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WOD Wednesday 1-3-07 PDF Print E-mail
Wednesday, 03 January 2007
 

"I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me."--Noel Coward-- Workout:

20:00 Run. Interdisperse various lengths of speed training, increasing your stride frequency and thus your pace. Vary them randomly throughout the length of the run, and substitute overcoming various obstacles for as many as possible.

You might run for 2:00 at a strong jog, then pick up the pace for 1:00, then back to strong jog for 1:00, then :45 through rails and over a wall, then 3:00 at strong jog, then 1:00 fast QM.....

The idea is to create a random and fun speed workout, incorporating the Fartlek concept (Swedish for "speed play", a popular running workout) and various Parkour techniques to test your aerobic and anaerobic endurance as well as agility and coordination.

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1. 01-03-2007 06:47

My favorite workout, i went to the track that goes around the park where we train often, and would intersperse doing a run through there when i passed it, also sprints on the two big hills. Those last runs through the park when it gets close to 20 minutes are tricky especially when it's cold.
frosti

2. 01-03-2007 19:57

Did some nice running mixed up with short sprints around the McDaniel Campus [since it's a nice 50 degrees out or something, WHERE'S MY ERESNOWPHENTR?] throwing in short bursts of parkour and QM up and down some angled ledges!
akh

3. 01-03-2007 21:11

ran with Brittany. We played around with our sprints and such, she thought I had was really freaky when I did QM cause I looked like a nonhuman creature =D
leonn

4. 01-04-2007 02:14

Whats QM?
Duo

5. 01-04-2007 05:33

Quadrapedal movement, or walking on all fours ;)
gearsighted

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