Week FIVE Cardiovascular Workouts

Cardiovascular workouts should be done on Days 2, 4 and 6. You can use the description below as a guide.

CARDIORESPIRATORY TRAINING:

• Our initial goal is to do up to 60 minutes of cardiorespiratory training a week w/ a 10% increase progression each week for 6 weeks.
• Ideally, we will be doing 30 minutes of continuous activity by week 5.
• Focus is on steady state exercise at a Rate of Perceived Exertion* between 3-4 on a scale of 1-10.*

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Couch to 5K — Complete three times this week

• Brisk five-minute warmup walk
• There are three different workouts for this week. They are as follows:
  • Run 1: brisk 5-minute warm-up walk, then 5 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 5 minutes running, 3 minutes walking, 5 minutes running.
  • Run 2: brisk 5-minute warm-up walk, then 8 minutes running, 5 minutes walking, 8 minutes running.
  • Run 3: brisk 5-minute warm-up walk, then 20 minutes running, with no walking.