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Two years ago I was in the best shape of my life, and the best compliment I received was a girlfriend looking at me in mock disgust while we went for a jog (think bouncing) and she said "I hate you, nothing on you moves!" Now excuse me while I go jump around naked in front of the mirror to get motivated again...

As a runner (I've done 5 1/2's and a marathon) I've noticed that running 3 days a week is just as effective as running 5 days a week, and those days I wake up feeling like I just don't want to, it's because I need a break. Most running programs follow a cycle of going hard for 2 weeks and then backing off for a week. Those…

I've been working out since I was a chubby 14yr old. I'm 26 now and there have definitely been times in the last 12yrs where it's been hard to motivate myself, where I just want to stop caring about my weight and eat what I want and not care what I look like. Then I gain 15lbs, feel disgusting, and go on a mission to lose…

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bodyrocktv.com 20 minute or less killer workouts you can do in your living room.

Depends on the shoes. Barefoot shoes don't need to be replaced until they literally fall apart and are unwearable - thankyou merrell for being honest about this fact and not maintaining the "6 months" rule that would mean consumers spending more $ As for whether or not barefoot is for you, you just have to try it - but it…

Sorry selfish post since I am at work and don't have much time... I've had a really bad weekend/start to the week. Was sick with flu-like symptoms all weekend, finally felt better Monday but I've spent the past two days just feeling weak and tired even though I am sleeping lots, which has resulted in eating a lot of sugar.…

So I don't know if my dukan diet experiment was the cause of or just coincidence but I seem to have the flu :( I've been trying to put back on the water weight I lost but its impossible when everything I consume is coming straight back out, so for now just trying to eat really clean, rest lots and hope to get better soon!…

So Dukan Diet 1 day trial was an epic fail, I feel awful! -3.8lbs on the scale (in one day WTF??) so despite the 2 liters of water I drank I know all that water just went straight through me. I feel so severely dehydrated my stomache is cramping up like crazy. I even had to go back to bed for an hour after breakfast…

When I joined this thread (couple days ago) I read a bunch of the articles in the resources thread - it's now on the second page of posts - and it really shed some light on how not to get frustrated when trying to lose the final lbs and how even when it feels like you're getting nowhere on the scale and you want to give…

I'm on hal hidgons advanced 5k program, even though I;ve never done a c25k or even raced a 5k, but I've done 4 half marathons and a full marathon and during that process I self timed myself on a 5k and a couple 10ks just to see what I could do. My 5k on pretty much flat pavement was 24:05 and 10k was 48:05. I'm aiming for…

awesome new pic you look great! I want to get back to my "after" pic shape that I took last summer but then I let it go over last winter and haven't managed to get back there.

Had a GREAT workout yesterday, despite not wanting to do it. Did a bodyrock workout, 16 minutes and I was sweating like a pig. New favorite exercise: Ninja Jumps!! Right after did my 5k W3D2 interval workout and I completely shocked myself, in just two weeks since I last did 400m sprints I went from 1:44 at best to 1:37.…

good for you for logging it all! I really need to be more disciplined about doing that when I mess up.

I am in the same position, I have a really hard time staying motivated on the treadmill and end up cutting my workouts short. I find it helps to break it up into intervals but still... I ran in 6 inches of slush the other day just because it was more appealling than spending an hour on the treadmill.

I haven't figured out all the lingo, lol, but yes I have the un-desirable semi-chubby marathoners body! Even a lot of the very slim marathoners I still would not want to look like, they're slim but it's a "skinny fat" there is no muscle tone. I wan't to be toned! I am on a 5k plan right now, and I just want to run it as…

From what I've been reading you can still run and lose the weight, you just need to run differently. Apparently doing a 30 minute run incorporating 6 x 30 second sprints (literally sprinting as fast as you possibly can) with long slow recoveries in between will be as good for you as a 90minute steady run. The idea is that…

Hey, I'd really like to join this group if I could? I was in another group but the founder upped and closed their account :S About me... age: 25 weight:129 height/waist/hips: 5'2" / 27 1/2" / 38" goal weight: 115 or 25" waist, whichever comes first I recently trained for and ran my first marathon, a process that I thought…

I'm with with you :)

Weight loss: -0.2lbs Not ideal but it's still that time of the month so might do a mid-week way in once it's gone and hope for better! Current weight: 128.8lbs Calories Burned: 3240 Challenge: Didn't do very good about not eating bad food on the weekend, but I did do really good with upping the intensity of my workouts and…

Got up and ran with the birds this morning even though I had a terrible sleep last night and I really really did not want to get out of my nice warm bed! But I knew if I didn't do it then I'd be crashing after work from lack of sleep and in no mood to run then either. 40mins, was meant to do 45, but I mixed in 30 second…

I wanted to do a mid-week check-in to hopefully help me stay focused through the weekend, which I know is going to be full of temptations :( Country bar tonight with two heavy drinking girlfriends, and girls night tomorrow at an all you can eat/drink fundraiser. I've been really really good this week with pushing myself to…

This is going to sound like very harsh advise... but better to hear from a stranger than from a friend. Make no excuses. Period. We're all constantly making excuses for ourselves and justifying sneaking treats and skipping workouts for this reason or another. Your friends do it, you're family does it, you watch strangers…

I've been watching too much of the "biggest loser," and am currently on the go hard and fast train. Those guys get their *kitten* handed to them, literally they are made to workout carrying weights signifying all the extra bulk they used to carry around. I'll be running on the treadmill with 5lb dumbells in my hands today…

nice work on the 10k! I've been doing some reading on both running improvement and also on fat loss (which is another goal of mine) and what I've found out is that if you want to get faster they say it's all about running intervals and has very little to do with distance. In conjunction with that if you want to lose fat…

W2D2 complete :) 8x200m sprints. My goal was to do them in 45 seconds, which I managed to almost average, my fastest was 44 and my slowest 47, most were 46. I did this after first doing a plyometrics workout (20mins of burpees, jump squats, sumo squats, scissor lunges and pop squats) so after just the first sprint I was…

Thats awesome to be only 50 seconds slower on a trail run! I'd bet you could do even better than 28 on the road.

I'm changing my challenge for this week! actually... more like adding to it :) I read an article that makes sense in terms of what's been happening with me: http://members.rachelcosgrove.com/public/The_Final_Nail_in_the_Cardio_Coffin.cfm I just ran my first marathon, and not only did I not lose weight in the process, I…

5k: 24:05 (this wasn't a race just self timed. I've never raced a 5 but planning to in January and hoping for 22mins or better) 10k: 48:05 (again not a race, this was during my first half marathon training) half marathon: 1:49:.... something I can't remember exactly. My knee went out in the last 3k of this race. I had been…

As for me I missed my runs this weekend, but I did make it snowboarding on Saturday and an easy walk/jog Friday night that wasn't in the program so hopefully that counts for a little. I also tried to do a little making up for it tonight. I was meant to do 30mins easy run, but went for an hour instead. Also it had snowed…