Posted on 04/18/2018 8:01:54 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Good for you-—my granddaughter doing the London Marathon this Sunday——runners always look terrific IMHO.
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At least somebody saw.
Do lentils even have bowels? All living things excrete waste, but lentils are plants and process food differently.
That stuff is fine for the end of a race. You do need some carbs to replenish the stores of glucose and glycogen in your muscles. So have that beer, eat that donut, etc. after a race, but don’t make it a regular dietary habit, IMO.
No. Jog for an hour a day, five days a week, for a month.
I believe you have miscalculated. 1 hour of jogging is about 725 calories. A pound of fat is 3,500 calories. So five days of jogging (6 miles per hour) for an hour, is over a pound of fat.
That’s actually not accurate. At an average of 400 calories per hour of slow jog (4 mi/hr) that is 8,000 calories—or about 2 1/3 pounds.
4 mph is a very slow jog. It is just a brisk walk.
No.
Diet is more important than young people think. For instance, runners who keep creeping up their protein til they hit their sweet spot will be rewarded. Especially adding whey protein powder, which gets quantity up for low volume better than the meat you should be eating at a meal — follow a run with a low sugar, high protein, moderate fat smoothie. This will show you muscle progress (and loss of fat if you’re going for it, not if you aren’t) like nothing else.
So when you’re in your 20s you can eat total junk and swim like michael Phelps, it does eventually catch up. Focus on protein, make all your eggs, dairy, meat come from healthy animals so their fat is actually GOOD FOR YOU so enjoy the fatty meats etc. Add some veggies including good root veggies like potatoes. There you go. If that is your diet as an athlete, you can throw in some extra unnecessary calories at the end of the day like carbs, dessert, or beer.
I would feel so sick if I ate that many carbs. I feel so good not eating baked or grain carbs or fruit. I do have a seed and oat granola I need to eat daily for my gut bugs but it is 1.5 oz that I eat, very small quantity. Good on your protein levels though.
Wikipedia refers to a definition of jogging as less than 6 miles an hour. So at best a “fast” jog might be 5 mph and an average one, say, 4 mph—hence what I quoted bwing common on the Internet.
I see your logic.
So according to wikipedia, 6 mph is the upper limit for a jog.
I find it difficult to walk faster than 5 mph. At 5 mph, jogging is easier than walking. I would call 4 mph a slow jog, and 6 mph “average” but I am not wikipedia.
Not really very important. But I “jogged” for many years at 7 mph and am now mostly walking about 4 mph.
Hope you did not take offense.
No, no offense taken.
I ran track and cross country back in the day, when someone saying “I saw you out jogging” took an effort not to register as a slight.
Wish I could still run — or jog, for that matter — now. I’m with you, walking now.
This comment is general and to all on the thread.
Portion control has not been mentioned. We need to understand that stomach engorgement releases drugs to the body that unfortunately encourage it to be repeated.
Protein and fat portion together for adult men should not be more than the size of one deck of cards and can be skipped or much less at many meals. Variety in vegetables is very important and sugar and corn syrup are almost poison except in a rare dessert.
Starch and root vegetables have a lot of carbs and sugars. I seem to do best if I can almost eliminate carbs like breads and grains.
I am a large guy and can carry a lot of excess weight without “showing “ it. It will kill us when we do that in our senior years.
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