Fat man wants to know how light he needs to get to start jogging again?

Taipanshimshon · 2019-07-23T02:16:47+00:00

Don't worry about jogging.

Pick up weights fast.

Deadlifts.

Squats

Other compound movements

effyouasshole · 2019-07-23T02:21:27+00:00

Fat people and running do not mix.

Stick to biking, swimming, and walking until you get under 210 or so.

ellifino · 2019-07-23T09:02:07+00:00

I have a fat friend that’s struggled with weight for years. Sometimes he calls himself a food addict and maybe I agree. Other days it seems like one more excuse. He will occasionally get on health kicks and lose some weight. He relies on motivation so once it gets hard, he stops because the motivation is gone.

Read your own post history. You’ve been at this for at least 5 years? Talking about cardio for a fat guy 3 years ago. What failed 3 years ago that won’t fail this time? My guess is you changed nothing.

You’re still motivated, but what happens when that’s gone? When you have a rough day, back to McDonalds? Skip the gym because work was tough so you need a break? Fuck motivation. You need discipline and a plan.

You need to replace your bad habits (eating shit food) with good habits. You need to rewire your brain as to what gives you relief after a tough day. Imagine having a tough day but you appreciate it because you know that means you’re going to crush it at the gym. You take the anger out on the weights.

You’ve been fat for years and you’re talking about jogging, when you’ve supposedly been self aware (licking the pill) for 5 years? Like walking into the doctors office with a broken arm, and asking what color bandaid you need. Your energy is focused incorrectly and you haven’t done what’s needed to fix yourself first.

Fail to plan, and plan to fail. Skip the jogging and get on a stationary bike and read about discipline. You need some desperately. When you understand and create discipline, it takes care of exercise, food, STFU, and invades the rest of your life. Good luck.

0io- · 2019-07-23T02:13:39+00:00

It's harder to fuck up your feet, knees, and joints swimming. All the middle age joggers and runners I know seem to be getting knee replacements... If I were you I'd do something like swimming where the injury rate is low.

GC0W30 · 2019-07-23T02:09:08+00:00

Jogging needs to wait brother, honestly it's a shit way to lose weight. Get a food scale and be an absolute nazi about weighing what you eat and entering it into my fitness pal. Keep up the gym and your walks, if you want more out of your strolls grab a backpack and add 2 pounds of sand to it every week. Running is a ways off brother.

z960849 · 2019-07-23T02:27:08+00:00

Try /r/omad and walk 30 min a day

Cam_Winston21 · 2019-07-23T15:34:52+00:00

I'm 52 and unless you count regular walking, I do zero cardio. Zero. That pic is 2 weeks old.

Cardio is overrated. It's 95% diet.

Unless you're in love with jogging, you're just adding joint stress to your knees for no good reason. Stop eating, fatty.

savageinthebox · 2019-07-23T02:06:47+00:00

I’m 39, 5’9” and 240 lbs. my knee hurts every damn time I jog. If I take it easy it’s not too bad, it’s when I try HIIT or sprinting at the end when I really fuck it up. You need to ease into it and see how your body reacts, it’s the only way.

SoyTanto · 2019-07-23T02:55:03+00:00

I really like the row machine at the gym. Very low impact On joints.

MrChad_Thundercock · 2019-07-23T04:06:16+00:00

Jogging is a waste of fucking time brother. Don’t bother. Stick with SS 5x5.

Squats burn a shit load of calories. Jogging can’t match. Ever notice joggers are skinny fat? Skinny but with the beer belly dad bod. Jogging burns muscle, not fat. Plus it’s fucking retarded and gay.

A set of squats burn as much oxygen as a 100 meter run.

Rogue68486 · 2019-07-23T05:05:49+00:00

I'd like to bench 300 lbs but that's not happening tomorrow.

Walk. Swim. Elliptical. Lift. Diet.

Lose some weight. You're morbidly obese. Focus on the step in front of you

SBIII · 2019-07-23T06:44:26+00:00

Advice?

Eat less, exercise more or die before you reach 60.

Get yourself a copy of Bigger, Leaner, Stronger. Read it and follow the program like your life depends on it.

useful_stranger · 2019-07-23T13:01:20+00:00

Set a target and vision for yourself at age 45 and 50. Use faceapp if you must. Photoshop it, cut the fat, add the muscle. Set your future goal weight. Work slowly but surely toward it. You will be a different person. You have a lot of weight to lose. That person will look back at fat-you now and barely recognize him, both physically and in attitude.

Get after it.!!!

screechhater · 2019-07-23T15:21:17+00:00

Walk daily. 2x day. Up hill

CarelessBowler5 · 2019-07-24T19:49:08+00:00

Get BMI down to 26. Download a Couch to 5k app. Go nuts.

andyturbo2000 · 2019-07-23T03:07:29+00:00

Try cycling. I do 30 miles per week and then jump at the chance to cycle again when the wife wants a bike ride. It’s addictive as fuck, at least when the weather is good. Better on the old knees until you weigh less.

