Snin & other Awimb running types advise please.

[Pat Vegas]

After a good 10 years being out of shape and on the smokes.

I need to get some cardio going. But running for a bus knackers me out. If I am going to return to playing Ice hockey I need to give some preparation first.

What's the best way to start. There is a big park near my house but I don't want to go overboard and start trying to run like a mental and killing myself only to jack it in.

[Snin]

worked for me
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ranulph-Fiennes-Reach-Personal-There /dp/0316852635 (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ranulph-Fiennes-Reach-Personal-There/dp/0316852635)

then read his other books..job done

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It starts with walking for 2 minutes, running for 2 minutes, walking for 5 minutes, running for 2 minutes and so on.

It was perfect for me.

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Berni]

run. Try to run non-stop for a mile at first and gradually try and add a little bit more (again non-stop) each time you go out. You'll be surprised how quickly your fitness will build.

Most importantly, don't be a stop-start runner. That is for women.

[Luis Anaconda]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

and sack the whoile thing off.

Congratulations b. :clap:

[Berni]

I can't pretend I'm not disappointed.

[Berni]

unless he's some kind of 54-stone shut-in.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I wouldn't do socialist running, would I?

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

Step 2/ Have breakfast

Step 3/ Go back to bed to recover

Remember it's all about the long game here.

[Pat Vegas]

I think my heaviest was nearly 16 when I used to have English breakfasts everyday and wear crap t-shirts.

Though my weight is slightly deceptive due to my massive legs.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Why don't you give the chap a chance?

[Rich]

is low impact and you can do it for longer. I'm sure that you'd have no problem in cycling for an hour, say. Conversely, you might find that a 10-15 minute run is exhausting.

[Pat Vegas]

usually as I walk too fast and have a cigarette in my mouth at the time.

[Berni]

achievement. The next couple of days he will ache like f**k and should take it easy. On the day after that, he should try and run one and a quarter miles. The day after that one and a half, etc, etc.

All I'm telling you is what I did and what worked for me.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

When I started it, the first few were far too easy so I simply skipped forward a few weeks and got to a point where it was a slight challenge.

Slow and steady is the way forward.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

This is, bizarrely, not entirely about you.

[Berni]

day **** reeks of socialism.

He wants to get a proper capitalist 'Sweat some of that disgusting lard off, you repulsive fat f**k' app imo.

[Pokster]

if they are quite stroig running shouldn't cause you any concerns (poor knees lead to calf and upper leg problems. Start by bioke work if they need strengthening, then set targets for your running.
1. ALWAYS do stretching before and after if you want to avoid strains etc.
Only do 2 days in a row maximum until your level of fitness starts to improve.

Don't just keep doing the same run over and over again.... if you go on the virgin Marathon website they give a 16 week running plan for a Marathon, you can use this (on a scaled down version0 to get your required distance.

[Berni]

If he thinks this is going to be comfortable, he's f**ked from the get-go. It's not.

It's going to be sweaty, hard and sometimes painful. There's no point sugar-coating it.

[Classic Jorge]

You've got a few different decent cardio options there, I like to switch between them all as - to be quite frank - doing one thing for any large period of time is really boring.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Calm down.

[Rich]

the pain.

[Berni]

[Pat Vegas]

dance music.

Even when the machines have TV on them I don't like it. But maybe I'll re-join. Let me try the running first I can't be arsed to start paying out the gym and end up not going.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

commencing a fitness programme leap in and launch off at 100 mph? Hmm? Or would you, perhaps, consider that there is some merit in building up a step at a time?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

And there's other people's sweat to deal with.

On balance, I'd say a firm 'no'.

[Berni]

Not for a young man who's just hefting a wee bit of suet, anyway.

[Classic Jorge]

So it's preferable for me to have the optimum climate, it just gets rid of another excuse.

Also, a lot of the cardio stuff is much easier at the gym, especially for someone with obliterated knees like mine. Sadly I had to lay off the running as my overpronation problem left me with shin splints. I tried your running thing and got the mile to under ten minutes but, to be frank, it f**ked me.

I'm all about the cross trainer now.

[Pat Vegas]

Though there is a free gym at my office. Maybe I can use that

[Berni]

at themselves in mirrors is weird.

[Classic Jorge]

Though I tend to go at about 9am when it's full of old people :-( and yummy mummies :-).

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

We don't know whether f is quite as macho though, do we? Few are, in truth.

[Rich]

each session should prove a challenge. If it doesn't then you're wasting your time. If it's a challenge, you'll know about it because it'll be difficult.

What is a challenge for one person will be a piece of cake to another. So it's all about Fash finding the starting point for him.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

mirrored walls. And further, why this idea was taken up with such enthusiasm.

[Brentwood]

I literally didn't go once all year. Most expensive bun I every bought and I'm probably the only person who increased their calories directly as a result of joining a gym

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

And don't you get tetchy just because you use some sort of socialist running app designed to help post-menopausal women fend off osteoporosis.

[Rich]

[Luis Anaconda]

used to go at lunchtimes but saw too many people from work there so quit

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Charming fellow.

[Berni]

I'm playing my 'bantz' card early today.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

That's just reminded me of the pakisaurus incident :-(

[Brentwood]

[Berni]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I kept losing the thread and having to start again... I'd say, ohh, 20 times, easily :-(

[Brentwood]

http://juicedmuscle.com/jmblog/sites/default/files/images/RIO%20BRAZIL.jpg

[Berni]

cutlery for that.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

He's going to be there :-(

[Berni]

Ideally while saying 'pakisaurus' as many times as possible as loud as possible.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Until I'm pissed, obviously, when I shall, without doubt, try to apologise :cry:

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

Well...brown whale, I suppose.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Lorenzo's leaving. He's going to be Head Barman at the Mondrian at Sea Containers House :cry:

I'm not sure I'm strong enough to cope with such a blow.

[Berni]

Do you need counselling?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

is the cause of the current discomfort, so I am to have therapy for this, and consider the contracture chopping only when it has grown sufficiently to merit surgery. So it's likely to be a few years until I go under the knife.

His advice was to delay the cutting and slashing as long as possible because it is 'really quite sore' afterwards and it takes 'months and months' to regain full use of the hand.

It's not all that appealing, tbh.

[Berni]

Could you not work that out for yourself?

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I assumed I would have to talk about my relationship with my mother.