ThunderHorse
Verified Military
I have been "following" a guy on twitter who's been doing this thing called Project Unreasonable...he was doing every run capped at 135 bpm. He was also on RETA and is on 100mg of test, he's like I'm just taking it to put me in the normal range...well that's BS because his bloodwork is showing high 700s. And as a guy who tested below the normal range while in the Army. I kinda know what the number is supposed to look like. Anyways, he's shed the weight he wanted to shed. He wants to "BQ" but um, Boston is a USADA/WADA sanctioned marathon so he couldn't exactly run it without a TUE and he'd need to be off TRT for awhile to run Boston if he didn't have a TUE.
Anyways, I thought it was interesting and also this thread because since I generally pressed a reset button and stuck to running 3 days per week I've been doing various run:walk intervals. Right now I'm at 35 minutes for three runs per week running 4:1 walk. Walking in part is recovery but also to lighten the overall load of the session by bringing the heart rate down. My average heart rate is around 144 over the last 32 runs dating back to October as the volume has increased. By doing the walk runs you're able to keep this down as you add volume and build your base more effectively. I started adding some calisthenics, barely any when you compare it to even half of what I did in the Army.
Friday I'll be switching from 4:1 to a 6:1 run:walk interval. That's only an increase of 2 minutes of running, but a decrease of 2 minutes of walking, but also it's a decrease of two separate recovery intervals so I'm making a presumption that my HR will go up. Plan for now is to run 35 minutes at 5x6:1 for at least nine runs, will adjust if RPE isn't too bad, then I'll add an addition 4:1 for awhile and run for 40 minutes. Ideally getting to 3x60 minute runs per week while also doing 3 decent lifting sessions. Get to that base and probably train for triathlons seriously again.
Anyways, I thought it was interesting and also this thread because since I generally pressed a reset button and stuck to running 3 days per week I've been doing various run:walk intervals. Right now I'm at 35 minutes for three runs per week running 4:1 walk. Walking in part is recovery but also to lighten the overall load of the session by bringing the heart rate down. My average heart rate is around 144 over the last 32 runs dating back to October as the volume has increased. By doing the walk runs you're able to keep this down as you add volume and build your base more effectively. I started adding some calisthenics, barely any when you compare it to even half of what I did in the Army.
Friday I'll be switching from 4:1 to a 6:1 run:walk interval. That's only an increase of 2 minutes of running, but a decrease of 2 minutes of walking, but also it's a decrease of two separate recovery intervals so I'm making a presumption that my HR will go up. Plan for now is to run 35 minutes at 5x6:1 for at least nine runs, will adjust if RPE isn't too bad, then I'll add an addition 4:1 for awhile and run for 40 minutes. Ideally getting to 3x60 minute runs per week while also doing 3 decent lifting sessions. Get to that base and probably train for triathlons seriously again.
