So to give my nether regions a break I decided to do a totally different brick at the gym today, row/ride. Bill, a friend of mine from the running club swears by rowers. He can knock out 15,000 meter sessions […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Archive for Endurance activities
Because of soreness in several areas of my body running was off the list today for a lunchtime brick. Instead I did a less intense but more diverse triple headed cardio brick spending 10 minutes on the cross trainer, stationary […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I returned to my normal 20/10 run/bike lunch hour brick. Overall I believe it was my best brick distance since joining the Wellness Center. During the run I covered 2.25 miles on the treadmill and another 2.62 miles on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Little adds up to a lot
So when I am in the middle of a cardio session that is difficult I find myself very easily perturbed. Today as I was doing the treadmill portion of my lunchtime brick this was once again the case. When […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Struggle
So I am back from our nearly two week Western Road trip. My picture posing move of the trip was the elbow planche which I did in various scenic locations. I had hoped to do a lot more pull ups […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Because it’s hard
Doing my cardio brick the day after doing squats and deadlifts is never much fun. Perhaps that is why I choose to do it. It’s been my experience in my 25 years of adult exercise that the more often you […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Today I upped my pace slightly on the treadmill portion of my brick to 6.7 mph. The .1 mph speed increase dropped my per mile pace below the 9 minute mark to 8:57. The last 2 minutes of the run […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So day 2 at the new gym was my first time hitting their cardio equipment. The treadmills definitely are nicer than what I was accustomed to at Royal Fitness. The TechnoGym treadmills have a nice touch video screen that allows […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Despite having sore glutes and hamstrings from yesterdays plentiful squat session I pushed ahead with a lunch training brick. I had some ideas before starting of using my lower body pain as a reason to tone things down, a dumb […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So I bumped up the speed of the treadmill .1 MPH which translated into knocking 8 or 9 seconds off my pace per mile, down to 9:05 for my 20 minutes of running. My distance covered on the bike was […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…