Yeah, I’m getting back on the ol’ workout wagon.
While I’ve been running quite a bit since we got the treadmill last fall, I haven’t been doing much else despite having equipped our home gym with the following:
- Dumbbells: 3lb to 50lb
- Rower (well, we’ve had this for years)
- Weight bench
- TRX trainer (also had this pre-pandemic)
- Kettlebells (4kg + 8kg)
I had my good friend J (who is a personal trainer) set me up with a workout program so I can start working my weak, ineffective T-Rex arms into something not so weak and ineffective.
Now I have four different workouts – one is a warm up for days I run – and three others that give a more full body workout with weights/bodyweight stuff. Annnnd I’ve only done the warm up one in the month I’ve had them.
Hear me out!
Pre-pandemic I was going to Orangetheory Fitness where half of the one hour class is on the treadmill and the other half doing weights/etc. It was super effective for me and how I always did it was run first – weights second. Therefore in my monkey brain, I’d do the same thing here! Do a run, then go do the weights.
Except that didn’t happen.
I’d run and wear myself out then not go do the weights. Oops.
J told me “do the weights first, then go run so you stop putting it off”. OMG FINE J.
I did that and instead of the 38 minute class I was going to take (shout out to iFit!), I just ended up doing a manual run and ran a mile and walked a quarter mile to cool down because I was wiped out.
I guess if I want to do longer runs I’ll need to skip the weights on those days. I have two separate but related goals to my running: get my mile per minute pace below 11 minutes per mile and to run a 10k again.
My last 5k (a virtual Easter race through iFit) I had a 12:30 min/mi pace with no walk breaks. I can do a mile faster than that, but my goal is endurance and not walking, so baby steps I suppose. Blows my mind that I used to run 10ks at 10 min/mi pace, but then I was almost ten years younger and forty pounds lighter.
Can’t get any younger, but the weight can creep its way off. Well, once I stop eating like an asshole.
Why can’t salads be as tasty as pizza? Come on people.
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