Monday May 16, 2005
I overheard a doctor in my gym yesterday talking about several of his
patients and their weight. Yes, there is some HIPAA privacy concern
somewhere in here, but let's skip that. The Doc didn't mention names, so
I think all is good.
His train of thought was something like this: His patient said that he
watched his diet and exercise program with only a few exceptions. After
pressing the patient to describe the exceptions, they were as follows:
Mothers Day, Fathers Day, patient birthday, kid's bday, wife's bday,
vacation (usually 2 weeks), Christmas, Thanksgiving, NYEve, a few random
college football games, etc... They got to about 50 days per year of
letting it all hang out. The Doc reasoned that 1000 extra calories would
be easy for EACH of these "special days".
I'm certainly not one to turn down icecream cake at my sons bday party,
but after the fourth slice, try to come to your senses.
This conversation made me think about all of the time that I have thrown
dietary good sense to the wind in the last month, the list is long. I'm
going to try and watch things a bit closer. Thought others might be
interested to count up your special days and your celebrations...
Monday May 16, 2005
Just drove across town for an errand and passed several folks running on
the concrete sidewalks beside 4 lane and large roads... Two thoughts hit
me immediately, the exhaust from the cars passing can't be fun and
certainly isn't good for you and that concrete is 10X tougher on your
knees and joints than asphalt.
This makes me sound like a running snob or something, I'm not. But I'm
not sure that mileage on concrete breathing exhaust is part of a sound
running program.
I'm an asphalt guy myself. My neighborhood is well paved and lightly
travelled for the most part. I have tried running on grass but it always
seems to be midcalf high (itchy) and more uneven than I prefer. I
realize that the uneven part is actually good for the leg and foot
muscles, but I have enough other stuff to worry about and listen to my
legs and rest when needed.
So, if your running route is mostly concrete, ask around for different
routes and see if you notice a difference.
Monday May 16, 2005
After, without a question. I complained last week to the trainer that I
talked with about doing squats (and other legs focused weights) and
running. Basically if I ran the day after doing weight for legs, my legs
were really heavy and tired. So I had stopped lifting lower body.
My weight session were high weight and lower reps, for me, that was
135lbs 10 times and then 185 maybe 5-7 times and then back down to 135
for 7-10 times.
I was training for doing sprints and not for the long haul. I have been
instructed to run first in the morning and then do weights after the run
with the next day as an off day or crosstraining (not running) day. My
session will be lower weight (like 85lbs) 20-25 times and do this twice
or 3 times.
Massive thighs aren't the legs of long distance runners. Look at the
marathon winners, they don't have fullback thighs. Go with the higher
reps and less weight.
Just bought Jeff Galloways book on Marathon training on Amazon.com. Once
I get it, I'll do a book report for my blog.
Have a good run if you are running today.
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