More Highs than Lows
This week has been pretty positive - I managed good interval sprints on Monday:
- 1 sprint (approx 36 secs), then 1 walk (same distance) - repeat 6 times.
- 5 sprints up and down very steep small hills, running between 4 points of the compass
- 1 sprint (approx 36 secs), then 1 walk (same distance) - repeat 4 times.
My thigh strain was a little sore so I put ice on again afterwards but I was really happy that I made it through the session.
On Tuesday I went for a full round of golf which is a pretty good way to keep your muscles warmed - my standard of golf is pretty shit though so I need to get some benefot from it!
On Wednesday I was back to the original upper body session which went really well - I can feel myself getting much stronger (especially my chest and shoulders). I’ll lay out the full workout here for you to see exactly what I’m doing. I felt a bit of a twinge in my left hip as I was doing the exercise where you stand with legs apart and weights in hand, then stretch down to each side for 15 reps. It has been a bit nippy since then and I think it is my hip flexor muscle - it is buried way deep inside and wouldn’t really benefit from ice.
It was twinging again this morning during my boxercise session but I manged to push through - I think it’ll be OK by next week. Boxercise was fantastic - I haven’t done it for 4 or 5 weeks and it was unbelievable how much more stamina I have now. I could have gone on for longer than an hour which is incredible.
Also, the 10 minute warm up run hardly even registered which makes me feel good about the 10K on June 15th in Bellahouston Park. This weekend I’m going to go out and do a proper road run to see how my stamina is for running - if I can do a good 40-45 minutes without dying I’ll be happy. Then I’ll build it up over the next couple of weeks.
Cheers, Mark