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<blockquote data-quote="Buffalobob" data-source="post: 189363" data-attributes="member: 8"><p>If you had a big enough backpack you could carry both me and my elk out at once.</p><p></p><p></p><p>The main reason I started this series of posts is that a lot of people "train" and "exercise" without understanding what the end result will be and wind up trained for the wrong thing.</p><p></p><p>An interesting thing is that you mention how many years you have trained. After 20 years of smoking and doing a desk job, I quit smoking and started eating and gained weight. I then started jogging and after a year had lost no weight but could run 5 miles nonstop. I read a little about eating and exercise and the second year I began to lose weight. At the end of the third year I ran my first marathon. The thing I found and what most books say is that to get into good shape takes about three years and is a combination of exercise and life style changes.</p><p></p><p>I do not know about weights, but I know that for endurance running that the work load increase is supposed to be no more than 10% every two weeks. Now that I am approaching 60 years old that percentage seems to be no more than 10% every month. So if I run 20 miles a week then after a month I can raise that up to 22 miles per week. If I increase the intensity (speed) of the miles I run then I can not increase the mileage or else there will be down time for swollen tendons.</p><p></p><p>The worst thing is the time of relapse. Three days is the time a person can go without exercise without the muscles beginning to deteriorate. With moderate exercise you can maintain them for about two weeks before significant deterioration begins. This is a big problem for me and one I need to remedy because when I head out west I drive for 4 straight days with no exercise and then I hunt antelope for a week which is very little exercise. By the time I reach the mountains of Idaho a lot of my exercising has been voided by the lack of activity. What I am going to do this year is stop early every other day and get in a few miles of jogging so the muslces will stay tuned up.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buffalobob, post: 189363, member: 8"] If you had a big enough backpack you could carry both me and my elk out at once. The main reason I started this series of posts is that a lot of people "train" and "exercise" without understanding what the end result will be and wind up trained for the wrong thing. An interesting thing is that you mention how many years you have trained. After 20 years of smoking and doing a desk job, I quit smoking and started eating and gained weight. I then started jogging and after a year had lost no weight but could run 5 miles nonstop. I read a little about eating and exercise and the second year I began to lose weight. At the end of the third year I ran my first marathon. The thing I found and what most books say is that to get into good shape takes about three years and is a combination of exercise and life style changes. I do not know about weights, but I know that for endurance running that the work load increase is supposed to be no more than 10% every two weeks. Now that I am approaching 60 years old that percentage seems to be no more than 10% every month. So if I run 20 miles a week then after a month I can raise that up to 22 miles per week. If I increase the intensity (speed) of the miles I run then I can not increase the mileage or else there will be down time for swollen tendons. The worst thing is the time of relapse. Three days is the time a person can go without exercise without the muscles beginning to deteriorate. With moderate exercise you can maintain them for about two weeks before significant deterioration begins. This is a big problem for me and one I need to remedy because when I head out west I drive for 4 straight days with no exercise and then I hunt antelope for a week which is very little exercise. By the time I reach the mountains of Idaho a lot of my exercising has been voided by the lack of activity. What I am going to do this year is stop early every other day and get in a few miles of jogging so the muslces will stay tuned up. [/QUOTE]
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