Hey everyone, I am a 5'8" guy, about 300 lbs right now. Some of my friends have really been pushing me to get into better shape and I decided to listen. I am planning on starting the c25k soon, either next week or so (for many reasons I can't right now). As you can guess by my height and weight, I have a lot of muscle left over from when I used to lift. I have not consistently worked out in a long time, so most of that muscle is pretty weak and my metabolism is slower than a snail. I want to cross train because I know that my body tends to slow down during my off days. Workouts seem a lot harder for me after 2-3 day rests, so I was thinking of supplementing the program with cross training. My short term goal is do the Jingle 5k on Dec 8th, which is 14ish weeks away, so I wanted to be ready by then. I know this is a lot longer than the standard 8 weeks, but I have tried this program twice before (a few years ago) and both times I plateaued and stopped after week 4, so I want to allow some weeks where I can repeat or invent a week inbetween two of the posted week.
Anyways, what cross training can I do on the off days (T,Th,S) that will not affect negatively my running days (M,W,F)? I would like to do strength training, and possibly the bike or ellitical, but I am not sure from there, I am only familiar with power lifting, but I do not want to bulk up again (I was doing 5x5 @450lbs backsquat at one point, but weighed 335)
My diet will tend to be paleoish, since I am going to be following the "Whole 30" diet, where you eat nothing but whole foods, I am not too familiar with it but google exists....