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moonlitdoor
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I don't have an unrealistic view of my weight, but a stone lighter would make all the other things a bit easier.
I am 1.80 and 68 kg which is quite a good build for running but even so it would help me to be a few kilos lighter. You have to be pretty skinny before losing weight will no longer make you quicker.
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originslly posted by Doc Tor
I don't have an unrealistic view of my weight, but a stone lighter would make all the other things a bit easier.
I am 1.80 and 68 kg which is quite a good build for running but even so it would help me to be a few kilos lighter. You have to be pretty skinny before losing weight will no longer make you quicker.
I am 1.82 and 105kg. I am, to be fair, built like a brick outhouse, but I think I last saw 68kg when I was about 12.
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My most recent run saw a whopping 18s off my average mile pace! ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif) So pleased with that, and refusing to think about the additional 3+ mins that need to come off to get me back to where I was a year or so ago...! It's a step in the right direction, and that's what counts. Oh, and the different route might have helped, despite feeling more difficult, but we're not mentioning that either. 18 seconds!
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luvanddaisies
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I'm now about to start working in a shore-based job again after 5 years on sailing ships & boats (well, I'll be on a boat, but it'll be on the Thames, so not At Sea, and I'll go home at the end of a shift, and they don't have sails).
Since I won't be running around in the rigging of tall ships or whatever, and to compensate myself for landing back ashore, I've promised myself that I will Get Some Exercise and Get Fit once I've got a measure of my shifts and stuff.
I'm sort of looking for what you guys think & possibly trying to recruit some exercise buddies...
I'm planning a two-pronged approach - classes and home-programme.
On the Classes front I really fancy Aerial Silks (and possibly Hoop & similar), I'm googling the London places that do those to find ones that aren't stupidly expensive, but that I can do drop-in due to shift work.
I'd also like to give Bikram Yoga a go.
Later on, once I've got used to that and seen a way to fit it in, I'd like to think about trying the Crossfit thing, and maybe putting in Capoeira &/or Krav Maga, if I could afford it (although most places want one to wear set clothes for that, which adds to the cost).
On the Home front (and this is where the searching for exercise buddies thing comes into play) I'm thinking of trying out one or other of the Beachbody programmes. I've narrowed it down to:
P90X3 or Insanity .
The main advantage from my perspective of P90X3 is that they're 30 minuteish workouts (most of Insanity's about an hour, apparently there's one that's 86 minutes), but the main selling point for me of Insanity over the other is that it doesn't need equipment - so for P90X3 I'd need to get a pull-up bar, and I'm not sure a door one's practical here, especially since I'd need to have the door open and at certain times of the day my housemate is teaching, so there'd be children trundling back & forth, which wouldn't be do-able.
What do you think? Would anyone fancy doing a programme together? Both of those are exercise and nutrition programmes, one is 90 days, the other 60 days. They're not cheap, but they do get good reviews all over online, and it'd be much harder to buy them then waste the money by not doing them if there was a little group of people all encouraging each other.
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betjemaniac
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Crashes into the thread as a potential new arrival...
I'm just a shade under 6 foot (about 5' 11 3/4"), and was about 12 stone (168lbs) throughout my 20s, and pretty fit.
Last year I noticed I'd got up to 12.7 (175), and yesterday weighed again and am now 14.1 (197). Definitely much rounder in the middle over the last 18 months.
Don't know if I'm worried or not (or if I need to be) - is this just an inevitable part of being early 30s and metabolism slowing down?
Or I suppose I could dig the trainers out again...
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Jengie jon
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Luvanddaisies
I think Hart may already be doing P90X3, you might PM him
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la vie en rouge
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betjemaniac, I guess the only real answer to your question about your weight is “ask your doctor”.
OTOH, remember that weight loss isn’t the only (or even the greatest) benefit of getting regular exercise. It is also good for heart health, bone density, muscle strength, immune system, improves your mood…
Get those trainers out! You have nothing to lose but ill health! ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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blackbeard
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Originally posted by betjemaniac:
Don't know if I'm worried or not (or if I need to be) - is this just an inevitable part of being early 30s and metabolism slowing down?
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I'm 70 and I haven't noticed my metabolism slowing down, at any rate not by much. At any rate, my weight seems to be about stable (and I could do with losing a few kg, but they are the same kg I have had for about the last decade).
