where possible, I have included the date, but generally I try not to schedule days off and take them whenever it is not possible to get out on the road or into the gym.

Tuesday, 21 May 2013

Ten Day Reflection

It's been longer than ten days, and day one defiantly had a handful of rest days from roadwork after it, due to the fact my body ached so much. But I did it and that motivated me enough to get back out on the road again. 

OK, I love quick results, and I know you have to put your body on the edge of overtraining to get them. Interestingly the overtraining effect didn't really kick in until day eight or nine (OT effects have been slight joint ache, but minor and disturbed sleep patterns).

So the question is... Is it working? 

Yes, it is. My time and distances have improved, in fact they have doubled. I'm finding the HIIT easier (it's still hard, but I'm not physically collapsing) my breathing whilst running has improved, and the ease of performing Burpees is improving, and I've not dropped weight and I'm keeping my strength in the gym.

I'm going to push another ten days before easing off the gas. Possibly moving to a three day roadwork  schedule...

As long as I stay injury free it should be a fun ten training days :) 

Training routines I like and that push me are the Fartlek treadmill days, the 1km burpee/ squat/press up mix, and the HIIT hill sprints and the endurance hill runs. Variations of all of these will make up the next ten training days. In addition to my weights routine. 




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