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Everyone's looking for a scapegoat. If you eat too much anything, you get fat. Period. Embrace that fact, and embrace your personal responsibility for how much you shovel in your pie-hole, and you'll soon find you aren't fat anymore and as a bonus you'll be a better person in general.

Hard to judge one's own form, but I do concentrate on it. I'm a neutral striker, and best I can tell I land with my foot under my body. I also focus on minimizing any sort of rotational or side-to-side movement. I try to keep all movement within the plane I'm traveling. I do have very high arches, and I supinate quite…

Which I think is a personally reasonable, and respectable choice for an individual to make. Where people start to get offended is when criticism is made of their diets, and comparisons are made claiming they are less healthy. Things like 'vegans are more healthy' are presented as absolute truth, when it's far from it. I…

I'm happy that you found something that works for you personally. But that's one single data point. We call that 'anecdotal evidence'. It can't be extrapolated to form a working theory for the public at large. Over the past 24 months, under a calorie controlled diet, I have - gone through periods of strict sugar and…

The MFP ten step plan - 1. Unsubstantiated claim. 2. Request of source. 3. Random blog post with no credibility. 4. Rational rebuttal with credible sources. 5. Anger, accusations of being industry insider. 6. Ridicule. 7. Mean people thread. 8. Ridicule. 9. (optional) Hair flounce, rage quit. 10. Repeat.

Congratulations! You have a perfectly healthy relationship to running. Be thankful the cold stiff fingers of running aren’t clamped around your still-beating heart…for now. Hmmmm, not sure my family would agree. Of course, if I'd added in cycling and swimming, the result may have been different...

I'm glad someone wrote this. HRMs for weight loss is just marketing for an industry looking to break into a larger market.

Therealobi1 I owe you an apology. Just because we disagree, it didn't warrant the personal comments made. I hope they didn't cause too much offense, but any offense is too much, and unnecessary to make a point.

Which is completely fair. I think the whole posture thing was best left alone to be frank, because who are we to judge what did or didn't cause posture issues for OP. As a guy I tend to avoid comment on anything regarding child birth, just as I don't give feedback to birds on how well they fly. To the matter of lateness,…

OP asked for people's opinion, and what they would have done in her situation. She was given people's opinion, and told what they would have done. How much more helpful could we have been? Or does helpful translate to "tell me what I want to hear, and that I'm in the right"? Because MFP, and life, just don't work like that.

Agreed. I wish everyone on this site the best of luck, and will happily share the benefit of my experiences with anyone it can help, even those who I have had disagreements with. But I won't blow smoke up someone's *kitten* when I think they are flat out wrong either.

I don't think it's ever been explained to me precisely what will happen if I'm late in any given situation. I think most people learn in childhood that being late = bad stuff will happen. OP was late, bad stuff happened, OP somehow failed to recognize this as a direct consequence of her own action. Period.

You must be new to the internet.

<sigh> It's not about being late. It's about being late, and then turning it into a complaint about the instructor. OP would not have had this issue had she not been late. This stemmed from her failing not the instructors, so it's disrespectful and out of order to find a reason to b*tch about it. Had OP been on time or…

Don't take up a martial art. You wouldn't like it at all.

Did you just compare martial arts to spinning?

Argument long ago became "people who know little to nothing about martial arts" vs. "people who have studied and/or taught martial arts and totally get the culture".

Additional - being acknowledged early for being late is rarely a good sign. It generally means the instructor is furious, and you're about to enter a world of pain (or burpees, which are about the same thing). You're going to be a lesson about lateness to the rest of the class, and you aren't going to like it.

I've variously studied Karate (Shotokan and Okinawa-te), TKD (ITF and WTF), Judo, Muay Thai, Kickboxing and Lau Gar Kung Fu. Every instructor I've had took a dim view to lateness, and the late student was always secondary to the class in session. If you were acknowledged it would only be when he or she felt there was a…

I think that people forget that MA instructors didn't get a certificate on the wall from a 2 day workshop. They trained diligently for several decades to earn their title. Most MAs are steeped in Eastern tradition, which revolves around respect and honor. Respect has been demanded of them by their teachers, and they in…

While I understand where you are coming from, I see two major points you are not considering - 1. In order to accommodate the late comer, the instructor must disengage from those that actually turned up on time. The instructor would have to catch her up on what they were doing, demonstrate technique again, etc.... In…

I've done a lot of Martial Arts. If you show up late, as happens to all of us at one point or another, you show humility. You wait at the edge of the mats for Sensei/Sifu/Sabumnim/etc to acknowledge you. At which point you respectfully request permission to join the group. You will then probably be asked to warm up to the…

On yer bike. No, seriously. If you own a bike, add in some rides to your training schedule. Great, low impact way to increase your lactate threshold. It's like increasing your weekly run mileage without the corresponding increase of injury risk (assuming you don't fall off). Cycling is the best thing I ever did for my…

I don't run a specific percentage, but I so make sure I get at least 130g of protein and 65g of fat. Thereafter I get my calories based on what my body seems to 'want'. For most people, this would fall into the oft recommended 30/30/40 macro split. Since I do a lot of endurance work, I find I need a lot of carbs once I hit…

Things like weight have definitely become secondary to performance numbers and general enjoyment of life. But I'd be lying if I said I didn't still track them. ;) For those that enjoy them - I'm around 165lb now, having gone down to 155 and bulked up a little during training. My body fat percentage is in the mid to high…

I didn't start getting a runner's high until I started running much faster, and much further. Around the five mile mark of a tempo run is generally my sweet spot. Or after a 10k very fast interval run.

Running is the one area where I did a lot of quality work. I started running with the couch to 5k program about two years before the tri, so that's the discipline I was most advanced with at the time I started Tri training. I was logging about 20 to 25 miles per week, with interval runs, tempo runs and steady long runs. I…

You are not eating enough. You will not be recovering properly, your adaptation to your running will be suboptimal, and you are likely losing a good chunk of lean muscle mass along with the fat. You may meet your goal (assuming you don't burn out first and return to old habits) but you won't be happy with your results…

I'll take "reasons I'm happy I was born male" for 50 please Alex.