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Well, of course it has limitations. But it is such an important study. Kudos to you participants!

Murph today! Run a mile 100 pull-ups 200 push-ups 300 air-squats Another one mile run In a weighted vest, if you want One tough workout. But that feeling of accomplishment when you are done. Worth its weight in gold.

Regarding the Mehrab paper, there is no comparison to other kinds of exercise or sports activity and the definition of injury is pretty vague, which makes it difficult to judge how severe these injuries are. It could be an injury that warranted a physician visit. Or just one that prompted the athlete to adjust their…

You'll just lose some definition in your leg. Perhaps even a little size too. But it comes back pretty fast. Recovery is not like building muscle for the first time. You may not even lose that in 4-6 weeks. Re: The crutches. Walking around on crutches is very difficult, as you have no doubt found out. Researchers were…

Can we PLEASE stop with the 'Crossfit will lead to injuries' myth? It's simply not true. I have been to many Crossfit gyms. Never once have I see instructors pushing a person beyond their capabilities. On the contrary, beginners are urged to scale their workouts to their level of strength/fitness, as all Crossfit athletes…

Sorry. Maybe I wasn't clear. The upright row is not done on a rowing machine. it is a barbell movement. My wife is on a crew team. She continually informs me that my rowing form is horrible. I suspect that we non-rowers will never get our erg form down well enough to earn any respect from the real rowers...

Probably cannot log it specifically here because not enough people do it for the calorie calculations to be put in.

I have to say, I did rim to rim in a pair of Nike Pegasus. Granted, that is not a trail shoe and the pair I wore were an old pair with many, many miles on them. But I got to the bottom and my feet felt awfully beat up. It was all the small sharp rocks I had been walking on. I decided, then and there, that there is a reason…

Actually, I don't have the exact figures down. But people have had concerns about shoulders and weight lifting generally. So researchers have looked at the available data. Which may or may not be any good, but it is what we have. Shoulder injuries are not especially more common than injuries to other body parts, and there…

Glad you shared that... Why?

I am with the rest of the answerers. I have no idea. I do know, however, that they used to talk about glycogen stores in muscles cells getting depleted by vigorous exercise and that you have about forty-five minute window during which you can help to replenish those stores. (After that the insulin system -- or something --…

C'mon. That is such a mean question. Truth is, you cannot hide it. So you embrace the flaw. That's where the whole shaved head thing comes from. It helps a man accept his defect. The hat? No friggen way! Then you take it off and you see those around you flinch involuntarily in horror at the surprise.

I'd like to disagree with the guy who said you don't need to do speed work at this point. I know, the "long, slow run" guys will talk about mitochondria and getting more of them and all. But to run further for longer, you must improve your aerobic capacity. It has always seemed to me that the best way to do that is to tax…

It's sad that there has been such proselytizing of running that people feel guilty if they don't like it. It shouldn't be a big deal. None of us like everything.

Rough? Of course it is rough at first. Otherwise, everyone would be doing it. Keep it fun. If 2.4 km is not fun, go 1 km instead. People get better. That's the whole point of doing it again and again. Otherwise, we'd do it once. But if you do it for a month -- or even six months -- but it sucks the whole time, you'll…

I am pretty skeptical about a person's ability to do that for any length of time. If you are lifting to build muscle -- lifting to failure on your sets, for example -- you don't recover fast enough to do well in an afternoon run or when you get back in the gym. I often run in the morning and play tennis in the evening. My…

Avoid until you are medically cleared. No, really. You don't want to mess up your surgery and potentially have to have it repeated. And may I please jump on this HIIT bashing bandwagon. True HIIT, as developed by Izumi Tabata, was not something as relaxed and insignificant as doing some jumping jacks for 40 seconds and…

No. I wouldn't give the guy the benefit of the doubt. It's the kind of thing you would never say because it might be taken with offense. Just like you would be careful before you said to the stranger with the big belly "When are you due?" unless you were quite certain. Dumb. If you buy the shoes, buy them somewhere else.

I think I would probably just get on Youtube and start searching around. "Rugby workouts." Or something like that. There are thousands and thousands of videos on almost any topic you can think of. Now ... My son played rugby. He once went to a summer camp at Cal Berkeley, a very well respected program. I expected the…

Generally, the way to approach these questions is to keep it simple. What's the most likely explanation? Probably not enough rest days. They say you should have at least two rest days a week, right? Rule that out first. Are you taking two days? Do you feel any better when you go back after a rest day? If that doesn't seem…

There was recently one of those surveys of people and their health and it purported to show that running made you healthier than you would be without it. But lifting made people live longer. Running did not do that. I kinda think that's an inspiration to lift.

I had ACL surgery with a cartilage repair. Because of the cartilage procedure, I was required to be on crutches and avoid any weight bearing on the surgical leg for 12 weeks. I went to the gym and just did the upper body machines (where I could sit or lay down) for those twelve weeks. I don't know of if you are serious…

If you are sure you don't have some discreet injury, then I might suggest you simply back off a bit for a while. As you know, we all go through a bit of pain and discomfort when we start a rigorous exercise program because our bodies are not used to the stress. Shin splints. Blisters. Soreness. But the body adjusts. You…

Dear OldAssDude, I wholeheartedly agree that a lifetime of being shod with shoes leads to weak feet more prone to such things as plantar fasciitis, Morton's neuroma, bunions, etc. And clearly we can -- and probably should -- run barefoot as much and as far as we can. Or, at least, dance in the living room barefoot,…

First of all, I just don't get the connection: We used to run barefoot, therefore we sweat and engage in persistence hunting. We might have do both, have done both, but one does not lead to the other. They are two, probably unrelated traits. Cats don't wear shoes and they never developed the ability to sweat. This idea…

I don't know. But I wouldn't like to start a race that long with any actual pain. I'd suggest keeping your options open. If you still have pain at the end of your taper, consider waiting for the next marathon. Or start the race with permission for yourself to stop before the finish line if the pain starts getting worse.…

I think barefoot running makes perfect sense. Clearly one strikes the ground differently when running without shoes -- more forefoot, with all the greater shock absorption that provides. Clearly we evolved without footwear, until relatively recently -- so recently it probably does not involve evolution. (Conversely, I…

The 99 percent figure is probably right. Not everybody. My dad lived into his 80s and never needed glasses to read.

I am a natural forefoot striker and I do believe that gives you more natural shock absorption and more spring in each step that translates to being faster somehow. That said: I remember a study done by physiologists at Harvard a few years back. This was back when the whole forefoot and barefoot running movement was…

I might second what quicksylver said. Just do regular vinyasa yoga for a while. See if you like it. See if you appreciate the benefits. I find that maintaining flexibility is extremely important, that it takes work to do this, and that a yoga practice is an excellent way to do that work. I don't like hot yoga. I find it…