We’ve had a couple cloudy, rainy days here in South Florida. Thankfully it all cleared up today. The sun came out as I went out to run and jump. 🙂
Also, I’m not sure, but some lady may have taken my picture. Awkward.
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Today was finally a cardio day (or at least as cardio as I currently get). I’ve scaled these back a little to make room for the more muscle-gain intensive workouts. I’m tracking my resting heart rate to see just how little cardio I can get away with. It keeps Lisa from getting worried if my heart rate stays below 60 beats per minute. I was at 53 on Sunday afternoon.
Anyway, here are the plyometrics and running I did. Also, I had a pretty spiffy revelation about plyometrics for people with ACL injuries (John, I mean you. 🙂 ) Continue reading
I’m sore. Really sore. Good thing my legs get two days of rest now before my next workout that involves them. I did some work on my make-shift (sidewalk chalk) agility ladder and then did my sprints. Good times! Continue reading
Some plyometrics, shuttle-runs, and sprints. Good times. No gym involvement either. However, there were a couple little old ladies walking to the thrift store that’s in the parking lot I run in. They gave me funny looks. Continue reading
There’s not much to announce here. The major negative to today was that it was lightly raining this morning, so I couldn’t use my sidewalk chalk to draw my Dot Drill square. The major positive being that since it was lightly raining, it felt great outside. It was a fun, pretty easy workout. Continue reading
Apparently, power training is for everyone…. including 65 to 84 year-olds.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18245765
In the study, they trained older adults with power (high speed) training or with strength (high resistance) training. The results after 24 weeks were that the power-trained adults out-performed the strength-trained adults. While strength training helped, power training won out.
So, this study leads us to believe that some level of power/speed training is beneficial for anyone and everyone. Just lower the weight some and do the exercise at as fast of a speed as you safely can. Focus on speed rather than using higher weights.
This isn’t to negate the efficacy of strength training. Other studies done on athletes have shown that doing both strength and power training together is what leads to the best results. However, it is short-sighted to only do strength training or to only do power training unless there is some sort of injury that you need to protect.
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