You turn my legs to jelly....!

faceman

Having some problems with my workouts. I spend half my week doing resistence training and the other half running.

On Sunday evening I did a 3k run. Monday my legs were a bit achey so i only managed about 2k running. I run in the gym so i always run on an incline.

Tuesday I had a rest day. Last night I did upper body resistence training. This morning I went for a run but I struggled to even get 2k done. My legs were sore yet I had plenty of breath. The only difference between going to the gym this morning and any other morning is that I didnt take anything to eat prior to the gym for fuel.

Any ideas what i can do to help ease the achey legs? note that running is my thing so I dont fancy swapping to bikes etc.

Brian?

faceman wrote: »

Having some problems with my workouts. I spend half my week doing resistence training and the other half running.

On Sunday evening I did a 3k run. Monday my legs were a bit achey so i only managed about 2k running. I run in the gym so i always run on an incline.

Tuesday I had a rest day. Last night I did upper body resistence training. This morning I went for a run but I struggled to even get 2k done. My legs were sore yet I had plenty of breath. The only difference between going to the gym this morning and any other morning is that I didnt take anything to eat prior to the gym for fuel.

Any ideas what i can do to help ease the achey legs? note that running is my thing so I dont fancy swapping to bikes etc.

How long have you been running?

faceman

I started again around the 28th dec but hadn't been training since november prior to that

Brian?

Give it another few weeks so...

discus

I find this all the time, faceman. I was finding that doing an easy 5km out on the roads was fine, but trying to beat 25 mins on a regular basis was impossible while keeping up strength training.

In the end, I took 2/3 weeks off and starting nailing some 2.5km, 5km and 8km runs and then resumed training. It was far easier to maintain better run times and improve at strength, rather than trying to improve run times and strength similtaneously.

And I'd personally ditch the treadmill. In my old gym there were some endurance runnes who swore by them though. If you're gonna run on one, spare yourself the incline for the moment. Might make a difference?

faceman

discus wrote: »

I find this all the time, faceman. I was finding that doing an easy 5km out on the roads was fine, but trying to beat 25 mins on a regular basis was impossible while keeping up strength training.

In the end, I took 2/3 weeks off and starting nailing some 2.5km, 5km and 8km runs and then resumed training. It was far easier to maintain better run times and improve at strength, rather than trying to improve run times and strength similtaneously.

And I'd personally ditch the treadmill. In my old gym there were some endurance runnes who swore by them though. If you're gonna run on one, spare yourself the incline for the moment. Might make a difference?

Interesting, didnt think of that. Although my weakness is i push myself too much so i dont know if i would have the disclipline to temporary drop resistence training!

WRT the threadmill, i fall into the category of having a psychological barrier to running outdoors. I dont perform as well. The threadmill helps maintain a discipline and hence i always run on an incline to try make up for the fact im running on a machine. That being said, Ill drop the incline to zero tomorrow and see how I get on.

Canis Lupus

faceman wrote: »

Interesting, didnt think of that. Although my weakness is i push myself too much so i dont know if i would have the disclipline to temporary drop resistence training!

WRT the threadmill, i fall into the category of having a psychological barrier to running outdoors. I dont perform as well. The threadmill helps maintain a discipline and hence i always run on an incline to try make up for the fact im running on a machine. That being said, Ill drop the incline to zero tomorrow and see how I get on.

Outside running really is better. Try try try

But if you can't, then it's still a little early specially if you're strength training as well. Day of the week matters too. On Monday I can knock out a fast 5km with hardly batting an eyelid, try the same on Friday after a week of running/gym work and it's a different story.

One of the hardest blocks I'm facing is for personal reasons I haven't been in the gym for the last 3 months so I'm totally out of shape but my brain tries to run at the speeds it was used to pre hiatus and my body isn't there yet.
So drop the incline and accept the fitness will return but baby steps in the meantime.