Squeezed a run in earlier so I can have a beer after we’ve taken the kids out on the sled. 6 days in a row on the treadmill. Well done Stan.
I don't get running on a treadmill at all. Bores the **** out of me. One of my son's is running 7 marathons in 7 days soon. The last one is the London marathon. The other 6 is on the treadmill in a gym hopefully covered by the local press. I'm just worried he'll **** with injuries and not make the London gig.
I won’t run on tarmac or pavement. I’m no spring chicken and my knees are ****ed from sport. The gym machines put far less stress on the joints.
Yeh. He ran 10 miles or so from Thrapston back to Corby, road and grass verge, and it set him back quite a few weeks.
Running on a treadmill and running outdoors are wuite different activities. Forced to run on a treadmill out here due to the heat and lack of facilities but love to run outdoors in UK as long as its not windy. Don’t get bored outdoors and find I run a lot quicker and further. One thing treadmill is good for is interval running particularly if you can programme it. Find it makes 30mins go a lot quicker although the sprint intervals seem to come round a lot quicker towards the end!
Snow has meant no cycling and the surf has been blown out and crappy. Will try and get back on both next week.
OK lads I want to/have to lose 10% of my bodyweight. Am mid 40's with dodgy knee, not helped by weight So any tips or advice welcome
Swimming sounds a good bet, assuming you can swim. Not middle aged women fat club type swimming, which is a waste of time which seems to escape them. I mean pounding out the lengths at decent pace , three or four times a week, swimming.
10% is a very small amount to loose so keep at it - its unlikely you'll loose say 4lb in a week. 1lb is sustainable. My advice is to watch what you eat. 80/20 food to exercise. If you want to loose weight straight away then cut out lager and cut out take aways. Reducer your portion size. Keep moving as much as possible. I find calorie counting works very well. Lost of chicken and lots of vedge. No McDonalds!
No and no. Depends really. Last week we went out two night in a row and it was sixteen pints total!! Felt it too so I didn't have much over the weekend, two or three glasses of red on Saturday and Sunday. It's usually one night out in the week when away with work to break up the tedium, which is between six or eight pints. Nothing during the week apart from that, then a couple of beers on a Friday and Saturday evening, followed by a glass or two of wine with the evening meal. Wine with Sunday meal also. Is that a lot (not the sixteen pints bit as I know fine well that is)?
Its difficult. You hear so many different bits of information. One minute a drink a day is fine or even good for you. Next day that's apparently a myth! I don't know what is classed as a lot a week. I've not had a drink since January 4th and have not missed it whatsoever!
I gave up drinking for 6 weeks last summer as I was doing some new training program and basically became a recluse. Made me realise that virtually all of my social time with my mates is spent doing something involving alcohol. A typical week for me I probably drink between 8-12 pints, but that is usually all in one night so definitely too much.
14 units a week is the current recommended max intake. The problem is most people don’t know what constitutes a unit! I used to abstain deliberately for a week or a fortnight every month or so, but did stoptober last year and haven’t really bothered since. The odd pint or glass of wine is about it at the minute.
There are quiet a few reasons why I'm not at the moment. Keeping an eye on the calories being the obvious one but also I get savage hangovers and I just got fed up of writing Sunday off and then it would roll into Monday! I kept thinking "I work all week to have one day off, what's the point?" I actually feel ill rather than hungover when I have a proper sesh. Then there is the money saved. Being 30 most people around my age group don't do night outs often anymore anyway. A few drinks down the pub and the odd event like a birthday and that's it. Been pretty easy - especially with the **** weather. Don't think I'll go totally tea total but I reckon I could quite easily. Feel better overall not having drunk.
