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Thanks, guys! I'll check both of those out.

The Chi Running technique involves leaning at the ankles, which is a little tricky and should be practiced by itself before added to the running. It may be the same thing that you mean by leaning at the hips. It requires tilting the pelvis back a little by contracting the lower abs slightly. This way, gravity can assist…

My dog came with the name Augie. I call him Augma.

Is the study over? Do they need more test subjects?

I try to use a lot of the Chi running suggestions, too. Shorter stride, more arm movement. The goal, during a regular run, is to keep your perceived effort level the same going up the hill as it was on the flat. Of course, with hill repeats you're going to want to work harder.

Thanks for the link! At 180, I'm pushing hard, but not sprinting.

hmm... It sounds like the weight lifting might have "assisted" your training. Did your coach have you doing any running at all, or was it just lifting? And Jynus, I don't know how I missed this post of yours earlier. Elite runners may have longer strides, but that comes later, after increasing stride frequency. I don't…

Someone beat me to the dog example, but that's where most of my experience is. My pit tore her meniscus (and maybe a partial ligament tear) earlier this year. She was partially lame at first, but has improved (only a very rare limp) with just fish oil and turmeric (which has good anti-inflammatory properties). I was going…

I'd like to see a study that compared digestion efficiency at extremely high caloric intake. We digest somewhere around 97% of the calories we eat usually, right? I'm not sure my body could work fast enough take in 10,000 calories versus 6,000 (of whole foods at least).

I stop mine right when I stop running, mostly because it has a function that tells me how fast my heart recovers and improvement there would indicate improved heart health. Mine doesn't seem to be accurate at estimating calories, though, since it's usually way higher than the MFP database (by more than 1100 calories…

I did 30 miles this week, for a total of 40.7 so far in July.

No problem!

Sorry I couldn't reply earlier, Jynus. I was out running. Two things: the study you shared demonstrates that weight loss comes from caloric deficit, whether that deficit is produced by diet alone or a combination of diet and "cardio" exercise. If the diet was identical and one group did cardio, I would expect to see them…

Do you think the cats comment is necessary? I have 2 cats. How many dogs do you have?

If you quote me, you can see what I did. It's like the way the quotes show up, but with just the letter "b."

It might be bold? (let's see if that works)

I don't think it's a certain number of miles that you have to log so much as simply pursuing it for its own sake. Training to run is different than running in the course of doing other things. It's a different mentality and it leads to different experiences and knowledge. At my job, I sometimes have to pick heavy things up…

This is your example we're talking about, not mine. You're going off about people that only do lots of cardio and are starving themselves at the same time as if they are the exemplar of cardiovascular exercise. In order to properly function with endurance training you have to fuel your body with plenty of carbs. In order…

I think this is the problem that people are having with your arguments. You're looking at a particular situation in which people are using a failed strategy. This strategy is a combination of nutrition and exercise. They might start getting results if they ate better or if they mixed up their cardio a little. But you're…

I'm going to take a stab at this. I've played my fair share of sports that involve running. I've also spent some time running, which is also a sport. At the top levels of association football (soccer), distance covered is actually one of the stats that they keep track of. The players average about 10K per game, with the…

He did say that he played some soccer, but that his main sport was ultimate frisbee. It looks like he was competitive at it, and took it to a pretty high level. He also said that he had to take a walking break on a <2 mile run. BTW, I'm impressed by your 5K time improvement. What do you feel like the ratio was between…

One day, I almost got knifed by a meth head at the park. I had been running in the neighborhood, just finished my cool down and was stretching in the shade when he approached me. He was convinced that I had just prank-called his lady friend and claimed that he recognized my voice. It turns out that he had seen me turn…

When was Radagast in the Hobbit? I'm re-reading it right now and he was mentioned at Beorn's house, but I don't remember him ever showing up. He was in LOTR, but I don't think he made the movie, did he?

I don't want to alarm you, but there seems to be something on your shoulder! Oh, and I love Stargate (until it got invaded by Farscape).

I've gotten under 7 minutes a couple of times in my life, most recently about 2 years ago. In my most recent street race I averaged 8:00 per mile. I would love to break 6 minutes some day.

No problem. I should have looked "metabolic weight training" up before my first post. On the other hand, Wackyfunster has posted again and does seem to be saying that they get cardiovascular benefit from weight training: Maybe Wackyfunster can elaborate? Can you get the same cardiovascular benefit from doing basically…

You may be right. I never wore a HRM while lifting, so I don't know what it was doing to my heart rate. I lifted for 7 years, working all major muscle groups with as heavy of weights as I could. I didn't see any real strength gains until I started overeating, too. Then, I gained a good bit of fat as well. I lost the fat…

Actually, if you look above my post at what I quoted, you'll see: "get the same cardiovascular benefits from metabolic weight training." So, I actually just looked "metabolic weight training" up and it seems to be cardio with weights. If you're using smaller weights so that you can do more reps and keep your heart rate up,…

I read McDonald say something like that recently. He was talking about "untrained" people, though. In other words, if you're totally sedentary and you start running you can't go very far or very fast and you won't burn many calories. Once you've been running for a while, though, you can easily burn 1000 calories during a…

Actually, I don't use a fork to eat pizza, hamburgers or french fries!