http://www.roadbud.com/blog/workout-hack-4-dilute-your-efforts/ Fire up your run! Mon, 09 Jan 2012 17:24:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.roadbud.com/blog/workout-hack-4-dilute-your-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-24 Mike Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:00:19 +0000 http://roadbud.com/?p=49#comment-24 You're an elite runner, but I think this advice applies even for duffers like me. The cross-training is important and not just filler. If you take the cross-training seriously, you will gain serious results - in your primary sport. You’re an elite runner, but I think this advice applies even for duffers like me. The cross-training is important and not just filler. If you take the cross-training seriously, you will gain serious results – in your primary sport.

]]> http://www.roadbud.com/blog/workout-hack-4-dilute-your-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-23 Jonathan Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:50:12 +0000 http://roadbud.com/?p=49#comment-23 Cross training is a great fitness routine especially for us +40 folks. To make this work, however, it is important to make the routine a habit and not to reduce the importance of one activity over another. For example, due to the weather and the darkness, I row on an ergometer several days a week in the winter to supplement my running. Running is my primary sport and I do it 5-7 days per week, when the weather permits. By rowing, I keep up the fitness routine, while working on different muscle groups. During the winter, it allows me to run harder on my running days as I know that I will be less likely to pound two days in a row. The key for me is not to think of the rowing as something less or optional. In doing this, I haven't had to suffer each spring with trying to get back into shape after three months of minimal training. Now, I am pretty fit each spring; I only need to get into racing condition. Cross training is a great fitness routine especially for us +40 folks. To make this work, however, it is important to make the routine a habit and not to reduce the importance of one activity over another. For example, due to the weather and the darkness, I row on an ergometer several days a week in the winter to supplement my running. Running is my primary sport and I do it 5-7 days per week, when the weather permits. By rowing, I keep up the fitness routine, while working on different muscle groups. During the winter, it allows me to run harder on my running days as I know that I will be less likely to pound two days in a row. The key for me is not to think of the rowing as something less or optional. In doing this, I haven’t had to suffer each spring with trying to get back into shape after three months of minimal training. Now, I am pretty fit each spring; I only need to get into racing condition.

]]>