Quote: (09-17-2014 12:02 AM)Zelcorpion Wrote:
That is a female blogger who does triathlons! When you are that overweight you should not be doing marathons!
Both conventional as well as alternative/orthomolecular MDs are of the same opinion: It simply destroys your body and you should rather lift weights, do explosive short cardios that do not stress your knees and feet and most importantly change your diet until the weight is down to a level that you can do long runs (which is by the way an ineffective way to lose weight).
Zelcorpion,
You made me spit out my coffee this morning. The bike is the hero in that picture. Why aren't the tires mashed almost flat on the ground? The shadow looks too small with respect to the bike and her. It's probably the perspective of the camera or something, but maybe the light is distorted in its path because her incredible mass is changing the local gravity field. Anyone that overweight needs stomach stapling and psychological counseling in my opinion, but I guess good for her to at least get off the couch.
Also, no way she is doing marathons. It's probably a short sprint triathlon, where you would do 5K on the run portion, or less. She could waddle thru that in an hour or 90 minutes.
I'm not sure I agree with the docs who say running destroys the knees. Runners claim it strengthens the knees. My take is to load up on the glucosamine and chondroitin and don't overdo it with crazy mileage. I think some of the people who destroy their knees probably have bad form or the wrong kind of shoes.