I always say, "You can always out spend your income or out eat your metabolism." #running #humor
#1 W: "Did you eat this entire carton of ice cream?" M: "If the furnance is hot enough, it'll burn anything."<br>Cell #2 W: "Baby. You are not a furnace!" M: "It's a metaphor"<br>Cell #3 W: "You haven't run a step since your marathon. That was five weeks ago, ron. Five weeks!"<br>Cell #4 W: "Also, where's that strudel I just baked?" G: "Furnace! Furnace! Furnace!"">
Anatomically we are built to run on our forefoot not our heel. You can do this little experiment with yourself; Take off your shoes and sock and try to run a bit back and forth. Did you land on your heel even once? Nope. Your body will not allow you to do that, it forces you to run tippitoe instead. Sure, accidents or miscalculation do happen and when it do you will feel pain in the heel from the impact which causes you to be more attentive to avoid that happening again. But, if you try to run back and forth with your shoes, likely not once will you land on your forefoot. Completely flips the anatomy.
Its a noticeable difference running in "barefoot" shoes versus regular running shoes. Your muscles will cushion your foot strike instead of bone and you will feel more "springy" in your stride. Surprisingly your body will feel less taxed from barefoot running than when using running shoes and your muscles will feel fresher after a run.
What is important to know is that it will take your body a long time to adjust to running "barefooted" for some distance, carefully and gradually expose the feet and legs to barefoot running, and I mean only run 1km at first, then weeks later go for 1,5km and so on. Otherwise you'll likely end up with injuries or pulled tendon or muscle. Because we've wrongly adapted our body through a lifetime to walk and run anatomically incorrectly so it stand to reason that it will take some time to reprogram the body and relearn the muscles for a different movement pattern.
Life stress shit still going on since yesterday including through the run, the little sleep because of that, still recovery from Monday’s leg day, allergies super high, temps in the low 70s, or what but this was the crappiest run I’ve had in a long time. Heart rate was all over the place. I cut it off way before the planned 10 miles. Not feeling too worse for the wear but JFC. Ah well can’t win them all. #running
As I continue to work through the beef jerky in my legs from Monday's (overly) hard leg day, I decided to write down my short and long term running goals. The longer ones being more theoretical. Hopefully I didn't jinx myself #running https://nequalsonelifestyle.com/2024/04/11/my-short-and-long-term-running-goals/
Just got a link to a great heart rate zone calculator from the Running room on Matrix. This is the slickest one I've ever seen. #running #fitness
Heart Rate Zone Calculator
Hallo 👋, gibt es hier Läufer*innen mit Fibromyalgie? Ich bin Betroffene und liebe das Laufen. Im Moment schaffe ich es aber nicht, mich aufzuraffen. Habe keine Energie und trotz Motivation funktioniert es meistens nicht. Obwohl ich genau weiß, dass gerade das Laufen der Schlüssel ist, um mich besser zu fühlen. Wie bewältigt ihr solche Situationen? Wo holt ihr euch Energie, mental wie physisch, um wieder regelmäßig zu laufen?
Hey there 👋, are there any runners with fibromyalgia here? I am affected and I love running. But at the moment I can't get myself up to it. I have no energy and despite my motivation I mostly can't do it. Even though I know that running is the key to feel better. How do you deal with such situations? Where do you get your energy from, both mentally and physically to start regularly training again?
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