What is your workout routine?

[OneSickPsycho]

Does fervent masturbation multiple times a day count as a workout routine? If so, call me Jack Lalanne...

[NeonspeedRT]

Originally Posted by lauralynne

May 2008 - I weighted 230 pounds and could BARELY get my race leathers on. I had to do SOMETHING

So I started going to the gym. I couldn't run 60 seconds on the treadmill at the time. I Keep going to the gym.
My routine 6 months later is this:

Monday morning: 45 minutes light cardio (eliptical or treadmill)
Monday evening: 60 minutes spin class, 40 minutes hard cardio (usually treadmill), 15 minute ab workout, 90 minutes swim team
Tuesday morning: 45 minutes cardio, 15 minutes ab workout
Tuesday evening: 60 minutes on various weight machines, whole body
Wednesday morning: 45 minutes light cardio, 20 minutes pushups, lunges, medicine ball work
Wednesday evening: 60 minutes spin class, 40 minutes hard cardio (usually treadmill), 15 minute ab workout, 90 minutes swim team
Thursday morning: 45 minutes cardio, 15 minutes ab workout
Friday: 45 minutes hard cardio, usually 3.5 miles on the treadmill - yes, I'm STILL a slow runner, remember, I still am overweight! 15 minutes ab workout
Saturday: running group outside training - usually 4 miles
Sunday: unless I have a race on Sundays, I take sunday's off

Races complete:
June 08 - 5k
July 08 - 5k
August 08 - 5k
September 08 - 2 triathalons
October 08 - well deserved break
November 08 - 10k trail run, 960 feet elevation gain

coming up:
November 08 - half marathon
December 08 - 10k (maybe 2)
April 09 - triathalon
August 09 - OLY triathalon

rest of season still being determined

Wow. Thats awseome. Keep up the great work

How long did it take you to build up the endurance to run for a small distance after you started?

[lauralynne]

Originally Posted by NeonspeedRT

Wow. Thats awseome. Keep up the great work

How long did it take you to build up the endurance to run for a small distance after you started?

I built up pretty slowly - and initially I only did the gym 7 days a week, not all the 'extra' stuff I do now. I would run for as long as I could tolerate on the treadmill, then walk for a short time and run again. There's a program out there called "couch to 5k" that I sort of followed - I pushed myself harder than the program called for though.

the first 5k, I walked about 10 minutes out of 38 minute finish time - 2 minutes here, 2 minutes there. 2nd 5k a month later I still walked a little bit of it but only about 5 minutes out of 34 minute finish time. 3rd 5k I ran the whole thing, no walking.

I hate running. and I'm not very good at it. I'm still pretty heavy and it's physically difficult to run, the cardios good but it's still an effort to put one foot in front of the other at anything past an 11 minute pace. I've gota half marathon coming up this month - I'm hoping to do 13 miles in under 3.5 hours. I doubt I'll run the entire race, I'll have to walk portions of it but you never know

[Reyna1]

3x a week (trying to prepare myself for the police academy)


2 mile run - 1 mile of power walking - 1/2 mile cooldown, 40 mins on eliptical - treadmill, 20 miles on stationary bike, 30 mins misc lifting, 3 sets of 25 pushups/situps...etc

[speedylocksmith]

I think I need to start working out again since I was just advised that I'm getting fat and out of shape.

[Hondahugger]

That's not what i said!