February Challenge: 7,000 daily steps
7,000 x 28 days = 196,000 steps
Consistency: walk, ruck, run. Road, treadmill, beach.
Are you in?
7,000 x 28 days = 196,000 steps
Consistency: walk, ruck, run. Road, treadmill, beach.
Are you in?
 Do you have a goal-setting process for yourself?
Turning 50, and then having a friend die, has really sharpened my awareness of time slipping by. This year I am trying out a daily minimum standard. This is how it now stands: 10,000 steps Read (especially classics of literature and philosophy) Write or work on the business Physical Training 15 minutes Quality time with my dog, especially training his retrieving skills The bar is currently pretty low for some of these as I work to carve out time every day from a busy schedule of obligations. Most of these standards are more vague than I would like. On top of that I am working on my standards for jiujitsu and martial arts training, which are far from daily at this point. I don’t list it above, but time with the kids is always my first priority. Please share your perspectives and experiences. Do you set goals? How do you do it? Is your process working for you? Do You Do Zone 2? As I get older I put increasing value on the importance of zone 2 cardio.
For those without a heart rate monitor, you could think of this as movement at a nose-breathing or conversational pace. For aerobic athletes this is a profoundly important base-building pace. Smarter people than me advocate that 80% of your training time should be in this zone. As I listen more to Dr. Peter Attia and others concerned with studying longevity, I have begun to also see this as an essential practice for health-building. What is your relationship to slower cardiovascular training for performance and for health? |
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