You Wanted To Know: Cross Training/Non Running Sports

Well if you’ve been reading you have noticed that I was injured for over a month or so.

Some cross training I did was:

Elliptical

Aqua Jog

Spin Bike

The only one I even enjoyed was aqua jogging. Why?

Elliptical is plain boring.

1. It’s a tease.
2. It’s the closest thing to running but yet you can’t and it doesn’t even feel the same.
3. Time seems to go by so slow when on the elliptical.
4. You can’t even read or do anything to pass the time because you have to have your hands on the bars.

 

Spin Bike hurts your butt.

If that isn’t good enough then:

1. The seat is uncomfortable.
2. When adjusting the height, I still can’t get comfortable.
3. If I lean forward it hurts even more.

Aqua Jogging is fun.

1. Friends don’t mind coming to the pool to join you.
2. I get to use a belt because I can’t stay afloat in the deep end. (it’s a fear, leave me alone)
3. It reminds me of running, but no pounding.
4. There are a lot more people to people watch at the pool.
5. You can actually hear the music.
6. You don’t sweat because the water is cold. +++++

However Aqua Jogging has a big negative to it: Doesn’t get my heart rate up enough. FAIL

 

Some cross training activities I enjoy doing nonetheless:

• Biking on the road bike (only on flat trails with no cars, yes I know it’s a ROAD bike, but I’m not comfortable with cars yet)
• TAE-BO with BIlly Blanks for sure. I fell in love with Tae-Bo in middle school. (I haven’t done it for a long time)
• Cardio Workouts (my teacher has us do cardio workout circuits in class and they get your heart rate up and make you work)

Some sports I enjoy playing:

• Soccer
• Knock Out/Just shooting hoops with the basketball
• ULTIMATE FRISBEE (my favorite activity ever!)
• Bowling (does that count? I to bowl)
• Racquetball!!! (My new found love)

So those are some of my favorite cross training activities and sports to play!!

I wish my legs would get better.

Some food.

My days have run together and I have forgotten when I ate these.

 

 

 

Onto the running…or not running.

Wednesday

Well I was supposed to have a midweek long run. However I saw a doctor the day before and she thinks I might have stress fractures in my legs and said “Only run if you have to” But the only way to know if I do or not is to have a bone scan. But if I got the bone scan done now and I did have fractures then I wouldn’t be able to run. So we decided we would wait to have the bone scan until after conference. So I am taking some meds called Mobic right now to see if it helps the pain.

It really dries you out for sure. Like lips and mouth. So I’ve been hydrating like crazy

Which brings me to another topic. NCAA drug testing!!

Yes, I got randomly chosen. This was not your typical go into a room where the toilet water is blue and the sink is disabled etc.

You took your cup in its plastic into a locker room. Washed your hands, then take the cup out of the plastic. You then walk into a stall and the lady says “okay, go ahead and pee. I have to hold the door open and watch you.” HAHA

Then if you still have to pee more she says “put the cup on the ground and then finish, I’ll close the door”

Yeah how fun.

So all in all, with my legs and no time to get in my midweek, I aqua jogged for 70 minutes which is about equivalent to 7.8 miles running.

Thursday

Today, I did elliptical since I can’t swim so I have to aqua jog using a belt and that doesn’t get your heart rate up as good. So I hopped on the elliptical for 42 minutes to be about 5 miles of running. I hate elliptical a lot. It also hurt my legs too, so I guess I’ll try biking to cross train next time.

I get to run workouts and long runs, the other days I cross train by myself which is so boring. :(

 

Hope all is well. I won’t be blogging for a few days. I’ve got a busy schedule coming up.

*Going home
*Watching a high school cross race friday
*Driving back to school in the morning
*Watching high school cross race saturday
*Football game
*Chemistry thing
*Long Run Sunday

Oh The Pool Is Becoming A Daily Thing

Well, coach let me try to run today. Started running, the first few steps hurt and so I thought maybe it would work itself out...nope. Stopped and walked back. Frustrating and depressing. Went straight to the trainers and sat in my car until Katie got there. We did ultrasounds on both legs then did ice cup massage on both legs on a stretch.

.42 miles

Went to the trainers to get my legs taped again. Then went to drills.

