Tuesday, October 22, 2013

Junk Miles

"Junk miles" is the running done at 9 1/2 minutes/mile or slower. Junk Miles are worthless, add little to fitness and contribute to injury. Our beautiful instructor Jenna Downey had incredible difficulty instructing Boot Camp because the junk miles kept hurting her. Running slow is not natural. Shuffling our feet and barely lifting our knees is NOT running. It could be called jogging. We like to call them junk miles.

There is no range of motion in the stride and our heart rate is only slightly elevated during junk miles. Junk miles are unnecessary pounding and do not produce the desired result in fitness.

We have been picking up the pace lately. The scout team has been getting faster and we are incorporating more drills (High Knees & Butt Kickers) to cut down on junk miles. There has been a little more attention to pace and form lately.

We ran the ramp this morning at the end of the workout. Hill running on the ramp is the best running we do in boot camp right now. The entire group looked beautiful hammering this morning. The exercises between sets on the ramp give us just enough time to recover and catch our breath before the next set of hills. That is the kind of training that turns us into super studs and robobabes.

The history center route was faster last week. The faster paces produce a higher calorie burn per workout. We have always been called the "running boot camp." Hills, Stairs, longer runs, up tempo and long hard intervals have been a hallmark of ours. We are in so much better shape than the other fitness programs because we get after it in the workouts.

Running fast produces fast running. In all our years of hard training there had been one constant:

FAST = THIN

Allison 16
Jenny 16
Lisa  16
Mary D. 16
Susie Mac 16
Wendy  16
Ernie 15
Jill 15
Kathleen 555 15
Toni 15
Harriott  14
JenJen 14
Wendy Conrad 14
Irene 13
Kathleen 13
Kwithee 13
Lacie 13
MiMi 13
Amy Glamour 12
Katie  12
Mary Blythe  12
Barb  11
Cindy 11
Holly 11
Roxanna 11
Caroline  10
Jill Princess 10
Reba 10
Cindy/Hannah 9
Jimmy F  9
John G. 9
Johnathan 9
Mary B 9
Lisa Long 7
Wendy Thom 7
Amanda 6
June 6
Kaffee  6
Love 5
Sally  5
John S 4



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