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ASICS are generally going to have more support on the interior of the foot than compared to Nikes. Most ASICS are either for stable stride or slight over pronation. Know your stride and you'll get the right shoe everytime.

Go ahead and jump as much as you want. Your neighbors probably had it coming anyways. :-)

Don't start deadlifting until you have a good couple of months strength/core training under your belt. Start with dumbell exercises and let your support muscles develop. Then progress into deadlifts, cleans, squats, and whatever else under supervision for at least a few weeks to make sure the form is right. Back injuries…

Just because you're drinking lots of water doesn't necessarily mean you're retaining it. Make sure you're getting enough electrolytes. Also what Ninerbuff said.

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You're young, just run and you'll be fine. General training advice: Take at least 1 day off per week. Always run at least 3 days per week with at least 1 other day doing something else that's a hard workout (riding a bike or swimming laps). Make sure at least one of these is a long easy workout 1+ hours. Have just one of…

Bear spray!!!!!!!!!!!! Black bears are pretty timid too, unless they have cubs or are quite large 300+lbs range. I personally wouldn't be afraid; go buy 2 cans of bears spray and use one as your test can to see how it works (make sure you're pointing it downwind and have nothing downwind you value). Bear spray is like…

Heavy sweater here also. It's normal to sweat when you workout. It's genetic how much you sweat. After you workout make sure to be replacing those electrolites. Make sure you're getting a decent amount of potassium (banannas) and with the amount of processed food most people won't have an issue getting enough sodium back.…

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Eat something either before or slightly into your workout. This really isn't a do whatever you feel like topic. If you're doing any type of long exercise at all your blood sugar can get dangerously low and cause you to lose conciousness and/or get stuck under a bar. Half a granola bar or small yogurt is fine as long as…

SWAMP mountain bike club has a lot of awesome people if you're into biking. A lot of the people do other activities also. I no longer live in Tampa, but I moved there without knowing anyone. Between the bike club and random people I met at the gym I never had issues with finding people to workout with.

I lived in Tampa for 5 years. You'll see muscle change if you do it enough and go fast enough. Velendrome cyclists have some huge legs! I'd recommend getting a low end mountain bike. You're not concerned about going fast on pavement and mountain bike tires and suspension is more forgiving if you do hit a big bump in the…

Longer bar actually helps stability. It will improve as you strengthen your stabilizing muscles also. If you're uncomfortable lower the weight while your muscles adjust. Front squats or smith machine squats are other alternative.

If you're sore, but still want to do something stretching and planks are a great way to stretch and strengthen stabilizing muscles. Don't overdo these either, but doing some will help prevent future injuries and soreness.

Before you go see an expensive specialist take a few weeks doing planks and other non-impact exercises to strengthen and stretch your core muscles. Then go to a good running shoe store. Don't go to a chain store. Find the running store that's local and the people really really know what they're talking about. Most mid to…

You're going to get a lot of different opinions on this, but the easy answer is do both. 45 min of cardio 3-5 times a week, proper diet (what other people have said about proper protein), and some lifting and you'll see results. You don't need to lift insane amounts and add tons of muscle for lifting to benefit your…

Easy to hurt yourself badly if done incorrectly, takes coordination, uses full body (so hard to mix in to days where you focus different muscle groups), easy to do incorrectly, and some weight rooms ban oly lifts because of the above reasons. Oly lifts are awesome and really good for training, but the above reasons are why…

We'd generally take a day per week and do what we called "active recovery". We'd generally play ultimate frisbee, short jogs, ice skate, yoga, rock climbing, or whatever you really enjoy that isn't normally part of your normal workout.

If you want to lose the fat from your calves, you'll have to lose weight everywhere else too. Walking and diet will help you to tone muscle and lose excess fat. That being said once you get down to muscle there's not much you can do to further slim them.

A lot of universities do vo2 max testing for cheap/free if their sports ed students can monitor it. Vo2 and lactic threshold testing were always interesting, but not necessarily benefical. The only time I ever saw anyone benefit from it was when we learned one guy on the team had a very low vo2 max, but an insane lactic…

15lbs down sofar

Ended up slightly increasing protein intake vs everything else; I'm still eating a decent amount of carbs and fats. I moved about 300 calories from dinner to breakfast and it's definitely increased my energy level throughout the day. I'm also making a more conscious effort to try and time my dinner so it's right after…

That's really interesting @mwyvr ! I use Strava now for its convenience and because it's free. When we were really training Polar was the brand we'd use for HR monitors. Garmin was just coming on the scene a little bit, but weren't worth it unless you were sponsored by them (a few of us were). We found they broke once or…

I never said that; in fact I said pretty much the opposite of that. I'm seeing results, but wondering why the calorie count would need to be so low to start to see results. You are 100% right that Strava is slightly overestimating the calories (I looked through a couple of threads that were purely devoted to talking about…

Even trail running and with 600 ft vertical?

Thx, so Strava is overestimating the calories burned, good to know. Probably should break out my old heart rate monitor to try compare and see how much of a difference it is.

3.7 mile trail running. A pathetically slow 14:33 pace, but there's a ton a vertical on the trail. According to Strava that's what I burned anyways

@DavPul I scan the barcode on what I'm eating, weigh the servings, and make sure the calories indicated on the serving size are matching up (if I find they don't match I generally type it in manually and someone generally has inputted the correct info). I've been logging everything from iced tea to ketchup. If it's not…