Gloss Training

There is that appeal to do the fancy dancy cross training.  We all heard about it, we all know about it, some of us are fans, some are great at coordinating these training activities...

As for myself, I am a cross training advocate, no doubt.  I have some cross training advice to share with you.   You gotta explore some cross training on your own, with nobody else around, all by yourself, so that you get an opportunity to discover your hidden talents and skills.

Who would ever suggest lonesomeness...  Let me troll you through the various types of cross training that I know about so that you can understand where I am coming from.

Group Classes

This is where a whole bunch of people confine into a single place.  These are a lot of fun.  You need a trainer for these types of events who lead synchronously like a dance or asynchronous intervals.  You are motivated by your peers and press your competitive spirit.     If you are in the middle of the pack, then it is great.

One to One

A personal trainer is a great chance to explore functional ways to improve on all types of movements and demands.   You'll definitely be pushed to work hard and balance yourself out right.  You'll get a lot of feedback and learn tips and tricks you never knew possible.  There are just some things you want to do on your own, but then when the trainer is not around, would you ever do those workouts?  probably not.

Gloss Training

Gloss training is when you workout at home, all by yourself, and you get to gloss over those workout activities you just do not like to do.  Focusing only on those activities you enjoy.   It is a great trick because if you gloss well, then you will always ensure that you are doing all of the workouts you need to do, even if you don't want to do them.  

How to Gloss?

So, complimenting the basics of "Group Class" structure and "One to One", I usually go to the Insanity Asylum program.  I use to be a personal trainer, I use to try to train a lot of different programs, I did weight sets of increasing reps, Yoga, P90X, Insanity.  I really pushed through those programs... to the point of really not enjoying it so much more as I just wanted visual results.

The Asylum program, I feel compliments long distance running demands, prevents injury, builds confidence.  That allows me to care less about the visual and more so the functional (which if done right eventually attributes the visual).

When I am alone, in my own space, trying out these workouts, I really just take it easy.  Halfway through an interval, if I really don't feel like it, I grab some water, chill out, hop around and wait for the next block of activity.   When I hit an activity that I like, I go all out, then next, back again, to chilling out, taking it easy.   I'm glossing it.  

I find when I'm glossing it, I am more relaxed and I get a chance to figure out particular movements that keep me from doing it right for the workouts that I feel wrong.   When it doesn't feel right, it is just how I am balanced, or how I position myself thinking.  Adjustments simply find an easier way to do an exercise.  It does come with time as well because some of the workouts need a base that just is not prevalent day one.    I wouldn't get there if I was pushing myself to extreme exhaustion.

Gloss training, it is great, because I learn a lot about what I like to do, what I do well, and what I suck at.  I'm at home, who cares.   I find myself more viable to engage longer term building functional aptitude to handle myself out there in that demanding world.  At the same time, I am still engaged in a High Intensity Training program because when it feels right, I go for it!

yeah, so cross training... Try to gloss it!

Running Dimensions

An infinite array of universes, all mutually exclusive, yet aligned at simpler dimensions.  Each of these, you've been in, will be in, or are in now.  You slip in and out of each universe, unknowingly, sometimes at indication, jumping infinitely.

Ever wonder why the world behaves crazy, or all fits together like a summers breeze?   A course that wasn't relevant yesterday, may not be relevant on the next moment.   Each universe you slip into seems exactly the same, as the previous and the next.  The only difference are those things where a singular cannot be contained.

Sense of Dimensions

You could run and train, time over and again, only to find one day, all that was is not the same.  Your legs feel heavy, you are very tired, nothing you thought would do makes sense...  All of the running you've done before seems as there is no more.

At times, where you are, whether a new route or the same, seems separate from the rest of the world.  The world that you are acquainted with, everything in your past, that you've seen and heard, doesn't feel as real as the moment you are right now, this very moment, while you are running.

It doesn't matter that you feel out of place, that you cannot run well, like gravity itself has a force all new to you.  Regardless of all, this place, where you are running, is a sense of a place that is of itself and in it's own time.  Almost, in a way, as if time has stopped...   Telling you that all dimensions align the same at this very place, you can just tell there is something unique, this moment, this time, this pace.

If you push too much, if you worry and push your fitness, to try to pick up your pace, to feel like your running should add up to something else...  You just might jump away, to another universe.

That new place you have just ran through stays in your mind.  You visit that same place, time and time again, to find that same feeling, but it just doesn't come around.  Or quite the opposite, where there may be a single place where you always feel the same, which doesn't match anywhere else you run.

You slip into various universes, but cannot relate nor recreate, but only wait for that next chance to find yourself in the place you appeal best.

Triggers

Not one of us can trace what triggers us to move between universes.  Almost as if there is a recess bell that goes off we cannot hear.  Some of us spend our entire lives searching for the source of that bell.  Others, worry wholeheartedly that the next bell is going to go off at the wrong time, end up in a hostile place that seems to not end.

Everything is the same, within each universe, at the simpler dimensions.  The only difference are those things which cannot be controlled, cannot contain.   What are these elements that a Universe cannot trace?  The answer comes to you during your run.

There is something about running that gauges one particular place to be isolated from the rest of the world.  As if, those things, that the universe cannot contain is expressed.   While only for a moment, it is there, the next it is gone.

We cannot control it just as much as it cannot be contained.

Next time that you run, find that place that is special.  What you have found is what is most free.  It won't make you faster, nor lighter or heavier - you cannot control the Universe with it - nevertheless, you captured it's essence.

The Infinite Run

The basis of infinite, is that if you take a piece away, you are still left with infinite...  If one run is not like the rest, taking that away from the entirety of the experience is redundant.

Capture the essence of your run and do not measure how heavy or fast or slow you feel.  Find what cannot be contained and carry that with you wherever you may slip into.  Instead of taking away from your run what you feel is not working, find what is infinite in the moment.

Treat your run as if it was an infinite moment - find that which inspire you, motivate you, that keep you moving forward, without looking at the end result.