The increase in my fitness after a few weeks of doing this actually took me by surprise and the day I first finished running the 5km loop without any breaks for dance-walking I felt in awe of what my body had achieved just over time and with practice.
10 weeks ago when I started training for my half marathon I laboured through a 3km run around my neighbourhood. Tonight I completed a cross country feat of 19km. I arrived home with blistered toes, shaking legs and a thick layer of salty sweat all over me. But I made it.
How do I do it? I have my own style. I listen to music that I love and put a little funk into my stride at times (lets call it dance-running). I try to run at least every second day so as to not get out of the routine. I mix it up between shorter fast paced runs, shorter easy runs, runs with intervals of walking and sprinting, and a weekly long run for which I only aim to increase the distance by a kilometre or so each time.
When it comes down to it though no amount of my explaining how I do it, reading a fitness magazine article about it, finding a fancy standardized running "schedule" to follow, downloading a running app for your android, or asking a personal trainer to teach you how to do it will make it happen for you.
You just have to get out the door and go for that run, find your style and then stick with it. It's that simple. And I promise your bodys abilities will begin to surprise you too.
If you're not sure what I mean by "finding your style" then watch the clip below......
10 weeks ago when I started training for my half marathon I laboured through a 3km run around my neighbourhood. Tonight I completed a cross country feat of 19km. I arrived home with blistered toes, shaking legs and a thick layer of salty sweat all over me. But I made it.
How do I do it? I have my own style. I listen to music that I love and put a little funk into my stride at times (lets call it dance-running). I try to run at least every second day so as to not get out of the routine. I mix it up between shorter fast paced runs, shorter easy runs, runs with intervals of walking and sprinting, and a weekly long run for which I only aim to increase the distance by a kilometre or so each time.
When it comes down to it though no amount of my explaining how I do it, reading a fitness magazine article about it, finding a fancy standardized running "schedule" to follow, downloading a running app for your android, or asking a personal trainer to teach you how to do it will make it happen for you.
You just have to get out the door and go for that run, find your style and then stick with it. It's that simple. And I promise your bodys abilities will begin to surprise you too.
If you're not sure what I mean by "finding your style" then watch the clip below......
So funny!!
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