What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier

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Re: What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier

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Post by dlo » Fri, Sep 28, 2012, 7:22 PM UTC

mbesto wrote: post #76

twoodfin wrote: post #55

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Of course it's an amateur time: You're not going to win any serious marathons running a 2:30, and if you have no chance to win, you can't really be described as a "professional". But c'mon, 2:30 is an amazing time for an amateur. Obviously it's "achievable", since maybe a dozen "amateur" runners managed it in Boston this year, but it's well beyond "good", as you initially described it. It's well into the top 1% of am…

This whole argument is slightly tangental, but I figured I needed to chime in ;) A 2:30 is a ridiculous time for an amateur. It'll easy put you in the top 0.5% of amateurs in the world. To put in this in perspective... a 2:30 marathon pace puts you at doing roughly 17m30s 5km's, 8 times in a row!

Haha, yes, I agree. 2:30 would probably be run at the pinnacle of one's amateur career -- a personal best rather than a typical time.

I do want to point out somewhat pedantically that it takes being in better-than-2:30 shape to run 2:30 on the Boston course, a notoriously slow course. There are runners who ran more slowly than 2:30 in Boston when they could have run 2:30 elsewhere.

Re: What happens to our brains when we exercise and how it makes us happier

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Post by deepGem » Sun, Sep 30, 2012, 1:51 PM UTC

ramblerman wrote: post #77

deepGem wrote: post #73

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It's not necessary to keep a log to focus on increasing the difficulty of workout. Over a period of time your body gets used to a certain weight and at that time you'll feel that it's too easy to lift that certain weight. You then increase the weight.

I train with weights, and I they certainly do not weigh the same on different days. Some days are better than others, a log helps keep me on track. Of course that's me. It might work for you though. In my coaching experience I find, that most people are not objective enough (or have a good enough memory) to work like that. Tracking calories on paper vs in your head is a similar objective/subjective mess for most peop…

I train with weights as well, but I do a whole body routine regularly. It's not very hard to remember the weights (at least the ballpark). I think if you do isolated exercises it'll be harder to remember the weights and a log will certainly help.

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