Advanced Running Training
This is something that has been completely lost on modern culture, that nobody talks about what it means to be fit. Now there’s all kinds of people willing to take money from you and sell you all kinds of contraptions and meal and food and mixes in order to make you fit, and the whole purpose of it is to decrease the amount of effort that you have to put into it. Unfortunately, there is no magic bullet. There is no way to make you fit without a certain degree of suffering.
There are no shortcuts when it comes to fitness
Exercise sucks. There is no way about it. There is no shortcut. Even if you were to do steroids, all steroids do is allow your muscles to heal faster. But you still have to punish yourself in order to, well, damage your muscles so that they’ll heal faster. So, as a matter of fact, there’s more suffering if you do the steroids than if you don’t because you have to work out more.
Dealing with generally the wide populous, there’s a lot of us who disgustingly are overweight, myself included, and we need to get ourselves in some sort of running shape. Now the question is, why? Why? It’s one thing to say, “I’d like to be in better shape.” But do you think, “Why should I be in better shape?” Well, mind, body, spirit. If you work on your mind and you work on your body, if you believe in the spirit, that will also get healthy. If you don’t believe in the spirit, if you work on your body, then conversely your mind will become healthy. You have to build up your body’s level of fitness. It’s something that you have to do. If you don’t do that, then how can you possibly hope to function at any kind of optimal level? It won’t make sense.
Move your butt!
Now, you can check all the references anywhere. One of the best ways to get in shape is to actually move. And the easiest, cheapest way to get in shape is to run. This is why the US army, this is why armies all over the world are crazy about running. Yes, it is hard on your joints. Yes. But your legs are for running, that’s what they’re for! So if you start slow, by walking, maybe doing hikes, doing whatever, you’ll be able to build up the strength and gradually you’ll be able to run.
This is very easy to do. Do it in the morning. Get your butt out of bed, get it around the block. There are no scales. There is nothing to compare it to. You don’t compare yourself to me. You don’t compare yourself to Carl Lewis or someone like that. You have to just have your own scale, and every time you get out of bed and get around the block, I don’t care if you crawl around the block the first time, it’s a personal victory, every day. It doesn’t matter the quantity. It matters the consistency. It matters how often you do it.
Get around the block. Just get around the block. Walk for the first little while. After three weeks, eventually you’ll be bored with walking around the block and you’ll run ten steps. Then you’ll run twenty steps. And before you know it, you’ll do the first lap around the block and you’ll run the whole way and you won’t be winded, and you’ll be like, “Holy cow. I deserve a trophy.” And it’ll be your own personal victory. But you can’t talk about it with anyone. You can’t work out with anyone because this is a very personal thing. This is body maintenance. You should approach this thing the same way you would approach maintaining anything.
Get your body in order
You wouldn’t let your computer get way out of whack and all, you know, screwy and with all the files broken everywhere and just generally bloated, so why should you be that way? Yes, it’s hard. Yes, it sucks. It totally sucks. So the only way you could make it not suck is to maybe not eat food that’s totally loaded with fat. That’s number one, because that’s huge. OK, so try to drink water, you know, get rid of the pop. That’d be a big step if you did that.
So let’s say you do a block in the morning before you eat and you actually manage to run, that would be the equivalent to running five blocks if you’d eaten, like, a bowl of cereal and then run, because we’re trying to get the body mass down, we’re trying to get the physical fitness level up, we’re trying to your cardio up. And it’s different from lifting weights because when you lift weights, you’re able to lift heavy things, but when you run, you’re able to move. Doing any practical escape and evasion, any real world application for physical fitness is probably going to include running.
It is an ultimate exercise that builds up your capability to move, it takes down your body mass, very, very quickly I might add, and it works on your cardio. It’s a brilliant way to work out. Best of all, it’s free! It’s totally free.
The treadmill is no substitute
Anyone who runs on the road will tell you that running on a treadmill is very different from running on a road. So I totally don’t think that anyone should have treadmills at all. Why should you? I mean, are you so confined that you can’t actually go for a run around your block? Why in the hell would you need to buy a thousand dollar piece of equipment just to run? The street’s right outside. The reason why they sell the treadmills is because it’s cathartic. We feel better if we bought the treadmill because all of a sudden we’re already losing weight. Wrong!
Get out there and go for it
You just need to go out, go for a run, run around the block. Do it first thing in the morning. That’s all you need to do. If you do that-- Even if you can’t run. People go, “I can’t run. I hate running.” OK, fine. Waddle around the block. Walk around the block. Just get your ass around the block, and all those suckers walking by and in cars will be like, “Look at that guy. He’s walking outside.” Yeah, but you’re driving, guy. People have to start somewhere. Everyone started somewhere.
Choosing the right running clothes
Running clothes help a lot, especially if the weather is cold. I have recently purcahsed a paid of running tights to help with the cold winter and they are a life saver. Especially if you find it hard to leave your cosy bed in the mornings and go out into the cold. So get the right gear if you want to suceed, long term.
I was sucking wind hard first few times I ran around, you better believe that. But you watch yourself on camera for a little while, you become very acutely aware how out of shape you are. Especially when people are making fun of you. But, truth be told, we all have to get in shape. Because if we get in shape and get our bodies healthy, healthy body = healthy mind.
Lee has recently completed the couch to 5k and feels a million bucks for it.
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