Crossfit to 5k

[Heysmiler]

Can’t say I’m starting from the couch. Have been working with a PT since Feb doing crossfit and running on the machine. Rattled out Wk1 in 2 days. Now on to Wk2. Easy transition to outside too so far getting ready to do the race for life in July. Off to Sh’bam dance now then will finish Wk2 tomorrow. I’m sure it’s gonna get much harder!

[IannodaTruffe Mentor]

Welcome to the forum and well done on getting started.

Unlike a cross trainer, the impact of running causes micro tears in your muscles which repair and strengthen on your rest days. No rest, no repair increased injury risk. While you may bring extra fitness to the process, we would still recommend that you always take at least one day between workouts. You will ultimately be a better runner if you do non impact exercise on your rest days.

The guide to the plan is essential reading healthunlocked.com/couchto5...

Take care, there is no rush.

[Heysmiler in reply to IannodaTruffe]

Not a cross trainer. Crossfit is totally different. I am working with a professional and he has no issues with the pace i am working at. Just want to do the whole programme rather than skipping i am working through at a slightly fast pace but i expect i will take longer over the longer runs.

[Rignold]

If you are a daily crossfitter your muscles will be more than up to the early weeks of C25k, don't worry. If you can bust out Murph you are not going to damage yourself with a few minutes extra running a day. In the later weeks as the distances get longer you will probably want to revert to day on/day off simply for fatigue reasons, both for the running and the WODs: it is a killer doing a WOD which has a lot of burpee boxjumps, say, if you have been on a 25 minute run earlier that day (and vice versa).

Good work though. Stick with it.

[Gran4z Graduate in reply to Rignold]

What's a WOD, please?

[MarkyD Graduate in reply to Gran4z]

Workout Of the Day

[MarkyD Graduate]

Note to member of our lovely community:

Heysmiler is undertaking C25K under the supervision of a Physical Trainer (PT). She's been given the go-ahead to run C25K every day. That's not an approach that C25K recommends ("always take your rest days") but her PT knows her capabilities better than anyone else. And 14 weeks of Crossfit, treadmill running and Sh'bam is a good platform to begin a more intense approach to C25K.

But just because Heysmiler is doing C25K fast, this does not give everyone else permission to run C25K every day