This Saturday I went out for an early morning run. Temperatures were in the lower 50’s, it was sunny, and there was no wind. In my earlier postings about working out at a local 24 Hour Fitness with a personal trainer I wanted to get a feel for where I am with my training efforts. Last week Saturday I was out running and did a 7 Mile run in roughly 65 minutes. Towards the end of the run I realized that I was running out of fuel and that my legs were getting heavy. [Read more...]
Working with a personal trainer at 24 Hour Fitness Lesson 3
Today I had my 3rd session with a personal trainer at my local 24 Hour Fitness. I probably scheduled these too close together since this is just the second day after my previous session. The reason I am saying this is that your body needs to balance out and get some rest after doing certain exercises. As an example after a long run you would not go out and do another long run right away, you would either do some cross-training or do a shorter, slower run. In my sessions (1, 2) with the personal trainer we have been concentrating on the core and back and some other muscle groups and I did not have enough time for cross-training or rest in between. During my session today my arms finally turned into “Jello” because we were doing just exercises that also involved the arms … a lot. [Read more...]
My Second Session with a Personal Trainer
In my article here I did talk about that I am working with a personal trainer at my local 24 Hour Fitness. I had my second session today and I was in pain until yesterday. Well, it is good pain because I realize that I am definitely in need of doing different exercises to really improve my overall strength of the core and the back to become a better runner (I love running). The exercises I have been doing in the past were not bad or wrong, but I was definitely not pushing hard enough. The old set of exercises that I did were also not targeted enough and I realize that just following the stickers on the machines is not enough to make for a good workout. The new exercises I am doing are kicking my butt (in a good way). [Read more...]