Health and Fitness (Page 6 of 11)

i've started half marathon training, i'm running a 10k comfortably in 50 minutes now. found a lush new route that goes through pollok park too (with a big fuck off hill at the 9.1k mark ).

i'm going to follow the plan to get my weight down and fitness up for going into the new year. then i'm gonna start a new  harder plan and run in one of the big european events early in the new year. there's a half marathon in paris in march and one in berlin in april...

meschi, see how earlier in this thread when you said that you had an app for your phone for the running, was it runkeeper by any chance? i just got an armband for the iphone delivered today, and bought the app for 6 quid. it's really peachy, here is what it produced after i logged in after tonight's run:

i think this will be replacing nike+ for me, as it tracks both the route via GPS and also the elevation!

hey galliano, i never noticed your post until now!

you're definitely right, i love all the stats, though i am a geek in general, so i love all that kind of shit anyway .

that's really cool that you've got a little movement going there. i would also think about running on my lunch break, but i only get half an hour, so there's  not really enough time. it would be nice to have a little community of runners so you can all push and challenge yourselves for a bit of fun .

i found another 10k to run on the 28th of november, so i am currently training for that. i'm on week 2 of this training plan. it's going well, but since i'm still overweight for a good runner, it can be pretty tough on my legs. but i think that i will have gotten rid of all that weight by the end of this, which should set me up for a good half marathon. the interval training has been really challenging, but i can see that this is definitely the way to go if you want to improve your times. i did the thursday night 40 minute steady run tonight and ran 8.4k, and could have easily kept it going. it's amazing how much more energy you get from doing the intervals, it's definitely making me fitter!

it's ambitious, but after doing this training i'm aiming to run this 10k in sub 45 (although probably only by seconds )

running is definitely turning into an obsession for me - if i have to miss a training session now i get so pissed off!

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also btw, do you do any strength training? my bro was selling a multi gym machine, so i bought that off him, so now i'm also doing weight training on monday, wednesday and friday. although, just light stuff, purely to supplement the running. i'm not interested in body building at all, i'm only doing it cause i've read that it can help your running, if you do smaller amounts of weights with higher reps.

cool, good luck with the weight loss! it's not long before you start to notice how much generally better you feel from quitting smoking... (not to mention the amount of money saved )

i had a nice 13.3k run today to complete 60km ran this week .

nice one, glad to hear it! where is it this time? still in london? i thought i was the only person on here still doing any exercise during the winter . so far the weather hasn't been too bad, hoping for that to continue.

btw, i didn't realise how hard it would be to work on getting your speed down! the other week i done a 'tempo run' at a pace that would be required to run a 40 minute 10k and i only lasted about 22 minutes, with 4.5k travelled. and that was after having done quite a lot of speed work already.

interval training is hard work, but you once you do it you start noticing really rapidly how much easier the 'easy' runs become (the long ones where you go at a nice pace), which makes them become actually enjoyable rather than a chore. i ran 10 miles in 1 hour 33 minutes a couple of sunday's ago and managed it no bother.

back in the game, messin in the gym.

@jacderida whit glasga you been in.. its been baltic here 

@ramos hows the plan goin did ya join up?

steel is to make all exercises by 33 approaches but only 1 -33 pres-ups, squattings, press and so on or time distance or length in track&field disciplins same is 33, or may be with  tracks fields  able..  expecialy just do it every day  for every part of our body/ result is assurance  BeStrongBeHealthy!  It's nice position! Or it's important to breath your nose!
Here i read abot gyms.. i think it's torporific. .
..your headphones and run away for x er sizes i like this way out

been skate-boarding a lot lately and last night i noticed one of my thigh is getting much bigger than the other..lol

i'm never going to a gym but i've started pumping weights at home. Want to lose my skinny hipster bod by summer.

kinda bummed havent done yoga in a month and my body needs it!  whatchagonnado when you cant breath deep or raise your arm past your shoulder

nice to hear seb! what is the training that you do for rehab?