I had to abandon the New Rules of Lifting for Abs when my back got all screwy, so I haven't done any strength training for a month.
My chiropractor mentioned that I should be working on my balance. I remembered this book I picked up eons ago when I had a Barnes and Noble gift card to burn up, Balance Training by Karon Karter.
There hasn't been a lot of time up until this week -- the stretches the chiropractor gave me take a good hour each night, in addition to my running and cycling schedules (and that silly little thing called a day job!) But I'm furloughed this week so I figured I'd give it a shot.
Like the New Rules, Balance Training has a series of workouts that are meant to be done in a progression.
I tried the first stage, which is all body weight stuff done on the ground. It was way too easy. I had some time, so I did Phase 2, which is done on the foam roller. That felt relatively easy as well, but now I'm definitely feeling it a bit!
I think I may improvise and go back to Phase 1, and do it on the balance board instead of on the ground. If that works out I'll do that for four weeks, and then either find a way to modify the foam roller phase or just skip it altogether and move onto the stability ball phase, which looks tough!!
Since this is all lower body stuff, I'l going to find a 15-30 minute arm workout to do in addition.
Feeling pretty strong!!
My goal for 2014 is to improve my swimming and biking, and complete the Double Mussel and REV3 Poconos 70.3 races. I'm in the process of moving from Rochester to Albany, and am looking forward to making some new friends!
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Monday, March 19, 2012
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Expo time REDUX!!!
WAHOO!!!!!
I have just returned from the Columbus Marathon Expo! Fun flashback to the Cleveland Expo.
This is going to be a photo post. I'll do my more serious "Here's the Plan" post next, and then the playlist post!
Fun times at the expo! I spent an hour and a half working with Deb M. at the Bondiband booth, and got three Bondis out of it. One is a prezzy for someone, here are the other two -- not sure which I'm going to wear tomorrow:
I have just returned from the Columbus Marathon Expo! Fun flashback to the Cleveland Expo.
This is going to be a photo post. I'll do my more serious "Here's the Plan" post next, and then the playlist post!
Fun times at the expo! I spent an hour and a half working with Deb M. at the Bondiband booth, and got three Bondis out of it. One is a prezzy for someone, here are the other two -- not sure which I'm going to wear tomorrow:
Here's the shirt, front and back:
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