Tell me about it!!!!

It makes it a pain in the arse for gaining size as my body wasnt designed to carry more than average mass.

Im about 14 stone and pretty lean although i could be doing with getting a tad leaner. I keep progress pics which i will be due to update in a few weeks. Probably not suitable for a running forum but if anyone is interested in the progress of a recreational and pretty lightweight bodybuilder then ill post.

SJ

Put some piccys on flexing you muscles

LOL

....I think i will save myself from a death via flaming and not bother haha. Save it for the bodybuilding/powerlifting forums.

Welcome ..

Long gone has the days of the skinny long distance runner ... I do 4 days a week on the weights and can still run very well in fact better than when I weighed less

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Simon
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Sounds great. Why do you think that is? Better overall conditioning and because you are involving the fast twitch muscle fibres aswell as the slower ones when running?

I usually only train with weights 3 x per week in a very intense manner. The rest of the time is used for recovery and from now ona little Cardio work :rollseyes:

I think that I have trained some muscles better than when I just used to run and do no weights and I think that certain muscles are now stronger and less prone to injury.

I am not a body builder I am a defined but bigger guy, I am however going down a stone so I can compete running again and there is a fine balance between weight loss and wanting to keep on the weights as they almost work against each other

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I think resistance training is a good thing to just add to cardio that you do, hell even I get a bit of resistance training in there a couple times a week, just do leg press and some shoulder and back stuff to vaguely mainting my climbing muscles (seeing as I haven't been in 2 months!!) Anyway I noticed quite a big difference from not doing much!

The fun thing I think is that I can lift way more than my body weight through several reps in several sets... harking to genetics, I actually think I was just born to be hulk, I have to be fairly careful with resistance training and stuff because I just build muscle WAY to easily. There are many a pubescent boy who wishes they had my biceps... or just scrawny guys in general hahaha.

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Hi SJ

Welcome to RF and ask away...

TT

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Really? I mean of course you don't have to be skinny to run reasonably well, but I'm pretty sure it's not co-incidence that most elite runners aren't very bulky

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Hi SJ, welcome to the site.

I've always secretly wanted to do some weight training but never seem to get round to start (those gym places are scary) so I might pick your brains some time.

Thanks for the welcome singularity.

A lean runner could make very goon noticable imrovements in quite a short time if they get the diet and training right. Dont be shy to ask

Not bodybuilders but there are certainly bigger Elite athletes I know because they are at my Uni and are doing more and more weights nowadays....

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You just have to focus on yourself and ignore the posers or bigger guys and gals ... there is always going to be someone bigger and better just think that you can run 100 m without being out of breath cos most of the guys in my gym cant

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Exactly, Cuprasi. There's a lot of guys in my gym exactly like that.

Needless to say, there was a bloke just ahead of me at last year's Glasgow half and he was shredded to say the least - the muscle didn't seem to be holding back that much.

Just got back from the gym and there are some hard core big boys running lol

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