In early December, I started running again after a 1 year hiatus. I have been training for a half-marathon and have been following a plan similar to this hal higdon novice 2 where I am running about 4 days/week and doing a full-body lifting session 1 day/week.
I am a fairly slow runner and my pace does not feel like it has progressed much so it was cool to see a little improvement in my heart!
@nucity Wow, mindblowing improvement! Did you change anything else about your lifestyle? Were you inactive before you started with the plan? I'm really curious as I also would love to improve my HRV and, to a lesser extent, RHR.
@sisbygrace Thank you! Yes in 2022, I ran for 6 months to train for my first marathon and then a few days after my race, I got sick with covid so I stopped exercising completely. That recovery/sickness break turned into me being totally inactive for the 1 year prior to starting this new plan. I didn't change anything else about my lifestyle when I started it
I'm really determined to keep up with regularly running and lifting after my upcoming race so I don't lose this progress again! I set some yearly mileage goals and planned out my runs for the first couple months post-race so I'm hoping those will keep me going.
Probably not a very helpful example if you are already doing regular cardio but I wish you luck in improving your heart metrics too!
@nucity Thank you for replying! I feel your progress is remarkable in terms of numbers, you are crushing it
I do a lot of cardio and am getting fitter (faster, heart rate decreasing for the same effort) but HRV improvement seems to elude me. Maybe I need to get on Hal's plan lol.
@nucity Nice! Wow your heart rate variability is so much higher than mine!
I’m doing similar, end of January I started couch to 5k program and a 10 week lifting program. I’ve definitely noticed some improvement to cardio and that feels great!
@vvh86 I follow henleyfitness on Instagram and she has a 10 week program called wiggle your bits! It’s fairly repetitive but that’s been good for tracking progress. Her vids are my kind of humor and also super helpful
Starting again can be so hard but it feels so good to be back on a regimen