I'm thinking about planning my whole year out. As in, each month a new rotation/series in addition to planning my 2 marathons. Has anyone ever done this? I have a problem with overanalyzing and actually causing anxiety attacks over what rotation to do next (currently in the midst of one now) and I was sort of hoping this would help with that. I was wondering if anyone had done it before how they went about the procedure? I'm finding it difficult given I have, as usual, too many goals. I want to run 2 marathons which requires running in the plans (at least 3 days), I want to lose weight, and I can never decide which rotation will accomplish what I want it to. I'd love to hear people experience!
Has anyone considered doing this?
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kimmie2191
Cathlete
Never really plan rotations myself as life steps in and I end up quitting half way thru. I try for 3 cardio a week with one being interval and one being kickboxing and 3 weight workouts in a week as well. I tweek it as I go. Maybe doing Slow N Heavy for 1 week with my cardio done at a set pace and sometimes doing circuits.
Kim
Kim
Shelbygirl
Cathlete
I usually put together monthly rotations, but I only plan them out for about three months. For the most part, I really only plan out my weight workouts and just fill in with a generic "kickboxing", "step", "intervals", etc. For the current month, I'll try to fill in these generic cardio workouts. However, I am forever modifing these rotations to suit my current situation. As someone else put it "life gets in the way", so I allow myself to tweak the rotations as I go along.
I'm enormously anal, I'm an actuary, and I love schedules. However, I feel that I need to be flexible and willing to change things up as I go. I think working out would stop being fun if I couldn't improvise, or take an unschedule rest day, or do kickboxing instead of the scheduled step. I think it would be really hard to stick to a year long schedule (for me anyway). It's just impossible to know that next October I'll want to do an Intensity Series rotation (for example).
If you think it would work for you, however, go for it. Or, maybe you could map out a couple months worth and see how you stick to it.
Good Luck,
Shelbygirl
I'm enormously anal, I'm an actuary, and I love schedules. However, I feel that I need to be flexible and willing to change things up as I go. I think working out would stop being fun if I couldn't improvise, or take an unschedule rest day, or do kickboxing instead of the scheduled step. I think it would be really hard to stick to a year long schedule (for me anyway). It's just impossible to know that next October I'll want to do an Intensity Series rotation (for example).
If you think it would work for you, however, go for it. Or, maybe you could map out a couple months worth and see how you stick to it.
Good Luck,
Shelbygirl
lcsavik_85
Cathlete
I know what your talking about! I can get very frusterated trying to decide which wo to do. I've wasted quite a bit of time that way. I solved it by doing periodization. Each month would focus on one aspect of fitness. Aerobic base building, Anaerobic training, endurance, strength, total body shaping, cardio, recovery, lower body, upper body, flexibility, core. This plan of attack has really helped me this year and I feel like I've made some excellent fitness gains in the past year. My best achievement this year was progressing to the wts that Cathe has us use in her videos. Last year I was barely able to make it through a Firm wo without feeling like I fall over at the end. I can now do planks on the ball with no problem. Planks on the floor used to fatigue my shoulders quicker than anything.
Sorry TMI.
HTH,
~Reece Out~
Sorry TMI.
HTH,
~Reece Out~