Incidentally, on weight loss: the first thing that happens when you exercise is that your weight goes UP. This is because muscles, in getting fitter, absorb water.
And also: would you be happy with a 5 mile walk? if not, it might be better concentrate on walking, or low-impact exercise generally, before running. Running while not very fit and a bit overweight put a lot of impact on the joints. Once you develop a spring in your step ..
Blackbeard, who finds it easier to advise others on running than to actually go out and run
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moonlitdoor
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I missed church today and did a 10 mile race. First time I've done a race in the summer and the heat made it hard work. It started at 9.30 but the morning was the sunniest part of the day. It made me wonder how the runners in the Olympic marathon managed when it was about 26 degrees.
It was a smallish field of about 400 so I was 3rd in my age category. I managed to get the elusive 80% age related grading which I have been trying to get for some time but never quite managed before.
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Reading while on a treadmill might be tricky, although many years ago I did see a couple of gym regulars reading while on exercise bikes... Audio books are often recommended for runners, though - the story is hopefully enough to distract you from the time running. I've not tried it yet, but one day perhaps!
I can't read on a treadmill - the up and down motion makes me dizzy! Audio books/podcasts are good, but the best thing I've found is a music playlist with the tempo at the same rate as my running pace. Could not believe the difference it made!
I'm about to move house, too far away from my gym, so the plan is to do cycling (I've bought a tricycle!), running outdoors (eeeeek - but it's a very quiet village so should be ok) and I have a suspension trainer and this Nia Shanks programme.
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la vie en rouge
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I ran 11 km on Saturday morning and I’m not even sore! ![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) (it was flat and I wasn’t going very fast but still happy).
Tomorrow morning, back to running into work with an extra circuit of the park (8.5 km) and then ditto with two extra circuits of the park on Thursday (10.5 km).
Maybe I will run this 20 km thing after all? Although with nothing like moonlitdoor’s style ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) . My only aim is to get all the way round and still be alive at the end of it.
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Jane R
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Well done, la vie en rouge!
Just checking in to brag slightly, though I'm not in your league. I did my latest gym workout this morning followed by an hour's cycling this afternoon - into the city centre and back, and with enough breath left to do a singing exam too (the jury is still out on whether I passed). And I feel fine... I should use my bike more for trips to the city.
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Huia
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Well done Jane.
I want to get back to using my bike more, but there are 3 car vs bike accidents a day here (due to the infrastructure being repaired and all the traffic being merged into one and a half lanes) so I'm am not brave enough. I will be using the exercycles at the gym to try to maintain bike fitness as I'm determined to ride more in the summer when the nearest major road should be back to normal.
First day at the gym was ok, but I think I need to start more gently with the weights as my ribs protested. I really like the treadmill - it's so smooth, compared with the munted footpaths. I spent half an hour on it - which is an advantage of going at an off-peak time. The view out over the Estuary makes it more interesting too and today there was a rainbow, bright against the dark clouds.
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la vie en rouge
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11 km for me again yesterday (should have been a bit shorter. I may have taken a wrong turning ![[Hot and Hormonal]](icon_redface.gif) . Also it was chucking it down and I got a thorough hosing).
Anyway, big news – it’s working! I looked in them mirror last night and realised that those muscle things are growing back. I have abs again! Yay!!
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I fell off the wagon for 2 months - 5k in 27mins has fallen to 35mins with 2 walks - but hey, here we go again.
(Incidentally, time off was at least in part due to something fungal . Athletes here suffering from fungus feet - or elsewhere - might like to try old-fashioned Whitfield's ointment. Bloody cheap on ebay - 500g for cost of 15g tube of fancy stuff - and, I have found, highly effective. Stings like f*ck, too, in a reassuringly therapeutic kind of way )
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moonlitdoor
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500 grammes of ointment ? How many feet have you got ?
I am sure you'll be able to do the 20km la vie en rouge. You've still plenty of preparation time and you don't need to do a high mileage to train for that distance.
If you've got a route to work which you can make about 9 km, I suggest to you once a week that you do kilometers 2,4,6,8 as efforts. Whatever pace you intend to run in the race, do those kms about 20 seconds quicker.
So in a race of that distance I am looking to run about 4 minute kms, therefore my 1 km efforts would be 3m 40s but you can adjust this for any pace. You'll find this is excellent preparation.
