jesser80

There's a faction of runners who believe that athletic shoes are actually the cause of a lot of our injuries b/c they promote poor running form. They encourage barefoot running or running in very minimal shoes and using proper technique ... which involves the way way you carry your body and making sure to "toe strike"…

There are a couple of strategies to go with here: 1. You can poke around the internets and find the data you need ... sometimes you get just what you need, sometimes you have to guestimate a bit based on what you find. Like Indian food for example - lots of restaurants serve the same dishes, but they don't all prepare them…

The calories burnt will be determined by the effort you expend at each. Running works the best for me but I can concede that perhaps with more practice at swimming, I'd do just as well there once I didn't have to take a short rest every few laps. Here's a great article from LiveStrong about this topic:…

Several things come to mind: 1. you could be eating too little, causing your body to go into starvation mode (no weight loss here) 2. you are not accurately tracking calories burnt (how do you do this? the calorie counts on the cardio machines are usually inflated by quite a bit) 3. you are not accurately tracking what you…