I was just wondering if any other runners out there experienced difficulty in tryin to lose just like 3 pounds...Also if you are really at like your standard base weight, that you naturally gravitate towards? I am female, 5'8, 125...Wondering if 120 would help/hurt?
XCrunit1 wrote:
I was just wondering if any other runners out there experienced difficulty in tryin to lose just like 3 pounds...Also if you are really at like your standard base weight, that you naturally gravitate towards? I am female, 5'8, 125...Wondering if 120 would help/hurt?
well there is such a thing as a racing weight, but to a degree. a group of students played around with their weights and performed VO2max testing at each weight. they found that the lighter you are, the fast you run (think alter-g treadmills) however they also found what was too light. i would suggest anytime you have a good race, figure out your weight going into it and thats prolly where it should be. so in theory, 120 will help, but you're p.r.ing at 125, i wouldn't change much or purposely lose the weight, especially for you being a female where i think other things are more important than racing well
XCrunit1 wrote:
I was just wondering if any other runners out there experienced difficulty in tryin to lose just like 3 pounds...Also if you are really at like your standard base weight, that you naturally gravitate towards? I am female, 5'8, 125...Wondering if 120 would help/hurt?
wow , I'm 5'4 and i weigh 119, do i need to lose weight?
If you are already at the weight to which you normally gravitate, then I would say "no," definitely not in the long-term. I know that for me (I'm 5'7, 122-23), when I'm training seriously (60+ miles / week including quality workouts), I would have to basically not eat anything (or less than 1200 calories / day) to get down to 119 / 120, or alternately, I would have to consistently increase my caloric intake by about 1000 calories / day to get to 128-29. If you have to drastically reduce calorie consumption to get to 120, then I'd say that it won't help you, performace-wise. If, on the other hand, cutting out one snack gets you there, then who knows.
Yeah I am 5ft3 100lbs. I think 95-100lbs is the weight I race best at.
Yes - That's exactly how I feel, I am in heavy training right now, (50+ miles per week, with 2 workouts, one killer track workout per week) and my range is 124-126 for 5"8, and it won't dip...This has also been my range that I have weighed when I did pr's this past year with 9:45 3000, sub 5 in mile, and 35:20...I just didn't know why I can't seem to shake another pound or two and test racing at like 122- 123 and see if it helped even more.
Yeah I know. Since we run so much it should be easy but it really isn't.
I am 4ft4, 86 pounds stop making me feel fat!!!!!!
losing weight but no propulsive muscle will improve your times by
~ ratio of weights ^1/2
if you can't shift the weight, see a dietitian for a formal assessment
alternatively, you coud hit the weights room & try & turn any excess fat into muscle ( muscle burns of blubber very well ) & look for extra propulsive force - that may also make you faster
Well, I can say that in college, I probably ate about 60% of the calories that I eat now, as a post-collegian, and though I weighed about the same then as now, and performed workouts / mileage of a similar level, my running (at least from 5k up) is dramatically better now than it was as a collegian. I can only imagine that much of this is attributable to increased energy. So at least for me, I don't think that dropping the weight a few pounds would produce running gains, merely because the caloric intake would need to be so low that I could hardly function.