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Huia
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God gyms are boring. I swear next time I'm going with headphones, whether I arrange any nusic is beside the point - they stop women wittering on about how many calories they've burnt in the last 5 minutes, or trainers trying to drum up business because they know exactly what you need, without knowing any medical or injury history.
I am a reluctant gym user, mainly there because I currently can't exercise in the way I used to. I suppose in a way it's like going to a Billy Graham meeting and complaining whan someone wants to convert you, but I'd be quite happy just to be ignored while I do my thing.
Next time someone asks me what my goal is I'm going to say I want to be 6" taller and blonde ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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Brenda Clough
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I was unable to tolerate exercise classes, despised using machines, and found an exercise bicycle deadly dull. I need to accomplish something practical with exercise. I find that bicycle commuting is just about ideal. Every day I bike I save 20% of that week's commuting costs. And my health is improved! Bliss!
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Jengie jon
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Huia
Tell them it is to be fit enough to walk the Camino. It is obscure enough for even Christian ones not to realise what you are talking about, plus it only means a reasonable level of fitness. Note it is phrased as "fit enough", so you do not actually have to do it. If you want something more local maybe to walk Te Araroa.
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Fineline
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Next time someone asks me what my goal is I'm going to say I want to be 6" taller and blonde
That is what I hated when I was a member of a private gym - the personal trainers, trying to get business, always starting up conversation with me while I was using the machines, trying to find out my goals. I would say my goal was to improve strength and stamina so I could have more energy, and they would always say 'What about the fact that summer is coming up - are you going somewhere nice, where you'd like to wear a bikini at the beach?' I found that so cheeky - if I wanted to wear a bikini, I'd wear one regardless of how toned I was, and certainly wouldn't pay for a personal trainer to make me fit some certain sexy beach look!
The only thing I miss about being a gym member is the sauna and steam room! Now my exercise is mainly walking to work - it saves money, gets me where I want to go, and keeps me fit, which is a good combination.
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That's just incredible!!
I've never been approached for sales while working out at any of my gyms, and I've been part of some huge chains. In fact, I think I like that at the "big, impersonal" gyms everyone just leaves everyone else alone.
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Yes, I was quite taken aback. It only started happening when the gym was taken over by a huge chain. I ended up leaving and joining a much smaller gym, where although I would see the same people each time I worked out, at least I was left alone. But then I left that one too because it was so small that it got quite crowded at times, and I often had to wait a while to use the machines or the free weights area. I have my own kettlebells now, so I can work out at home if I feel so inclined.
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500 grammes of ointment ? How many feet have you got ?
You're right, of course - it's like buying a 5 gallon drum of bargain pickled onions. But like the onions, I reckon it's going to last me quite a while. Perhaps I should divie it up and offer some for sale here, though now you could work out my margin
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Huia
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The other question that's been on my mind about gyms is whether/how much staff intervene. One of the women who talked to me about how many calories she had burned was on the cross-trainer, then the exercycle. When she finished she staggered over to the water fountain the bounced off walls to the changing room. It looked to me like she had seriously overdone it.
I realise that she's an adult and as such responsible for her own decisions, but do those who run the gym have some kind of duty of care?
The good news is that the roadworks at the end of the street are due to be finished at the end of July so it will be a bit safer to cycle to the local shops, but as 3 cyclists a week are hit by a vehicle here I am still a bit nervous of cycling anywhere.
Huia
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Originally posted by Fineline:
Yes, I was quite taken aback. It only started happening when the gym was taken over by a huge chain. I ended up leaving and joining a much smaller gym, where although I would see the same people each time I worked out, at least I was left alone. But then I left that one too because it was so small that it got quite crowded at times, and I often had to wait a while to use the machines or the free weights area. I have my own kettlebells now, so I can work out at home if I feel so inclined.
Have you considered a crossfit box ?
(Alternatively, if you are training in your own space, there are loads of crossfit web resources.)
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Jane R
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Huia: quote:
Next time someone asks me what my goal is I'm going to say I want to be 6" taller and blonde
Gosh, your gym sounds weird! I've only encountered the Gossiping Females once or twice in about nine years of going to mine. Though that could be because I usually go during the day when it's not very busy (one of the perks of being self-employed). Our gym has personal trainers (who you have to pay extra for) but they also do a half-hour consultation which they call a 'refocus'; you book an instructor who will show you how to use the machines and devise a workout routine for you. I think you can have one of those every month for no extra charge.
