Ok, several years ago I was a very fit individual, infact long before I had heard of C25K I used to do 15KM short courses around Melbourne twice a week as part of my training. Now if we fast forward from that you'll find I became 18, discovered alcohol, girls and a whole range of other things, which in turn meant that I played less of my chosen sport, trained less and eventually became unfit. Fast forward a fraction again and you'll find I decided I'd take a career path that required some fitness, or so you would have thought. Who would have thought there was in fact very little fitness required to adorn a blue uniform. A small fraction forward again and I started back at the gym, not the 7 day a week training regime I used to do when I was young, but none the less a relatively intense weights program. So with a bit of bulk back about me I decided I'd give the cardio a kick start. I began lightly with some rowing, cycling and running; this is where we hit a snag, it stopped after a week. You see I love the weights work outs and I love being fit, but I loathe cardio and especially after years of long distance running, I loathe running. So I started to research ways to get my cardio back, and shed a few kilo's (weights don't burn all that much fat around the love handles people) and I discovered C25K. So here is what I have devised - my ultimate goal is to be able to run 10Km's again (I'm not interested in all that much distance can you tell), I also want to keep my muscle tone, so I have spent some time putting together a weight's routine to work in conjunction with some interval training. Effectively it is a 34 week program, all going well. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Now what it consists of - Weights (3x week) consisting of Day 1 - Chest, Legs, Upper Arms and stomach, Day 2 - Shoulders, Forearms and stomach and Day 3 - Biceps, Triceps and stomach. This is to be combined with C25K for nine weeks. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Effectively the program would be Weights Day1, W1D1, Weights Day 2, W1D2 etc etc. Every 10 weeks of weights results in a one week rest from weight based exercise. At the conclusion of C25K a one week rest would well and truly be in order before beginning on Gateway to 8K following that a week to two weeks rest before beginning Freeway to 10K. Now all this looks good on paper (screen???) but will it work? Only time will tell that, what will be more interesting is tomorrow, W1D1, as Weights Day 1 was today, I must admit I'm interested to see if I can do it and still have it in me. I will update this as regularly as humanly possible, update one will be tomorrow as I have the day off work. Here's to good health!