GOT Fitness LOG

[Big Fat Sam]

Buy a treadmill mate, you stay dry and you can listen to tunes/watch TV. Do high intensity training which gets you in great shape but saves you hours, as you'll only have to do about half hour per session.

I reckon if I had a treadmill I wouldn't run half as much, would find excuses to jump under the bedcovers instead. I like getting out and jogging, takes some effort. Incidentally I was pissed off yesterday as I had earphones in instead of headphones and they kept falling out. Was constantly pushin' them back in and stuff - lesson learned!

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

There's 2 schools of though on intervals training.

Regular training wisdom is that HIIT should be used at the peak of the training pyramid, ie you should do them on top of a good base built up from regular training to add the extra zip and top end performance.

However, more increasing evidence is that a short HIIT will give you many of the benefits of longer workout for a fraction of the time (eg, google "Tabata" - the miracle 4 minute workout). Unsurprisingly, a lot of people want to believe this version.

Of course it depends greatly what you are looking to get out of your training - are you actually training to participate in races, or training just for fitness? If the former, I don't think there's any substitute for proper structured training, but of course HIIT sessions on top will help. I don't think you can get away with just HIIT, especially if you're out of shape in the first place - you're quite likely to pick up injury too if you don't have good base fitness in the first place.

HIIT for me is a great way to improve my fitness and asthma, as I get to spend a fraction of the time stressing out my lungs to the maximum. I'm in good physical shape if you were to look at me, but in terms of cardio fitness I'm quite poor. Hence why HIIT is a good fit for me. I'm not adverse to running for a longer period too on occasion though.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I might take up running. I need to find more productive things to do with my free time, but I hate running FFS.

Take up cycling. You actually get to go to various places, and much more varied terrain than you typically get on a run. Of course I'm bias and all, but still, it's an awful lot of fun.

 

[Pat's Van]

go swimming BLF, because then you don't need a bike !

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That is very true, and you get an all over workout. Can get boring though (imo - I used to compete as a lad)

 

[evilwebby]

go swimming BLF, because then you don't need a bike !

That Triathlon cult is getting ever more popular...

 

[Big Fat Sam]

go swimming BLF, because then you don't need a bike !

HATE swimming! I've never learned the techniques properly and just found myself being overtaken all the time and having no stamina when I attempted to take it up last summer.

I know it's a mega workout, so if you find you enjoy it or at least can do it properly def stick at it. I just lost all interest after a month or three times a week for an hour.

From now on I'll stick to the wave machine and slides.

 

[evilwebby]

go swimming BLF, because then you don't need a bike !

But you need a swimming pool or other vast expanse of water instead..

 

[Moomin]

go swimming BLF, because then you don't need a bike !

Jib this BLF, sniff glue and fly instead. And, you don't have to wear budgie smugglers to sniff glue.

 

[Boxcar Ira]

Nice. God, I dread to think how long I'd need to train to get in shape for a marathon! Like I said at the moment I am comfortably doing five or six miles... maybe I could be able to drag myself to half marathon length by the end of the summer. Not that I am targetting anything like that like.

Do you find you got hooked on constantly pushing yourself after you started running/jogging? I know a few people who started off with a casual jog to get fit, and ended up doing all sorts of mad events, marathons, triathlons, etc.

Yeah definitely, I need the events to keep me focussed - always need something to be working towards!

 

[Pat's Van]

But you need a swimming pool or other vast expanse of water instead..

the canal, the mersey, crosby marina

loads of places to swim around here

 

[DualityNSNO]

Take up cycling. You actually get to go to various places, and much more varied terrain than you typically get on a run. Of course I'm bias and all, but still, it's an awful lot of fun.

I used to go to a few friends' when I was back home a few summers ago with my ex - we cycled all the way out to theirs and back, but seeing as they lived out of town me and her had to cycle 10 miles there and 10 miles back. Took us a bit of time the first time around, but it was fun and very, very exhausting. The next few times we got through quicker and our record was with only 1 brake...

I'd recommend though, in fact I have no problem doing something similar again when I'm back for summer, I like cycling...

 

[Fuleco]

Reasons to go to the pub.

http://www.menshealth.co.uk/healthy/symptoms-treatment/10-reasons-to-go-to-the-pub

 

[BMFin]

Take up cycling. You actually get to go to various places, and much more varied terrain than you typically get on a run. Of course I'm bias and all, but still, it's an awful lot of fun.

That's what I enjoy about the cycling part. You can cover 90 miles (approx. 144km) in 3-5 hours depending on speed. So much to see it makes the ride enjoyable. Running 15-20 miles (20-30km) barely gets you out of town.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

That's what I enjoy about the cycling part. You can cover 90 miles (approx. 144km) in 3-5 hours depending on speed. So much to see it makes the ride enjoyable. Running 15-20 miles (20-30km) barely gets you out of town.

I must say, I'd love to be able to do 144km in 3 hours