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I went through a bout of plantar fasciitis and had a similar problem. I know how frustrating it is to have to limit what is available to you for workouts. If the goal is to find a way to get the heart rate up and stay there for a period of time, I'd suggest writing up a routine that alternates between a variety of…

Hey, all. Just jumping into the group. I've been running for about 20 years. When I first started I added it to my exercise routine when trying to lose weight at the encouragement of my marathon-running friend. Two years later I had lost 60 pounds and started running full marathons and halfs with him. I was still…

My mini-goal is to lose 14 pounds in 7 weeks. I have a beach vacation with my wife coming up in mid-August. That loss will put me in the "normal" category for BMI for the first time in over 35 years.

How about we split up the site this way: one site for people who want to lose weight and talk about that along with other fitness topics, and then another site for immature banter about who they want to bang, ranting about noobs, etc? Wait, they have that already. It's called facebook. Go there.

I see this one all the time: Someone gets on the treadmill, sets the incline to some ridiculous level, and starts walking. But rather than walking upright like a normal human, they hang on to the machine and lean back, thus negating the incline entirely. If you look at them from the side and tilt your head, you see that…

When dating, no. When marrying, yes. If you were getting ready to marry someone and found they had a lot of debt or a bad credit rating, that should raise as many flags as a police record or past history of infidelity. If you marry someone with debt, that debt in most cases is now yours equally under the law. And if they…

I have a follow-up question along these lines. When I record in MFP how many calories I burn during exercise, I use a heart rate monitor and then this web site: http://www.shapesense.com/fitness-exercise/calculators/heart-rate-based-calorie-burn-calculator.aspx That gives me the total calories burned during that workout,…

We're all like that up here. We kicked Affleck out and sent him to L.A. for being too much of a pansy. Same thing with Dane Cook. We let Matt Damon and Marky-Mark back occasionally, though.

Okay, true story: 10 years ago in a Boston bar I was with a few friends, two of them were at a nearby table trying to pick up some women. I was at the bar with a female friend and her boyfriend and she was critiquing their approach. It sparked a conversation about what works and what doesn't when trying to meet someone…

It doesn't strike you as incredibly irresponsible to say such a thing when you don't know the people involved?

I can relate to that one. I'm 5'10" and my wife is 6'1". She told me she used to have a height restriction, wanting to date men who were taller than her. But the pool of eligible bachelors being somewhat restricted at that height, she made a conscious effort to drop it from her requirements. Lucky me!

Where are the cramps? Running as much as you do, you probably are aware of plantar faciitis or other related injuries. Is it possible you're developing something like that?

When in a dating profile, I am going to say that statement is just a veiled restriction on overweight women. People can dance around the semantics all they want, claim it means "confidence" and relates to the way the person dresses or keeps up with their hair, make-up, or personal hygiene, but the bottom line truth if…

There are plenty of training plans that I see people have linked to (Hal Higdon, etc). Speaking from experience, I've always trained for my full marathons and half marathons following a few simple rules to stay injury free: 1. Never increase your total mileage by more than 10% per week, or 10% per longest run. For example,…

Here's some motivation for you, by way of personal anecdote: I started running a little over 10 years ago. It helped me lose 65 pounds and I ended up racking-up some huge mileage totals (6 marathons, 40 half marathons). I promised myself I would never stop. But then life kinda got in the way. A rough stretch with work, a…