Need advice on getting fit.

A healthy diet is a huge component of overall fitness.

 

Nailed it.

Lots of colourful vegies, lean meats, snack on nuts and seeds, etc. The common sense good stuff.

 

What you've just named..

Stay away from "Man Made" stuff (Bread, Pop, Fast Food etc), eat plenty of the above, excercise a lot, and you'll come good.

I'd go Swimming mate, if i was you. That really opens up the lungs. Compliment it with Cycling as well.

 

While on the topic on lean meat, has anyone tried horse meat, as it was just legalized? Supposed to be the leanest meat there is, and I can't seem to get my hands on it anywhere.

 

ketamine. just say neigh.......

as the t shirt says....

 

I'm of the opinion that your diet isn't too much of a worry, as long as you don't start eating extra food. Intervals of jogging and walking until you can run 5km, 10km or whatever straight and once you're comfortable with that and feel like you've got a decent aerobic base then fartlek runs, then moving onto high intensity intervals when you're ready.

 

Just wondering, why do you say about having an "aerobic base"? It doesn't make sense to me.

Joe Defranco -

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http://www.defrancostraining.com/articles/38-articles/63-ten-training-myths-exposed.html​

 

I've seen many times that when an individual attempts to do as the article says, "anaerobic" based activities, and are in very poor cardiovascular shape, their heart rate goes way above AT quickly. Then, it takes them many minutes to get their heart rate down to even do the rest part of the work.

I really don't understand what the article is trying to get at, as it is so general and generic in nature. I'm not trying to discredit this guy at all, but some of the views in this particular "myth" are off base and maybe 4-5 years behind. He sounds like he has a very limited understanding of the aerobic energy systems function. One is that a good aerobic base does nothing to recover anaerobic processes. That is way off. I can give a more complete and thorough explanation as to what current research suggests if anyone wants to hear it.

T-nation typically doesn't put out good articles and knowledge when it comes to aerobic based training. Lyle McDonald does good stuff, but the best I have found is Joel Jamieson at 8weeksout.

Please know this is only to share knowledge, not start a forum argument.