Tuesday, September 12, 2006

new way of looking at training

is great to see so many of you working out and feeling great about it!
But it is important to stick to your goals and thus follow the plan for working out or training.

There are many ways to look at your training;
number of meters you swam, kilometers you run etc; essentially mileage
number of calories you burn; indicate how much you potentially able to lose
intensity; how hard you go
And overview whether this session helps to achieve the goals you set out to accomplish for the program

Some of you have been clocking in the miles or kilometers in your running, but at what intensity and what purpose were you running for?
What did that session help you to achieve?
Is it a long run that will increase your endurance or speed workout that increase your leg speed or recovery run to prepare you for the longer distance this weekend?

There is another way to look at training sessions.
Rate the intensity 1 to 10 with 10 the hardest where you can only do 1 session in a week and 1 being the walk in the park.
Multiple it with the time for the session.
Example; Tuesday whiskey session is 8 for some of you so it is 8units for Tuesday workout. And Thursday run is 5 but you ran 2 hrs so 10 units.

The idea is to keep the session capped at 30 or so for the week.
Another way is to log the time your heart rate at different zone or level.

What is your rating for the week?

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