GillianMcK Member

After reading about the side effects of herbalife, I would question if it's safe to use even if it's within date! Like any quick fix, it's not sustainable and the only thing it really lightens is your wallet, make small sustainable eating habits, eat the correct amount of calories and keep the calories 'clean' and the…

My friend, cuts the avocado in half, takes out the stone and put a raw egg in each side where the stone was and then puts it in the over for 20min to cook!

As above, see the So You Want to Start Running thread, it's really helpful. From your post title, I was going to say don't do it, training for a marathon takes over your life, it's all you can talk about because it's all you do, you decide at mile 25 that you'll never do another one, and then promptly sign up for your next…

You need to eat more, calculate your TDEE and deduct 10%-15% to get your weight loss calories. Remember that weight loss is not linear, I ate the same things every day in the same order for 4 weeks, weight loss was different every week! You mention adding in exercise but not upping your calories, think of your body as an…

The shop I go to sounds to be the opposite of this, you're put on the treadmill first, barefoot and lower leg is filmed (always make sure you shave your legs before going as they zoom in on the calf and ankle), this is then slowed down to a frame by frame to check any pronation or bending in the ankle, using the formatting…

Hills and sprints are great for endurance and speed, but not really muscles.

As long as you're getting the run's in, then it doesn't really matter what day's you do what, the training plan I followed, had me running Monday, Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday, I swapped and ran Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday & Sunday, PT on Monday, weights after the run on a Tuesday, rest Wednesday, work 2nd job Friday night…

Did you make it, were you a survivor with 'lives' left or were you infected, I've done one where you got a survivor t-shirt if you had a tag left and an infected t-shirt if they got all your tags, I want to do it again, just so I can have one of each!

Gore Wind Stop running tights are brilliant, I've ran the last 3 Scottish winters in mine with no problems at all.

Which TM did you enter??

We've got 2 guys that are training for the monster of Worlds Toughest Mudder, they've done double days of TM in Scotland over the last 3 years, they race it individually on the Saturday and then there's a team entry on the Sunday. They were under 1hr 45min for the Scottish one in June. Even if you enter and run it on your…

The hunger thing doesn't go away though, I'm starving half way through (learn to take a banana or something with you)!!

Shoes are very personal, go to a running store, get your gait analysed and then try several different brands and models, I was over an hour finding my first pair of running shoes!! I love Brooks for road running and Salomon for trail running, but my friend loves, Asics for road running (can't remember her trail brand)!!

Check the thread that's attached to the top of the forum called 'So you want to start running'

I'm not a fan of the treadmill, just find it incredibly boring, I won't watch movies/tv when I'm working out as I'm not focus'd on my workout if I'm watching TV, you might find this is another reason that you're faster outside, as you've said yourself, you watch the movies etc to distract yourself, meaning you're not…

My problem when I started running was I was hungry all the time and thought I could just eat that big bag of malteaser 'because I had run 5k', when I got my eating under control, the weight started coming off!!! You can do a an interval routine with running, you may end up spewing at the end of it, but hill sprint repeats…

I am the pit crew, but trying to figure out as it's our first year the in's and out's!!! That link was very helpful, I'll check out the forums on there!

I couldn't walk properly for a week after my first kettlebells class, I love it. You're calories needed will depend on weight/height/exercise etc, you need to calculate you TDEE and deduct 10% to get the number you're looking for, that being said, how you manage those calories is important, you can't compete with what you…

Sorry, I take a day off regardless, I'm doing 70 miles a week, PT session which is normally weights, another weights session and an hour of kettlebells, my muscle are sore, but rarely feel run down or have issues with the joints, but without a rest day in there, I would be willing to put money down on an injury cropping up…

Just don't take those 3 days off in a row!!

Start entering races for the technical t-shirts, a lot of it depends on the temperature rather than just the rain, I would say cotton t-shirts and sweatpants are not likely to be comfortable if they get wet, online cheap running tights and technical t-shirts will be fine if it's still relatively warm, it's when it starts…

If you're not allowing enough recovery time between weight sessions, you're setting yourself up for an injury, which means you'll be away from the gym for much longer!! I was the same, I over trained, I didn't pick any long term injuries, but I was sore constantly, tired all the time, did pick up a slight injury towards…

I've never tried Shakeology or any of the others, I've slowly changed my eating habits and increased my exercise. You do need to find out if there's a physical reason that you can't stomach so many foods or if it's psychological, for me I wouldn't use shakeology; juice plus etc (they're all too expensive for me in any…

Rhus Tox and Ruta Grav are homeopathic remedies that can help with recovery of shin splints, won't cure them, but might help cut down the recovery time.

I run a maximum of 2 days in a row, too much chance of picking up an injury, although ultra runners will do back to back runs. It depends on how long you've been running and what your goals are and how prone to picking up injuries you are! Looking at your profile and assumnig that it's June 2014 that you're referring to, I…

I take the dog and play music, running with friends is helpful as you're more likely to turn up and meet someone and complete your run, it's easier to talk yourself out of it if it's just you, especially with winter coming up and the wind and the rain!!! It depends on how disciplined you are and if you have reliable…

Gore Wind Stop running tights (run4it in the UK do them, I'm in Edinburgh and basically live in their shop) are brilliant, I ran all winter last year with them, a base layer and a t-shirt and occasionally a light 3/4 zip hoodie, but never wore a jacket. I run 4 times a week, summer time I run through the week 3 times and…

As long as the eggs are coming from hens vaccinated against salmonella you're unlikely to have this issue, you're more likely to get it from reheating rice!!

It's up to you what you do, but be aware that running outside you will be slower than you were on the Dreadmill, so don't be disappointed when you move outside. I love running outside, I couldn't care less what people think, I tend to run the forest trails and the dog gets dragged along with me, have never came across…

We've got a charity event in November that is a mile of burpees, or a team of 4 with 400m of burpees each (think I might injure myself before then)!!!