Happy June 1st. Happy new month. Happy beginning of summer (for those with school age children). Happy global running day for those who love to run! #WeRunJune1
In an attempt to beat the bloat and weight gained over the past few months, I have hopped back in the fitness game. However, because of the excessive time NOT spent running the past few months I am starting back at ground zero with my running game and fitness. I have decided to bring back the interval run coaching from Couch to 5K to help me bring back my aerobic endurance.
I don’t think that I am too far off that I am able to combine two days worth of runs at one time (if I have the time to run for an hour). So far it is working for me, and I am on week two this week. Yay! Now I just hope I stick with it.
Last week’s plan was to warm up for 5 minutes and run 1:00 walk 1:30. I was to do this 3x last week. I combined two days together and finished my weeks worth of run training days in two days.
This week’s plan is to warm up for 5 minutes and run 1:30 walk 2:00. I like that the free app I use verbally alerts me when to run and walk. The only kicker is that I have to make sure the app is open and not in the background, or else it won’t work.
In celebration of Global Running Day, my family was sent New Balance’s Vazee Prism shoes to encourage us to get and stay active as a family.
In addition to running, I have put together a fitness plan that is doable for me. My summer fitness goal is to add strength to my daily routine. Putting all my dusty fitness DVD’s to good use, I will be doing a fitness DVD plan a week. You know when you purchase a DVD workout system that has its own training plan included, yeah that. I get bored easily… so I figured a week of the same trainer would be good enough for me.
Week 1: 21 Day Fix
Week 2: T25
Week 3: 21 Day Fix Extreme
Week 4: Max 30
Week 5: Jackie Warner
Week 6: Body Pump
Week 7: Body Pump (because I really like this program)
Week 8: Jillian Michaels Shred
There you have it. My running plan this summer as I attempt to build back my running base and strength plan to build back my lost muscle. Pretty simple if I can manage to stick with the easy plan. Let’s Do This (I enthusiastically shout to myself in my brain!). Time to log off and hit the treadmill for my Week 2 Day 2 C25K run of 1:30/2:00.
katie says
Gotta love new kicks! These New Balance shoes are fantastic!
Janice @ Fitness Cheerleader says
Love the new shoes and your plan! I did some hill repeats which had some bonus eye candy as there was a cute guy mowing the lawn on the street so I did a few extra just to check him out 🙂