Essential Abs
McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 17 Day 1
Week 17, Day 1
Phase: Marathon
Workout: 45 to 60 minute Easy Run
Purpose: Build Endurance
Easy treadmill run today; 45 minutes at 2% incline and a variable speed. Nothing special, just a nice recovery run after yesterday’s slog of a 20 miler.
On a positive note, I’m still not feeling 100%, but the worst of it is behind [...]
McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 15 Day 3
Week 15, Day 3
Phase: Marathon
Workout: 65 to 75 minute Easy Run
Purpose: Build Endurance
Felt tired today. Actually I was half thinking of taking a very rare rest day today, but decided to head out the door and see how things developed. Funny thing is I had a great run.
My pace in the first couple of miles [...]
McMillan Custom Marathon Plan: Week 15 Day 1 & Essential Abs
Week 15, Day 1
Phase: Marathon
Workout: 45 to 60 minute Easy Run
Purpose: Build Endurance
Can it really be Week 15 already? Amazing. It seems like the last five weeks have flown by and now I *only* have six weeks left to pull everything together for what will arguably be the biggest race of my life; the 2008 [...]
End Of The Road For The Essential Abs Program
Just completed the last workout of the final week of the Essential Abs Program.
Today the plan called for 15 reps of each of the following exercises with 7 seconds rest between each one:
Corkscrew
Hip Up
Reverse Crunch
Crossover
Oblique Crunch
Catch
Toe Touch
Crunch: legs up
Crunch: frog legs
Isometric back extension
Now the plan is over I’ll probably go back and repeat Week [...]
Hundred Push Ups Week 5 Day 1 & More Essential Abs
I knew Week 5 Day 1 of the Hundred Push Ups plan was going to be a tough one. I glanced at it briefly last night to refresh my memory and kind of wish I hadn’t bothered. I was even tempted to postpone the start of the week to Monday, but figured it would be [...]
Push Ups, Abs, McMillan
Thought I’d continue the trend of combining all three workouts into one post. Hope you don’t mind…
I’ll start with the end of Week 4 Hundred Push Upsexhaustion test. Basically I just needed to perform as many push ups in one go as possible which would determine the column I’ll be following in Week 5 of [...]
