Day 224: Strength Endurance (Slopes)

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Disclaimer: By doing my workouts and blogging it online here, I’m not seeking attention, nor am I an exhibitionist. I’m the type that follow-through my training much better if I put it in writing. I workout because I can, and I love doing so. Do not try to emulate my training program, I bear no responsibility if you do so. I’m no role-model, not your papa, mama, your soulmate, or someone you can look-up to, nor am I’m a national athlete … I am just a NOBODY. So just leave me be.

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Wow the past few days have been a real scorcher. I was out training in the hot sun, but so far it’s bearable to me. I’m used to it actually, that’s why I’m so tanned I reckon.

I was actually smiling when people was complaining of the weather, despite being indoors and in air-conditioned room. They should join me for training then, I sure would like to hear what kind of rant will be their tune now.

Slopes Training Location – View Larger Map

Well my condition today was fine, the slight ache on my ankle is still there, so the ankle guard was used today. Having strains at my ankle is pretty common occurrence, so I should look into strengthening more of that part of my body, or look into improving my running mechanics.

Actually I planned to do medicine ball today, but I skipped it since it’s too intense, and I’m in my Active Recovery week. So it’s hitting the slopes today at an old training location.

Status

Phase: NA
Phase Week: NA
Week Cycle: 4 of 4 (Active Recovery)

Workout of the Day

1) Dynamic Warmup

2) Home Conditioning
Tricep Curl
Kettle Training
Gym Ball

3) Warmup Jog

4) Slopes
Around 500-600m
Recovery walk back down around 7 minutes
Set #1 – 1:37min
Set #2 – 1:38min
Set #3 – 1:33min
Set #4 – 1:30min
Set #5 – 1:28min
Average timing ~ 1:33min

5) Upslope Sprint
Around 30-40m
Recovery walk back
Feel ‘fresh’ before sprint

6) Active Recovery

7) Stretching/Massage

I love the training location for today as it has beautiful houses all around. It’s private housing with condos and landed property that probably fetched up to millions. It really motivates me to work even harder ya know, so as one day I’m planning to own a piece of such private property in the future.

Back to the training, the timing for my runs today indicates I’m still fit, despite not doing much of fitness workout. I even bettered my old timing here with today’s fastest run. So that’s good.

From now on strength endurance would be getting lesser and lesser as I focused more into specific track workouts.

Apart from doing the slopes, I also did some slope sprints. Who says you should only focus on one aspect of training per workout day. Why not combine it. There’s no rule of thumb that says you could or couldn’t, just train the way you want your body to achieve that certain goal.

As for me, I’ve always been lacking in speed, so I’m totally focusing more on that now. Literally I’ve added some sort of speed workout in my daily training routine.

Of course over-training is an over-kill, it’s all about training just enough, and balancing one workout with another. It’s all about proper planning, executing it well, and recap for improvements.