I`ve decided to try jogging once every week, no matter what the weather, for about 1 hour.
I want to do this because i don`t get a lot of physical exercise because i`m not old enough to go to the gym and sports don`t interest me. However, i do like running and i run quite fast, but i can`t run for a very long time before getting tired, so i want to try and improve my cardio as well.
Would jogging only once a week improve my fitness, or is it simply not enough?
If not, i would be happy with it just making me not get less fit as time goes by. Kinda letting me keep being in shape, and not get more and more out of shape as time goes by due to lack of exercise.
Maybe it is not enough to get better cardio, but if you jogg like half an hour or more, 2-3 times a week, you should pretty fast get better cardio and your heart will improv a lot in the start. And when you feel that it becomes easier, you can jogg at a higher tempo, or jogg longer. So you should definitely start jogging, you gain soo much by doing it !
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This should help you greatly.
Running is very good exercise for your body, cardiac and respiratory output as well as endurance will be greatly increased.
I`ve decided to try jogging once every week, no matter what the weather, for about 1 hour.
I want to do this because i don`t get a lot of physical exercise because i`m not old enough to go to the gym and sports don`t interest me. However, i do like running and i run quite fast, but i can`t run for a very long time before getting tired, so i want to try and improve my cardio as well.
Would jogging only once a week improve my fitness, or is it simply not enough?
If not, i would be happy with it just making me not get less fit as time goes by. Kinda letting me keep being in shape, and not get more and more out of shape as time goes by due to lack of exercise.
I am going get over my laziness and write a legitimate response:
First, once a week for an hour is not going to work, you will see little improvement. It sounds like from your post you have mostly type II muscle fibers, so lets gear a regimen for that.
You also seem to be confusing cardio for conditioning, they are two separate things though closely related. Cardio is meant to increase your cardiovascular activity in order to maintain a healthy heart. It is more health related fitness than sport/athletic related. Conditioning can mean several things from increasing your VO2 max to increasing a certain set of muscles endurance. In general it is associated with endurance training, so usually sport related.
So if you do have type II muscle fibers it would be best to have much lighter cardio so you do not wear yourself out and you would want shorter bursts at high intensity for conditioning.
So something like this:
Day One:
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Walk for ten minutes.
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Day Two:
Jog for thirty minutes.
Day Three:
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Walk for ten minutes.
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Day Four:
Jog for thirty minutes.
Day Five:
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Walk for ten minutes.
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Edit:
Allow day five and six as a resting period.
Follow this general outline and ramp up slowly each week, if you keep to a schedule you are less likely to develop DOMS, or the muscle soreness that we all love. >.>
No one can sprint at max capacity for 10 minutes. Sure, running fast is possible, but sprinting at max capacity is normally something you only do in short bursts. I doubt the people running 100 meter races could keep that speed for much longer.
Yes, I did a short search, I messed up slightly there, for that it should be 30 second intervals with a few minutes to cool down.
You cannot work anaerobically for ten minutes. By the end you would pretty much be a giant ball of lactic acid.
Err, why I messed up is this is what I do/used to do (not doing it really now because of school)... So yeah... I guess because I have bad knees my sprint isn't really that intense.
I could try to increase the number from once a week to twice.
I could try and run 5 times a week, but i go to school.
Generally after a boring day of school all you want to do is relax, so getting out of the couch to start jogging can get quite discouraging.
However, in the weekends this will be easier.
Me being able to sprint 30 seconds at most is spot on! Actually sprinting at full capacity is more like 20 seconds. Making a schedule sounds like a good idea, too.
I appreciate the advice, so keep it coming.
I could try to increase the number from once a week to twice.
I could try and run 5 times a week, but i go to school.
Generally after a boring day of school all you want to do is relax, so getting out of the couch to start jogging can get quite discouraging.
However, in the weekends this will be easier.
Me being able to sprint 30 seconds at most is spot on! Actually sprinting at full capacity is more like 20 seconds. Making a schedule sounds like a good idea, too.
I appreciate the advice, so keep it coming.
Not to be discouraging, but the best you can (probably) do is increase your sprinting speed. 20 seconds at a dead sprint seems to be a long time. However, you can increase your endurance for slower paces, and increase the speed you can run those slower paces for a length of time, and even get to the point where you can run at a pretty decent clip while recovering from a sprint.
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Steps to a health body.
1.Eat bags of chips for dinner,lunch, and breakfast everyday.
2.Play videogames all the day long.
3.Never take showers, brush, etc.
4.Never go outside
5. More chips.
6. Soda instead of water.
7. MORE JUNKFOOD
8. Never excercise
These steps (More can be added) will get you six pack np.
Since we are on the topic about fitness, what would improve strength then? Meaning: would else improve strength other than lifting weights at a gym and push/pull ups? I can do pull ups at home (I could always grab the top frame of my bedroom door or install a steel bar to do it.) but there isn't a gym near where I live(like within 45 minutes from where I live) so lifting weights isn't an option.
Also, what about the legs? Would jogging and short sprints improve my leg strength or do I have to do something else as well, like swimming?
Since we are on the topic about fitness, what would improve strength then? Meaning: would else improve strength other than lifting weights at a gym and push/pull ups? I can do pull ups at home (I could always grab the top frame of my bedroom door or install a steel bar to do it.) but there isn't a gym near where I live(like within 45 minutes from where I live) so lifting weights isn't an option.
