Here’s something that can shake up the old boring work-out–try a triathlon! I know, you are thinking that this is crazy advice, and that you could and would never do such a thing, and that triathlons are for the super fit freaks who work out five times every day and snort protein shakes in between snacking on raw eggs. Thats what I thought too, but I tried a beginner triathlon and I couldn’t have been more wrong, I had a ton of fun, and it felt great.
The secret to trying anything hard is to start small. A regular triathlon is a mile swim, basically a 10K, and then a 25 mile bike. That is crazy and I don’t know if I could ever do it. The beginner was a quarter mile swim (in a pool, in the one I did), a three mile run, and a eight mile bike. I won’t say it was no sweat, because I am a terrible swimmer, but it wasn’t so bad, and it was fun to be there with all the competitors and share the experience.
A great thing about this whole thing was the benefits of changing up the workout to include a swim, and adding the bike workouts as well. I grew to appreciate both of these and my fitness level is at a level it hasn’t been in years.