Saturday, January 14, 2012

Doman Running Program Update (Physical Excellence Friday)


I know it's cliche.

Treadmills in January.

But whatever the matter of cultural trends may be, we are back at running this week. However, this time in the slightly-less-than-ideal location of our garage.

I know, I know. The Doman running program is ideally conducted outside. More interesting, fresh air, the works.

But lately the I have had to give up the "all or nothing" mindset and settle for "pretty good".

See, I have been working a lot lately. Eighteen hours a day, to be exact.

And when I have a house full of daycare kids, all day, every day, the idea of going out for a run is a little bit more trouble than it should be. And we just simply haven't been doing it, the majority of the time.

But we did a little rearranging in the garage this past weekend, plugged in the nine-year-old treadmill that someone gave us recently, and ran.

We are starting small. Easy. This is what it looks like right now:

l I run first (for 20 minutes) while he watches and does other exercises (aka plays around)  
l He then runs. Two minutes of walking (3 miles per hour), two minutes of running (5 miles per hour), repeat (for 20 minutes). 
l At this rate he gets about 2.7 miles in within twenty minutes.  
l I monitor him very closely. Like within arms length. Kids + treadmills can invariably spell disaster, so this is something to be careful about. As you can see he also has the emergency stop pull-string on, which shuts down the whole machine the moment anything goes wrong (and also the moment anything doesn't go wrong - it's pretty sensitive).  
l We have fun with it. He loves "working out", especially since it's something dad does. He also is pretty keen on getting to use adult equipment.

I am going to go ahead and make a 10-mile nonstop goal for the end of the year, for both Hunter and I. We will see how it goes.


Physical Excellence Friday
"When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble." 
Proverbs 4:12
Hunter is 6 years, 9 months old 



2 comments:

  1. Great to see you guys are getting back on the move. :)

    Hey, I don't know if you know about this Math program yet, but it might be a great fit for your boys. Its called Hands On Equations. Google it.

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  2. Thank you for the recommendation. Looks like a neat program, and not very expensive at all. I will have to look into it more, thanks again!

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