Wello again.....
First of all I want to offer a massive thanks to a rather lovely cardiologist who has passed my heart as fit and ready to go. As an ECG is a necessity for my Ultra Marathon, and I am fortunately well, the NHS would not fund me, unfortunately I had to pay for it myself; having asked friends for favours and asking around, I did a bit of 'shopping' around and came across The Wood Street Clinic, the very helpful receptionist was just wonderful and ever so friendly. The cardiologist, Dr Robert Greenbaum reported and detailed my heart as fit and rearing to go. According to my report, I am almost a near weak Olympic athlete.... go figure that. I also have to say a massive thanks to this Clinic and Dr Greenbaum for the massive discount offered; rest assured your discount is appreciated.
http://www.woodstreetclinic.com/
Today I had to attend my GP Surgery for my Vaccinations..... I am not a weakling by any means, however as we say in South Africa "jeeeez, eeiiisssh" I am feeling very sorry for myself, my bloody arm hurts like hell, in particular the Hepatitis A jab (Its a must for Egypt now) gosh did I bleed like hell, the nurse said " you are just too vascular and muscly" ummmmmm, in the other arm I had two more jabs for, Tetanus, Polio, Diphtheria, Typhoid; my excuse is that I am feeling sorry for my arm and hence I needed to rest and take the evening off. So I have just used this time to catch up on my blog and eat #hotcrossbums - as hot cross buns go straight to my bum. (ps for my American friends I use the word bum for my perfectly imperfect derriere).
I am will be posting a bit more tonight, as I am feeling guilty now, need to make sure my fingers get exercise instead.
Peace and blister free wishes
Jani
Thursday, 13 February 2014
TRAINING, ICE BATHS & MIND SET
Wello Everyone
I have had a slight delay in getting back to all of you. Firstly, my 1st 'all day job' being a mother has had me busy, 2ndly my part time job working for my crust of bread, 3rdly, my Uni Assignments and 4thly TRAINING.
A lot of you have asked when and where do I do the training, well as a single mother with restrictions, one has to make and organise plans accordingly and very rigidly. First rule of thumb, how COMMITTED is one to any task, event, situation or challenge? If you are committed that's 45% of the battle achieved, second rule of thumb, MIND SET, without mind set one can come a cropper, third rule of thumb, RESEARCH, research the correct training set and know your limitations and capabilities, what you don't want is to kill your self before you have even started.... (most start off with the best of intentions and go for kill and give up before one has even started), TRAINING, there are a mind field of websites that offer info on training programmes, from mini marathons to Ultra Marathons, what one needs to do is first seek advice from your GP, are you able to join a gym or start an exercise programme. Once you have established that your body is capable of starting exercise, then the next phase is to seek out a personal trainer, you don't have to spend a fortune on this, your local personal trainer at the gym is just as qualified as the one who charges £££££ per hour. Discuss your goals and wishes and what you want to achieve. Once you have a programme in place, that's it, its up to you to focus on sticking to it, once you are into your programme, its good advice to then seek out a professional website that can offer advice with the rest of training and length of training. The websites that I have listed on my blog page will help with training and preparations; RECOVERY, recovery is imperative to keeping your body conditioned and injury free, (yoga, steam baths, saunas, days off, brisk walk in the woods, vegging out on the sofa and stretching stretching and more stretching and ICEBATHS/SHOWERS, I cannot stress how important ice baths/ ice showers are, its the pits and the agony that goes with it can disable ones mind set almost immediately, however without a proper functioning body, one cannot continue to train and getting those muscles in recovery is a must, its not for long, and when one is emerged from an ice bath, one feels very very alive; FOOD, food and the correct foods well do I really need to mention how important food is for normal health let alone intensive training for a normal marathon let alone an Ultra Marathon? Stay away from CRAP, what is crap...... bloody fried crappy shite that's full of more shite and more crappy shite. Educate yourself in knowing about real food, cook for yourself, go to the market and get fresh produce, I wont tell you what supplements to take, this needs to be discussed with your GP/dietician/nutritionist, however I will list what I take in a later blog together with what foods I eat and if you look at the Photo Gallery, you will see a selection of foods and what I supplement my body with and lastly SLEEP & REST, without sleep and rest, you cannot function, please take it from me, you cannot function without sleep and or rest, let alone bloody train. My son, who has neuro damage, wakes twice/thrice a night, it may be for short periods of time, but with leading a full life, training and everything else, those short periods do play havoc.
As I lead a full life, I have had to adapt and strategize accordingly, working to a strict yet manageable routine works for me, herewith detailed. For any sporting event, be it a mini marathon, charity fun run and or full marathon as well as an Ultra Marathon, one needs a set minimum amount of months, weeks again seek advice before you embark on any sporting event, each one is different.
What you don't want its burn out....... slow and a gradual build up of intensive training is key; I have been a gym yo yo freak throughout my life, however I have always attended a gym or exercise programme for normal every day life, however I have been training for targeted fitness for 12 months and more importantly training for my Ultra Marathon has been for the last 7 months with gradual intensity build up over the time.
TRAINING SCHEDULE
My next blog will detail Foods, thereon after, Kit, Equipment. Essentials and the daily run up to my first ever Ultra Marathon.