RPeed · 2019-07-23T05:43:16+00:00

180lb. Doesn’t really matter how lean or fat it is imho.

ChokingDownRP · 2019-07-23T11:18:01+00:00

I started out 6'4" 283 and ran quite a bit as part of my weight loss plan. I am down to 225 now, but I cut running out of my routine except on an indoor padded track. I developed sciatic nerve pain while running one day, hasn't gone away, been several weeks now. I'm going to have to see a doctor.

Stick to lifting, plenty of stretching and walking fast. Not much to be gained from running at your size.

ReddJive · 2019-07-23T14:45:55+00:00

Yeah. Lifting won't lose weight. It creates lean muscle mass. I don't look at weight anymore. I look at body fat.

There's no magic number IMO for cardio. Don't over do it. So at you stats I'd go for a run walk. Run for 5 minutes. Walk 10. Do this for maybe 2 miles.

You do need to build up your body to handle the stress. Can't just go hit it. Over time one day you'll feel stronger and want to stretch your legs. Then you'll know.

JudgeDoom69 · 2019-07-23T20:12:54+00:00

Lifting heavy weights is always the first priority, but I like to jog on my non-lifting days for the sake of my heart and lungs.

I had success with the Couch to 5k (C25K) app. You do it three times per week. It starts you off with mostly walking and increases the ratio of jog-to-walk a little each week. In eight weeks you're able to jog for 30 minutes. If you follow the program you won't get sore.

To help prevent pain from runner's knee, shin splints, and plantar fasciitis make sure you buy good running shoes (I prefer Brooks) and buy good running insoles for them (Dr. Scholl's).

SuperCrazy07 · 2019-07-24T20:18:36+00:00

I’m not as heavy as you, but am overweight and same basic age.

I basically do 10 minutes of jogging before lifting heavy and 15 minutes after. I wear a heart rate monitor and that combo burns more calories, keeps my heart rate up, than lifting alone.

I’ve never had any pain (except from bjj).

I think not getting any cardio when you’re overweight is a bad idea. Just don’t overdo it.

jimfromtheus · 2019-07-23T02:25:27+00:00

Listen to your body. The online calculator show ps BMI of 41. I am not a doctor but based on my extremes, I would say it is quite high since i have not even come close to it and I know how it felt at my peak. Your first goal is to lose weight and you can do it by walking more (walking is good), fixing eating habits. I recently heard someone explain the question of walk vs run as this: in physics work depends on mass (weight) into distance, and if you can do twice the work by walking twice the distance as opposed to jogging, I would take that. Of course it is not as simple as that, but still fix your weight first.

In terms of listen to your body, if you walk a mile, you could try jogging just 50 feet in the middle. I would not at your BMI as i don’t know how it feels, this is if you were ever to try.

Also look at some yoga or something similar for flexibility. Attack it from multiple angles. Good luck.

For reading: Some subreddits: health, nutrition, flexibility, yoga. They may provide negative encouragement when you see ultra flexible people but make up your mind and implement what changes make sense to you. Also reading: thin for life by Anne Miller (I think) still reading as part of my course curriculum. check it out.

escapethesolarsystem · 2019-07-23T12:29:53+00:00

If you really really want to jog, get some shoes with really good soles and jog lightly - but even that is risky at your weight. For cardio, you should really swim, that's very low impact. There's also biking, and hiking, which isn't as hard on your joints as running, it's more slow deliberate movements. Generally, you do need to do some cardio to lose weight. Unless you just want to diet heavily, which is also an option. I've done water diets and they do work, but you have to make sure to balance your salt / nutrients with the right supplements or you'll get sick pretty fast.

Note: Lifting will not help you lose weight (in any significant way). If you listen to "lifting bros" (lifting extremists - there's always a few of them floating around TRP communities), they will tell you that lifting cures cancer, improves crop yields, strengths democracy in foreign countries and makes rainbows come out of your ass. It's bullshit and this "lifting cures everything" attitude has gone way overboard.

Lifting is a great exercise as part of a balanced workout, awesome for building muscle tone and definition, but in your case, if you ignore cardio, your SL 5x5's will just build a nice big layer of muscle under your fat, giving you that very attractive "sumo wrestler" look. Lift after you lose the weight. Also, another word of warning about lifting, if you do plan on doing a weight loss diet, lifting and weight loss dieting at the same time is a good way to end up in the emergency room with heart problems.

Personally, the most effective way for me to get back in shape / stay in shape has always been a hiking / dieting or swimming / dieting combo.

Title	Fat man wants to know how light he needs to get to start jogging again?
Author	GC0W30
Upvotes	15
Comments	70
Date	23 July 2019 02:04 AM UTC (1 year ago)
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