Well, after an incredible 6 weeks of interval training runs on Wednesday nights with some great friends from my soccer team I believe that these formal workouts may have to come to an end since my commitments to the University of Toronto Men's Soccer program begins tonight, and for the next 3 months.
Interval Training Workout #6 And What If We Just Ran Stairs Instead
1. Interval Training Workout #6 and What If We Just Ran
Stairs Instead?
I woke up this morning and realized that
today is Friday and that I forgot to post our most interval training
session from
Wednesday night in yesterday's post!
No worries kids. I've got it ready for you. But I must tell you that we
didn't have one of our typical intervals sessions because, for some
reason, Varsity stadium was closed!
But that didn't stop us. We decided to run over to Casa Loma and run
the flight of about 200 stairs that leads up to this beautiful Toronto
landmark.
So here's how the workout looked:
Warm-up run to the stairs: 1.7 km at talk test pace
Warm-up on stairs: 1 ascent (200 stairs) with dynamic stretching at
top (5 minutes)
Stair Workout: 2 ascents (200 stairs) back-to-back followed a 100m
recovery jog x 5 = 10 times up the stairs total.
Return run: 1.7 km back to the stadium at 80% max heart rate.
2. In total, we worked without stopping for a total of about 52 minutes,
ran about 3.5 km, and ran up more than 1000 stairs!
Quite a workout I must say. And I was dripping sweat...I actually rang
some of the sweat out of my shirt! Damn Toronto humidity.
What's happening next week?
Well, after an incredible 6 weeks of interval training runs on
Wednesday nights with some great friends from my soccer team I
believe that these formal workouts may have to come to an end since
my commitments to the University of Toronto Men's Soccer program
begins tonight, and for the next 3 months.
What that means is that since we train 4x/week at Varsity stadium
(and at the same time we were previously doing our runs) I won't be
able to be in 2 places at once. Hopefully, the guys can continue the
runs on the own and I'm happy to supply them with their interval
training protocols!
• Click here to see last week's post for all of our interval training workouts
• Click here if you'd like me to guide and motivate you through your own interval training runs
YURI
