view from the treadmill
I’ve never been much on an exercise fan because I’m such a book worm and find that in the past I would more often ‘run out of time’ than actually run! But my idea of health is congruent with fitness, not just eating a healthy diet, and so inevitably internal pressures get me started again. I have been putting some focus on starting a running program over the past week, specifically I have started working on C25K wearing my vibram fivefingers shoes.
C25K stands for ‘Couch to 5 kilometers’ and it is an interval training program that introduces you to progressively longer runs so that you can start off slowly but then quickly build up to being able to run 5km without stopping for breath.
Last week I completed all of week one and I found it quite straight forward and easy. The week one program was a 5 minute warm-up followed by 8 intervals of 1 minute runs and 7 x 1.5 minute fast walks. At the end there is a 5 minute cool down.
This week I have started week two which is a 5 minute warm up followed by 6 intervals of 1.5 minute walks and 5 x 2 minute fast walks, followed by a cool down. All up I do about 3.5 km in these workouts, which is a good start for me. I have also been walking to and from work every day which is 2.5km each way. I was jogging to work, but its been quite rainy lately.
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