Afterwards I went and aqua jogged for 45 minutes = 5 miles of running.

My tape fell off on my left leg :(

 

So tomorrow I will wake up and go to our workout…not sure if I will be running or not.

Injuries are very frustrating and I’m sure you can all agree!

Oh Dear!

Tuesday

2.08 miles of warmup and cooldown

Workout: 3 x 2000meters

Goal time: 8:35

Splits:

9:14

8:54

9:02

yes. nowhere near goal time. worst workout of the season for me so far. :(

total miles for the day: 5.83 miles

peanut butter crackers and clif z bar. my stomach was not enjoying anything in it the whole day.

for lunch I ate unpictured cheeseburger and a few fries since my stomach was still upset

*I did not eat the mashed potatoes and I only ate half the salad and half the biscuit. But I ate lots of spaghetti haha!

Wednesday

Yes that’s right, no run :( Because of my shin pain and the workout yesterday, I got put into the pool to aqua jog for 60 minutes! All by myself :(

The athletic trainers put some kinesiology tape on my shin yesterday and it’s feeling pretty good today.

Plus it’s water proof and can stay on for days. which = awesome. Hopefully coach will let me run tomorrow?

Clif bar before I aqua jogged then:

I also took my own peanut butter “Peanut Butter & CO’s White Chocolate Wonderful” yum.

* Student Dietetic Meeting
* Lunch
* Weightlifting
* Get stamps/mail bracelet
* Go over some chemistry problems
* LAUNDRY
* Look at the American Dietetic Association member application
* Dinner

 

Don’t forget about my bracelet giveaway!! Ends Sunday!

Reading is Relaxing. Chemistry is Not.

(source)

Haha no this is not an actual picture of us.

Aqua jogging for 36 minutes.

 

Chicken Fried Rice that had WAYYYY too much soy sauce. Can you say salty? I swear my arteries were clogging as I was eating.

Some salad with cottage cheese, shredded cheese and pork. Oh and I snuck some croutons in too for the crunch!

* Selection and Preparation of Food Class
* Aqua Jogging with the Team
* Weight Lifting – didn’t do, because I’m going to do it wednesday
* Dinner
* Chemistry Tutoring
* Write Formal Lab Report
* Do More of Nutrition Study Guide
* Get 10/10 on Chem Homework

 

So I’m almost done for the day!! Then I will read more of this:

I’ve made time to read at night and I love it! I seriously love to read but rarely have time. So I read at night.

Yesterday I read about 60 pages of Eclipse. So relaxing.

What books are you reading right now?

Cross Training Does the Body Good

We now have instead of a day off, a pool workout. We aqua jog once a week.

I like this because it eliminates the pounding on your legs that running causes but still gives a workout.

We had a 8 minute warmup then a 20 minute workout with hard and easy intervals and then an 8 minute cooldown.

Coach said when aqua jogging your pulse should be at least 20/21 beats per 10 seconds.

The two times we tested mine was 24 and 25. Success.

This workout was equivalent to 4 miles running.

dinner was not very good tonight. I got a little bit of “fettuccini alfredo” which should’ve been called “bowtie alfredo” but I won’t get technical. Then I had some bow ties with meat sauce but the noodles were OVERcooked. Ew. The hot dog with chili and cheese was good. They didn’t have buns when I went up, but it was probably better without anyway.

Then I saw some girl with some fresh fruit!! They must’ve just put it out so I ran like no other and grabbed some!

I honestly love fruit!!!

I was still hungry so of course I grabbed the go to food if there isn’t anything else good: pizza.

Part of my homework was to analyze some research done on calcium absorption.

I thought I would let you all read the article, it’s quite interesting.

All in all: the study resulted in the two ice cream formulations having the same amount of calcium and similar ingredients proved the calcium absorption to be almost equivalent to calcium absorption of reduced fat milk.

Here’s the abstract of it, but to get the full text you have to have an account.

Television

I also watched Hellcats from last week and I really liked it.

I can’t wait to watch it again!

Also One Tree Hill started tonight, however I only watch tv days later online.

I don’t have time to watch at night.

Do you watch tv at it’s scheduled time, or watch it when it’s convenient for you?

 

 

It is playlist monday!!!!

However today is a shortened one and I just want to know:

 what you all have been listening to!!