Post by Merk on Feb 17, 2020 20:42:25 GMT
Happy holiday Monday everyone!
I hope you've all had a great weekend filled with all the awesome stuff that life has to offer.
Over the past few days, I've done a few walks trying to keep my steps up, meditation, breathwork, cold showers, and an attempt at a cold bath (this didn't work the way I had hoped, I didn't have enough ice and only got the water to 16C). Other than that I've been laying low with some good reads and nursing my right knee (it's been acting up again).
Luckily enough it felt really good today so I made sure to get down to the gym and get in some leg work. I got to the gym and found out they were closing in 20 min (closed at 1 pm due to the holiday).
Well, challenge accepted!
2.5 WALK/JOG (GARMIN BEGINNER 5K RUN PROGRAMMING), FOLLOWED BY A 1 KM WALK TO THE GROCERY STORE, WALKING AROUND THE GROCERY STORE, AND THEN A 1 KM WALK BACK. ONCE GET BACK TO OUR PLACE I HAD MRS.M TAKE THE ELEVATOR WHILE I DID 15 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS. I WALKED 5 FLIGHTS, RAN 6 FLIGHTS, WALKED 3 FLIGHTS, AND THEN RAN 1 FLIGHT. I REWARDED MYSELF BY TAKING THE ELEVATOR DOWN TO OUR FLOOR.
FIN
Now I'm not much of a runner, I did running in elementary school for phys ed. and I hated it, a lot. In high school I wasn't fond of running or heavy taxing cardiovascular drills. I did, however, use running as a weight-loss tool back in 2005 when I did my initial weight-loss transformation...I tolerated it. Also, I ran a 5 km leg of a run for the cure marathon though my work approx. 10 years ago. This ended up being closer to a 10 km because I ended up off course by a couple km's. The aftermath of this "5km run" had me really back away from running and pretty much swore off the idea of doing it again.
Well....things change.
I've had this itch to learn run lately, not just run but to learn how to run. I feel I've lacked any real success with running because I lacked the education on how to run, and how to train for running. So, now I'm trying it out. Though my Garmin watch and programs for the watch I tapped into training programs and the one that tugged at me was learning/training to run a 5 k. After a series of questions, I was left choosing my "coach". There were 3 and after 10 min of reading their stories, etc. I ended up choosing Jeff Galloway. His resume is impressive and I look forward to learning from a real OG of the sport. Jeff has been doing this for over 50 years and was in the Olympics back in 1972.
So let's see where this road takes me, I'm excited to learn something new and see how my body responds.
Also, I find myself digging deeper into Wim Hof's teachings. I'm most likely going to be taking his fundamentals course in the near future (and yet another piece of education I will need to do and finish amongst the rest)
Anyhow, I'm going to step away and try my hand at making beef jerky.
I hope you have a good day and a good life.
I hope you've all had a great weekend filled with all the awesome stuff that life has to offer.
Over the past few days, I've done a few walks trying to keep my steps up, meditation, breathwork, cold showers, and an attempt at a cold bath (this didn't work the way I had hoped, I didn't have enough ice and only got the water to 16C). Other than that I've been laying low with some good reads and nursing my right knee (it's been acting up again).
Luckily enough it felt really good today so I made sure to get down to the gym and get in some leg work. I got to the gym and found out they were closing in 20 min (closed at 1 pm due to the holiday).
Well, challenge accepted!
5 min lower body stretches.
LEG CURL
70X20
100X10
120X10 + 10 PARTIALS
170X5
170X5
DROP SET
140X5 + 10 PARTIALS
DROP SET
120X5 + 10 PARTIALS
DROP SET
70X5 + 10 PARTIALS
LEG EXTENSIONS
70X25
100X10
140X5
170X6
200X6
200X6
200X6
SQUATS SS CALF RAISES
135X10 SS BWX15
135X10 SS BWX15
135X10 SS BWX15
135X10 SS BWX15
2.5 WALK/JOG (GARMIN BEGINNER 5K RUN PROGRAMMING), FOLLOWED BY A 1 KM WALK TO THE GROCERY STORE, WALKING AROUND THE GROCERY STORE, AND THEN A 1 KM WALK BACK. ONCE GET BACK TO OUR PLACE I HAD MRS.M TAKE THE ELEVATOR WHILE I DID 15 FLIGHTS OF STAIRS. I WALKED 5 FLIGHTS, RAN 6 FLIGHTS, WALKED 3 FLIGHTS, AND THEN RAN 1 FLIGHT. I REWARDED MYSELF BY TAKING THE ELEVATOR DOWN TO OUR FLOOR.
FIN
Now I'm not much of a runner, I did running in elementary school for phys ed. and I hated it, a lot. In high school I wasn't fond of running or heavy taxing cardiovascular drills. I did, however, use running as a weight-loss tool back in 2005 when I did my initial weight-loss transformation...I tolerated it. Also, I ran a 5 km leg of a run for the cure marathon though my work approx. 10 years ago. This ended up being closer to a 10 km because I ended up off course by a couple km's. The aftermath of this "5km run" had me really back away from running and pretty much swore off the idea of doing it again.
Well....things change.
I've had this itch to learn run lately, not just run but to learn how to run. I feel I've lacked any real success with running because I lacked the education on how to run, and how to train for running. So, now I'm trying it out. Though my Garmin watch and programs for the watch I tapped into training programs and the one that tugged at me was learning/training to run a 5 k. After a series of questions, I was left choosing my "coach". There were 3 and after 10 min of reading their stories, etc. I ended up choosing Jeff Galloway. His resume is impressive and I look forward to learning from a real OG of the sport. Jeff has been doing this for over 50 years and was in the Olympics back in 1972.
So let's see where this road takes me, I'm excited to learn something new and see how my body responds.
Also, I find myself digging deeper into Wim Hof's teachings. I'm most likely going to be taking his fundamentals course in the near future (and yet another piece of education I will need to do and finish amongst the rest)
Anyhow, I'm going to step away and try my hand at making beef jerky.
I hope you have a good day and a good life.