G’day,
My Goodness! How did I almost double my previous best “total run” (no walk break) on the treadmill last night? How do I go from barely eking out 4 minutes to 20 minutes in about seven days?
It was only three days ago on Day 64 where I was perplexed at my ability to run for 11 minutes straight to clock a one-mile PB. I was ecstatic at this improvement as I had been capped at a three-minute max for about one month.
Let me back up a little and explain what I mean. When you are an unfit individual like myself the most popular way to get miles in your legs is on an interval basis, i.e. one minute walk, one minute run. This is known in running circles as the Galloway Method (named after the great man himself, Jeff Galloway). Truth be told, I believe it is the only way to build your run miles when you are overweight and out of shape.
As good as the Galloway Method is it can confine your progress to the prescribed intervals you see on the program. That is, when your average run pace increases only then do you progress to the next interval, e.g. 90 sec run, 30 sec walk. By following this regimen religiously you may wait until the program instructs you to move to the next level rather than explore your limits on your own.
This is why I dedicated the first “run interval” every session to going the furtherest I could possibly go. In the beginning of this Mission that equated to around a 2 sec increase every day. Obviously, this is only a small gain, however, the principle is extremely important.
Continual incremental improvement on a daily basis is the only way to get that full-blooded physique transformation and all the benefits that come along with it! I believe this is also the reason why I can go from 3 minutes, to 11 and to 20 last night. All those little improvements can exponentiate and then…bang, your endurance skyrockets “overnight.”
Until tomorrow,
AJ

Day 67 of 365 – Oct 15, 2021 Mission 1: Day 67 of 84 * Four 84-Day Missions To Be Completed in 365 Days | ||
RTP Module | Y/N? | Points |
1) Mindset (My Stand) | 0.5 | |
2) Motivation (PRW’s) | 0.5 | |
3) Goals (Visualisation) | 0.5 | |
4) Accountability (Scales) | 0.5 | |
5) Physique | 3 | |
6) Nutrition | 2 | |
7) Real Time Wildcard | 1 | |
Daily Accountability Score | DAS | 10/10 |
Cumulative Acc. Score | CAS | 651/670 |
Cume. Acc. Percent Score | CAPS | 97.1% |