Some of you have probably seen me on twitter talking about running smarter, training smarter. It’s become my mantra lately — mostly because the last thing I want to do right now is end up with an injury that would sideline me from running, from keeping up with my endurance and preventing me from chasing runner’s high after runner’s high.
But the other reason I’ve been talking about running and training smarter? Because I want to both care for my body in the months leading into full marathon training *and* make the most of my workouts.
Quality vs. quantity.
No more was this true than in Sunday’s barre n9ne intensive class I took with my sis and Steph. It’s a 90-minute workshop style class where Tanya takes students through five of the signature barre n9ne moves and hammers home the exact right form for each move and explains *why* form matters so much.
The “why” is pretty easy: Work smarter.
She’s right — and her focus on that today totally hit home for me because it’s totally been on my mind…how can I continue to work and train smarter?
…to continue to evolve barre n9ne into a workout that never fails me, that doesn’t cause plateaus, that continues to refine me?
…to continue to run smarter, running harder when my body tells me “GO!” and train smarter when my body tells me “NO!” Truly listening to body cues.
…to put my all into my workouts, but not necessarily in a “balls out” kind of way, but in a focused, smarter way.
Work smarter, train smarter, run smarter.
This has quickly become my new mantra for the rest of 2011 and all of 2012 (aka: the year of 26.2).
In the meantime, I’ll be over here on my wobbly legs from yesterday’s intensive, that sh*t burns when your form and your focus is spot-on. Holy hell am I in for it in class this week. Burn baby, burn. 😉
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