I've stumbled upon
this article in a couple of different blogs. It is a thinker. Rachel Cosgrove writes about training for her Iron Man race and how her body transformed, in a bad way.
'In seven months of training, I calculated that I worked out for 374 hours — that's an average of over thirteen hours a week! If I burned just ten calories a minute, it adds up to 224,400 calories. Doing the math (at 3,500 calories per pound), 224,400 caloriesshouldequal sixty four pounds lost! Needless to say, I didnotlose 64 pounds. Over those seven months, training an average thirteen to fourteen hours a week, I lost all offivepounds.' After this she took all cardio, in the steady state, out of her workouts. She didn't run or bike. She did intervals with all bodyweight exercise circuits. Crazy!
'These metabolic cardio workouts would crank my heart rate up for two minutes, I'd recover, and then repeat. Doing these interval circuits, along with strength training, took up a total of five to six hours a week, nothing like the twenty to thirty hours of Ironman training!
What happened? Like magic, my abs came back!
I dropped fifteen pounds of fat in an eight-week period and my body returned to being strong, defined, and lean. I no longer looked like a flabby endurance athlete, and I did it in a quarter of the time, compared to the aerobic training.'
I don't know about you but this is how I want to look! Her before and after pictures in the article are very telling and pretty darn amazing.
I'm not going to stop running all together. I rarely just run anyway. I get soooo bored when when I run at the same speed for even 10 minutes. Intervals definitely help to mix it up. I will be incorporating her workouts into my weekly schedule.
I'm taking Charlotte's lead, author of the blog
'The Great Fitness Experiment'. Here is my schedule for the week:
Sunday - Hike
Monday - Upper Body (I'm getting this workout from '101 Workouts for Women')
Tuesday -
Rachel's Metabolic IntervalsWednesday - Lower Body
Thursday - Some sort of cardio intervals. I will probably be on the treadmill or stairmaster for these.
Friday -
Rachel's special workout for endurance athletesSaturday - I'll do something less intense. Maybe yoga or just going for a hike.
Mainly her point is to not just do one thing for your whole workout, every workout. Mix it up and do intervals whenever possible, if not at all times. I'm not doing her articles justice. They have fantastic first hand information in them. Take a look for yourself and let me know what you think!
I've stumbled upon this article in a couple of different blogs. It is a thinker. Rachel Cosgrove writes about training for her Iron Man race and how her body transformed, in a bad way.
'In seven months of training, I calculated that I worked out for 374 hours — that's an average of over thirteen hours a week! If I burned just ten calories a minute, it adds up to 224,400 calories. Doing the math (at 3,500 calories per pound), 224,400 caloriesshouldequal sixty four pounds lost! Needless to say, I didnotlose 64 pounds. Over those seven months, training an average thirteen to fourteen hours a week, I lost all offivepounds.'
After this she took all cardio, in the steady state, out of her workouts. She didn't run or bike. She did intervals with all bodyweight exercise circuits. Crazy!
'These metabolic cardio workouts would crank my heart rate up for two minutes, I'd recover, and then repeat. Doing these interval circuits, along with strength training, took up a total of five to six hours a week, nothing like the twenty to thirty hours of Ironman training!
I don't know about you but this is how I want to look! Her before and after pictures in the article are very telling and pretty darn amazing.What happened? Like magic, my abs came back!
I dropped fifteen pounds of fat in an eight-week period and my body returned to being strong, defined, and lean. I no longer looked like a flabby endurance athlete, and I did it in a quarter of the time, compared to the aerobic training.'
I'm not going to stop running all together. I rarely just run anyway. I get soooo bored when when I run at the same speed for even 10 minutes. Intervals definitely help to mix it up. I will be incorporating her workouts into my weekly schedule.
I'm taking Charlotte's lead, author of the blog 'The Great Fitness Experiment'. Here is my schedule for the week:
Sunday - Hike
Monday - Upper Body (I'm getting this workout from '101 Workouts for Women')
Tuesday - Rachel's Metabolic Intervals
Wednesday - Lower Body
Thursday - Some sort of cardio intervals. I will probably be on the treadmill or stairmaster for these.
Friday - Rachel's special workout for endurance athletes
Saturday - I'll do something less intense. Maybe yoga or just going for a hike.
Mainly her point is to not just do one thing for your whole workout, every workout. Mix it up and do intervals whenever possible, if not at all times. I'm not doing her articles justice. They have fantastic first hand information in them. Take a look for yourself and let me know what you think!