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functional fitness, strength training, and flexibility
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Stregth Training and Functional Fitness with a Warrior's Attitude
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Total Body Transformation Training BlogA journey about training the entire body to acheive peak fitness and health. Whole body training isn't about body building, toning or running a marathon per se. It's about teaching the body to optimize and balance strength, speed, and strength-endurance. And it's about developing an attitude that is all to lacking in the West around hard work, effort, and the meaning of the journey. Saturday, February 14, 2004The Run/WalkIt's almost an overused phrase -- "you have to walk before you can run". When you are trying to get ready for your first distance event an apt variant is "run and walk.. just finish". This month's CookingLight fitness article ('betcha didn't know CookingLight had a personal trainer column) was about a woman preparing for her first half marathon. Like Denis and myself, her coach recommended that she start a program of walking and running, eventually building up to the ability to jog for 30 minutes continuously. That was the prep program.The training program for the (half) marathon had the woman doing four workouts per week, with one long "run" during the weekend. What was interesting was that the long run was really an interval. 3 minutes of running, one minute of walking to start the first week and then eventually building up to a 5/1 run/walk pace. The fitness trainer said that depending on the terrain and your fitness level you can just substitute a light jog for the walking part -- or not. During the race, the trainer advocated the same pacing strategy -- run a little, walk a little. Her point was that finishing the first marathon is the prize. And the run/walk combination will take far less stress on your body and leave you with plenty in the tank come the home stretch and last few miles. Depending on how you feel you can jog the last half hour... or just continue to run and walk. It's gotton you this far.
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