How tall are you and what weight are you, Sugartits?

[ChezGiven 0]

More dangerous than taking drugs.

[Christmas Tree 3997]

During the oylimpics we cycled from Trafalgar square to the tower of London. It was great.

[Dr Gloom 19736]

i've lost count at the number of bike accidents i've witnessed in my time living in london. a good pal of mine is lucky to still be alive after an accident he was involved in.

[Meenzer 13971]

There was a bike fatality at a pretty nasty junction near here a year or two back, the next day you saw people taking the same risks as usual (skipping red lights, cutting across oncoming traffic to mount the opposite pavement etc.) right by a huge mass of floral tributes. Makes you wonder.

[Dr Gloom 19736]

and yet i'm pretty much the only person i know that doesn't cycle to work. nutters, the lot of them. must have a death wish.

[ChezGiven 0]

'I might die' is not an excuse for lack of exercise Meenz.

[Meenzer 13971]

I take my life into my own hands simply by getting on a cross-trainer, frankly.

[ClubSpinDoctor 0]

That's actually quite poor technique in that pic. Your arse should be level with your shoulders. It's a hellish exercise. Knacks the quadriceps

 

 

You're fucking telling me, I'm in bits today

[Gemmill 34167]

Me and the wife hired a Boris bike to ride from the West End to Carnaby Street. Had to ride one handed whilst using my phone as a sat nav. Literally the scariest episode of my life

I did the same thing in Paris. In the rain, in rush hour. Kept turning the wrong way down one way streets and all sorts. A stressful episode. My lass was going mental.

[Christmas Tree 3997]

Couch to 5k

 

After a wasted few weeks trying to coordinate running with the wife I decided to start again.

 

Week 1, Day 1 completed yesterday.

 

@@catmag you have NO excuses not to beat me.

[Gemmill 34167]

I feel like the wife may be getting a bit too much of the blame here.

[Howmanheyman 26606]

I feel like the wife may be getting a bit too much of the blame here.

When my eldest daughter was a toddler and she fell over she always used to blame me if I was anywhere near her. Unlike his 32" jeans, CT just hasn't grown out of that habit of blaming others.

[ClubSpinDoctor 0]

So I was doing pull-ups yesterday in the gym, never had any problem with them in terms of injuring myself, some ironically flabby bird with a 'fitness instructor' top on pulls me up on my technique, and shows me how I should be doing it because it puts less pressure on the rotator cuffs, so I switch to how she showed me. Today I feel like my shoulder is dislocated. I'm convinced that there was fuck all wrong with what I was doing and she just wanted to feel superior.

[Dr Gloom 19736]

Listening to a fitness instructor that isn't in shape is a bit like letting Kim Jong Un cut your hair

[ClubSpinDoctor 0]

Crossfit wankers. Seriously my pal who is usually alright has started boring the fucking tits off me about it every time I see him. I was round his house a couple of weeks ago and he whips his ipad out, goes on Youtube and puts a half hour long video of professional crossfitters on competing. Usually when he waffles on about it I feign interest to be polite but I had to tell him I didn't want to watch it.

 

I hate the whole community aspect of it as well, all kissing each others arses. I don't know if this is all crossfit gyms or just the one near me but apparently they have a bell that you run up and ring when you get a personal best and everyone stops and applauds

[Jill 0]

I don't think I'll ever change... ran just over 10 miles this morning and then went to McDonalds because I wanted to try a mint Aero McFlurry without any feelings of guilt.

[Meenzer 13971]

Aye, carrot and stick is fine like, I only got round the Parkrun slog this morning because I knew there were poached eggs in my immediate future

[Gemmill 34167]

I don't think I'll ever change... ran just over 10 miles this morning and then went to McDonalds because I wanted to try a mint Aero McFlurry without any feelings of guilt.

Nowt wrong with that! I'm just in from a soaking 50 mile bike ride, and the pizza that I specifically went out and bought yesterday for post-ride scran is in the oven.

[Dr Gloom 19736]

Aye, carrot and stick is fine like, I only got round the Parkrun slog this morning because I knew there were poached eggs in my immediate future

 

breakfast of champions!. nowt unhealthy about eggs.

[Dr Gloom 19736]

kipping pull ups are completely ridiculous.

[Happy Face 29]

What do people do after the couch to 5k?

 

I'm on to week 7 and running 25 minute blocks uninterrupted now. I'll be up to 30 minutes in a fortnight and that's the end of the plan.

 

Is it best to increase distance or frequency?

 

I Could go back to week four or five and do each one twice in a row so it's an hour run 3 nights a week, or just keep doing the half hour runs but add nights. Don't really fancy running every night like. Mon, Wed and Fri with weekends off seems to work well without putting me off.

[Gemmill 34167]

You can find plans online to get you from 5k to 10k,although you don't need to be running 10k three times a week.5k three times or 2 5ks and 1 10k would be plenty to keep you fit and keep a bit of weight off.

[Gemmill 34167]

You don't NEED a plan to get from 5k to 10k btw, but they reckon you should only add around 10% a week to your total distance to avoid injury.

[Happy Face 29]

Thinking GNR next year, so keen to get up to 20k+

 

I'll go with the 10% rule cheers.

[ClubSpinDoctor 0]

I've gone from 79kg to 84kg in a month. It's coincided with both having 3 weeks holiday from work but also me starting to go to the gym and lift weights again. Difficult to tell if it's muscle gain or flab gain.