It depends on your running experience.
Jumping right into 20+ miles per week can lead to injury.
Take it slow, throw in a couple of rest days at first, and listen to your body.
There area lot of safe ways to build up your mileage. If you have a solid running base, then yes, 20+ miles is no problem.
I just don't think it's ok to give someone the green light to run everyday without knowing their history.
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Thread: Bad to run 3 miles every day?
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06-10-2009, 07:18 AM #31
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06-10-2009, 08:25 AM #32
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1- get your diet squared away or you wont see the results you want from running.
2- run every other day
3- weight train the other days."To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other."-- Carlos Castaneda
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01-29-2011, 02:37 PM #33
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I don't know how this myth started, but I really hate that it gets thrown around as fact. It scared me away from endurance exercise for a long time. Now, that I'm in medical school, I know better.
In Lippencott's Biochemistry textbook, it explains how after you expend your glycogen stores, your body breaks down triglycerides into fatty-acids which your body uses as energy. So, yes, your body does in fact burn fat after it depletes glycogen stores. It would be very dumb for your body to break down protein for energy for two reasons.
1. Protein is much less energy dense than fat, so you'd need to break down much more protein in order to produce the same amount of energy as a smaller amount of fat.
2. While exercising, you are simulating hunting, fleeing, fighting, etc. It would be counterintuitive for your body to break down the muscles you are using to survive for the sake of stored fat. Look at marathon runners' legs if you don't believe me.
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01-29-2011, 02:46 PM #34
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02-19-2011, 02:10 PM #36
Any Advice
Im 29 yrs. Old & 1 month ago I hit the scale at 271 lbs.... Now I month later & 23lbs lighter I am 248 lbs I'm eating great, Fish, chicken, Salads,egg-whites etc...I go to the gym 5-6 days a week doing cardio & weights, & I'm averaging 3-4 miles a day. Here's my QUESTION? Why has my dramatic weight loss taken a slow motion effect? When my workouts have only intensified????
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02-19-2011, 02:25 PM #37
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02-19-2011, 03:21 PM #40
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12-23-2011, 06:17 AM #44
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Two extreme examples. Sprinters are designed for short area burst. They really are more akin to power athletes and tend to have larger muscles to generate more starting power. Football players train in much the same way. Long distance runners run extreme distances (compared to what human's were designed for). Extra mass is a hindrance as it increases the energy needed for traveling the same distance (muscle burns more calories and you need to move more weight per unit of distance). For the extreme levels of running they do, they need to consume more carbs as they need more glycogen to do their given task.
To equate cardio to endurance runners is as silly as all of the multitudes of women who never lift because they are afraid they are going to turn into a female Arnold after a few weeks.
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12-23-2011, 10:58 AM #45
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A six pack requires a very low percentage of body fat AND a decent amount of muscle mass. A good marathoner needs slightly higher body fat stores and very little muscle mass. About 20 miles into a run, an untrained body will have used up most of its glycogen stores resulting in cramps and physically being unable to go any further. A well-trained marathoner has conditioned his body to be better at drawing from fat reserves over those long distances and extending the ability to physically perform over great distances. A little extra fat is beneficial....a little... Excess muscle has no purpose whatsoever.
Bottom line, a six pack won't help you run longer distances. Sprinters need explosive power...more muscle mass, less fat, more six pack abs..
Lastly...yes too much running will burn muscle.... but we're talking toooooo much... For me that turns out to be runs over 20 miles...3 hours in length...over 55 miles per week...that's when my body starts to break down.
3 miles per day? LOL... That's a nice warm up prior to weight training. For 99% of the people, muscle loss due to running is complete nonsense.Last edited by ejthomp; 12-23-2011 at 12:58 PM.
A diet isn't punishment. A diet is a way to reward your body with the wholesome, nutritious food that it needs. Your body composition is a direct reflection of what you put in your mouth.
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12-24-2011, 03:08 AM #47
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1. Certain body types are better at certain sports. Height for rowing, Light for acrobatics, muscles for weight lifting.
2. You want to be light if your are carrying that weight for 24miles.
Personally, I look at tri-athletes as physical perfection. And they arent all about sprints. Its endurance and cross fitness there. That's my goal.http://physicsdiet.com/Public.aspx?u=PurpleGorilla
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12-19-2013, 10:35 PM #48
Ideal workout
This is great to hear. Last year I had a 4-5 day lifting routine, but couldn't run to save my life. This year I'm finally up to 5-6 miles 3 times a week but have left my lifting routine. Next I'll put the two together. A 3 day lifting routine sounds perfect. Are you doing push, pull, and legs, or something else. Do you mind sharing?
I've really come to enjoy running and want to mix in gym days the right way. I'll be 54 next year and very careful about even small injuries. They just totally kill any momentum and gains.
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12-20-2013, 12:18 AM #49
I started interval training on my treadmill 3 days a week, 1 minute walk, 1 minute run for 20 minutes, I also did basic dumbbell's/abs 3 days a week and had Sundays off, I also did a juice fast and lost over 3 stone in 4 months. During this time I was limiting the amount of weight I lost as I've always been fat and wanted to give my skin the chance to shrink slowly to avoid hanging loose skin.
Every month I do a Cooper Test, set the treadmill to count-down mode and do as far as I can in 12 minutes, this has improved month on month.
My lifting has changed, I now have a bench etc at home and do quite a bit on that and then hit the treadmill. My arms, shoulders and back are changing, my abs will be too but they are still hidden under a duvet of fat. Running is working wonders on my legs, they are bulking up quite nicely.
At the minute I don't take any supplements other than Omega 3, 6 and 9 oil.
I nearly always run in the evening, I've run in the day a few times in the last week as I'm on holiday from work and when I have to work away from home I always ensure the hotel has a gym.
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