Getting Out Of Your Comfort Zone
As I train for the Miami half marathon a good friend of mine and an amazing marathon coach, John Furey has told me the secret to running an injury free marathon is cross training and intervals.
I know interval training has been around for awhile and people have been doing them, but are you really getting out of your comfort
zone! Really pushing yourself to that 9-10, when you push yourself to the limit. So.. why do we do it. Interval training helps:
- boost performance, by making the heart become more efficient at pumping blood
- helping increasing our tolerance for lactic acid burn
- we can increase our intensity in a short amount of time without risk of burning out or injury
- most importantly we BURN MORE FAT!!!! You read correctly… We burn more fat!!!
So I have know this for years, but have I really pushed myself to the 9-10 zone!!! Honestly speaking I think I have been hanging out in the 7-8 zone. So I have been cheating myself of all of the benefits. Okay let me be honest the benefit I really want is FAT BURNING. Okay I’m training for a half marathon, I’d like to be able to be able to cross the finish line on my own 2 feet and not be dragging ass! So.. interval training will be my friend 2x/week until January 31st.
Now my interval will be a combination of cardio machines and metabolic circuits using only my bodyweight and light weights. Check out this one below. If you have bodyweight circuit that you would like to share tell me about it, just write below in the comments


to do something different. For cardio workouts I will do the elliptical, stairmaster, kettlebell workouts or run outside if its nice. Also I like stringing intense bodyweight workouts together to create great interval cardio and strength training workouts. I lift 3 times a week by doing a full body workout including core training. Every 4 weeks I mix up my strength training workouts to keep my body guessing.
My husband and I have been talking about running the Falmouth Road race for years and we DID IT!!! It was 7.2 miles of FUN. The entire course was lined with cheering fans which was AWESOME, especially when this woman at mile 5 told us all that it would get better if we smiled. Which made everyone around us smile. Along the course there were numerous musicians playing motivational songs. Best of all was following a gentlemen who was dressed like David Lee Roth circa 1984.
Yes, they all say I’m naturally thin and I don’t have to do anything but chase around my little dog that fits in my purse. But the latest Victoria Secret models to grace the runway admit that before the show, they watch what they eat and amp up the cardio. So, models are human and that with a little diet and exercise you to can be a supermodel! Okay may its just in the privacy of your own home! When I feeling down and need a little boost, I listen to RuPaul’s song supermodel and instantly I’m transformed into America’s Next Top Model.

