Wednesday, January 18, 2012

Lessons in night-time treadmill running

1. Search the interwebs for a structured (and challenging) interval workout so you know exactly what you’ll be doing, making it less likely that you’ll just hang on for 20 minutes

2. Do not eat dinner – like dinner dinner – an hour before you plan to run. That is, of course, assuming that you don’t like burping up pork “fried” brown rice for half your workout. If you like that sort of thing, carry on.

3. While sitting on the couch with a bowl of Turkey Hill’s light cookie dough and watching “Girl With The Dragon Tattoo” seems like a better alternative, it’s not.

4. Find an acceptable Pandora station on your phone before starting the workout in an effort to avoid stopping several times in the warmup.

5. Creating a “Bye Bye Bye” station on Pandora does not guarantee that you’ll hear “Bye Bye Bye.” You will, however, hear “Cry Me a River” by Justin Timberlake. Though “River” is no power “jam,”  the thought of Timberlake will help you push through a tough interval.

A moment of silence, please.

6. Listening to a ’90s pop station will remind you of a better workout song than “Bye Bye Bye”: “Dirrty” by Christina Aguilera.

7. A drink of water is an acceptable reason to stop the treadmill after a tough interval. If anything, it might help get rid of the flavor of pork “fried” brown rice.

8. Pausing because you’re afraid that you can’t keep up? That is not an acceptable reason to stop. You will only run as fast as you let yourself. #OpHardcoreFit in full effect.

9. It’s a smart idea to grab a towel from the laundry pile – even if it is the dirty laundry pile – to keep next to you. It will come in handy when the sweat is literally dripping down the backs of your legs, past your ankles.

10. The bowl of ice cream that sounded so good doesn’t sound so good 41 minutes and 4 miles later. What does sound good is peppermint tea and a hot bath.

13 comments:

  1. I wish I had a treadmill to do interval work outs at home!

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  2. You're hilarious - no, like seriuosly, you should write a book and bring the humor because everyone will read it - hilarious! I have had a horrible day (with my new 'you know what' and I just really needed a light hearted blog post just like this to help me! Thanks girl.

    I have a Chicken "fried" rice recipe from the Curves plan that's really good - but probably you already know about it. Will share if you don't - it's not crazy inventive.

    Great hump day run - keep up the great work.

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    1. I want you to know I'm following along (YAY on the 2.2 lb loss!) but I can't comment on your blog :(

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  3. nice job on the interval workout! I love love me so JT and nsync. hooray for 90s pop! :)

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  4. I love 90's pop and it totally reminds me of high school and college (yes, I'm old :)). Nice job on a late night workout. When I lived in Manhattan I used to run all the time at 8-9pm then would be eating dinner around 10. Not ideal but a run is a run! Awesome job!

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  5. don't know if you've ever heard of it but there is a great app called lolo beat burn that provides you with interval training for both the elliptical and the treadmill, it provides music but you can upload your own into it and is absolutely wonderful. you may want to try it.

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  6. Very nice post! Keep up the good work. Seeing someone else work so hard and be successful is very uplifting.

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  7. Just found your blog and already fell in love! I switched to a healthy lifestyle in the moment I moved in with my now husband and I am wearing two clothes sizes smaller already. Still a bit to go but reading your blog reminds me of that every drop of sweat and such is worth it!
    Keep up the good work!
    Hi from LA
    Heike

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  8. Hey, Thanks Yahoo for sending me to a fellow weightloss friend! Congrants on your weightloss success!!!!!!! Looking at all you have and are doing is helping me to continute my motivation in my weightloss! I have lost a total of 82.6 pounds in 7 months. Thanks for the added motivation, keep up the great job!!!!

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    1. Hi Naomi, you are doing great. I would like to know what you are doing to achieve your weight loss goals as well? Anywho, I am 5'7.5" and I weigh 220lbs. Im just gtting started and I bought some Vibram running/walking shoes because walking and running is what I will start doing. I just wanted some tips on what you are doing as well..

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  9. Thank you for the tips and I bought a treadmill but the thing is so high of an angle and I tried to lower it because I am over 220 pounds but there is no way to do that so I have to start walking outside to build up the muscle to actually be able to do the treadmill. I have a glider so I may just do that first and build up that way. You are so cool and I appreciate your sharing so much.

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