Switching Up My Workouts
I’ve made it to the final stretch! The half marathon is this Saturday, and I can’t believe how fast the training went by. I’m excited for the race, and I honestly can’t believe I’ve made it this far. I’m happy to say that I was able to loosely follow a training plan without ever having to really sacrifice my social life. That’s winning, my friends. (Does anyone have any tips on running motivation after a race?)
Now that my running is starting to cut back, I’m planning on taking full advantage of the classes that are available for the Get Well Challenge. I’ve already tried Hot House Yoga and FIT Richmond (loved both of those places!) so I’m looking forward to giving CrossFitRVA a shot as well. I’m not sure if cross fit is really my style, but don’t knock it til you try it, right? (But neon colors? Those are apparently my style.)
Before I started training for the race, I was doing a lot of circuit workouts, weight training, and different types of cardio. While I do think my endurance has improved with all this running, I think I lost some strength, so I’m excited to get back into classes like BodyPump and BodyAttack (and maybe cross fit?) At this point, I pretty much have the opportunity to try anything! I usually get bored pretty easily, so I’m hoping to switch things up often. I haven’t been to Zumba or BodyJam in forever, and those are some of my favorite ways to get in cardio, so I’ll be hitting up those classes this week! Things that that make workout out fun, so I don’t get tired or bored.
To help myself stay on track this month, I wrote out a few goals. I find that my goals are much easier to achieve if I write them down and shout them out!
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Your neon Garb is awesome!
Richmond you say!? That means we are almost neighbors! Good luck in your race!! I would totally recommend cross fit, I do a variation and get work out inspirations from http://www.thetravelingwod.com – it’s cross fit work outs without equipment and I’m really loving that right now! My goals for November are to get back to running at least 3x a week and to do yoga sat and sunday!
Good luck this weekend! Those are 4 great goals, I didn’t set any specifically, but am still trying to keep up with 4 I set in Sept.
This is wonderful Liz – congrats on reaching your tapering period! I bet you are super psyched for the race…and BEST OF LUCK to you!! XO
I haven’t set any goals (fitness or otherwise) for this month (or any other), but I do love yours! I’m not sure CrossFit is my thing, either, but I did love Zumba the one time I tried it, and have thought about BodyJam. I DEFINITELY keep meaning to do some yoga, since I feel like I don’t stretch well enough post-run some times. It can be really hard to balance running and strength training..any tips are welcome. 🙂
Great goals! I love the yoga one as that is something I am trying to work into my schedule weekly. Not as much for the work out side, but as a relaxation, way to end my week.
If you ever want to go to Hot House Yoga, let me know!! I’d totally join you 🙂
Awesome goals! I really need to start making monthly goals for myself. I am great at yearly ones in January, ones for summer, ones for back on track, ones for new plans, etc. I really think I should do monthly ones for all areas of my life. Like the fact that I have been wanting to work in organizing my bathroom for months now, lol!!
Great goals! Especially for having FUN — that’s what it’s all about, right? 🙂 I can’t really help you on the running motivation after race.. I’m trying to scrounge up some of my own. Good luck!