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If your main exercise in walking on trails you could get a GPS watch with heart rate monitor. If I had the money I would get a Suunto Ambit 2 Sapphire. It monitors everything from your heart race, calories, outside temperature, altitude, barometer, VO2 Max, etc. Plus if you get lost it will tell you how to get back. Plus…
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Seriously, do you really want to me to pull up all the medical studies (not paid for by some private lobbying group) that show what I wrote about? Here is one: A high ratio of dietary animal to vegetable protein increases the rate of bone loss and the risk of fracture in postmenopausal women. Study of Osteoporotic…
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If you're an older woman, too much animal protein (especially meat and dairy) can contribute to osteoporosis. I took a course in nutrition a few years ago, and the way they described it was that the body releases acids to digest animal protein. Too much protein will cause acid levels to rise on a continuous level in your…
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Travis Eliot has several good yoga videos, although most are intermediate or advanced. You might try "Yoga Foundations With Travis Eliot" for a beginning. Also I like Eoin Finn's "Pure and Simple" and Blissology videos.
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That's awesome! With a good training plan and patience you'll do great. Remember, the marathon is about 60% mental anyway (I've done 8 so far). For your first marathon try to find an "easy" (like a 4-day-a-week) plan rather than one of those that has you running 6 days a week for 40 miles. You really don't need all that…
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I would advise you to start out with a walk/run program like the one from Jeff Galloway. It will help you with keeping injury-free while developing your cardio and endurance. Also, there are a lot of people in longer races that use walk/run to go faster in the last part of the race.
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There are several types of foam rollers you could try to massage the pain out. Also, I noticed you wrote that you pronate a lot. I don't think you shouldn't be using "neutral" shoes then. Pronation means you should be using shoes with some stability or motion control, depending on how you pronate. Also, do you land on your…
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I have a Suunto. It goes with my Suunto Ambit2 watch and works well with most fitness equipment at the gym.
