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Originally Posted by Traum
I've been inspired by Gerbs, Evo, and RabidRat, so I went for a 20 min jog today since the weather was nice -- yeah, I know it's a jog and not a run, and it was probably slow even for a jog. I'm still too cheap to pay for any fitness tech to monitor my vital stats, but I felt like I gave my cardiopulmonary system a decent workout, even though I wasn't gassed afterwards.
The pathetic thing is -- about 10 min after my jog, I drove to pick up le wifey from work. Just as I was working the clutch, I realized my fine motor control of the left leg was lacking because it was actually tired out from the jog. The same goes for fine motor control of the gas & brake pedals as well. It was pathetic. 
(and now my thighs are also limp as well, so that's doubly pathetic )
Assuming I want to build more resilence / endurance (for jogging as well as heart health), how often should I be jogging? From doing weights, I know jogging only once a week isn't gonna do shxt. I still want to put more focus on building / retaining muscle mass, since I deem that to be more important as I get old (and lose muscle mass). So what kind of frequency would work well to complement a 3x a week weight training regiment? |
jogging and running is definitely the same thing, don't sell yourself short there.
if you want to improve why don't you follow a couch to 10k program? you'd be running 3x a week but never for more than an hour, and most days more like 30m.
there are plenty of resources online. you can even target the sunrun which is in april, you have plenty of time.