Step it up a Notch
Nine Weeks to Go With nine weeks until the City2Surf, you still have plenty of time to get into condition for the event (but don’t wait a moment longer). In the first week we set ourselves a target of 10,000 steps per day. This is the minimum the experts tell us we should all be doing every day of our lives in order to maintain our general health, but the average office worker only does around 3,500 steps a day (which is one of the reasons we are all getting fat!). When you look at it that way, we haven’t really started training...
read more10 weeks until the City2Surf
With 10 weeks until the 40th City2Surf, it is time to start your fitness routine. As I said in the training plan overview, you need a good pair of shoes and a pedometer. You need to focus on eating well and you need to exercise every day. We are going to start this week with regular walking and you’ll need the pedometer to compare how well you are going each day. A number of our personal coaching clients have joined us in the Global Corporate Challenge again this year. This is tremendous activity designed to get the world moving. Like...
read moreA New Beginning – City2surf Training Stage One
Just as I did in last year’s ‘Lifting Your Game‘ training program for casual joggers, this training program is also broken into three stages. Conditioning yourself into a training routine The aim of the first 3 weeks of this program is to ease you into a regular exercise routine. If you haven’t done much physical activity and you are carrying a fair amount of weight, you shouldn’t do any jogging. Your body simply won’t be won’t be used to the activity. In our modern lifestyles, most of us don’t...
read moreA New Beginning – Overview
Not everyone is a runner. In fact, not everyone is a jogger, and some of us have let ourselves slip into a lifestyle of indulgence and neglected our exercise altogether. When you begin from such a long way back, it is a much harder to get motivated but you will ultimately have achieved a greater success when you achieve your goal. Losing weight, particularly large amounts of weight is difficult, not because the process is hard, but because it requires a change in mindset. This City2surf training program is designed for people who can admit...
read moreHow to win the City2Surf
Yesterday I met with 2009 Sydney City2Surf winner Michael Shelley and held the winner’s trophy for the first time. Not something I ever imagined I’d be doing! In 2009, as I was just reaching the halfway point at the top of ‘Heartbreak Hill’, Michael was crossing the line in a time of 41’02′. It staggers me to think of the speed these elite runners are able to maintain as a result of serious race preparation. So what is serious City2Surf training? How much training do you need to do to be up the front with...
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