{"id":257,"date":"2010-02-14T14:43:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-14T14:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2010\/02\/14\/runs-workouts-going-great-in-new-year\/"},"modified":"2010-02-14T14:43:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-14T14:43:51","slug":"runs-workouts-going-great-in-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2010\/02\/runs-workouts-going-great-in-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Runs &amp; Workouts Going Great in New Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I posted on my workouts but the Vibram Five Finger workouts are going great, whether using them in the gym or running in the street or on a <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Track_and_field_athletics\" title=\"Track and field athletics\" rel=\"wikipedia\">track<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pushing the frequency &amp; distances of my runs and no signs of <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Shin_splints\" title=\"Shin splints\" rel=\"wikipedia\">shin splints<\/a> or anything like that for the first time in my life!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;I am also starting to push my gym workouts harder increasing weight.<\/p>\n<p>As far as my runs the 7mile runs are increasing in frequency per week and once again I&#8217;m hitting the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Press-up\" title=\"Press-up\" rel=\"wikipedia\">push-ups<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Crunch_%28exercise%29\" title=\"Crunch (exercise)\" rel=\"wikipedia\">crunches<\/a> (on <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roman_chair\" title=\"Roman chair\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Roman chair<\/a>), leg raises and trunk twists immediately after my runs on days I&#8217;m not hitting the weights. Push-ups right now I do 3 sets of fifty, Roman Chair crunches I do 3 sets of 40 now soon to increase, leg raises I do 3 sets of 40 and three sets of 200 trunk twists.<\/p>\n<p>I have always found that increasing core strength and endurance really helps posture and performance in runs. Hitting abs especially helps with breath control and stamina for running!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m also starting to do intervals with a running buddy on some days.<\/p>\n<p>I missed an all-comers track meet I was intending to run the 800 meters &amp; 1500 or 2 mile runs as well due to my truck&#8217;s rear end going out.<\/p>\n<p>Oh Well time to take a run down to the gym which is a little over a mile away and hit the weights and then on the way back instead of hitting the treadmill I will run a bit over 4 miles in my Vibram Five Finger KSO&#8217;s!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px;height: 15px\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" href=\"http:\/\/reblog.zemanta.com\/zemified\/e9a12f9b-b81f-433a-9a43-4340522247a3\/\" title=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none;float: right\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/img.zemanta.com\/reblog_e.png?w=620\" alt=\"Reblog this post [with Zemanta]\" \/><\/a><span class=\"zem-script more-related pretty-attribution\"><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its been a while since I posted on my workouts but the Vibram Five Finger workouts are going great, whether using them in the gym or running in the street or on a track. I&#8217;m pushing the frequency &amp; distances &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/2010\/02\/runs-workouts-going-great-in-new-year\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[41,51,36,88],"class_list":["post-257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-wellness","tag-running","tag-vibram-five-fingers-ksos","tag-weights","tag-workouts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dhoytt.com\/mainblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}