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3 months is plenty of time to train for a 10k and get round. Do you have a decent training plan? If not, Hal Higdon writes some nice plans, including very achievable ones for newbies... http://www.halhigdon.com/10ktraining/10knovice.htm General rules of thumbs for new runners: - get decent running shoes from a reputable…

Sweating is the body's way of cooling you down. If you don't sweat it could be because either your body temperature doesn't rise to a level where your body thinks it's necessary to cool you down OR you could be working harder. Only you know the answer to that. A heart rate monitor should tell you. A very rough rule of…

+1000 I know ultra runners who are well into their sixties. Running costs nothing but the price of a pair of shoes. I also know plenty of triathletes who successfully manage to combine training whilst having a young family etc. Excuses... excuses...

Rosy you I.T. genius!! :bigsmile: Thanks tons for organising us again. :flowerforyou:

My skin, hair and nails have been fantastic since I've been eating more protein.

It's not about training extreme, it's about training clever. Incorporate hard strength training and interval based cardio sessions (which do not need to exceed 45mins) and up your protein to 1g per pound of body weight whilst replacing simple carbs with complex carbs and you'll probably do well. All the people who claim…

Welcome to the newbies. :flowerforyou: Well done to the losers!! :drinker: Hasn't it been a lovely weekend?! :smile: Spend Saturday morning in spin (with my legs complaining about the previous days strength training session plus evening 10k run)... and today 2 hours of cross country hiking with friends around rural…

I get a lot of that. :huh: And their disappointed faces when you say... - don't eat for two - make better nutritional choices - do cardio - strength train - that's it... - no really... - that's it...

Hi. :flowerforyou: Judging by your ticker you're new to all this. It's great that you're thinking about being more active. What is feasible outside of your working hours only you can decide. For example we don't know if you have kids that you need to get ready for school, whether you work near to home or have a 2-hour…

I'm sorry but some advice here was a bit questionable. You can shoulder press until you're green in the face it will do little about your back fat. A shoulder press is an isolation exercise that works, guess what, your shoulders... a pair of the smallest muscles... So you'll neither burn many calories, nor are you working…

Exactly!! Treadmill running is partly fake as the ground flees from underneath you it means that there is forward propulsion. When you run outdoors you need both upward and forward propulsion. Pure treadmill runners usually struggle to running outdoors, rather than vice versa. Furthermore, outddor running requires more…

Exactly!!

legumes, beans, quinoa only have a fraction of the protein you could get from turkey, chicken or fish!

I would say weightloss for most people is 70% about diet and 30% about training. Perhaps if you make your food diary public you'll enable people to make some possible suggestions regarding your nutrition.

Boots?

No, like the others have said there is no way you're building muscle at that rate. If you're eating at a deficit it's very hard to build muscle regardless of your training. I supplement protein and gun for 1g protein per pound of weight and I managed to gain about a pound of lean mass in 6 weeks (I get regular bodystat…

The thing is my knees are still way too musical for my liking... I really don't like going long at the moment because they always feel a bit crunchy next day. I'm supplementing Glucosamine, Chrondroitin & MSM at the moment and hoping that will help it.

Like everybody else has said you can't spot reduce. Losing fat is like peeling an onion at the beginning... you just take virtually equal layers off everywhere, so you often notice it first where you didn't have much to lose in the first place. However, once your body fat drops below a certain level your muscles will…

There are ways of working hard in the pool as well. I always used to feel that the swimming element of my training was like "not doing anything", and then my coach gave me drills to do, like interval swimming etc and all of a sudden you realise you can kill yourself in the pool as well. You can use hand paddels to increase…

Hi Rosy, My first weigh in on the new challenge. Am down 0.4lb from 143 to 142.6. -- :yawn: not exactly earth shattering, but Stroutman (the "lean people getting leaner" guru on this forum) says that's good going at my range, so will take my 'almost half a pound' loss and mustn't grumble... :grumble:

Rachie, Cardiff is a nice course. Flat as a pancake. Nice mix of course from the Bay to the park etc. Last year they messed up the measuring of the course and it was short, meaning people could not use their good for age times to get London places, so there was outrage, but am sure they'll sort that out this year. My man…

Most of my friends who are the really active "encouragers" are the triathletes, runners, cyclists and lifters among them, basically the regular training crowd, and well all comment on each other's schedules etc. It's great. I've also had people ask to be friends but then they never comment or anything?! I guess maybe they…

My rule of thumb, which has served me well, is if it's anything above the neck (runny nose etc) I carry on training, anything below the neck (chesty cough etc) and I rest til it's better.

+1 Absolutely agree with your view on steady state cardio!! It's necessary for some things, for instance long runs in marathon training have to be run at least 2 minutes per mile slower than race pace to build endurance etc etc but it's useless for fat burning. But you see the same people in the gym, on the same…

That's different. If it's a "real life" proper friend it's more complicated. I guess you know your friend best, to know if she'd be offended if you mentioned it or not. I've got a few people in my office into fitness. I coached two guys through their first half marathons and advise a female colleague with her food.…

I know this sounds harsh, but I want people around that are inspiring and motivating, not people who eat junk and don't care about their health & fitness (regardless of if they are under whatever their allocation is doesn't matter). I would probably de-friend them. All the friends I communicate with regularly are of that…

My thoughts are this. There are approximately 4 calories in a single grape. At an average of 100 calories per mile you will burn 2620 calories during a marathon. I mean honestly, do the maths.:huh: You hit the wall because you didn't fuel your mara well. Grapes are just not going to do it. I know you say you don't like…

Pardon??! :huh: Love handles are abdominal fat. Your obliques are two of many abdominal muscles. By using "aka" you're suggesting the two are the same. They are not. You can exercise your obliques until you're green in the face but that alone will do nothing to reduce abdominal fat, just as much as sit-ups alone will not…

10k isn't really long distance in the grander scheme of things - I mean it's over in around 45 mins... that's not taking anything away from you but many of these conversations currently held in the fitness community are about true endurance cardio... 3 hour runs... 5 hour rides etc. The trouble with training for true…

I had a pair of Sprints when they first came out years ago. Then I killed a pair of KSOs. Now I have a new pair of Bikilas which are fab too. Love Vibrams.