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The 'I Feel Like Being Healthier' Thread!
Ozymandias:
--- Quote from: Ladybug on 11 Jan 2009, 20:08 ---I have heard good things about the Couch to 5K running plan, and considered trying it myself more than once.
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I did this one summer.
It worked.
I was shocked and awed. I went from never having run a kilometer in my entire life to 5K. It was awesome.
Jace:
Doing 100 push ups is pretty useless. Sets of 20 are the best. And if you only do push ups for excersize you'll build up some muscle but not really get any cardiovascular excersize from it. Its best to put push ups into another work out routine to help build your arm and chest muscles.
Spluff:
You can improve your attitude towards working out and still do something that will actually be useful, dude. There's no need to just do pushups before you feel like your attitude is good enough to do something that will actually help you out. If you tailor your workout to your own body you shouldn't have any problems with a real routine.
If you are already heaving for air at the end of the 15 minutes, than consider your workout finished, or, take a decent break before doing the same thing again - don't ramp up the intensity when what you are already doing is clearly having effects.
The easiest (and most accurate) way of knowing what is right for your body is by paying attention to the signs it is giving you. For example, there are people I know who do ten rep sets of 150 kg bench presses - which is too heavy for me. On the other side, there are people who do ten rep sets of 70 kg, which is too light. By knowing my bodies limits, and listening to the signals it gives me, I can determine how hard I should be working.
The same applies to cardiovascular fitness - if your heart rate is at a high level, then you don't need to push any harder. An exercise program might be a good reference to base your own program on, but you should adapt it to fit your needs. Push yourself only as hard as you feel comfortable, at least to begin. When you've gotten a bit fitter is when you can start going about trying to hit your workout as hard as you possibly can - provided you want to, that is.
That said, after the first one or two workouts, you will be sore. That is just a fact of life, I'm afraid - and it applies to running, lifting, doing 100 pushups, whatever.
Katherine:
If you think the 100 Pushups site is going to motivate you to get into a regular workout routine, then go for it Jeans! At the very least, it is going to have you moving more than you were before you started it so it is a win/win situation.
Darkbluerabbit:
--- Quote from: Jeans on 12 Jan 2009, 06:29 ---The program that set fifteen minutes as an initial warmup exercise was a general fitness thing, not just cardio - and it was set up by a personal trainer (it came free with the most useless gym membership I ever signed). I dunno. I just figured that if this is how professional fitness trainers do it, it would be the right thing to do. Maybe not, though.
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Wow, that person sounds like an absolutely terrible personal trainer. If you're too incapacitated to finish a workout during the warm up, they are telling you something wrong and should modify the instructions they give you. A warm up is supposed to warm you up, increasing blood flow to your muscles so you are less likely to get injured during the rest of your workout. A trainer should also know that most people do best with brisk walking, adding running as their body adapts to it. It's their job to make you work hard, not to make you hate exercise and possibly injure you.
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