I don’t spend time on organized strength training. I get my strength from natural daily activities like push mowing our large lawn in the summer, pushing my 2-year-old in the jogging stroller or carrying her around, heavy lifting around the house, etc.
My normal strength training includes pushing 2-year-old plus lots of books, toys, water, and healthy snacks on rough trails.
However, I was inspired by a fellow Oiselle Team member on twitter a few days ago, and I did pushups! I did 20-15-10-5 and it felt pretty good. I felt like I probably could have done 5 extra reps on each set, but wanted to take it easy my first time doing pushups in years! Will this become a weekly occurrence?
Do you follow an organized strength training routine or spend your extra workout time on your running?
For years, I didn’t do anything besides run. Then when I started losing weight, I added some core exercises after finishing my run. Now after finishing running, I work out to a Jillian Michaels DVD.
I really like the Jillian DVD series. It is so much easier to follow a DVD to exercise instead of coming up with a routine on the fly.
I am amazed at all the running you do and you still get in your strength training! Inspirational! It really motivates me Deloris! I’ve heard good things about the Jillian DVDs.
I really like Jillian’s workouts. They are quick and to the point. They last around 30-40 minutes.
I barely have time to fit in runs, yet alone strength training!!
Once school is out for the summer, I will have more time to dedicate towards some upper body work. Yoga is also a great strengthener for arms and shoulders.
Oh, great point, Tracy! Yoga really works the upper body and seems to align and stretch my lower body so I have less aches and pains. I’ve been really bad about going lately. In 2011, I did downward dog every day and felt like it helped me in so many ways. I’ve fallen off course lately with the yoga.
Nope — no strength training besides a few core exercises and some PT stuff. I should probably change that.
It’s great that you do some core and keep up with your PT stuff! Lots of people stop with the PT as soon as they are done with appointments!
I love doing a CoreFlow based yoga! Its time consuming, but great on days when I’m not running as far or need a day off from running. Otherwise, I haven’t done a sit up or touched the weight-room in nearly a year!
I’ve never done CoreFlow based yoga but that sounds like something I would like too!
A couple years ago I strength trained 2-x a week alternating w/ my running routine. I never got injured back then and was working for a fitness expert. When I moved back to Cleveland I got out of the habit and started focusing more on running. Now I’ve been injured 3x. I started looking back at this thinking there maybe some correlation so I started strength training 2x a week for the past 2 months. We’ll see if it helps
I hope it helps, Kristy!