Tonight's Theme: Pain

Heading to the Y tonight, I wanted to up the ante on the whole strength training thing. I was downtrodden by the poor work I did earlier in the week, and I want to get more power on my road bike.

I will attempt to strength train twice a week now, and I am adding back in leg exercises that I cutout for running and biking training, hoping not to push to hard. I pushed my reps to the limit in most areas. The leg stuff was especially painful. Not in a bad way. I cranked the reps to the spot right where it verges on being considered torture. I even worked on the hamstrings. I've not done that ever. They seemed especially weak. I wanted to get to a point where moving my arms and legs seemed an effort.

So, I put just about every muscle group on notice tonight. I think its time to push to a new level. The only thing I avoided was shoulders, cause I don't want to strain anything again, and I plan to swim on Thursday.

After the strength stuff, I did fast intervals tonight. I made it through 3 x 8-minute legs at about a 8:30 mile pace. After the lifting, that really put a burn on. I pushed the second leg the hardest, and really felt my legs starting to give out.

Also, I am thinking of putting some muscle building supplement in my training. Now that I'm getting older the muscles don't react like I want, and maybe science will help me out a bit here. Not sure if this is a waste of time and money, but I'll give it a shot for a bit, and see what happens.

Note: The cheap running headphones, really are cheap! Spend the extra money.

Stats:
Run Time: 28:18
Zone Time: 14:46
Distance: ~3 miles
Avg HR: 152
Max HR: 166
Cals Burned: 403

Next Goal: Swim 500m

Current Status: Tight

Upcoming: Spin and Swim