Do It For Yourself

The truth is that the ineffectiveness and harmful nature of intentional weight-loss is well known within the scientific and medical communities. If pressed, most doctors will affirm that their clinical experience conforms to the scientific results: Basically everyone who loses weight will go on to regain that weight within 3-5 years. In 75% of cases, they will regain more weight than they lost. 

This knowledge is why doctors became so desperate that they resorted to amputating parts of the digestive tract in the hopes that it might finally result in long-term weight-loss. Except oops, that doesn’t work either. Oh, and it causes death,  addiction, malnutrition, and suicide. Whoopsie daisy.

Hey :) 

I used to think you had to run “X” MPH to be running. If you google this question right now you will get several articles from running gatekeepers that want to perpetuate that falsehood. 

I very nearly gave up on running, and I did give up on c25k because I could not maintain that pace. My body was not ready for it. It would not have been safe, even if I could have done it. 

Thankfully, a runner friend set me straight by telling me that if I was sweating and breathing hard, then I was running, no matter what the pace. 

That is one of the things I love about HR based training plans, they push you based on effort, not pace…. They push you to get better over time, not force you into a pace you just aren’t ready for. 

The interesting thing is - I now can maintain that pace that used to be impossible - and that is because another runner refused to buy into an arbitrary MPH standard.

Have you always wanted to try running? Perhaps you used to run but you have lost the habit and want to return to it? If this sounds like you and you would like to try running this summer - then this is for you!

John, aka fatmaninalittlesuit is going to be leading a 9 week session of Couch 2 5k. This program is specifically designed to help new runners get up from the couch to running a 5k. (See what they did there?) 

We are starting June 3rd and running into August (Exact dates may vary depending on how you decided to run with it and how many days / weeks you decide to repeat.) 

The program has you running 3 days a week starting with short intervals and working up to 30 min nonstop. No sessions are longer than 40 minutes including warm-up and cool down. You are encouraged, but not required to do some basic cross training as well during this time - I will through out some suggestions and welcome others to do the same. 

A few addition notes

You may want to find an app for your phone to help track intervals. I recommend the zenlabs c25k or c25k pro app because:

I used it in the past and love the interface

They have both free and paid versions

They have both Apple and Android versions

They have other 10k, ½ and full applications you can move to in the future if you find you like it

You are welcome to use any version of the program you like - there may be some minor differences but we can work with that. I also enjoy the zombies run version. 

I will post weekly workouts and tips for new runners on Monday each week. The first one will be on June 3rd.

Please follow and post using the tag c25k 2019 this will make it easy to find relevant posts.

Feel free and use the 10k or half program if you would like - just modify them as appropriate. They start off very similar to C25k in many cases. 

I plan on making post about this on my podcast as well - so please consider subscribing when it goes live shortly. 

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Week 0 and week 1 posts are written and ready to go! Week 0 is pre-work and will go live on May 25th. New posts will go up each Saturday though August.