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Actually wrote that before your question on breathing. All breathing technique seems to work best when you focus on emptying your lungs rather than filling them. Definitely true of running, swimming and weight lifting anyway. also - best video on running form ever (probably)! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx6x2cD6Y8Q I…

From what I understand, stitch is a type of cramp caused by not getting enough oxygen to the muscles. Focus on taking deep breaths (which is best done by breathing out as much as you can - breathing in is natural!) and they will pass quite quickly.

This technique is only really supposed to be used for sprinting. Any long distance running you should be aiming to land mid-foot, underneath your centre of gravity. A good test to see if you''re doing it right is to run across sand - you should have a balanced foot print - not a hole at the back where you heal strike (its…

Holy flying monkeys - that is a lot... Well, I'm a long distance runner / triathlete: Bulking isn't something I know about...

I'm guessing that includes your exercise calories ;) Its amazing how easy it is to burn 1000 calories working out once you get used to it.

Here's some useful things I started doing when I transitioned... 1) Increase portion sizes - Don't change your meals portions much to start with - it just feels like you're eating too much - however a small, measured increase (say, 10%) is easy to eat and you stay in control of your diet. (10% extra on a 1400Cal plan is…

The best advice I've had: Compression tights - put these on as soon as you finish the race. Live in them for a day or two - including sleeping! I actually flew to Kazakhstan from the UK the day after my first / only Marathon and I wore them in the plane. Wasn't as bad as you'd think! Ice bath - or at least a cold bath. The…

I love being 36 :) Just about old enough to be considered an 'older man' by women who have actually finished their education, but still young enough to be considered a hot young play thing by the older ladies... If I wasn't so in love with my wife I think I would have date-ability sweet spot...

That looks great... I'm assuming this is santas toy factory, and the guy is a 6 inch high elf?

yup - I've not seen anything new since about P2 - but isn't it nice that people have the opportunity to express them selves :)

Perhaps I should have stated the obvious caveat that I'm talking about the efforts of any one individual - Obviously two different people will burn calories at different rates, in the same way that incline and surface will change the rate of burn too. We should also assume we are comparing running with running - walking,…

Interestingly - at my swimming classes we get given a set of exercises which determine the distance we travel, and then instead of a speed to meet we have an RPE (relative perceived effort - 0-10) which we are asked to meet. With running I effectively have the same thing but through a combination key figures (like my 5K…

Yup - I do one track / interval session, one pace run and one long run a week... then I do two cycle sessions (one interval, one distance) and (ideally) two swims a weeks (learning to swim crawl so pretty much steady or technical)...

By the way - I opened the thread purely out of curiosity - my main goal is to improve fitness and get some PB's for my running - weight loss isn't a driving force for me any more, therefore calorie burn isn't that important.

OK - I explained the lever thing badly (principle is correct)... work = force * distance. Force is directly proportional to weight as it equals mass * acceleration where acceleration is a constant (gravity). lets say the we want to lift a block of metal 1 meter. if you have a lever lifting the block of metal, and the total…

Or maybe your sense of humour gets dehydrated (i.e. drier)

(edited as the article I quoted refers back to the runners world article) Interestingly - the run vs walk articles shows an average guy burning 124 cals per mile irrespective of speed - almost exactly matching the mfp figures

Actually - I cant see anything in these summary which compares running at different speeds - I took the whole walking / running thing as a given from the start. Might as well ask if the effort is the same per mile on a bike (obviously not!).

Sheldon Cooper would be useless because: 1) He would consider this beneath him and refuse to contribute 2) He knows nothing about sports and exercise whatsoever 3) He is a fictional character.

So - to summarise: The MFP calories burned running might just as well ask you the number of miles you ran - the speed you ran it (and therefore the time it took) isn't relevant. In reality, the above calculation can only be used if you are running at a comfortable pace - interval training and pace runs will burn more…

Hmm... the HRM on my Garmin 305 doesn't impact the calorie calculations (its designed to be used in HR training) - I really don't want to go out wearing two watches :) Garmin gives similar cal estimates to MFP by the way. By the way - I completely agree about mixing up the training intensity in terms of overall fitness.…

Can I ask what you are basing this information on? I'm not saying its wrong - I'm just trying to determine if this is something you are deriving for yourself of based on a study. My instinct is that most people have a 'natural pace' which is going to be very efficient - running below this pace will burn marginally less…

Can I ask how you measured this? HRM? Makes complete sense to me based on my feeling after interval training!

Yes - but (apparently) you burn the same cals per mile at both speeds.

OK - I just did an experiment with MFP exercise calorie calculator - I took the pace and entered the same value for the minutes of exercise (eg 6 minute mile pace, 6 minutes) - which means that the output is the number of calories per mile. As my weight is a fixed quantity and MFP doesn't know my fitness level we can…

OK - I'm going to rephrase the question because I think some people are missing my point- if my target was to burn, say, 500 calories running - would I always go the same distance irrespective of the speed I was running at?

Its about effort x time - so you cant compare a fit person and an unfit person of the same weight running at the same speed - but you can compare two people of the same level of fitness running the same distance at different speeds. I find it hard to believe that both have the same efficiency level.

I remember that feeling... and I remember when my new jeans got to big for me and I had to put them in a hot wash just to shrink them enough that they didn't fall off! Just one more thing for you to look forward too :)

which one did you get?

This stuff is amazing! https://www.rawchocpie.co.uk/ I tend to buy the chunks (20g) because its pretty hard not to eat a whole bar (60g) once you open it but the bars are better value... I experimented with the ingredients and I think 20g is about 120 calories: and completely satisfies my chocolate craving. This is as…