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A few years ago I did Couch to 5k. I did all my running at a local park with hiking trails. I actually really enjoyed "running" at the park. After I finished the program, I signed up for a 5k that was run on a flat, paved trail. I finished it, but it beat me up so badly that I could barely walk for the next week.
But what did you do next?
Just got back from a run! By far the most effective thing to motivate me to exercise, and run in particular, is the "VO2 Max" section of the Apple health app. It's a rough indication of your cardiovascular endurance, and the higher, the better. The real key is that, though, is that it basically works like an XP bar in a game: if you "grind" running, it goes up. If you don't, it doesn't. It's incredibly addicting to c…
It's much more sustainable than Zone 4 (supposedly anyone can maintain Zone 2 for hours) and brings with it a bunch of metabolic and health benefits. I found the book "80/20 Running" to have excellent running schedules for how to mix in a small but appropriate amount of fast Zone 4 running into a schedule that's predominantly Zone 2. It has a good mix of intervals, tempo runs and hill runs that build you up to run 5k, 10s, halfs and full marathons in beginner, intermediate and advanced pace goals.
The intent of the slow Zone 2 is to build the cardiovascular base that gives you better aerobic endurance without stressing your body out too much. Zone 4 is what makes you faster.
> what being an adult really means is that most of your time is taken up by an ever-growing list of compulsory maintenance tasks that constitute the meager amount of contol you exert over your own life Truer words have never been said. It's absurd how much bureaucracy adults have to engage with just to exist.
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I generally unbundle age and adulthood. For me the definition has always been "an adult owns up to their own mistakes". Which is the shorter version of "A child doesn't care about their mistakes, a teenager expects others to fix them and an adults own up to them". This allows me to categorise older people who I feel like don't act like adults.
This is an adult's definition of an adult
Good job hijacking your own pavlovian responses to run more. Personally, the low-tech solution of a plunger stuck to my forehead with a klondike bar dangling from the end has always worked for me. Related but if you're wanting to get into running (and have the environment for it) - I HIGHLY recommend favoring trail running over running streets/sidewalks. It's far better for your joints, it'll make you work harder sin…
A few years ago I did Couch to 5k. I did all my running at a local park with hiking trails. I actually really enjoyed "running" at the park. After I finished the program, I signed up for a 5k that was run on a flat, paved trail. I finished it, but it beat me up so badly that I could barely walk for the next week.
Good job hijacking your own pavlovian responses to run more. Personally, the low-tech solution of a plunger stuck to my forehead with a klondike bar dangling from the end has always worked for me. Related but if you're wanting to get into running (and have the environment for it) - I HIGHLY recommend favoring trail running over running streets/sidewalks. It's far better for your joints, it'll make you work harder sin…
A few years ago I did Couch to 5k. I did all my running at a local park with hiking trails. I actually really enjoyed "running" at the park. After I finished the program, I signed up for a 5k that was run on a flat, paved trail. I finished it, but it beat me up so badly that I could barely walk for the next week.
> what being an adult really means is that most of your time is taken up by an ever-growing list of compulsory maintenance tasks that constitute the meager amount of contol you exert over your own life Truer words have never been said. It's absurd how much bureaucracy adults have to engage with just to exist.
This is pretty cynical. It might ring true, but I don’t think truer words have never been spoken.
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Tore my rotator cuff doing crossfit and had surgery and never really got back into fitness.
This is obviously the real one true definition of "adult"
CrossFit did the community part really well, and then messed up the entire "train safely" part.