Adidas micoach Training System

I'm posting several days of experience from using the Adidas micoach. I got behind in my posts but stayed current with my running! Always a plus!! I will be posting again as time goes by to report my results.

Here's the first 3 training days:

3/12/2012

I decided to take the plunge and spend the money for the Adidas micoach. Frankly, Andy Murray convinced me with a commercial I saw this weekend. I've been thinking about buying the Nike sensor but it doesn't really do what I want it to do - give me a tennis-specific workout plan. Hopefully, the Adidas micoach will do precisely that. I paid $129.00 (includes a $10 discount when I ordered it online through BestBuy).

I bought the "bundle" with the heart rate monitor, the stride sensor and the pacer. I've set up my first workout for tomorrow (Tuesday) which is the assessment workout. It's supposed to assess my fitness and adjust the original workout I first selected base on the results of the assessment workout. Very cool, if it works.

Actually, it was pretty easy to set up on the computer but I did have to refer to the directions for a few things but most of it is intuitive. It also helped that I watched a setup video on youtube.

I'm going to post my results here as I go through the 6 week cardio plan. What's great is that there are strength and speed plans, too. All 3 of these plans are geared toward tennis. If the cardio plan works, then I'll do the other 2 plans.

Here's to getting in great shape!

3/13/2012

Today was set for the assessment testing. I have to say that it took me about 15 minutes to figure everything out as far as using the pacer. I slid the switch over for the micoach and it indicated that there were no workouts. After reading a little in the manual (yeah, I usually don't read until absolutely necessary!), I realized that the workout did not synch.

So, I synched it and I was off and running.

The workout is well laid out and there's no thinking - just doing. It was completely simple to follow and micoach put me through the paces. After going through the assessment test (only a 12 minute run with increasing speed requirements), I plugged it in, synched everything and read the results.

Basically, micoach uses this session to check your fitness and adjust your planned workouts accordingly.

All-in-all, this is a great device and one where I can actually look forward to my workouts.

Next workout: Thursday, March 15.

3/15/2012

I ran my first "regular" workout today using micoach. It performed flawlessly and lead me through a good workout. micoach told me to speed up or slow down to stay in the target heartrate for this particular workout. I ended up running about 2 1/2 - 3 miles in the 25 minute workout including warmup and warmdown.

This is a great system as it's great having "my coach" there telling me what I need to do. So far, 2 thumbs up - at least for the workout portion. Now, when I went to my computer to synch everything to the micoach website, they were having server problems. After reading the micoach forum, I realize this isn't the first time this has happened. Hopefully, this gets better because it will turn people off real fast if they can't get things to synch properly and in a timely manner.

Otherwise, I'm loving this system and actually look forward to my workouts with micoach.

Next workout: Saturday, March 17