Thanks again for your wishes and looking forward to writing up every day.
Peace and Blister free wishes
Jani
I have had a slight delay in getting back to all of you. Firstly, my 1st 'all day job' being a mother has had me busy, 2ndly my part time job working for my crust of bread, 3rdly, my Uni Assignments and 4thly TRAINING.
A lot of you have asked when and where do I do the training, well as a single mother with restrictions, one has to make and organise plans accordingly and very rigidly. First rule of thumb, how COMMITTED is one to any task, event, situation or challenge? If you are committed that's 45% of the battle achieved, second rule of thumb, MIND SET, without mind set one can come a cropper, third rule of thumb, RESEARCH, research the correct training set and know your limitations and capabilities, what you don't want is to kill your self before you have even started.... (most start off with the best of intentions and go for kill and give up before one has even started), TRAINING, there are a mind field of websites that offer info on training programmes, from mini marathons to Ultra Marathons, what one needs to do is first seek advice from your GP, are you able to join a gym or start an exercise programme. Once you have established that your body is capable of starting exercise, then the next phase is to seek out a personal trainer, you don't have to spend a fortune on this, your local personal trainer at the gym is just as qualified as the one who charges £££££ per hour. Discuss your goals and wishes and what you want to achieve. Once you have a programme in place, that's it, its up to you to focus on sticking to it, once you are into your programme, its good advice to then seek out a professional website that can offer advice with the rest of training and length of training. The websites that I have listed on my blog page will help with training and preparations; RECOVERY, recovery is imperative to keeping your body conditioned and injury free, (yoga, steam baths, saunas, days off, brisk walk in the woods, vegging out on the sofa and stretching stretching and more stretching and ICEBATHS/SHOWERS, I cannot stress how important ice baths/ ice showers are, its the pits and the agony that goes with it can disable ones mind set almost immediately, however without a proper functioning body, one cannot continue to train and getting those muscles in recovery is a must, its not for long, and when one is emerged from an ice bath, one feels very very alive; FOOD, food and the correct foods well do I really need to mention how important food is for normal health let alone intensive training for a normal marathon let alone an Ultra Marathon? Stay away from CRAP, what is crap...... bloody fried crappy shite that's full of more shite and more crappy shite. Educate yourself in knowing about real food, cook for yourself, go to the market and get fresh produce, I wont tell you what supplements to take, this needs to be discussed with your GP/dietician/nutritionist, however I will list what I take in a later blog together with what foods I eat and if you look at the Photo Gallery, you will see a selection of foods and what I supplement my body with and lastly SLEEP & REST, without sleep and rest, you cannot function, please take it from me, you cannot function without sleep and or rest, let alone bloody train. My son, who has neuro damage, wakes twice/thrice a night, it may be for short periods of time, but with leading a full life, training and everything else, those short periods do play havoc.
As I lead a full life, I have had to adapt and strategize accordingly, working to a strict yet manageable routine works for me, herewith detailed. For any sporting event, be it a mini marathon, charity fun run and or full marathon as well as an Ultra Marathon, one needs a set minimum amount of months, weeks again seek advice before you embark on any sporting event, each one is different.
What you don't want its burn out....... slow and a gradual build up of intensive training is key; I have been a gym yo yo freak throughout my life, however I have always attended a gym or exercise programme for normal every day life, however I have been training for targeted fitness for 12 months and more importantly training for my Ultra Marathon has been for the last 7 months with gradual intensity build up over the time.
TRAINING SCHEDULE
OFR TRAINING
| ||||
DAY
|
AM
|
NOON
|
PM
|
TOTAL HOURS
|
MONDAY
| ||||
| Run |
04:30 - 07:30
|
10:30 - 14:30
|
20:00 - 21:00
|
8
|
| Gym |
09:30 - 10:30
|
1
| ||
TUESDAY
| ||||
| Run |
05:00 - 06:30
|
Uni
|
Uni
|
1.5
|
| Gym |
REST
|
REST
| ||
WEDNEDAY
| ||||
| Run |
04:30 - 07:30
|
20:00 - 21:30
|
4.5
| |
| Gym |
09:30 - 10:30
|
1
| ||
THURSDAY
| ||||
| Run |
05:00 - 07:00
|
12:30 - 13:30
|
20:00 - 21:30
|
4.5
|
| Gym | ||||
FRIDY
| ||||
| Run |
04:30 - 06:30
|
19:00 - 21:00
|
4
| |
| Gym |
Uni
|
16:00 - 17:30
|
1.5
| |
SATURDAY
| ||||
| Run |
05:30 - 08:30
|
20:00 - 21:00
|
4
| |
| Gym | ||||
SUNDAY
| ||||
| Run |
06:00 - 09:30
|
20:00 - 21:00
|
4.5
| |
| Gym | ||||
TOTAL MILAGE/KM RUN PER WEEK = 110mpw/175kmpw
|
34.5 HPW
|
|||
My next blog will detail Foods, thereon after, Kit, Equipment. Essentials and the daily run up to my first ever Ultra Marathon.
Thanks again for your wishes and looking forward to writing up every day.
Peace and Blister free wishes
Jani
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