I'm still on week 1's workout. I'm doing the last day tomorrow though, and then I'm going to week 2 on Sunday. I feel pressed to find the time to do this for a few reasons:
1 - I walk daily for 30 minutes. Barring near death, I do not miss this. 7 days a week.
2 - I do strength training M W F after my walk. It takes about 20-30 minutes.
3 - It's HOT and I am already walking in the morning so I can't run then. I planned initially to run Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and have Sunday as a "walk only" day.
I ran Tuesday, Thursday I was out with the girls till midnight and I'm running tomorrow. I meant to make up Thursdays today, but it was 103 and then it was raining. See my dilemma?
What time of day should I run? I prefer NOT to do it in the mornings because I walk then and I live RIGHT by a school and there are TONS of cars and walkers. I don't need that much of an audience for my jiggle. TYVM.
Twilight is nice, but I am paranoid about going out by myself. I took the dog last time, but she's a slacker and couldn't keep up. Plus, sometimes I'm out at night.
Afternoons will be fine in the fall or winter or some of spring, but for summer - Nu uh! Tooooo hot!
Tomorrow morning we are going to walk and then run around the track at the school and then walk home, pressing the walk and run into one workout. I can't normally do this unless it's a weekend, because of school
I just realized this is an incredibly boring post. If I didn't actually need your opinions, I wouldn't even post it.
7 comments:
I'm having the same trouble with timing...except that the only time I can run is at night. Luckily no one can see my jiggle.
By the way, I'm very impressed at your work BEYOND C25K. Wow.
I think that people who are walking 30 minutes a day and doing an additional 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week on TOP of that do not ALSO do 3 times a week of running. I think you do the running INSTEAD OF 3 of the walking days. On M-W-F do walking plus strength training. On Tu-Th-Sa do running. And on Sunday, walk only. That right there is a pretty merciless exercise plan.
What about walking in a nearby mall? I am pretty sure most of them are open early-not the stores, but the main part of the mall...when it's hot or raining, this might be a better alterntative...You may just get me to start working out if you keep going!
I did actually skip walking this morning for running, and then we went swimming, so I figured that made up for it.
Honestly? The mornings are the best time for me, if I can motivate myself. It's nice to just get it all out of the way. Then you spend the rest of your day knowing you DON'T have to work out, rather than trying to figure out when you will.
walking and running? i'm with swistle, devan. that sounds like overkill to me. i usually swim (back problems), and if i dont do it in the morning (by 7 a.m.), i know i wont do it at all. and boy, my bed sure feels good at 6:30 in the morning. (lazy much? heh)
I would ignore the audience and walk in the mornings.
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