When weather doesn't always cooperate

When you say the word track, we normally think of the outdoor track and field. There is such a season as indoor track, but there are not many of them in Florida. If you are training near a university that does have an indoor track, it is easy to train inside which could be good for when the weather turns bad.

Down here in Florida, it is hard to always run your workouts around the rain. Storms can pop up right when you are about to start your workout. If that does happen, don't get discouraged because you can still get a good workout indoors.

You can go to a gym such as Golds Gym, Worlds Gym, LA Fitness or any gym that is close to your house. Most gyms have a one day pass if you do not want to pay for a membership.

If you have to miss a workout outdoors, make sure to find a gym and get a good cardio workout. If there is a treadmill available you can do sprints on the treadmill. You can turn it up to the speed of 8.0 and run on that for 30seconds, then back off for another 30 seconds and repeat for eight times. This will work yourself as if you were doing sprints outside.

If you are not comfortable having the treadmill at such a high speed, get on a stationary bike and do the 30 second sprints on a bike, peddling as fast as you can and then resting by slowly peddling. You never want to stop peddling because that could slow down your heart rate extremely fast and that would not be good because you could find yourself feeling faint and dizzy.

A good way to warm-up and cool-down would be do ride a stationary bike for twenty minutes each time. Make sure you remember to stretch so you will not injure yourself. Even though you are not outside and putting all the pounding preasure on your legs, you are still very vulnerable in the gym because a lot of people do not warm-up as much as they should.