I usually say I want to be fit enough to keep up with my 10-year-old daughter. This is becoming harder as she gets older, especially as she has just taken up karate.
Meanwhile, I have something that my personal trainer describes as a fat-burning workout; guaranteed to produce that just-crawled-out-of-the-primeval-swamp feeling after only 45 minutes.
Oh, and I passed that singing exam
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... Oh, and I passed that singing exam ...
Congratulations!
You do know that singing is very good for you, don't you? As (I think) William Byrd put it:
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If Singing be so good a Thing
I wish al Men would learne to sing.
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Jane R
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Why yes! Or, as Juvenal would say, mens sana in corpore sano (a healthy mind in a healthy body).
Though it's not easy motivating yourself to work out in this heat...
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Though it's not easy motivating yourself to work out in this heat...
Funnily enough I did better last week when I had to deal with the soaring temperatures. I went running early (and not too fast) and got through 12km. I am now On Holiday™ chez parents en rouge and have no intention of going running whatever.
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Huia
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Well at least the heat isn't a problem for me. Today's forecast high is 9c (48.2f) with a wind chill factor that will take it down to around 2c.
I'm experimenting with different times at the gym for a different mix of people, but I won't ever go during peak times if I can avoid it. Yesterday a treadmill and both the crosstrainers were out, which was a bit limiting, however I did up both my speed and time on the treadmill and came away with a lovely endorphin high. I really only go for that - and the showers .
I also went to the library and downloaded some beginner exercises for the swiss ball. The instructor who did my initial intake interview and setting of exercises wasn't very detailed when it came to technique. Also she completely missed out stretching and warming up (or isn't that considered to be important any more?).
I may book some time with a trainer, if only to ensure my technique on some of the equipment is safe. To be honest I'm not that impressed with the professionalism of this gym, but I need to take into account I wasn't that keen on joining to start with. All the positive "you can do it" messages and the perkiness of the staff are a bit wearying.
Huia - the grump
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My gym is outside . We used to have a treadmill but we never used it because Mr Cat goes to martial arts thingies and I go outside. It could do with air conditioning at the moment though. I feel sorry for the Commonweath athletes right now.
Cattyish, trying to decide when to run.
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Doc Tor
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It is ridiculously hot. I ran the Newcastle Pride 5k the Friday before last - clocked a sub-30 time, but I overheated, and needed a lie down in an ambulance with the cold-air blowers on me for a bit. The air quality is currently awful - very humid, no breeze to speak of, and until it cools down/gets windier, I think it's better I don't run.
So off to the pool on Monday.
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Swam for an hour yesterday, and walked to and from the station to get there ( almost an hour round trip), then today I tackled the 14 km run after a long break, which took me an hour and 45 minutes, so it would still take me about 6 hours to do a marathon!
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Phew!
I have just completed a kettlebell circuit with my new weights - I have gone up from 4 and 8kg to 6 and 12 kg.
I have a great sense of achievement!
I still have my personal trainer coming twice a week and will continue 'till I'm fit! Then I will move to once a week and, if I manage on my own, once a month.
We do different things every single time he comes, which is great for me as I am very easily bored.
My favourite remains the boxing - so much that I am sorely tempted to get some gloves!
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Doublethink.
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Well done ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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I've not posted on this thread before, but have been actively working out for about 4.5 years now, mostly at a gym (spinning classes and weights). Just started doing more abs work. In the summer I like to bike outside as well, and have a 20km route that I do several times each summer - did 43 km once in 2 hours on the bike this year.
I haven't run since first year university in the late '70s, but did a 5K this morning. I was worried about my knees (the reason I stopped running so many years ago), and I am about 55 lbs heavier than I was back then. At 5' 8+" and 192 lbs (down from a peak of 212), I am not thin, but with all the biking, I don't consider myself to be severely overweight either.
So, having not run, I ran a what I felt was a comfortable pace, and put in some fast walking parts each time my pulse approached 180. I thought I did well at 33m40s. But the lack of knee pain is the best part of it.
