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How often did you run starting out? I’ve been doing 1 miles after my strength workouts ~3x a week, and it hasn’t gotten much better. Been doing it for about 2

How often did you run starting out? I’ve been doing 1 miles after my strength workouts ~3x a week, and it hasn’t gotten much better. Been doing it for about 2 months.

Jeremy1026 7y ago
If you're doing lifts first, you're not giving your body a chance to adapt to the cardio. Maybe switch it up and one day a week run first then lift. Then maybe add a just running day.
mikekchar 7y ago
This is years ago, but when I was doing strength workouts, I found that I was burning through my sugar reserves. It takes a while of running before your body moves from burning mostly sugar to burning an even mix of sugar and fat. It does it faster the more cardiovascularly fit you are, but when you first start it can take up to 30 minutes. If you only run 1 mile, you aren't getting there. I recommend swapping the running and lifting for a couple of months until you get that working better. Once you are running 3-5 miles then you'll give yourself enough time to switch to burning fat as fuel and you won't have so much trouble running after lifting (the first mile is always hard, though). Or at least that was my experience. Haven't done it in more than 20 years... (stopped lifting -- kept running ;-) ).
- periram 7y ago
  Déjà vu. The first few weeks/months, my body would go into panic mode after 3 - 4 miles. After a while it realizes that this is "normal" and happily start burning through the fat. It whole process is (to me seemed) organic (i.e. you cannot fast track it) and you need to let it play out. Also I got best results when I did gym and running separately, say few months each at a time.
sn9 7y ago
Do Couch to 5k on 3 of your rest days. When you finish, progress to Bridge to 10k.
periram 7y ago
First few days 1 - 2 miles every day for about a week. Then slowly went to 3 - 3.5 miles. Was stuck there for a few weeks. Breaking the 4 mile barrier happened accidentally, when I "forgot" to stop and kept going. My body did not realize. After the 4 mile barrier, it somehow seemed that my body can go on for much longer, as it had reached a steady state in terms of breathing, burning energy, being very efficient in my stride etc.

How often did you run starting out? I’ve been doing 1 miles after my strength workouts ~3x a week, and it hasn’t gotten much better. Been doing it for about 2 months.

Jeremy1026 7y ago

If you're doing lifts first, you're not giving your body a chance to adapt to the cardio. Maybe switch it up and one day a week run first then lift. Then maybe add a just running day.

mikekchar 7y ago

This is years ago, but when I was doing strength workouts, I found that I was burning through my sugar reserves. It takes a while of running before your body moves from burning mostly sugar to burning an even mix of sugar and fat. It does it faster the more cardiovascularly fit you are, but when you first start it can take up to 30 minutes. If you only run 1 mile, you aren't getting there. I recommend swapping the running and lifting for a couple of months until you get that working better. Once you are running 3-5 miles then you'll give yourself enough time to switch to burning fat as fuel and you won't have so much trouble running after lifting (the first mile is always hard, though). Or at least that was my experience. Haven't done it in more than 20 years... (stopped lifting -- kept running ;-) ).

periram 7y ago
Déjà vu. The first few weeks/months, my body would go into panic mode after 3 - 4 miles. After a while it realizes that this is "normal" and happily start burning through the fat. It whole process is (to me seemed) organic (i.e. you cannot fast track it) and you need to let it play out. Also I got best results when I did gym and running separately, say few months each at a time.

sn9 7y ago

Do Couch to 5k on 3 of your rest days. When you finish, progress to Bridge to 10k.

periram 7y ago

First few days 1 - 2 miles every day for about a week. Then slowly went to 3 - 3.5 miles. Was stuck there for a few weeks. Breaking the 4 mile barrier happened accidentally, when I "forgot" to stop and kept going. My body did not realize. After the 4 mile barrier, it somehow seemed that my body can go on for much longer, as it had reached a steady state in terms of breathing, burning energy, being very efficient in my stride etc.