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Ok, so a quick look around on gives me an idea. According to the Repository of All Human Knowledge (sometimes call Wikipedia), plates on exercise machines are sometimes labelled with the actuation of their weight based on the assistance provided by the machine. The levers and pulleys on machines provide a level of…

That is... weird. I mean the obvious answer was pounds on one side and kilos on the other, but the numbers aren't even close to right. I'd love to see the answer to this.

I think your goals are unreasonable is the problem. Standard medical advice is to lose an average of half a pound a week. You seem to averaging two pounds a week. I'm willing to bet that if you start eating your exercise calories you're probably still losing, just not as fast. This isn't a bad thing. There's no hurry here,…

Did 4.5 both last night and tonight. 47.7 MTD.

It's not a race. I've lost nearly 50 pounds in the last year, and I've done it while eating most of my exercise calories. Most people who restrict their diets to the point where they lose 2 or 4 pounds a week wind up gaining it all back fairly quickly. It's not sustainable. I'm perfectly willing to accept the possibility…

Especially the half marathons. I mean, up to the point of a 10K you can kinda take the "I don't really like this, but it's getting me fit" approach. Even then there's an argument that there are other ways to get fit, but at least it's fair reason for continuing. Past the 10K mark running ceases to be about fitness and…

Not quite. While there is little difference in the amount of calories burned per mile at a walk regardless of speed, and little difference in the number calories burned per mile at a run regardless of speed, there's a significant difference in the number of calories per mile at a walk or run. In other words, the gait…

This is a matter of great and terrible debate on the MFP forums. The simple answer is, as the poster above me states, a deficit is built in to your MFP goals and exercise represents an opportunity to eat additional calories while maintaining that deficit. The eternal question is: should you do that. The answer, as always,…

Neither method is terribly accurate. The scales use the electrical impedance of your body to estimate your BFP, but body fat is not even close to the only factor that influences electrical impedance. Most importantly, your level of hydration can cause large swings in the conductivity of your body. So for instance if you…

Try working core strength. My ex-wife always has this problem. She has strong arms and could almost certainly lift the weight of her upper body at least a few times, but her core always collapses on her way down.

8 miles today for 38.7 MTD.

Actually, the batteries in modern phones don't require this. Older batteries did, and those kinds of batteries are still used in cheaper devices like razors and such, but phone batteries no longer have memory.

Even for a long run that's a ridiculous battery burn. I can do a two hour long run with music, GPS, and Bluetooth form my heart rate monitor, and still burn less than 20% battery. Even if you're not being as efficient as possible, there's no way you should burn a full charge in 3 hours. You might want to take it to the…

Personally I just use a reflective vest with a small light up LED strip attached to it. My ex-wife was a little more worried though so she got herself one of these: http://www.runningwarehouse.com/descpage-NPLEDV.html The silver strips are full of LED lights that make you about as visible as humanly possible.

4.2 miles today takes me to 30.7.

5 Miles today, and I went into the gym and did my strength training like a good boy. I deserve a cookie or something. 26.5 MTD

I totally studied beyond the 5th grade. I have a master's degree.... In computer science. So assuming her heart is software, and she's willing to publish the specifications, I'm totally qualified to advise her.

That's great, and if the title of the post had been "You should separate cardio and strength to maximize gains" not many people would have had a problem with it. Instead it had a provocative and misleading title, followed by a provocative and misleading post, and incidentally a link to an article with a reasonable premise.…

It's feasible. At right around 200 pounds I burn about 2000 calories doing a half marathon in a little under 2 hours. She needed to lose 180 when she started, which made her somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 pounds. Out weighing me by around a hundred pounds is going to compensate for the lack of intensity (I rather…

Ya know, if you're going to wuss out and do the treadmill because it's cold and dark, you should really check the next day's weather. Instead of running outside in the cold and dark yesterday, I got to run outside in the cold, dark, windy, snowy Nor'easter today. Four point two miles for 21.5 MTD.

Between having to go vote and the cold last night I wussed out and did the treadmill. But, since I hate the treadmill and wanted to punish myself for wussing out I did a really fast tempo run. 4 miles last night (in under 30 minutes) for 17.3 MTD.

This is somewhat true, but there are a lot of recent studies that indicate fitness is more important than weight. Not that weight is unimportant, or that there isn't almost always some weight loss associated with fitness, but there's controls for that in the studies. It seems as though a person who can run a 10K, or at…

Depending on the severity of the problem, even custom orthotics might be overkill. Lots of sports shoes are designed to support over/under-pronation. I'm not sure what's available for cross trainers, but every major running shoe manufacturer makes shoes intended to correct for these specific issues. For a runner I'd…

Walking is pretty low stress; you're not going to hurt yourself (short of tripping or something totally unexpected). You can feel free to walk as long or as far as you like. If you start running, I'd recommend something along the lines of couch to 5k (c25k) for building up joints and stabilizer muscles over time. You can…

Eh... I hate to point this out, but you're paying these people every month to help you with your fitness goals. The least they can do is show you how to use the squat rack.

That... doesn't make a lot of sense. "Cardiovascular fitness" is by nature defined by a combination of how strong your heart is, how much lung capacity you have, efficiency of oxygen transfer in your blood, etc. All of those things are improved anytime you stress your CV system. Now obviously, if you're only getting your…

I'm thinking get a referral to an exercise physiologist or some other specialist able to comment specifically on the safest way to move forward. As others have mentioned, the drugs you're on, and the nature of your surgery makes any kind of recommendation sort of dangerous. Even if I was a Doctor I'd want to see a history…

Oh, I missed the Thanksgiving part on the first read through. Yeah, Carson's right, don't mess around with your training this close to race time. The plans I posted are intended for eight weeks out from the race. You have sufficient fitness to finish the race now, and you aren't likely to improve it much in three weeks.…

So, there's a couple of different reasons for exercise, and your new routine will likely be good for most of them and no worse than break even on the rest. Let me break it down: 1) Cardiovascular fitness is improved by stressing your heart and lungs. Your old routine probably wasn't doing much for you here. Walking is good…

http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_4/145.shtml I used these guys program to prep for my first half marathon. My guess is that you'll want the Beginner or Intermediate level program. Both are geared toward people with at least a few months of experience (more obviously for the Intermediate). A little poking around and…