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time for me to kick myself in the ass again.
throughout the summer, my work has kept me working hard physically, and has been excellent for my waistline, too!
however, about a month ago, I got "promoted" to a desk job. It means better pay and a better use of my skills, but I'm afraid of falling behind the fitness curve. Add to that that it's autumn, which here means crazy storms, and I tend to wind up closeted away with snacks and blankies. not okay.
so, hopefully starting today I'll be incorporating some treadmill time, and sometime this week I'll go back and get a pool pass for the winter. my hope is for early morning yoga daily, with afternoon (between the two jobs) swimming alternating with running either indoors or out. I haven't kicked up the running in a while so I'm a little afraid of how much I may have backslid!
anyone else taking on a new regime for the season change?
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I'm not quite 3 weeks out from the 20km. I went 15 fairly comfortably this morning but OTOH the 15 on Saturday morning were hell (it was hot and humid).
I think I should get over the finishing line and still be alive, but I'm not aiming at any particular stellar time.
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My favourite remains the boxing - so much that I am sorely tempted to get some gloves!
Boogie! First kettlebells, now this. Boxing is fun. But what are you doing? Pad work? Heavy bag? Light sparring? Shadow boxing?
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Jane R
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Well, my fitness regime has stalled due to having to spend most of my day at home looking after Indisposed Daughter.
When she is better I have grandiose plans to go to the gym every day which will probably be scaled down to 'at least three times a week' because of the huge backlog of work that's building up.
I've got a couple of DVDs with routines I can do at home, but they're too easy. And having to excavate the living room carpet before doing a workout is very off-putting. ![[Frown]](frown.gif) ![[Help]](graemlins/help.gif)
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I managed 29:09 for the 5k in the park on Saturday. It doesn't seem that long ago that I was moaning I'd never crack 30:00.
The swimming especially (3-4 times a week) seems to be paying dividends. I've lost over 10lbs since Easter, and more importantly, about 4 inches around the waist. I'm never going to be 'thin': the more I exercise, the broader I get. But I'm actually beginning to feel fitter, as opposed to exhausted. Which is nice.
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*bump*
I ran 20km! I didn't die!!
I also made it round in the highly respectable time of 2h 2m 26s, which is 10 minute miles and good enough for me (especially because the course is very much not flat - that incline from 7 to 8 km is a killer).
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Another *bump*
It's been, for me, a pretty disastrous few months fitness-wise, due mainly to not training, perhaps due to too much time spent messing around in boats. Trying to get back into a reasonably fit state but it's slow hard work, I don't seem to bounce back from exertion in quite the way I used to. Nothing at all to do with age, though, oh no. Of course not, it can't be age because I used to have (just a year or two ago) a 5k time comparable to Shipmates half my age (not that I'm trying to be competitive or anything).
Clearly I need enough of a sense-of-humour failure to invest a bit more time in training, and to take it a bit more logically. I WILL get there, I WILL.
We shall see.
At least messing about in boats is a useful substitute for weight training. As in hauling boats up slipways. Or using the anchor windlass (Armstrong's Patent).
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Hmmm. What is this "workout" of which you all speak?
Was thinking this morning that it's not just how much or how little or what I eat--it's living such a sedentary life compared with when I was in better shape and felt better.
I need to start walking again. Baby steps, I know, not overdoing and then burning out.
Please pray for me.
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![[Votive]](graemlins/votive.gif) Everyone has to start somewhere, Chastmastr. Keep at it and try not to get discouraged - you will make progress. I've been exercising regularly for about the last ten years, and although I can't leap tall buildings in a single bound I am a lot fitter than the average middle-aged office worker. When I first started working out I could barely manage ten minutes on the exercise bike; nowadays it takes about an hour's intensive workout before I achieve the just-crawled-out-of-the-primeval-slime feeling...
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How's it going ChastMastr?
I started about 5 months ago from totally unfit, really small steps.
I have just completed three kettlebell circuits with no breaks - 6Kg and 12Kg kettlebells. It took an hour. It's the hardest physical work I have ever done apart from giving birth!
![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif) I feel proud of myself
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Originally posted by IngoB:
Boogie! First kettlebells, now this. Boxing is fun. But what are you doing? Pad work? Heavy bag? Light sparring? Shadow boxing?
Ooooops - I missed this, sorry!
We do pad work. But I have just found a sparring partner! He's going to come once a week.
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I just ran 5k without stopping! It wasn't the quickest (39.15) but I didn't stop. I did park run 10 days ago in 35.26, but stopped on the way round. I'm aiming for 37.30 with no stop this weekend.
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