I decided today that I needed to start running again. YUCK!  Since I’ve been concentrating on the Cookies and Cupcakes but not the Cardio, I find myself carrying a few too many pounds.  My too-tight pants don’t lie…neither does the jiggle, jiggle when my stomach hangs over the waistband!!!  Am I grossing you out yet?

“Don’t you teach spinning?” you ask?  Well, yes, but as you might have discovered yourself, your body becomes accustomed to doing a regular activity.  I may spin 3-4 times a week, which sounds like a lot, but my body is used to that exercise, so it pretty much just goes through the motions.  It gets bored!  Of course you can start to push yourself even further and harder….and that is the change that you need to make if you have reached this plateau.  Try something new…try your same activity at a new pace, with new resistance.  I decided that for me to kick my body back into muscle building, fat losing mode, I would start running again.

I packed my gym stuff this morning (so I wouldn’t have a reason to come home and find the couch) and headed to the gym after school today.   Here is how I started:

Treadmill (speed changes/intervals…incline is flat)

0-4 mins walking from 3.0-4.0 (speed)

5 min – Running at 5.0

6 min – 5.3

7 min – 5.6

8 min – 6.0

9 min – Walking 4.0

10 min – Running 5.0

Etc.

Repeat this cycle 3 more times…your last walk should start at minute 25.

It, sadly, was difficult for me.  I used to do these sets between 6.5-8.0…..and I am determined to get there again.  If nothing else, I have to do it so I have something to blog about.   It hurts in the moment, but boy does it feel good when it’s over.