Remember my last post on the Peroneal Tendon Stretches? I tried out the stretches the next day as planned and it didn't do me a lot of good. I'm not sure if it was just in my head or not but after doing the stretches it felt like my tendon was more irritated than ever.
I've been continuing with my low-impact work outs at home to keep my fitness level up. I have given myself another two weeks of this before I can resume my running. The coming week I'm going to focus on core strength and I've put together a series of work outs including cardio and strength. Its a mix of zumba, dance, pilates and your standard core exercises like crunches and plank and so on... I'm actually looking forward to it.
Working out at home I've come to realize that I have very poor upper body strength (I can barely do a single straight push-up and about 5 push-ups from the on-the-knees position), ok core strength and ever-so-slightly better lower body strength. Building strength and muscle is important even for running form & better endurance. So even if I am not running I hope these weeks of strength training help me in the long run towards becoming a better runner...
I've also been keeping up with my running reading online. It actually keeps me motivated and helps me with the not-lose-interest-in-running bit. There's this article on running frequency which I found useful that I'm linking here for future reference.
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