LOL I wonder how many people would tell you that you were simply miscounting calories if you posted this on a fitness / weight loss forum.
We often had 2x/day basketball or tennis practices and if not I was golfing 18+ holes a day and playing tennis or basketball at a park after so I was burning a lot also.
I was the same way growing up. Left high school 6’5" 180 lb. I was very active with sports and other stuff but looking back my diet was just horrendous. Candy, soda, pizza, tons of bread products, snack foods all of the time, fast food all the time. A regular bed time snack was at least half a box of cereal in 2% milk. My parents grocery bill must have been cut in half when I left.
My first year of college I had to lift 3-5 times a week but also ate an absurd amount of food at the dorm cafeteria (unlimited buffet style food plan ftw). Gained 35 or 40 pounds and maintained that throughout college.
What does your watch give you as a predicted 5k time?
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It says 25:19. I didn’t even know it had that feature, so thanks for asking!
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you’re probably right although races do weird things to people. For the actual 5K, just don’t start too fast. Almost all of the actually hideous mistakes you can make in a 5K (or pretty much any other distance) are in the first two minutes. For that first mile of a 5K you should feel like you’re running just a touch too slowly (and then get pleasantly surprised by your split).
Here’s your plan: commit to coasting through the first ten minutes, don’t be lazy but don’t push yourself to where you need to tap into any actual willpower. These first ten minutes are going to fly by, and then for the next ten minutes, commit yourself (well before the race starts) to really digging in. This is where you’re gonna make your stand, this is the toughest part of a 5K, where holding your pace gets hard, and then very hard. And then when you survive that, for the last five or six minutes just throw everything out the window and run your fucking feet off.
Old adage that applies to 5Ks: run the first third of the race with your head, the middle third with your personality, and the last third with your heart. And about that middle bit: don’t listen to your brain trying to negotiate with you, it will try to convince you to quit a thousand times before your body actually needs to. Figuring out how to keep pushing anyway, that’s the personality part. Only you know how to tell your brain to fuck off.
Make your main goal of your race to get to the twenty-minute mark without flinching and/or losing your shit…and then hey, just see what happens from there. Of course none of this will be possible if you start too fast, because if you start too fast you’ll be fucked beyond willpower. Let all those frontrunning dummies sprint ahead at the beginning, you’re going to be patient, knowing that if you run a smart race (with mile splits that are roughly even), that you’ll be picking them off later one by one (which will give you even more energy).
(Btw, those folks actually want you to pass them—in their minds it confirms how much pain they think they’re going through and also their contempt for themselves and their plight—at the end they really do deep down want you to pass them. Dude—you’ll have a solid race if you don’t start too fast. Good luck!)
if you don’t remind yourself every fifteen seconds of the first few minutes to not start too fast then you’re absolutely going to start too fast
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I think it gives pretty reasonable (sometimes optimistic) predictions for those distances that are within your regular training schedule. But it can be pretty laughably off for distances outside of that. Like right now, I think my predictions are on the optimistic side of reasonable for 10k and half marathon, but the predictions for 5k and marathon seem incredibly aggressive.
Been using my sons vr headset for working out. Mainly boxing/dancing/beat sabre. Down 6 pounds this week
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any reccomendations for a watch to track running pace as described above? something not wicked expensive.
I have been a huge Garmin fan forever. I think their forerunner 55 and 245 are excellent values. (I used to have a 245 and loved it. Have never owned a 55 but I’ve read enough about it to know it’s good value.)
After reading reviews and doing some research I’m going to get a different rack. Not Rogue price but not the cheapest price either. Some of the reviews on Amazon for those cheaper racks refer to manufacturing errors where parts don’t fit and though the people who get the right stuff review them pretty good I’m scared of having to try and return something that big so am spending a bit extra. Ordering this.
https://www.titan.fitness/racks/power-racks/t-3-series/t-3-series-power-rack/T3-SERIES-RACK.html
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You can’t go wrong with that. It should meet all of your lifting needs.
And then some. I’ve never really gone wrong by buying a litter bit better quality than I think I want/need. You get what you pay for my favorite aunt and uncle taught me.
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My comment was more about the overall design than the quality. But it definitely looks like it won’t let you down from a quality standpoint either.
grats
I need to start working out.
I’m 47 and never really worked out a day in my life. I am now holding some extra weight and losing flexibility as I turn into an old fuck.
I know myself enough to know the chances of me going to gym are very low.
So I want to buy a piece of exercise equipment I might actually use at home.
I am thinking threadmill.
Dumb idea? Better one? Any suggestions on what to buy?
Thanks
Oculus quest 2.
Seriously.
I wouldnt have believed it myself, but im very late 30s, 300+ pounds and have been using it every day. In addition to a proper (but not restrictive) diet im down 20 pounds in a month.
And its likely less expensive than a treadmil (though I havent priced them lately)
You do not need to buy anything to start exercising. This is especially true if you are thinking of a treadmill, which will simply become an overpriced clothes rack as the seasons change (both the literal season of weather and your interest in exercise)
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That’s what I have. Mine was a bit wobbly when I assembled it but I had the luck of being able to bolt it down to a deadlift platform. I haven’t had any issue with the construction though
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