#84

But wading in on a discussion about keeping fit or losing weight with comments about how you’re gonna enjoy a massive cake and not need to exercise is a bit pointless, isn’t it?

People do this whole January diet thing because they’re feeling a bit shit about themselves, whether the media has influenced that or not. Posting about how you’re eating a pizza as your january diet doesn’t all of a sudden make that person with insecurities about their weight go “ok well if they can eat the pizza, so can I” and all insecurities disappear. Just doesn’t work like that. If anything it makes things worse because they see these people eating everything they want and being happy with themselves and it’s just as damaging?

#85

Well I haven’t really been since uni so I was 19 in those days and not really thinking about age and such.

Basically it always depressed me that I had quite muscly legs but zero power in the top part of my body so I was hoping to see some kind of sense of improvement, but I think I just ended up favouring stuff where I could use my legs to compensate more, e.g. rowing machines.

I wasn’t looking to ‘beef cake’ just not be completely wimpish when trying to do anything with my arms.

#86

Do not do a race pace long run every week. Seriously. You’ll break down within two months, or sooner.

Find a proper training plan that works for you and stick to it. Pretty much all of them will centre around a long SLOW run.

#87

Fair enough. I definitely wasn’t attempting to make you feel shitty. Very sorry x

#88

I’m not having a pop at you, love (but thanks!) xx

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#89

sorry yeah, I’m basically picking this up http://www.runnersworld.co.uk/news/images/asics/ASICS_TRAININGPLANS_Sub%203.30.pdf which has basically one run per week at race pace, sometimes with that 1 run being the long run, others with it being a shorter run in the week