NickW
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So I've been injured off and on a lot over the last year and am just coming off another injury. During my time off the last two weeks I've decided to completely start over and work on form and speed and am not taking any Garmin or tracking/pacing devices with me. I am running no more than a mile at a time for the time being. Not sure how long I will keep this up (maybe till it gets easy at the faster paces or boring?). I am not doing any intervals during the runs but just running at a decent clip for the entire short run (kinda like a tempo run I guess). It's a half mile downhill and then half a mile back uphill.
Some days, like today, I will stop at the halfway point and do some broad jumps. They're a lot of fun and kind of challenging when the grass is wet and you're barefoot (I busted my butt on my first set today and there was a bunch of ladies watching and giggling at me from the park ). I've also changed up my gym routines and am doing a lot of stuff that I've never really done a whole lot of such as dumbbell squats, dumbbell push presses, deadlifts, and power cleans. I am going to run 4 days a week, same as my workout schedule with an off day on Wednesday and then also on the weekends. I was really surprised at how limber I was today when stretching after my workout and run. I was able to reach much farther than normal, so I'm wondering if the broad jumps are really good for dynamic stretching? Had a lot of fun chasing my toddler at the park today in between sets of broad jumps and then chasing him around the baseball field a little before we ran back home.
Some days, like today, I will stop at the halfway point and do some broad jumps. They're a lot of fun and kind of challenging when the grass is wet and you're barefoot (I busted my butt on my first set today and there was a bunch of ladies watching and giggling at me from the park ). I've also changed up my gym routines and am doing a lot of stuff that I've never really done a whole lot of such as dumbbell squats, dumbbell push presses, deadlifts, and power cleans. I am going to run 4 days a week, same as my workout schedule with an off day on Wednesday and then also on the weekends. I was really surprised at how limber I was today when stretching after my workout and run. I was able to reach much farther than normal, so I'm wondering if the broad jumps are really good for dynamic stretching? Had a lot of fun chasing my toddler at the park today in between sets of broad jumps and then chasing him around the baseball field a little before we ran back home.