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Diary of a Weightlifter, Cross Training
By Thorin Gault have been doing something per week and weightlifting twice cardiovascular fitness was
I quite different over the past per week with an endurance twist TERRIBLE, and it was a blind
six weeks and it has been on my lifting sessions. spot. Being in my weightlifting
very interesting. I have placed bubble insulated me from realizing
Doing something so different
weightlifting on the backburner, how out of shape I was. An able
from what I am used to has been
(it is the competitive off-season), bodied 50-year-old should be able
really valuable and is teaching
and have been training to run the to run 5km and I clearly could not
me some interesting lessons. Like
5km race at the Ottawa Army Run when I started.
weightlifting, running is a mental
on September 22.
game. You have to do things that The best news is that I learned
This is a big stretch for me, as you don’t want to do in order to that the endurance training is
I am clearly built for speed and get the result you want. For the actually helping my weightlifting.
power, not endurance. My wife first two weeks of running, not I have noticed that I recover much
and our friend have been preparing only did it feel awful to run but faster between sets which not only
for the 10km and half marathon, it felt just as awful after I was allows me to lift more, but also
respectively. After a little goading done. The payoff started to come train at a faster pace and be out of
and an urge to shake things up, I in the following weeks when the the gym in less time.
committed to the 5km distance. running still sucked but it felt good
In the next article I will let
after. Now, I am finding moments
So, I found a ‘couch to 5k’ you know how the race went and
DURING my runs where I find a
program online and am currently will hopefully be back to intense
groove that is very satisfying.
six weeks into the nine week weightlifting with my newly
cycle. I am running three times I also learned that my acquired cardiovascular fitness.
