Even so, if you aren’t game to just lace up and run for 60 minutes straight, use the following workout, which includes running intervals and an exercise interlude to further engage the lower body. “Distance running is great for your body and your mind, and I like to think of steady-state runs as meditation in motion,” Clayton says. Distance Running (Photo: Ian Travis Barnard) Training Tip: “If you’re a more advanced athlete, finish up with four 50-meter sprints with a 60-second recovery between each one,” Clayton suggests. Repeat the below sequence eight times through. Pre-Sprint Workoutĭo the following moves in order for 30 seconds each. * One time around a standard track oval on the inside lane is 400 meters. “It’s high intensity and high impact and promotes muscular growth - especially in the posterior-chain muscles like the glutes and hamstrings.” The Outdoor Workout Warm-Up “Think of sprinting as the weightlifting of the running world,” says Clayton, who competed at the 2000 Olympic games in the 200 meter and 4×100 meter relay events for Great Britain. This on-the-oval regimen is the go-to of Samantha Clayton, vice president of Worldwide Sports Performance and Fitness for Herbalife and a former Olympic track athlete. Go outside and try them today because as we learn all too quickly each year - summer is fleeting while winter is (seemingly) forever. The following five expert-designed outdoor workouts will free you from the gym without compromising your fitness-building efforts. Nothing against treadmills, but it’s time to kiss them goodbye (well, not literally - yuck). Then when it does, we persist in trudging to the stale, dank confines of the gym to do cardio on the same old machines we labored on over the endless frigid months. We spend more than half of the year waiting for sweet summer to arrive. Heading out the door? Read this article on the new Outside+ app available now on iOS devices for members!
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