What constitutes a minimum workout for you denizens of letsrun?
I would submit that 15-minutes is the barest of bones, unless one is a 1-mile-per-day all out balls-to-the-wall type of less-is-more extraction.
Don't denigrate those guys and gals: they are putting it all on the line, albeit for a short duration.
1-mile is the probable bottom rung. Yes, I know guys who blast a mile a day and not much more. There's a sports
writer for a Boston newspaper who claims to have run a mile
a day for years. Shaughnessy maybe?
3 miles or it doesn't count.
agreed... 3 miles is the least i will run...
C O A C H wrote:
3 miles or it doesn't count.
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10km easy is my shortest run.
Five miles easy...unless it's the day before an ultra/marathon....four miles easy.
Some one did a study on this question and concluded that 35 mins. was the min. workout from which you could get any benefit. Anything less is worthless, according to the study.
Minimum for aerobic benefit maybe, but runs shorter than 35 minutes can have other benefits.
I run by time. 30 minutes is the shortest amount of time I'll go. If it's less than that, it's not worth taking a shower.
Have you ever heard of a speed workout? or are you using the term 'workout' to mean any type of physical activity? I usually only hear that from inactive people.
You need around 15 minutes for aerobic benefit. I don't count anything under 20 min except warm ups and cool downs.
Agreed, I'll sometimes go out for 25 to 35 minutes early evening just to get away from the wife/kids/computer/whatever.
So, if i run for 34 minutes I may as well have not run at all?
And by the way... sauce?
Python wrote:
Have you ever heard of a speed workout? or are you using the term 'workout' to mean any type of physical activity? I usually only hear that from inactive people.
You need around 15 minutes for aerobic benefit. I don't count anything under 20 min except warm ups and cool downs.
Workout to me means speed workout too (that is to say, a broad category encompassing anything uncomfortable, from balls out 200s to a 10k tempo on the roads).
I usually don't do less than three miles, but I count any running I do as running (i.e. I count warmups and cooldowns but not running to catch the bus or playing pickup soccer).
Normally 3 would be least I would do, but on a few occasions when I've been very sick or injured, I have counted a 1 mile (and been glad to get).
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So, if i run for 34 minutes I may as well have not run at all?
And by the way... sauce?
I like hot salsa myself.
One mile.
That's how I started out.
if your workout can't qualify as a warmup for someone in shape, then its a failed attempt at a workout. dont worry, you'll do one some day
that said, i think the effort should be gaged more by time of exertion than the distance. some fat guy struggling for 30 minutes to walk half a mile can be the same level of exertion as one of us going out for a 5 miler
so... 15-20 minutes is my minimum range