My first run with 30 minutes (33.5 includes WU and CD) of 4 minute run intervals and 1 minute walk intervals. This is the last step in the progression to running a solid 30 minutes. This felt great, but if you asked today I'd say I'm not ready to run the full 30 minutes. I still need walk breaks. So I'll continue on this pattern the rest of the week, and in the meantime be thinking about other run/walk ratios to move up to. Stay in the 30-35 min time range but do 6/1 or 8/2 or something like that. Surprised to say it, but I'm just not ready to go there.
Last few days, with now six straight days of workouts behind me, I feel great. In the run intervals I'm floating and on the bike I'm flying. It's a full body experience --my heart beats and blood pulses; my mind is forward calculating the next moves and by muscles execute the symphony that keeps me vertical. (I previously wrote a post about how the brain calculates this, try to find it). The wind hits my face, the sun alternates with shade under my feet, the birds and traffic sing around me; I can taste the sweat on my face. I'm slightly tired, with some muscle fatigue (no stairs today, for example) and I'm looking forward to the next session. I'm remembering why I love this shit -- I love the thinking, the planning, the execution, the work, the recovery. It motivates me. I'm alive and moving forward.
So I'm listening to a podcast today from the Fit2Fat2Fit guy and he's talking about the mental aspects of getting in shape. He said we all know to eat better/move more but 'we' still don't do it. There's a mental hurdle in that some people don't believe in themselves, they don't see the value or the worth. So they have a harder time committing to the changes.
He encourages self-affirmation, in the way of telling yourself "I'm working hard" and saying out-loud the self-affirmations of gratitude and self-love. I'm going to tell myself that later today when doing my 3x planks of Bring Sally Up and see if that improves on anything.
In two thousand hilleven JoeM made for me a SavageMan training CD, two volumes - one titled Self Affirmation and the other Self Actualization. I should dig those out. Should still be in the truck.
Anyway, F2F2F guy is discussing how people find self-affirmation in doing the hard work. They see their abilities and improvements and successes and it drives change in them.
In hearing this podcast, I realize a connection as to why these workouts feel so great and why my mood is up. They are affirming my belief in myself. They are telling me that I'm OK, I'm still me, I'm still alive and healthy. Crazy mayhaps, obsessed for sure, but I'm OK.
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