do the couch to 5k

I’ve been lazy the past few days… and made my self go to the gym today. It felt really good, and it’s shockingly energizing, after I get over the immediate exhaustion. It was more difficult today, probably because it is pretty hot, and I have taken a few days off. I’m feeling incredibly big, and overweight and uncomfortable in my own skin the past couple days too, which sucks.

I just went and did it tonight, didn’t think about it. And it was easy, and felt great. I’m going to keep doing these week 1 workouts at least for another week. Why aren’t I super skinny yet?

Included the 5 min warm up in the 20 min total this time…. but then ended up walking an extra few mins at the end anyway. It’s amazing how quickly times goes by… I’m really enjoying the structure of the work out.

I just completed session one of the couch to 5k. And I feel AWESOME! I have seen the goal around here all the time, and finally looked it up the other day and read about the plan. This month I’ve been trying to work out more days than not, and I’ve been bored with it… without any sort of a plan. And since I don’t have the funds at the moment to hire a hot personal trainer to motivate me, this shall do for now. I’m shocked at how easy session one was. I wasn’t sure if I’d be dying after ten minutes of alternating run/walking but I managed to do it. The pace for this first week sessions was just about perfect for me, and 28 mins flew by. It was amazing how just focusing on the 60 sec/90sec increments made doing 20+ min so doable. And it helped to have a guy on the treadmill next to me that walked really slowly the whole time I was there, and did this odd super incline walk while putting all his weight on the bars and front the machine. It made me feel fit! Usually I get this little guy that hops on the machine next to me and proceeds to sprint on 6.0 for 45 min … while I run for a minute of two and then pant a lot.

I’m thinking I’ll extend week one maybe for a couple weeks… just to up my fitness level a bit. I’m excited about this plan. :)

Does anyone know that’s done this if the 5 min warm up is supposed to be included in the 20 mins total run/walk, or is it separate?