Happy New Year! This post is dedicated to phase 1 of the Clydesdale Running Program, getting off the couch. If you are a fellow Clydesdale that is already off the couch, then I'm not really talking to you in this post. But please feel free to add your $.02 for tips on how to get Clydesdales started running.
Get off the couch NAOW!!
Sorry for the in-your-face welcome, but that's step 1 in turning your Clydesdale body into, well, a Clydesdale race horse. As you are sitting on the couch watching the college bowl games or catching the first all-day Star Wars marathon of the New Year, you're probably thinking the same thing right now and are contemplating heading to the gym or making plans to start tomorrow or next week. But as you are sitting there eating your fourth bacon wrapped sausage of the day let me just make a suggestion that will be critical to reaching your fitness goals whatever they are: "Get off the couch and get moving."
You might not have any concrete fitness goals or any workouts planned yet, but that is really secondary at this point. You just need to get moving doing something: walk, bike, job, swim, or even just standing up to eat your bacon wrapped sausage. You just need to something to break the static friction of couch potato-ness. As you remember from high school science class, once you break static friction to get an object moving, it takes less force to overcome sliding friction. Since our focus with this blog is running, I'm going to recommend a walk-jog (mostly walk) of a nice round 1 mile. Whatever you do, don't sprint, run too much or carry a 50 lb sacking of grain during this initial workout. It's going to take more than one workout to meet your goals, so DO NOT GET HURT! For this first workout, you just need to establish a starting point to build from. Future workouts will add effort to this workout and we'll also be adding what's as important, well placed rest periods (day's off).
We're in this for the long haul so take your time to turn up the intensity. Your body will thank you for it.
We're in this for the long haul so take your time to turn up the intensity. Your body will thank you for it.
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