GillianMcK Member

You can do HIIT on pretty much anything (although wouldn't recommend it on weights as your form will suffer because you're trying to go fast!!) In PT my trainers had me doing 1min of as hard and fast as I can go on the elliptical machine with a 2min recover, similar on the bike, had to keep it above a certain RPM on a…

Maybe try posting this in the Gaining Weight section as well as there's a lot of lifters in there, I use a gym and I'm afraid don't know if increasing the reps would achieve what you want. What about gumtree (or local equivalent) to see if anyone is getting rid of weights??

As above, what are you defining as Low Carbs?? I have a vegetarian friend, who thinks low carbs is anything below 70%, I'm normally around 25% carbs, I'm not a very fast runner, but I'm running for weight loss at the moment not performance and I'm logging about 50miles a week currently. You've mentioned that currently on…

What's your currently calorie intake?? As a few people above have said, sugar isn't quite the evil it's made out to be, it's the processed foods that are the biggest issue as empty calories. That being said, the switching from white bread to brown means a lower sugar spike, there was an article yesterday about the…

Maybe decide to run on a night where it isn't something as heavy?? I don't eat much before I run, something small to keep me going and then have my dinner when I come back, but it's always something that's fairly easy digested and quick to make if I'm finishing late!!

I would have been similar to you, think my first 5k (which in my defence was very hilly) was about 47min, I'm now down to about 12.5min miles!

You CAN run, the question is do you WANT to!!! As everyone else has said, start with a couch to 5k program, make sure you have suitable shoes (when you start out, don't go running in tennis shoes, but at the same time you don't have to spend lots of money on specific running shoes until you're sure you want to keep…

Do the 5k, even if you walk it, remember, Run when you can, Walk if you have to, crawl if you must, but get over the finish line, slow miles is better than no miles.

Different frictional forces, you're less than a minute a mile slower, so the overall difference isn't that big. If you're racing you should really look to practice on the terrain of a race, there's no point practicing for a trail race on tarmac and vice versa, and no point training for a hill race on the flat. You;re happy…

Haven't read all the replies, so sorry if someone else has already responded, you have made a very good point, kicking/hitting out at the dog, just gives them something to catch onto. I would certainly stop running and walk past a dog on a run, they're predators, they chase, it's hard, but don't give them something to…

Your body adapts to what it has to work with, if you consistently eat 700 calories a day, the metabolism will slow down to cope with this for as long as it can. Ideally you would look to be about 1400 calories a day, you would have more energy, it makes a difference to your hair and skin, it would however cause a temporary…

Don't know about mapmywalk, but I use mapmyrun, and it does have a 'coaching' function on it (i.e. you've ran 100m faster today than yesterday, or you're 21secs faster getting to this point than the last time), but you have to upgrade to get it (£20 a year), I have a spreadsheet that I put all my split in and the…

I plan to 'Stop' running for about 6 weeks after my last half marathon in middle of November, by stopping I mean, I'll take it down to just 1 or 2 runs at the weekend and the week day evening runs will be ditched, I'll probably go to bootcamp. I'll start again in January and deal with the dark nights and crap weather…

I don't know about this race, but would you be likely to get in anyone's way by re-entering the course?? How long do you expect to take to complete the half, that gives anyone behind you that much time of a head start for the next 9 miles and you're unlikely to get in anyones way (just a thought, I don't know anything…

Shame about the total money raised though, you would have thought with an accomplishment like that, that his fellow footballers could have coughed up a bit more!! Well done him though, not sure my mind would stand up to that, never mind my body!!

Thanks, we're out for Worlds Toughest Mudder with the boys, just decided that I would do that as well since we would be out there, I would be disappointed if they cancelled it, but not really out of any money (sure I can find a running store somewhere in Vegas that I could spend the refund on, if it came to that)!! Got a…

Yeah, already paid up!!! I'll buy bottled water from the shops and carry it (although I really dislike carrying things when I'm running!)!!

Assistant Manager in a Risk Divison (also work part time in a restaurant on a Friday/Saturday night), not done any ultra's and would have to say it's the not knowing if I can commit to the training that's making me hesitate to enter (there's one at 69 miles that I REALLY want to do). I was running 4 time a week, saving my…

Depending on the HM and if you have to prove a time to get into a category (we really only need to do this for elite status in a lot of ours in the UK), I would put down a faster time than I expect. I done The Great North Run on Sunday which is a half marathon, 56,000 runners and I couldn't get a chance to find my stride,…

Just a thought, but maybe post on here, see if anyone else on the forum is looking at the same marathons that could share accommodation costs with you??

I love how you make this sound normal!!

Calories in v's calories out (and at 30 banana's a day, I would be interested to know how much sodium is then being taken on to counteract too much potassium, because that's a lot of potassium in just the bananas). Feeling that if you dig a bit deeper into this, there'll be more to it that eat all you want fruit/veg, how…

I done my first marathon and followed it with a half marathon really hilly trail run the week after, it just seemed like another training run that I had done the week before the marathon. Saying that though, I really struggled with the half marathon I done at the weekend (combination of not enough sleep, screwing up my…

Depends on how you feel. I walk 7k every day between walking to the train station, to work, walk at lunch time etc, I've taken a day off yesterday and only walked from the station to work and back again because I have a huge blister on the outside of my foot that is making me limp (which in turn was starting to affect my…

Mine was the same, first session was mainly about what I wanted to achieve, talking about nutrition etc, I didn't have to do the mile running etc as I had been doing bootcamps and various training classes with hime for over a year, so he already knew what my training levels were. I can't really eat something for 2hrs…

I agree with this, I actually found the training much harder than the actual marathon, I had trouble with my achilles last year, so the majority of my training was done on trails, but the longest trail loop I had was 8 miles, so I was running the same trails 4 times a week and then having to double the loops on my long…

Found it, I did put it the wrong way round in my post above! Long runs may not need to be that long, argue Luke Humphrey, Keith Hanson, and Kevin Hanson in their book, Hansons Marathon Method. Most marathon training programs include one or two 20-mile runs to physiologically and psychologically prepare runners for the long…

There was an article last week about long runs of 20 miles not necessarily being required and doing a long run of 15 miles, followed by another run of 8 miles the next day, produced the same muscle fatigue as 20 miles, it was only 1 article and I didn't look any further into it, but might be an idea to look at and also be…

You'll be slower, it's more physically and mentally tiring that road running, but I much prefer it. Take it easy over the rough parts for quite a few runs, let your joints learn to constantly move with the terrain, I came across an article a while ago that was talking about trail running (done at a suitable speed for the…

I hate doing this, but is there not a set of scales at the gym, weigh yourself, then weigh again holding the bar (if I can convince someone else to do it I will)!! Agree with the others though, Olympic bars are 45lbs (around 20kg), we have a training bar at ours that weighs 15lb's, lighter for people new and easier for…