OK, so maybe I touched on this in an earlier post, but another reason I’m pretty excited to get back onto a regular training schedule is that I want to get back to a point where I’m losing weight slowly but regularly. Ever since I finished coaching my half-marathon clinic back at the start of March my progress has basically come to a halt. I’ve been riding a plateau since then, and it’s driving me nuts. Yeah, I know that I need down periods, but I’ve been on one long enough. It’s time to kick it up a notch again, eh? Yeah, it’s common sense, but having diet and exercise together are the key, right? Neither are as effective as they would be with the counterpart.
Something that’s interesting to me is that you’ll hear a lot of running experts state that people who use marathon training to lose weight are in for disappointment. I can see why that might be valid. There are a lot of people who take up training then use that as an excuse to start eating whatever they want. Add that to the fact that marathon training tends to increase appetite, and the end result for many is that they actually put on some weight. In my case, I’m at least very conscious about falling into that trap; I’ve done it before while training for smaller distances. I used to use the whole “I’m adding muscle” excuse, but that’s baloney because you can only build muscle if you eat more calories anyway. No matter how I cut it, I was overeating. This last training cycle was the one where everything fell into place. I’m now ready to rock the system once again. I’m only going to get stronger and leaner. On this, I swear.
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