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Some of us are here and glad to share the cheering with no expectations of reciprocity!! We will take care of you. Welcome to the fun.

Offto a good start. Soon you'll begin to look forward to next week

Way to adapt!!! it's a winners attitude.

Souns like some great motivation. Congrats on started your journey!!

Yep. Don't stress it. Just go put some tunes on and run. Don't check the time. If you fail, you get to go again with no penalty. You're body will decide if you're ready. Just cranlk some tunes and have some fun. Again, don't check the time. Run until the lass tells you to walk.

Knocked it out of the park yet?

Wow 2.65 is far. I'm at 2.5 in week 7 with solid running. Great work!!

I can't tell you why your hands clecnh but from my studying you want to try and avoid it. It's probably a reaction to you pushing yoruself. Just gotta concentrate on not doing it. Keep those hands at your side and pumping in the direction your going ( not across your chest ).

Tee you're on the right path!! 1) Run 2) Lift heavy things 3) Eat right 4) Profit!!

Congrats on beginning your journey. Muscle soreness is part of the game. It's hard to differentiate pain from muscle soreness though. If it hurts while you do it, that's usually pain. After the fact is usually soreness. We will see which it is in a day or two

Great run. it feels even better when you drag yourself out there. By the time you're done you can't beleive youe ver thought of skipping the days fun Way-2-Go on dropping a few pounds. That just increases your motivation!!

Sounds like you're doing it for all the right reasons Best of luck!!

Don't forget your diet. It's 80% of the game!! Eat right and you WILL be running that race.

Nope nope nope. If you read the original Couch to 5K Plan ( Which predates this app ), you will note they tell you to run as slow as you possibly can. This is not about speed. it's about endurance. Once you can run 30 minutes the speed will come on its own from practice. The ONLY way you could have cheated is if you skipped today and cheated yourself out of a workout. Way to push through!! It was 30 degrees out and I had to talk msyelf into it today as well but I did<G>

What you actually just did is started a new habbit and a darn good one. I sincerely hope it was as fun for you as it is for me. It's hard but it's a labor of joy!

There is no such thing as too unfit to get fit. I would reccomend you ease into it and immediately start some basic exercises to increase lower body strength. Squats, Lunges etc. Also work on doing planks to gain some core strength. Adding strength training into the game will make running easier and hey, why not stack the deck in your favor? <G> Welcome to the party!!

Oh the pain!!! Not so much froim the run but the workout after, /Cry HAHAHAHA Week 7 Day 2 in the books. it was a fight as always but I won! This was a roulette challenge. 5 exercises plus a sixth "Burn a card". You start the stopwatch and roll a 6 sided die. It tells you which exercise you must do. Draw a card off the deck and that's the number of reps. When you roll a 6 you get to burn the top card and draw another. Below is the total reps of each of the items I did. My time was 14m 26s. I would not reccomend this workout, HAHA 1: Planks: :52 2: Kettlebell Swing: 41 3: Squats: 67 4: Jumping Jacks: 84 5: Assisted Split Squat: 102 (cry)

Forget about making last year your year. Try making tomorrow your day. Just 1 day. Then we can go from there. Mini goals are the way to win. Stack the deck in your favor. I'll be cheering for ya!!

I'm in the "it's bad" school but do warm up before I run. 10 body weight squats, 10 fence steppers (each leg), 10 forward leg swings (each leg), 10 Sideways leg swings (each leg), 10 lunges (each leg).

The first time you do anything physical you suffer from DOMS(Delayed Onset Musle Soreness) the worst. It doesn't necessarly go away over time but becomes more tolerable. It's the feeling of torn muscle tissue which rebuilds stronger the next day. Soreness is good <G> Congrats!!

My advice is simple. Call your first day a win. You got out there, you tried. AWESOME!! Next time, you just have to get a tiny bit father. You don't even have to finish. This is a game of baby steps. The smallest amount of forward progress get's you closer to your goal. HANG IN THERE

Great to hear you've come back to finish. Once you cross that W5D3 threshold I think it gets mentally easier. It's sort of like you've gone from pushing off from the start to pulling towards the finish. I can see the prize at the end and I'm gonna get it!!! I'm almost there ( Week 7 ). Will I see you there? ( I'm bettin' on it )

This is just a theory but it sounds like a lack of leg strength. My knees used to hurt when I tried to do lunges. I beleive it was a lack of muscle. Without muscles there's more pressure on the actual joint. I did negative split squats for a month. Done like the below video but hold onto a chair, and lower yourself slowly on each rep (a slow 4 count). 8, times, switch legs, and repeat. Rest 90 seconds do do it again. 3 total sets. The problem is you will need to do them on your run days ( after ) because they are the muscles that need to rest on rest day. I know this will be very difficult so I wouldn't expect to start on those numbers. Heck, do 2. If you do 3 next time you win!! The nice part is you can hold on as much as you need to not allow for knee pain and you'll still gain benefit. You'll find over time you automatically hold on less. As your leg muscvles get stronger, there should be less pressure on your knees. Also a point of note. I found much less running discomfort when I got fitted for running shoes at an actual running store (I went to Fleet Feet). Your feet will thank you. As always please keep in mind I am not a medical or fitness professional and you're taking advice from a guy who's only been running for 7 weeks longer than you. I'm basing my reccomendations on weight lifting and the fact that I didn't suffer what you have as a result of that (I think). Strength training is always a win!!

I got one friend who's always 50 thousand steps ahead of me. I need more hours in the day to fight back. He runs, walks and cycles every work day. I also run, walk and bike but my bike is a V-Twin Honda. That may be the difference <G>

I have my workout week set as Mo, We, Fri. Then it's nice to know I can push the whole process back 1 day at any point and still be good to go to restart the following week. That way if Wednesday looks like a bad day Ill do Mon, Thu, Sat/ It could also be Mon, Wed, Sat, or Tues, Thui, Sat. That extra day is your "Get out of workout free" card that still allows you to stay tyrue to yourself and maintain the fitness level of a 3 day workout. BTW unless sick, i never actually take a day off. A so called "Off" day is at least 10k steps. Welcome!!