Building My Fitness Base

I’ve been working on building up my fitness for about 2 weeks now and I’m feeling pretty good about it. I took a break this morning since I had a little twinge in my hip but I should be good to go tomorrow (I could have run this morning but I want to make sure I don’t push things too hard).

As things stand I’ve got a pretty decent routine that I’m working on as my foundation:

• 8 stretches
• Warm up run for about half a mile
• 8 stretches
• 3 – 30 second HIIT
• 1 mile run
• 8 stretches
• 3 – 30 seconds HIIT
• Cool down run

Getting Fit For the Long Term

I’m figuring this is a decent basis to start getting fit with. It gives me some aerobic activity and plenty of stretching along with variety in the HIIT sessions. Basically what I’ve been doing for those exercises are push-ups, jumping jacks, squats, lunges, side shuffles, and knee highs so far. I want to add in sit-ups but I’m a notoriously poor sit-uper and I haven’t found a convenient place to hold my feet down. In any case, I’m thinking of adding in planks and something else for my stomach muscles.

So far I’ve done this 2 days in a row then a day off. Then 3 days and a day off. Then 4 days and a day off. I’m looking at 5 days and a day off next and then I am thinking I should have a good foundation to start building on.

Once I get things happening on a regular basis I want to start building back up to endurance running shape. At one point, I ran a few marathons but that was a few years ago and I know how much effort that takes. There’s of course no short-cuts to getting into shape for a marathon or even a half marathon, they take a lot of time and effort. Particularly starting from a base of nothing like I am now. Ok, sure, I get my 10,000 steps in almost every day but I’m just walking, I’m not really training for anything with those 10k steps.

This little workout will be the foundation I build upon to get my self back into distance running shape and I think so far it’s been working. I’m feeling good, the exercises are not tiring me out as much as when I started and I’m able to see an increase in the HIIT numbers that I’m doing. And that’s after only about 2 weeks.

Fitness is a long term goal and one I know takes effort, time, and commitment. This base doesn’t take too long to do each day but gets the job done and let’s me get things going and feeling good.

Hopefully you’ve got a workout routine that helps you get fit and feel good as well. If so, let me know how it’s going.

Getting Fit – Building My Fitness Base