Bog Cleaner's Training Log

Thur 11th Nov

4 mile run - 38.06

 

Mon 15th Nov

4 mile run - 36.20

 

Tue 16th Nov

6 mile cycle - 24.30

3 x 20 sit ups

3 x 3 chin ups

3 x 3 pull ups

 

Thur 18th Nov

3 mile run - 24.11

 

Sat Nov 20th

4 mile run - 33.54

 

I'm dedicating more time to my training now that I have stopped cycling to work. I will post my goals when I am online later.

 

Mon 22nd Nov

4 mile fartlek

 

I've spent quite a bit of time reading through the various logs on here, it's amazing how many people started with great enthusiasm and then the log died with less than 10 posts. I hope I turn out to be one of the posters who trains consistently over a long period of time, as in the past I have trained for say a month and then lost motivation and given up for a number of months.

I do not compete in any sports, do not have a lot of free time and have had health problems over the past few years so I am going to keep my training simple. Reading through some of the logs has puzzled me as I have no idea about terms like plyometric, tabata etc., so at the start I will stick to what I know and then maybe incorporate different training techniques when I have read up on them.

I am going to give myself 6 hours a week to train and will split this between aerobic - running, cycling, swimming. Bodyweight exercises - pull-ups, sit-ups etc. Boxing - Hitting the bag, shadow boxing etc.

I'll post some aims below.

 

I have never run further than 10k and I want to get up to 10 miles. I want to post road running times for 2 - 10 miles, I have no idea at present what kind of times I can achieve.

After doing this I might go to my local track and get times for 100m - 1 mile.


Strength wise I will post my max for various exercises chin-ups, press-ups etc.

Boxing wise - I'm not going to take this too serious, just work on a few techniques and fitness.

When I find my tape measure I will post my weight and a few measurements, I don't expect these to change significantly as I am in decent shape now.

 

Tue 23rd Nov

3 x 3 skipping
5 x 3 shadow
3 x 3 Heavy bag

3 x 15 incline sit-ups
3 x 20 press-ups

 

Thanks, I'll have a look for that book. I understand what you mean about repetition making people lose motivation. I kind of like running and find it quite addictive when I really get into it, but in the past when I have stopped I've stopped for months at a time, I don't want to fall into this trap again, so I agree it's good to have a wide variety of different workouts.

 

Can't find a tape measure.

Age: 32
Height: 184cm
Weight 182 lbs