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I have only ever taken yoga classes in person. I started out extremely clumsy and unable to hold any pose fore more than 5 seconds, often not at all. Now I am somewhat less clumsy and can hold some poses for 30 seconds, but still many for less than 5 seconds. I would never have guessed that Yoga is so hard before trying it!

Best value for the $: Eagle Rare and Buffalo Trace Best hard-to-get: Pappy of any kind (the Rye is outstanding) Basically I like things made at the Buffalo Trace distillery apparently. And I also really liked the tour there. The Maker's tour there was also fun. Love the buffalo trace cream liqueur too! It's like a tastier…

The time you will spend training or doing related activities once you are in the meat of a marathon plan is staggering. A friend of mine told me she planned vacations for husband before beginning training so that she had enough martial capital to start training. I thought she was joking, but I can assure you she was not…

I haven't taken zumba but from what little I've seen of it the only thing to be concerned about that might happen in Zumba is a lot of jumping/side movements when it comes to cross-training. That's why Hal Higdon and others advise against stuff like tennis, basketball, etc. for cross-training. Running is already putting a…

I get them if I have eaten too recently when running. That would be my first guess.

Individual drink - not sure, but it was at The Aviary in Chicago and was probably ridiculously delicious and awesome. Bottle - probably the Thomas H Handy Sazerac Rye bottle we have.

I spend about zero percent of my time in the fat burn zone. I like to go right to max, apparently.

Read the article and check out his methodology.

The food lab tackled the peeling question recently. Basically... put the eggs directly from the fridge into already-boiling water (or already-steaming steamer) for best peel-ability. http://www.seriouseats.com/2014/05/the-secrets-to-peeling-hard-boiled-eggs.html

Yoga is quite difficult. I was surprised by this when I took it for the first time. I've taken maybe 30-40 classes and still find many poses difficult to hold.

I completed it when I was 235lbs. I repeated weeks a few times. The official website for couch to 5k explicitly tells you to do that if you need to. Move ahead only when you feel ready. If you are struggling with the early weeks, you might need to slow down during the running portions if you really can't break through. I…

In addition to or instead of walking+biking, If at all possible, you might consider a good Yoga and a good functional fitness training class/plan. You are going to need to address the leg muscles you don't typically use as a runner and figure out some good stretching poses/maneuvers to loosen up the muscles and ligaments…

I once had a primary care doctor tell me that the average male only needs 1200 calories, and will burn 400 calories walking for 30 minutes. So that's all I needed to do to lose weight -- eat 1200 calories and walk for 30 minutes. I was 230 lbs at the time. I guess technically, if I followed his plan, I would have lost…

If the race has a 7 hour cut off, then even walking it to completion is fairly impressive to me. That's 3.75mph average which to me is a fairly brisk walking pace.

I think you should plan to both train and actually run at specific run/walk intervals as you are building towards your goal. Perhaps I am projecting, because that's what I am doing for my first marathon training. I ran a 20 mile race in May and there's no way at all I could have done it without walk intervals, despite…

That is why I assumed they meant serious athletes and why it assumes a higher level of fitness than someone who would normally be starting at "couch." I don't have enough experience to say whether the one I linked to is a good plan or not, but at least it seems to start at true "couch" status given all of the walk/run…

That one is for "athletes." Here's a more realistic one... not sure if that is the one being assumed. https://www.digitalrunning.com/couch-to-marathon-training-plan/

None of the above. iSmoothRun is the only app I've used that has every feature I want. Second to that would be Runtastic. What I love about iSmoothRun: Cadence feature - tracks your cadence, you can set it to activate a metronome if your cadence falls out of a specific range, or you can have it always on Shoe tracking -…

Hard to say. If I had to guess I'd say Tyson, based on where each was at in their careers at 20. Tyson won the WBC title when he was 20. Ali didn't even get a title shot until he was 22. Ali had a relatively unimpressive performance against Sonny Banks in 1962 (when he was ~20) and was still early in his career with Dundee…

Seems about right to me if not even a bit low. I am hard pressed to find a calculator that doesn't show 800 as a guess for 270 minutes of slow walking.

Are you on any medications that have nausea/diarrhea as a known side effect? Sometimes running can extremely exacerbate such side effects.

I don't understand the logic of weekly weigh-ins, personally. Those same things that might make your weight fluctuate a few pounds per day happen no matter how often you are stepping on the scale. I would rather know what my weight was for 7 days and be able to see which one was an anomaly than to try to guess if my one…

Drinking water throughout a meal helps me to eat less because I will feel full sooner. And thanks for the thread - reminded me to go fill my water bottle.

I would not think you would need any sort of fueling strategy at this point in your c25k. I would only bother with fuel if you are out there for > 60 minutes. Otherwise you can just refuel after you get back. Your body does not need fuel during your run until you get to longer distances. Even 60 min might be a bit low.

Martial arts (specifically: Brazilian Jiujitsu). It's the perfect combination of high intensity (sparring) and low intensity (technique practice), it's quite social, it is practical and useful, and it makes me more coordinated and conscious of what my body parts are doing.

I use the polar app (just to record the calorie burn) and then enter it into MFP for non-running activities, and I use iSmoothRun or (occasionally) Runtastic when running. They all seem pretty comparable as far as reported calories burned compared to my expectations.

Mine's about 6 miles, mostly bike paths. But it's not just one path -- about 4 of them with some cutting into roads to get from path to path. It gets hairy at two intersections during rush hour and I can often find myself waiting 5 minutes before I can pass. I ride a hybrid and have waterproof saddle bags and rain gear if…

An cushy seat is not always what it is cracked up to be. Sometimes, or often really, it will have the opposite effect. People who are on bikes for hours tend to have harder saddles because you want your sit bones to be bearing most of your weight. A cushy seat will mess with this. It might feel more comfortable at first,…

Yoga doesn't burn a huge amount of calories. You should probably increase your water consumption since you will be sweating a lot, but I don't think the ~100-250 calories you will burn in a yoga session will be a huge deal. Not sure what you mean by 30 day challenge, though. Is that something else other than yoga?

I'm sure many will disagree with me, but in my opinion, if you are training for a marathon then you are in one of the few categories of people where extraneous sugar isn't as bad for you as it is for most people. You are going to need a lot of simple carbs as you get into your training because you will be in a state of…