Week One Evaluation

This week was the first week of my six week training programme. I ran on the days Monday and Friday and attended the gym on days Tuesday and Thursday.

This week's goal was to run a distance of 5km over the period of the two days that I was at the forest recreation ground (2.5km each day)

On Monday and Friday I ran a distance of 2.5km each day. On Monday I found the training session really hard and at one point stopped running for 2-3 minutes. During this time when I stopped running I maintained a brisk walk though so I didnt stop all together. The reason that I stopped running during this training session was because I became out of breath and felt that I needed a break. On Friday I intergrated breathing control techniques into the training session in order to stop me from becoming out of breath.
On Friday I found the training session easier and I didn't stop running once. I maintained a constant speed for the entire training session; this shows that my body is adapting to the training session and my cardiovascular endurance is improving already! I think that the breathing control techniques played a big part in me finding this training session easier than Monday's and I will continue to use these in the future.

I set my target to run 5km this week as I think that this was a reasonable distance to run over 2 days. However, seeing as this was my first day of the training session I found the distance hard. The reason that I found it hard was because I wasn't used to running long distances and therefore I had to stop for a few minutes. I started running again after this time as I felt that I had recovered enough and was ready to start running again.

I feel that I have achieved my goal for running this week. The realistic goal that I set myself this week was:
*  Be able to run a distance of 5km over the two days that I am at the forest recreation ground.
As you can see from my post above, I successfully ran 5km and therefore I achieved this goal.

On Tuesday and Thursday I attended the gym. Here I found that the training session that I created was at the correct standard for my ability and I was able to participate in the training session at ease. However, this was not a good aspect as I am aiming to try to push myself in order to improve my cardiovascular endurance and therefore this showed me that I need to increase the intensity of the training session for next week. The machines that I used at the gym were the treadmill, stair master and exercise bike.

I feel that I have partly achieved my goal for the gym this week. The realistic goal that I set myself this week was:
*  Be able to improve my cardiovascular endurance at the gym by using the following exercise machines:
          - Treadmill
          - Stair Master
          - Exercise Bike
As you can see from my post above, I used the machines required at the gym, however, I found the intensity to be at the correct standard for my ability and therefore I haven't increased my cardiovascular endurance. Next week I will increase the intensity of my gym work out to ensure that I increase my cardiovascular endurance.
Next Week I will be improving my goals set so that my cardiovascular endurance can increase and become closer to the overall goal that I have set for myself.