training help

[BRCMM]

Hey guy, need some advice. I'm 235lb & 5'10", I seem to be loosing about a pound a day maybe a little less for like two weeks now. I do this by running for an hour every day at about a little over a five mile and hour pace, on a treadmill. And I eat a lot of vegetables and more or less the food pyramid a day just very low calorie and fat foods. If I keep up this pound a day trend I will be were they say my size frame should be in about two months. I'm doing this primarily to lose weight and secondly to do my best in a 5K run I'm going to take part in, in about a two months.

So here’s my question, as far as running is considered I feel I am going to make more headway by lose as much weight as possible as opposed to working out to gain muscle to be faster, am I right? In other words if I train to lose weight I will lose muscle fiber in the process and not necessarily get faster through stronger muscles, but by virtue of being lighter I will be able to run faster. If I train to get more muscles I will run faster because of I have more muscle, but I will be heavier so I won't be able to run as fast as if I was skinny. Which approach should I take?

Either way, should I take any supplements? I'm being told my a friend to take Glutamine? But it just doesn’t make sense to me to take a supplement that helps build muscle when my diet and exercise has a nondesired secondary affect of breaking down muscle. Does glutamine build muscle or does it retard the catabolic affect of intense exercise?

[g_samsa]

If your goal is to be fast in anything other than 100 meters then you should NOT build muscle. Your friend who told you to take glutamine is impaired. Don't listen to him anymore. You will not get faster with more muscle. What makes runners faster is not muscle, it's efficiency and body mechanics. When is the last time you've seen a muscular, competitive, road runner? There are plenty of cross trained guys who do pretty well and who have nice muscles, but the elite guys are all skinny. You're doing fine as you are.

Don't take supplements (except electrolytes if you think you need them). There is nothing complicated about running and it really doesn't take much extra to be successful.

Sounds like you're improving quickly. You might want to moderate your progress and make sure you aren't about to injure yourself. The body has a funny way of compensating for small mechanical errors for a while, but eventually it'll catch up to you if you don't watch out. Just make sure that while you're losing the weight that you stay in your comfort zone. Don't do anything overly stressful to your body and you'll be in great shape. Good job so far.

[Terry Kerrigan]

Hi,
Ok. I'm a Professional Trainer and Ironman Triathlete at the top of my game.
#1. Don't radically change your diet. Do what's maintainable longterm. No fat isn't the answer nor is low calorie. At your size, eat 2500 cal daily of fish, poultry, raw fruits of all types, raw green veggies, steamed veggies..kale, chard, olive oil, fish oil, some nuts and seeds and only whole grains you aren't allergic.

2. Run on the road..get your body used to the road forces..use a walk jog approach.. jog to HR of 150 max and then walk to get your HR/Effort down. Too high effort means over training. You need 6 days per week of walk jogging 15-30min daily. +10% weekly volume( time or miles) maximum.

3. Glutamine does more than help preserve muscle mass. No one amino acid will make much of an impact. 2g. Powdered L-Glutamine at night on an empty stomach and Zinc/Magnesium will aid in sleep depth and hormonal resurgence.. this has worked for me..very healthy and ok when training alot.

Hope it helps.
Terry Aperion for life...look up .com
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[Madflabby]

If you're losing a lb a day that's not healthy and you're probably going to end up jacking yourself up.

Stick with your running but don't starve yourself. Run outside too. Mix it up.

I'd take the Glut.

[g_samsa]

Originally Posted by Terry Kerrigan

Hi,
Ok. I'm a Professional Trainer and Ironman Triathlete at the top of my game.
#1. Don't radically change your diet. Do what's maintainable longterm. No fat isn't the answer nor is low calorie. At your size, eat 2500 cal daily of fish, poultry, raw fruits of all types, raw green veggies, steamed veggies..kale, chard, olive oil, fish oil, some nuts and seeds and only whole grains you aren't allergic.

2. Run on the road..get your body used to the road forces..use a walk jog approach.. jog to HR of 150 max and then walk to get your HR/Effort down. Too high effort means over training. You need 6 days per week of walk jogging 15-30min daily. +10% weekly volume( time or miles) maximum.

3. Glutamine does more than help preserve muscle mass. No one amino acid will make much of an impact. 2g. Powdered L-Glutamine at night on an empty stomach and Zinc/Magnesium will aid in sleep depth and hormonal resurgence.. this has worked for me..very healthy and ok when training alot.

Hope it helps.
Terry Aperion for life...look up .com
888-MYAPERION

Dude, you have some respectable times for triathlons. I've always wondered about going "pro" myself, but never did it. A friend and I trained with Mike Pigg for a while up in the mountains. After that experience, I decided going pro was not for me. I did, however, run some professional road races where the training isn't quite as demanding as the triathlon stuff.