Luke's Blog

In this week's genius hour, I really wanted to dedicate myself to an hour of research surrounding a topic within running. This was the question of how to keep your muscular strength whilst training for a race. In the past when I began to train for races I would only focus on the cardio aspect, although at this point in time, I really want to keep the muscle mass I have acquired whilst training in the gym for the past few months.  After doing a vast amount of research I was able to land on two common themes, consistency in workouts and diet. Although it may be a difficult task to complete I do believe it is a very achievable goal. I will have to find time in my schedule to complete 4-5 strength-based workouts as well as 3-4 runs a week. Due to the fact that I will be expending so much energy during both my runs and training sessions, I will have to ensure that my caloric intake and overall diet is going to be up to par.  During my genius hour, I also had the ability to reach ...

During this week's genius hour it was composed of me filling out my running review template. This will allow me to look back on the weeks and really gauge how effective a running method is. This week I began with the Maffetone method, this method is considered to be a great aid to build off of and a fantastic starting spot for runners. The premise is to never let your heart rate go over your aerobic maximum heart rate. I found this too be quite difficult, as someone who has always just ran for leisure and never followed a program too seriously it was a learning process to stick to the program. I had to constantly check my watch to ensure i was staying under my prescribed heart rate. This definitely took some getting used to, although I found it also took a lot of fun out of the running process for myself. I have always been one who liked to really push it at the end of a run or if I find myself lined up with a large incline I would always try and keep a strong pace and push myself....