ozzy

3 mile in 35 mins would be 11min 40sec miling.

Just for comparison:-

An easy walk is about 3mph or 20min/mile
A forced march is about 4mph or 15min/mile
An average jog is about 6mph or 10min/mile
An average run is about 8mph or 7.5min/mile

Stefan

ozzy

Oh and don't concentrate on distances, just build up your exercise times.

Stefan

Brendan Hughes

Well done Bob - keep at it mate


BTW, I genuinely suggest you don't start skipping yet, if you hurt after a long walk. Skipping will give you a heart attack. It's of the same level of exercise as 400m hurdles and squash...

crush her

Get out and cycle for 3 hours on a saturday and sunday, push yourself

you will look like skeletor before you know it

Ver.4

To be honest, if you would rather turn your fat into muscle it is much better than running. Running is actually the worst way to loose weight as your body takes about 8+ months to adjust to the oxygen debt made by running, brisk walking is actually better.
Buy a bench for about £20 and then some weights (bar + dumbells) for about £50.

When you get home from work give yourself a break then do about a 45 minute session off brisk walking making sure you take fairly large strides (preferably slightly uphill) then come home and eat youe dinner then spend about an hour weight training your upper body.

ps. pm if you want any more advice as it is more conveniant. hope ive helped

andrewdelvard

You can't turn fat into muscle. It's impossible.

Brendan Hughes

I'll guarantee you won't be able to do more than that!! My son just came back from a 3-week Outward Bound trip, so hiking, biking, abseiling, canoeing, the works. One guy there had a skipping rope so my son decided to start. After having done all this for three weeks, so being pretty damn fit, he could barely manage 2 minutes.

Put it on your list of targets. "10 November, start skipping. By that time, need to have achieved (XYZ)"

Remember - go like hell, and you'll soon get there

gregh

I'm assuming your working in London, could you get off one tube stop earlier in the morning and return one stop further out each day for a week or so, then make it two stops etc etc?

Could carry your work shoes and walk in trainers ?

regards,

Greg

hades

Regards the rowing machine if you still want to go that way, I suggest the cheaper air or air/mag rowers are quite adequate - but don't go for a pure magnetic one. I got one of the delta air/mag combo rowers new for about £200 from a place in Charring Cross, plus a cheap polar heart rate monitor for about £25. Still use it fairly regularly, as I have it in front of a TV. E.g. tonight I rowed for duration of "never mind the buzzcocks". I tend to aim for slightly higher heart rates than pure fat burn as my aim is to building fitness - typically 150-160 averaged over up to 30 minutes (31 years old, 6', presently around 11 1/2 stone). Also do sit-ups/press-ups etc in front of the TV occassionally, building numbers up (set targets to motivate yourself - I'm presently aiming for doing 100 press-ups consecutive, having made to to 500 sit-ups last week)

One of the best things I did earlier in the year for fitness is hill walking. I've done a few bigish walks - up to around 16 miles over the breckon beacons for example. Once a week, after a couple of months it doesn't half help your fitness. Once in shape I'd aim for (and normally achieve) 4mph+ average - that normally involved really working at the climbs, fast walking on the flat bits, and running downhill when path/conditions etc allowed.

The other thing I think helps weight loss is drinking a lot of water. Especially if you're replacing coke/lemonade or similar with water - less calories, helps your body flush out all sorts etc. I always drink at least 1 litre at lunch time, and aim for at least as much again during a working day, plus plenty of healthy type fluids at home in the evenings. Works for me, anyway - I normally find that if I decide I really need to lose weight, I can easily drop a couple of pounds a week by eating right, exercising as above and drinking lots of water - but it requires willpower to say "no" to all the snacks.

Those are the things that work for me. Not necessarily scientific, just personal experience - and considering I have been a couple of stone heavier than I am now, and haven't had a day sick off work in 10 years, I guess I'm doing something about right.

NAF

Bob
Why don't you give up playing footy on the Xbox and start playing it for real instead ?
Seriously though good for you for wanting to do something positive about your lifestyle
I did myself once (lost over 4 stone) and its amazing how different you feel. Its like your a new person . Stick with it mate . I know its difficult at first but trust me WHEN you get there its such a good feeling
Oh and by the way !








I'd kick your ar$e in real life football too ...

Niall

Brendan Hughes

<cough>

EDIT - actually, I know this is really unfair as you've just had a newborn and have been asking about a hernia. But did you manage to make a bit of progress before that?

fast bloke

<Brendan sets reminder for 07/01/2005>

Leslie

Only just seen this.

B2Z, if you are getting chest pains then you really should tell the doctor and have that properly checked out. Probably to do with your reflux problem or whatever but better to check it anyway.

The only way out is your diet, not smoking, and exercise. I think it is very important that you don't go overboard on the exercise to begin with-just ease into it gently.

My diet was like yours and there is no doubt that coupled with smoking that caused my medical problems. It creeps up on you.

I modified my diet avoiding sat fats etc and sugar and also did the Atkins for long enough to get 2.5 stone off. It is hard to begin with but after a while the cravings go and it is easy to keep on a sensible diet. I quite enjoy what I allow myself to eat now, not too restricted but I eat much less than before. The total cholesterol went from just over 6 to 2.75.

I can't do much exercise because of my damaged hip but do what I can until it gets too painful. Some hobby which makes you have to move about a bit helps a lot.

Its hard to do but you could be a new man in 6 months.

Les

weapon69

We'll see..........he gave atkins up because he couldn't hack the lack of sugar!

Brendan Hughes

Hey, It's Because I Care

Love the 2cv comment

The irony is, the one thing I haven't got the willpower to do is GET OFF SN AND DO SOME WORK! I'd feel a bit unloved if every time I came on here, everyone told me to F Off and work.

I also get no exercise whatsoever, but my diet's not bad so perhaps I don't have such motivation to start. I think it's my mind that suffers - lack of concentration etc.

(OTOH, have been digging around tree roots for the last week, that's a bit of fitness . Bloody horrible job.)

Looking forward to when the puppy is fully vaccinated and we can take him for walks longer than the circuit of 40 yards around the house!

Brendan Hughes

You suddenly find it pretty inspirational when all your toilets are blocked and you find that someone appears to have planted a massive tree directly on top of your drains service hatch, I can tell you!

Leslie

All understood, well its down to you to build up a rsistance to the stress, I had a load of that too a few years ago. I was given good advice by a pretty sharp doctor that I had to do it for myself. That was hard too but it gets easier every day. Just have to learn how to stay laid back. Trouble is, once you have hacked it, its hard to stay awake!

Les

ajm

You also need to let go of your hatred against people involved in country pursuits, it will do you no good in the long term B2Z!....

weapon69

So how is the exercise regime going B2Z??

I assume you didn't need the skipping rope (in mint condition, original packaging ) and the rowing machine (expensive baby playmat hanger)

ajm

Ouch

Brendan Hughes