challenging your fitness!
After the tecumseh trail marathon, I've taken it a little easy. What is easy, you ask? Casual training, personal allowance to take a day (or 2 or 3) off without feeling guilty about it and a general attention to nutrition, these are all what I consider easy. Some programs might label this kind of activity as maintenance, but even with these levels of activity, it is hard not to feel like you are slipping backwards.
When I start to feel like I've fallen behind in the "fitness game", I like to pick a challenge and see what's up. Living in Divide, CO last year, my challenge workout was running at The Crags. The distance of the run wasn't challenging, but the altitude and terrain were plenty difficult. (I lived at 9,200ft. and my gps monitor said the top of the Crags was around 11ish.) Today I did a challenge workout. The fun part of today's workout was that I haven't completed this kind of workout in a couple years! I did a circuit training program. At The Underground we have a circuit area set up with Cybex selectorized equipment... My workout went like this:
1:00 - machine, :30 - rest, 1:00 - agility cardio (sprints, jumprope, etc), :30 - rest. repeat. repeat. ...
I warmed up for 5 minutes, then started the circuit. At 40 minutes, I ran to the restroom thinking my lunch was coming up. It didn't! I completed about 8 more minutes and then cooled down. then I spent some time in the office lying on the floor, praying I could get up in time to make my personal training session later on.
The "no-pain, no-gain" mantra is something I've never subscribed to. But sometimes we all need to challenge ourselves to see how we are doing. What can our body really do?
Some other ideas that I use as fitness challenges are: all day hiking, how many miles cycling in a day, 2000 yard swimming time trial or a 10K.
The Ditsch Fitness philosophy has always been, health --> fitness --> performance. If we are healthy, then it can be fun to test our fitness. And on those few times a year we get to see what kind of performance we can put out.
Challenge yourself today!
When I start to feel like I've fallen behind in the "fitness game", I like to pick a challenge and see what's up. Living in Divide, CO last year, my challenge workout was running at The Crags. The distance of the run wasn't challenging, but the altitude and terrain were plenty difficult. (I lived at 9,200ft. and my gps monitor said the top of the Crags was around 11ish.) Today I did a challenge workout. The fun part of today's workout was that I haven't completed this kind of workout in a couple years! I did a circuit training program. At The Underground we have a circuit area set up with Cybex selectorized equipment... My workout went like this:
1:00 - machine, :30 - rest, 1:00 - agility cardio (sprints, jumprope, etc), :30 - rest. repeat. repeat. ...
I warmed up for 5 minutes, then started the circuit. At 40 minutes, I ran to the restroom thinking my lunch was coming up. It didn't! I completed about 8 more minutes and then cooled down. then I spent some time in the office lying on the floor, praying I could get up in time to make my personal training session later on.
The "no-pain, no-gain" mantra is something I've never subscribed to. But sometimes we all need to challenge ourselves to see how we are doing. What can our body really do?
Some other ideas that I use as fitness challenges are: all day hiking, how many miles cycling in a day, 2000 yard swimming time trial or a 10K.
The Ditsch Fitness philosophy has always been, health --> fitness --> performance. If we are healthy, then it can be fun to test our fitness. And on those few times a year we get to see what kind of performance we can put out.
Challenge yourself today!
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