For most weekdays in January I did an interval jog for three laps a day. A lap is a little over 1 km where I do my jogs.
Wait, interval jog? Yes, a friend of mine told me some people do interval jogs to train. What I basically do is jog for 3 minutes, walk 1 minute, then repeat until I'm done with my morning exercise.
So again, most weekdays I would do this. It's been three weeks, actually. Starting this February I increased the distance to 4 laps, which is over 4 km.
I'm most likely sticking to interval jogging for now. I plan on increasing my distance to 5 laps come March, and hopefully by April I can drop the interval part of the jog. We shall see.
I've noticed some changes to my body since I started doing this. The biggest one is with my heart rate during exercising. My smart watch is a Tozo S3, a gift from my mom. Anyway, when I started doing this morning weekday system the duration of my aerobic and anaerobic heart zones was almost similar. I spent about equal parts in both heart rate zones. Note that these are the names of the zones when I check my information in the Tozo Health app.
Now I'm spending more time in my aerobic zone and less time in the anaerobic zone despite maintaining my pace of around 8:50 minutes per kilometer. I guess this means that my body is adjusting to the workload and it's less of an effort to power my jog.
Now I'm not sure if my understanding is correct but this aerobic zone could also be the "mythical zone 2" heart rate zone that I used to obsess over when I started getting interested in riding bikes again.
Who would have thought that I'd be able to train myself in this zone doing jogging of all things? I just hope I can maintain consistency with this and keep this up and eventually do 5 lap jogs every weekday mornings.
Out.