Also, what about the legs? Would jogging and short sprints improve my leg strength or do I have to do something else as well, like swimming?
I`ve decided to try jogging once every week, no matter what the weather, for about 1 hour.
I want to do this because i don`t get a lot of physical exercise because i`m not old enough to go to the gym and sports don`t interest me. However, i do like running and i run quite fast, but i can`t run for a very long time before getting tired, so i want to try and improve my cardio as well.
Would jogging only once a week improve my fitness, or is it simply not enough?
If not, i would be happy with it just making me not get less fit as time goes by. Kinda letting me keep being in shape, and not get more and more out of shape as time goes by due to lack of exercise.
If you're not already exercising, you can do literally anything that qualifies as exercise and will get stronger/lose fat. This effect only lasts about 6 weeks, but then you move on to a more regimented program and keep getting slimmer/stronger/faster.
If you're not already exercising, you can do literally anything that qualifies as exercise and will get stronger/lose fat. This effect only lasts about 6 weeks, but then you move on to a more regimented program and keep getting slimmer/stronger/faster.
Losing fat is not a problem. I only want to do this to get more stamina and strength.
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Once a week only? It won't. Too infrequent. And the days need to be alternated too. Never let the body get used to a certain kind of training on certain days, it reduces the general effectiveness of the workout.
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Once a week only? It won't. Too infrequent. And the days need to be alternated too. Never let the body get used to a certain kind of training on certain days, it reduces the general effectiveness of the workout.
How does letting the body get used to working out on certain days reduce effectiveness?
I want to do this because i don`t get a lot of physical exercise because i`m not old enough to go to the gym and sports don`t interest me. However, i do like running and i run quite fast, but i can`t run for a very long time before getting tired, so i want to try and improve my cardio as well.
Would jogging only once a week improve my fitness, or is it simply not enough?
If not, i would be happy with it just making me not get less fit as time goes by. Kinda letting me keep being in shape, and not get more and more out of shape as time goes by due to lack of exercise.
If you have any more questions, just pm me
That is only roughly, it varies much from person to person
This looks like couch to 5k in chart form.
I am going get over my laziness and write a legitimate response:
First, once a week for an hour is not going to work, you will see little improvement. It sounds like from your post you have mostly type II muscle fibers, so lets gear a regimen for that.
You also seem to be confusing cardio for conditioning, they are two separate things though closely related. Cardio is meant to increase your cardiovascular activity in order to maintain a healthy heart. It is more health related fitness than sport/athletic related. Conditioning can mean several things from increasing your VO2 max to increasing a certain set of muscles endurance. In general it is associated with endurance training, so usually sport related.
So if you do have type II muscle fibers it would be best to have much lighter cardio so you do not wear yourself out and you would want shorter bursts at high intensity for conditioning.
So something like this:
Day One:
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Walk for ten minutes.
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Day Two:
Jog for thirty minutes.
Day Three:
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Walk for ten minutes.
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Day Four:
Jog for thirty minutes.
Day Five:
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Walk for ten minutes.
Sprint as fast as you can for ten minutes.
Edit:
Allow day five and six as a resting period.
Follow this general outline and ramp up slowly each week, if you keep to a schedule you are less likely to develop DOMS, or the muscle soreness that we all love. >.>
Not really, it's meant as a general outline, to be adjusted accordingly.
(Though, I may be just used to talking to extremely fit people...)
Yes, I did a short search, I messed up slightly there, for that it should be 30 second intervals with a few minutes to cool down.
Err, why I messed up is this is what I do/used to do (not doing it really now because of school)... So yeah... I guess because I have bad knees my sprint isn't really that intense.
I could try and run 5 times a week, but i go to school.
Generally after a boring day of school all you want to do is relax, so getting out of the couch to start jogging can get quite discouraging.
However, in the weekends this will be easier.
Me being able to sprint 30 seconds at most is spot on! Actually sprinting at full capacity is more like 20 seconds. Making a schedule sounds like a good idea, too.
I appreciate the advice, so keep it coming.
Not to be discouraging, but the best you can (probably) do is increase your sprinting speed. 20 seconds at a dead sprint seems to be a long time. However, you can increase your endurance for slower paces, and increase the speed you can run those slower paces for a length of time, and even get to the point where you can run at a pretty decent clip while recovering from a sprint.
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1.Eat bags of chips for dinner,lunch, and breakfast everyday.
2.Play videogames all the day long.
3.Never take showers, brush, etc.
4.Never go outside
5. More chips.
6. Soda instead of water.
7. MORE JUNKFOOD
8. Never excercise
These steps (More can be added) will get you six pack np.
Also, what about the legs? Would jogging and short sprints improve my leg strength or do I have to do something else as well, like swimming?
Look into a body weight strength program.
If you're not already exercising, you can do literally anything that qualifies as exercise and will get stronger/lose fat. This effect only lasts about 6 weeks, but then you move on to a more regimented program and keep getting slimmer/stronger/faster.
Losing fat is not a problem. I only want to do this to get more stamina and strength.
Sometimes I wonder if it's all too easy.
Lying, cheating, stealing your way to victory.
Though just how far would you fall for a dream?
How does letting the body get used to working out on certain days reduce effectiveness?