Have you caught Olympic Fever yet?
All of a sudden the pool that I swim at on Wednesday evenings is full! And I’ll bet running stores are experiencing a surge in shoe sales, too.
You don’t have to be training for the Olympics, though, to act like it and really benefit from the spirit. It can put a whole new spin on your exercise – think of pure athleticism (and stop thinking about your weight loss).
Enjoy the thrill of competition – even just with yourself – put your Olympic training cap on, push yourself to new levels of training, and you’ll see the results all over your body.
Watching the Olympic Trials has put my training into high gear, for sure. And it’s not that I don’t exercise regularly, it’s just that my training gets a little ‘regular’ after a while, even boring.
So, I’ve added a few new goodies to my training. I am doing Super Slow weight training once a week, which is where you lift weights super slowly – 1 set to failure – for 30 minutes. And I have beefed up my WalkVest training, too.
Now when I go out for my weighted WalkVest walks, I mix it up a lot more, and I do a lot of "digging for the finish line." Two days a week I’ll wear a lighter weight load (4-6 lbs instead of 8 lbs), and I’ll a jog for 30-60 seconds at 2-minute intervals.
When I am jogging, I think about what the athletes who are competing this summer have gone through (and are still going through in their training) which makes me say to myself, you can pick up your pace a little here Rocker – and push it to the finish. Intervals are great because there are a bunch of little finish lines throughout the training session and at each finish line I push myself a little harder.
In 30 minutes of walk/jog with 4-6 lbs on, I am cooked, and I love it. And that last finish line is always a doozy!
Use the Olympic Spirit to really enjoy your training this summer.
Peace,
Debbie Rocker
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