Re: any runners out there?
- From: "Steve Freides" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 12:30:58 -0400
"oregonchick" <not_here@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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One of my goals has been to be able to run 5 miles at a time.
Or...even 1 mile. It always seemed that my heart rate would skyrocket
and the muscle burn would get so bad I'd give up 5 minutes into any
running attempt. I recently started to make an effort to improve my
stamina by working out on my elliptical for longer stretches at higher
intensity. I've been doing 45 minutes per day for a few weeks now,
and am happy that my heart rate is lower now and the muscle burn
doesn't happen except at much higher intensity. Yesterday I did my
first 2 mile jog and it went well.
Here are a couple questions...
Since doing daily cardio my weight is up 3 lbs. Is it possible this
is water stores in the muscle, or am I fooling myself? My eating has
still been very clean and within my maintenance level.
OK, we have a thing that show signs for not working well for you.
My weight training days seem to suck now. I've gone down in strength
alot it seems, especially with lower body stuff. Am I overdoing the
cardio? Should I do less cardio on weight days?
OK, sign number two. Perhaps try a bit less cardio and a bit more
weight training.
The first 5-10 minutes of my cardio workout I feel like I'm going to
die, but then something seems to kick in and I totally zone out,
easily going on for the rest of the duration. At the end I feel
great. But those first few minutes, my body feels like it is
protesting my every move. What is going on?
It's called "second wind" and it's well know to every endurance athlete.
It's why you see things like, in the Tour de France, even though they
had a 37 mile individual time trial, many of them went out and rode the
entire course a few hours before the race, then rode on wind trainers,
and then rode their race. It's quite common for experienced 5k runners
to run the entire course as a warmup. Worry not, this is normal. The
more you get used to it, the less you'll be troubled by it, and maybe it
will happen a little less, too.
I want to be strong, I want to be lean, and I want to achieve some
fitness goals I've never achieved before. Next year I want to
backpack with my husband around Mt Hood, but I'm not sure what I'll
have to do to prepare myself physically for carrying 60 lbs 40 miles.
I want to do bodyweight pull ups. I want to have visible abs. I want
to be in a bowflex commerical.... Oh, ok - not that last part!
As you are finding out first hand, the advice of others only goes so
far. We're all unique, and there is no substitute for intelligently
trying things and evaluating them for yourself - except on mfw, of
course. :)
I don't mean to restate the obvious, but the most important single thing
in losing weight is eating less. You need to be hungry some of the
time, you need to get used to taking in less food, you need to realize
that looking to food for satisfaction is a sure-fire way not to lose
weight. Exercise is a necessary, and great, component of being healthy,
but for losing fat, first and foremost is eating less. If you're not
losing weight, then cut out another ~100 calories per day.
-S-
http://www.kbnj.com
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