My SmartCoach training program is filled with this kind of weird expressions like ‘@11:58′ and ‘5mi@10:12′. Do they want me to run in 11:58 in the middle of the night? Finish your 5 mile run in 10 min 12 secs? Say what???
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Good intensions are sometimes hard to convert to action. Take for example gym training. It’s the most common training I usually skip. Whenever I’m busy at work or just feel tired, gym can be skipped with a half-of-a-second decision/promise (“I won’t go there today, tomorrow is better for me”). Then tomorrow comes, I get a sudden meeting request and there’s stuff to do, so I make the same decision/promise to myself. Then weeks later I notice I haven’t been doing weight training for ages!
One way to hang on to the training plan is to train with a friend. I go to the gym with my colleagues as often as I can, but since we all have different daily routines, we have been switching the training days according to our changing schedules. And as there’s no specific gym day, it’s been easy to skip training if the others weren’t coming either.
One day I was at the gym with two of my colleagues and we were talking about that we should come there more often to get in shape before the summer. We were choosing which days we would dedicate for training and how could we motivate ourselves . Then the other colleague came up with an idea.
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I didn’t like steppers until last Thursday. I discovered something on that day, but I’ll come back to that later in this post. Before this “discovery” I didn’t like steppers for many reasons. Mainly I didn’t like them because I think stair stepping is boring if you have to climb them more than half a minute. Also the image of a blond hair dude with solarium tanning on a fitness commercial using the stair stepper is the stereotype which I don’t want to relate to.
And last but not least there are the physical reasons. My knees start aching, the stepper frame (the bar which you grab during the stepping) is always too low and I feel like I’m breaking the stepper with my weight. OK, there are couple of more reasons but I don’t like to concentrate too much on the negatives. I want to tell you about this positive discovery that totally changed my attitude towards steppers.
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The autumn is here, no question about it. It’s cold and dark in the mornings, so I haven’t had the greatest motivation to get up early. Not until I discovered the excitement I get when running in the dark! Here’s a list of my discoveries after a spooky running session.
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