As a part of becoming the best/healthiest I can be before the end of 2012, I am giving myself 4 months to slowly change some habits that have crept back in and solidify the good stuff that I already have going:
- walk 60 miles
- get back to running, run 20 miles
- cut down from 4 cups of coffee/day to just one :-)
- work my Italian lessons
- get back to meditation and visualization
All day today, I cannot wait to get out of work and go interval running :-) I am hooked on it, such a hard cardio, but such a huge high and reward after. And to think I have never been big into running and now I do it 3-4 x a week is amazing.
I used to do 1 minute high intensity running, 1 minute walking, but I started doing intervals suggested by Bob Harper on the Biggest Looser (love the show and love him!)
They go as follows:
- 5 min warm up
- 10 min run
- 2 min recover (walk)
- 8 min run
- 2 min recover
- 6 min run
- 2 min recover
- 4 min run
- 2 min recover
- 2 min run
- 2 min recover
- cooldown for 5 min OR repeat if you are up for it :-)
Bob Harper claims it will “torch the fat right off your body”, and I bet it kicks your metabolism in a very high gear!!!
Happy running, kick some ass today!