GillianMcK Member

It depends on if your goal is losing weight or looking good, insanity will shed the inches, but not necessarily the pounds. If you want the best results then you should be following the diet plan as well, you're going to be burning more calories so will need to take more on to be able to function. Eating any less than 1200…

Go to a running shop to be properly fitted for trainers that are a match for your gait, it doesn't necessarily have to be a specific shop, there will likely be at least a couple you can go to. Once you've bought your first pair, you can go online for the next pair (remember and get new shoes every 400-600 miles, which will…

12 weeks, my plan has long runs that increase to 10 miles the week before the half marathon, running 4 times a week. Do you know what the time limit is for the half marathon, the vegas half marathon has a time limit of 4hrs, which means it's just over 17.5 minute miles, which is enough time to walk most of it, check out…

Set up your own 5X50, this is where you walk/jog/run/bike or swim 5k every day for 50 days in a row, the aim of it is to change habits, I will admit I went out all guns blazing and had shin splints within the week, so take it easy, start off with a walk and maybe run every other day or mixed it up with a bike. People will…

Would also suggest a food scale rather than cups as measurement of food, cups are really only useful for measuring volume not weight, you could be going over on the calories because of this. If you get a foodscale, do an experiment by measuring 3 different cups of something and weigh them individually and see the…

Love my shock absorber ultimate run bra (have 6 in all the different colours, yes I'm aware I have a problem)!! From compression point of view, I'm not convinced these would prevent chafing, but certainly trying different shorts will give you an idea if it's all shorts or maybe you need to look at Glide (or similar), I…

As long as it's just sore and not actually hurt, then suck it up buttercup!!! I do find that actually using the muscles again lightly eases them off, Monday I done heavy strength on legs and my legs and backside were really sore on the Tuesday, went out for a 3.5 mile run Tuesday evening and everything was much better…

Another one for running outside, I couldn't run on a treadmill for 10min never mind 25min without being bored out my skull. You say you don't have the confidence to go outside, but try not to care what anyone else thinks, you're still lapping everyone sitting at home on the couch, or can you drive to a forest or similar…

Do what you enjoy, at our level of just enjoying it there won't be huge differences between brisk walk and running, if you enjoy running (regardless of the pace, it doesn't matter if it's a 6 min mile or a 16 min mile, it's still a mile), then run, it's good cardiovasicular workout, you get out of breath but that improves…

I've recently started yoga to help with flexibility and hopefully help with an achilles niggle I get from running on tarmac, I contacted a yoga studio near work that does Hot Yoga as had been reading up on it, and it's meant to be really beneficial for runners. The owner of the studio recommended normal yoga first as a lot…

How long have you been running and how many times a week are you doing back to back runs?? Why are you running twice a day, is there a specific reason for it, how many calories are you eating before your run?? Whilst it's 3 miles and you can do 3 miles on an empty stomach, if you're not eating enough overall (can't see…

Always slightly jealous when I see people that can open and take the gel and keep running, I have to come back to a walk!!

Opposite problem here, I can't get anywhere flat to run, everything is on a hill (normally starting half way up the hill, so you always finish on a hill anyway), don't have a problem with the heat either. Solution, move to Scotland, it['s never too hot and there are hills everywhere!!!

Have you tried High 5 gels, they are really nice, I go for the normal ones, but they have a one with a higher carb content and one with added caffenine, but they all actually taste nice and taste like what is on the packet (orange, lime, raspberry etc)!! I found I had issues with the gel and water, but the high 5 gels are…

Sign up for it and make sure you commit to the training, it's easy to say 'I want to do that', but until you sign up you can always find an excuse not to train for it and then by the time it comes to the entry cut off you decide not to do it because you haven't trained (know w a few people that have done that), find a plan…

I've got a half marathon that day as well, I started my training plan 3 weeks ago, I run 3 times a week (the plan does have 4 runs a week but one of them is a short run of 2 miles through the week, which I have changed for an hours yoga), my long run goes as far as 10 miles the week before the half marathon. I'm quite…

My trainer advised the opposite, whilst you can do cardio in the morning on no fuel, there's no benefit to it, it doesn't 'teach' the body to use fat as fuel etc, I had to learn to eat whilst training (running) as I was out for over 5hrs and needed to learn to fuel whilst running, I would have my porridge first thing when…

I fill my bottle up from the machine at work 3 times a day (so 2.1ltrs of water), I sneak in an extra 10 squats every time I go to the toilet, so I can be upwards of 80 squats a day before I've even left work!!!

The racket my breathing makes when I'm running, I rarely scare anyone, however I do have to keep an eye on the dog when people are coming towards me, they see me fine but they don't see the 52kg ridgeback that's stalking them from the tree line, him jumping out the tree line as people approach has scared a few, he's like…

Yep, me too, like the one on the morning of the marathon, when trying to squeeze that last gel into the back pocket, only to discover I had my running tights on inside out (stripping half naked in middle of Edinburgh, whilst it's raining was interesting!!

As long as you're dedicated to your training plan, then yes you could do it, but think ahead, do you have things coming up that will interfere with the training. Personally for my first marathon, time wasn't my priority (only to finish within the allowed time of 6.5hrs), my main priority was just to complete it, I did…

Hope you're looking forward to The West Highland Way, if you're doing some or all of it, I would look at this company http://travel-lite-uk.com/ they pick your baggage up and will meet you at the next point and drop it off for you (repeat the following morning), means you can walk pretty much unemcumbered and enjoy the…

Done my first full marathon about 5 weeks ago, as someone else said, the marathon itself was the easy part, the 18 weeks training leading up to it was the difficult part, you cease to have a life, I was running in the forest 4 times a week (I hated that bloody forest by the end of the training), when people ask what you're…

Depending on what's happened to your ankle, even walking could aggravate it and slow the recovery down, what about aqua-jogging instead, takes all the pressure off the injury, whilst maintaining the muscles that you use for running?? I hurt my achilles last year and ended up with 2 months off running (I wasn't a nice…

What are people's thoughts on doing this with other workouts?? Currently training for a half marathon, so the rest day and stretch only days are the days I do my long runs, do you think this would impact, would 1600 calories a day be enough??

Have you tried going a bit further?? I really struggle with the 5k distance, it seems to take me 30min to warm up and hit a stride, once I get to about 4.5miles I'm good to go and can keep going, but those first 3miles are hellish, I mump, I moan, I *****, I argue (outloud) with myself. Can't remember what made me first go…

I can probably go for about an hours run without breakfast, more than that I have something to eat, I did learn to eat and run when I was doing 20 mile runs and it was actually quite easy to do, but it also wasn't sprint training (think that may have had a different, less pleasant effect)!!

Up your exercise so you can continue to eat 1600 or more, it can take a bit of playing about with calories to get it right, drop it 50 cals for a couple of weeks, if nothing is happening, drop another 50 cals, it can take a couple of weeks to actually kick in. Maybe also figure out what your maintenance calories will be so…

I used to be like that, all the time, would run and then skelp a big bag of maltesers, which didn't really help the weight loss, but when I was up over the 40 miles a week i seemed to want to sleep instead of eat (go figure), I did find that having a banana or nuts in the car and having them as soon as I finish my run did…

It depends on what you do, as a personal trainer who I would expect to be active, then a large breakfast will probablyu give her the necessary calories to start and keep going and towards the end of the day when you're not as active you need less calories, there is also the 'it kick starts your metabolism' after fasting…