What's up, guys? It is now 5:23 in the morning, so good morning! We are here at the track.
It's a beautiful morning. Very crisp. Very cool. Perfect for what we're about to do.
A lot of you have asked about my workout routine, so this morning I thought I
would show you one portion of that. So I go to the gym three times a week. And I
run three times a week, and that's what we're doing today. I'm doing a six-mile
negative split run today. I'm going to take you through basically all of my heart
rate zones. I train by heart rate. So mile one is going to be a ceiling in between
well, in the middle of my zone 1, which is a 142 max heart rate. Mile two, max of
154. Mile 3, max of 165. Mile 4, max of 175. And then mile 5 and 6, we're going to
be 176 to about 185, hopefully. I'm feeling a little tired this morning but
we'll see how it goes. And, yeah, so let's do it!
So today's run, the six-mile negative split run is just one of the runs I'm going
to be doing this week. Other runs, this is kind of a volume building period for me
so the day after tomorrow I'll do a seven mile just kind of endurance run, and then
the same thing a day after that.
Oh, man. That felt good until about first lap into the
last mile. Oh! I'm gonna sit down.
This was a higher effort
than usual. Interesting. Splits were 8:12, 7:42, 6:59, 6:26, 6:03 and then 6:20. Lost it a
little bit at the end but, I kind of felt that. Oh!
Man. That's pretty good run. So you may wonder why I do this to myself. I often
wonder the same thing. I'm not training for anything specifically.
I don't race. I used to race a bicycle. But competition days, I think, are behind
me. But I still like to stay in shape, obviously, and I'm the type of person
that needs to push myself in whatever I do. So this is just one of those ways
that I'm doing it these days. One thing I forgot to mention at the beginning of
the video is that I do use a personal trainer. His name is Rick Kattouf. When I
was a cyclist, he was my strength coach as well as my
nutritionist. And, you know, when I hung up the bike and retired from that and
decided to get back into fitness I knew Rick was the guy to call. So he does all
my gym workouts and prescribes my runs as well. A totally great guy. I'll leave
his information down below it's Team Kattouf. TeamKattouf.com. Leave that down
below. And there you go. So that was a six mile run. It felt pretty good up until
the very end, but I think that's by design. Supposed to feel that way. And so
thanks for watching. If you want to see more fitness videos, let me know in the
comments. And until next time, stay tailored? Can I say that out on the track? Stay
tailored!