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'Semantics' even :wink:

The key to climbing hills is to drop down to quite low gears and spin your legs. Pushing gears builds too much lactic acid. Spinning seems quite a strange thing at first, and takes a little gettng used to. Cycle shorts and gloves, a pump, spare inner-tubes and tools to get tyres off are also essential.

Even though I do quite a lot of running, and have done an awful lot of cycling in the past, the one form of exercise where I see sharper and more regular spikes in improvement, fitness and weight loss is circuit training, and maybe boxercise. This is my personal perspective of course. Even though running takes a lot of…

If you keep this up (and don't rush things), you WILL get fitter and stronger, and running WILL get easier.

Superfit athletes have low RHRs, but their hearts are stronger and can therefore pump more effectively and efficiently. If you're not very fit and it's very low, and if you're not taking medication such as a beta-blocker, dizzyness and feinting can occur, especially if you're doing exercises where you have to jump up, or…

Just did my 1st 5k. Did it in 31m14s, which I'm really pleased about. I'm still about 3 stone overweight, so If I stick with the exercise and diet, I can see quite good times being done in the future. :smile:

Thanks :smile:

Maybe the crabs are useful for learning to run sideways.. :tongue:

Did 7.25 miles this morning, but doing my first 5k next Saturday - if I don't sleep through my alarm clock. :tongue:

Running an hour a day is quite impressive for a beginner. It will definitely make you fitter and healthier regardless of the fact that it's done on a treadmill. Unfit people can't do that, so you've already made lots of progress.

The nicotine monster in your head is trying to convince you that it is the only solution to your problems. Believe it and give in to it and it will be laughing at you. Giving up smoking and staying off cigarettes for ever is one of the best decisions a person can make. It's just below the decision to never start smoking. I…

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If you've never been an exerciser, as you say, or if you've been away from exercise for a long time, starting back can be painful. Its just those muscle cells that have been dormant for a long time looking for the snooze button, getting angry and beating on the clock. Don't worry. If you keep on exercising it will…

Trying to beat times and becoming obsessed with PBs can lead to a lot of dissappointment and despondancy - especially with people beginning to take exercise. It can lead to tiredness and injuries, and running can become more of an ordeal than a pleasure. Regular exercise, at a level that you enjoy and makes you want to do…

Unless you have a medical condition which can be exacerbated through exercise, I'd say walking for 60 mins, and jogging for 20 mins per day is perfectly safe.

It gets worse as you get older. For you, these are the good times. So sit back and enjoy. :tongue:

Doing something you don't like can increase your chances of giving up. Yes, we can all be stoical from time to time and tell ourselves that we should never give in and learn to love the pain. However, doing something you like will always seem less like work and a chore, and it feels more of a pleasure, so therefore our…

I'm type 2 diabetic taking oral medication and I know for a fact that moderate but regular exercise has an enormously beneficial effect on blood glucose control. However, if I ease off on exercise, my blood glucose levels begin to rise to undesirable levels again, even with medication. But that's the reality with diabetes:…