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I did the 2pm race down Cardiff Bay, and finished the mile in just under 11 minutes - and I didn't stop to walk which was my own personal target completed!

That's true, but if I remember it depends on how you go about your strength training. If you do heavy weights in low reps then you'll build muscle which will lead to definite weight gain, but if you do light weights in high reps then that will serve to tone the areas your working as opposed to building on the muscle that's…

that's no excuse sister.

Well this is the thing - I used to play rugby regularly in and outside of school a year and a bit ago so I should be able to manage a mile, and I think going for the 1 mile is a more realistic ambition for me than the others because I haven't done any real exercise for a while. I've started doing 30 mins on an exercise…

I think you're right with that, the back is a tricky one, but there's a series of videos on YouTube that I've seen and the guy there reckons you can do some good toning exercises just with a towel itself - he banks on the resistance you create pulling on a towel or whatever. The only downside with those kind of "advisors"…

I don't know how bad your asthma affects your ability to exercise, but if it's of any help one of my best friends also has pretty bad asthma which affects him quite often and yet he puts me to shame in terms of exercising. Obviously I can't just say straight up it's a case of managing your asthma because I guess for a lot…

Hey, I followed this routine for a couple of weeks - my motivation kind of ran out of steam - and I found that I was definitely getting stronger, especially in my arms. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090819164414AAaycd0 Because I could only really work out in my room and I only had a fairly light set of…