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Runners World magazine does credible shoe reviews. (It's on the internet.) You might try looking at the most recent of those first. Then, go to a running shoe store and try on at least 3-4 pairs of different shoes. Everyone is different. What works for you, and what you like, might not work for others. An in-store try on…

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Oh oh oh! If you haven't left yet. In Portland you run up the hill to Washington Park, and the Japanese Garden and the Rose Garden. Much fun and very pretty. You can run down along the river too. There are homeless individuals. But if you are used to a city that is not intimidating. In Vancouver, you MUST run through…

In my experience, every 300 miles is a bit too soon for most shoes -- a shoe sales tactic. That said, I do think shoes are designed to start feeling flat -- that is, breaking down and providing less support -- much sooner than they used to. I don't think you can wait for signs of wear. The soles break down before that. But…

No need for me to add, since all these comments have been great. And, yes, many deadlift more than they squat. But there are notalbe, successful, heavy lifters who squat more than they dead -- you are not alone.

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Yeah, I'm gonna say nobody wants to see a men in compression, bending over. As a gross, over-generalization, you can say that men look best in looser garments -- garments that show enough to let you whether a man is in shape, but aren't necessarily too form fitting and revealing. Most men in a yoga class simply wear loose…

I am curious. Did anyone ever tell you whether, because you developed rhabdo once, you were likely to develop it again. I mean, are certain people more prone? I ask because rhabdo is pretty rare. I am not expert. But I would guess you are pretty safe as long as you increase your intensity and distances gradually.

Kinda sounds to me like everyone is just saying: Tough-tiddie! Don't lift with legs. They are right in the sense that the recovery -- and the feeling of being pooped out -- won't get much better, if you are lifting hard and heavy. But you will be able to make progress getting stronger. So maybe you just suck it up?

I'm with the Chief. When I run the day after lifting with my legs, I feel slow and heavy. And then, it definitely prolongs the recovery and the soreness. Maybe its because running is a lot of pounding on already assaulted legs? Maybe it is just more physical demand on muscles that want to begin recovery. I've got a…

I care about equipment. But, all things being equal, I am going to avoid a dirty gym. Maybe I am too fastidious. But I don't need a staph or molluscum infection, and when a place looks and smells clean, I have greater faith that it is clean and disinfected. I hate it when there is dust and chalk all over the place and I…

I believe that I put on about five pounds of muscle starting a serious lifting program at around 50 years. I might be kidding myself. But I don't think so. So, yes, you can start lifting in your 50s and get results too! And, I will add: I think going to the gym is actually probably the safest, most gentle form of exercise…

I have had ACL replacement surgery and have a torn meniscus. I am not sure I am the person who should be commenting because I honestly believe I have helped my knee to heal with regular running...But That said, somebody mentioned box squats and the leg press machine. I think when you have a knee that hurts -- a knee you…

Spend the money. Sore feet are horrible.

Good luck

Does chicken-fried steak and mashed potatoes with gravy count? Then, yeah, I'd much rather have that over cotton candy or a soda.

I agree with MK. Do what you find FUN! If you do fun, you will stick with it and the health will come. If fun is a few days a week of Crossfit and a few of cycling, you'll probably make progress in each a bit more slowly than otherwise. But you'll make progress. If you choose one over the other, you make faster progress in…

My experience is that most new runners get shin splints at some point or another, usually early on in starting, as they increase their mileage. So, should you start feeling pain in the front of your shins, back off on the mileage for a bit. If you can prevent it from becoming super aggravating, your shins will adapt sooner.

Interesting! This is why I have always believed in running intervals and sprints too, in addition to the distance running. Sprinting forces the bad habits out of you. You cannot heel strike and sprint. You have to use your arms efficiently and evenly. I kid. Sort of.....

Yes, clearly a person has more cushioning and spring when they land on the front of the foot and use the calf. But people have natural running styles, and they vary, it seems. A few years back, during the minimalist shoe craze, when experts were advocating forefoot running, there was a study done that suggested that people…

Bumping. Hey, I think that the Crossfit Love group is the biggest Crossfit group on it. You are right, though. It is not particularly active. You might find some MFP friends on it. Good luck to you and your daughter. Hope you like it. Crossfit really is fun, I think, because your workout varies just about every time and it…

I wouldn't worry so much about avoiding the barbell. I am going to guess you could probably bench press a barbell with 45 pounds of plates on it -- ie, a 90-pound bench press. Now, take the weight off and try to bench the empty barbell with your hand in the same place it was when you had both hands on the bar. I'll bet its…

I don't know what it is like for you with a cervical spine disk injury. But I have a meniscus tear that led me to really favor my non-injured knee for about a year. Long enough that the atrophy in the injured leg was visibly apparent. Now that I am trying to even out, I just do single-side exercises, like box step-ups with…

Actually, once upon a time, in the deep and distant past, I remember feeling sore often after a good workout. But not beat up. I think we tend to forget that as we get older and we need to remember it. Beat up means our body needs some repair and recovery. Most of us chronic exercisers need to honor that more than we do.…

At a certain age, one gets the Great Migrating Injury (AKA migrating injury syndrome). That is, you are always injured somewhere. And, as soon as that one heals, another injury pops up somewhere else. Somewhere about age 35 years, I developed plantar fasciitis, from playing soccer, where you sprint and turn and torque, and…

This is your answer here. Clearly, exercise is an important factor in weight management. They did a big study of successful weight-losers a while ago. To do it, they collected information from a whole bunch of people who had lost weight and kept it off for two years. Just about every one of them had started moving more and…

In Sacramento, I can get a five-class pass for $79 at a studio I like, and the drop-in rate is $17. The introductory rate for a month of unlimited classes is about $30 for most studios. Course, these classes all tend to be an hour, not an hour and a half.

I would guess that, if you are rising and hurrying off to the gym before work, that eating wouldn't make much of a difference. Your body would not have time to digest much of it and utilize the energy it provided. But I do not really know. Caffeine is an excellent. activity performance-enhancer. But, even caffeine, which…

Thank you, psuLemon and DancingMoosie! That's all I meant. I never said that it was easy. I'm not even entirely sure it is possible to build much muscle with body weight activities -- soccer, sprinting, speedskating, cycling, gymnastics, rugby, etc. -- if you are not an adolescent or young person with huge hormone levels.…

Of course they work progressively. And the people who build mass with body weight exercise perhaps have been than average genetics and certainly work extremely hard at what they do. My objection is that people here seem to be arguing that gymnasts are buff because of the weight lifting they do, and they would not get…