I have made running one of the biggest priorities in my life, but I am a 27 year old man and I weigh 130 pounds! I weighed slightly more in the 9th greade. When is it time to put on some muscle and become a man? I guess I am only thinking about this because I am currently injured, but what do you guys think. If it isn't making you any money...why do we do it?
I'm 39 and 139 lbs, I actually weighed 3 pounds more in the 9th grade. Got you by 12 years and 9 lbs. Good question. Personally I've never been able to stop, so I've stopped trying. Guess as a quitter I suck. This reads like a telegram. Over.
Why don't you ask Mr Chest
A few things:
1) You can be 130 and be muscular. Kind of depends on how tall you are and how much fat you have. We need to at least know how tall you are before we can determine if you're too light or what.
2) Muscles does not equal being a man. Muscles just mean that you work out with weights and are perhaps more overall fit than someone who doesn't work out with weights (or uses resistence training of some sort). Has nothing to do with manhood, so don't worry there. You could be a man or not - we simply can't tell based on the info you gave us.
3) Why do we run? Entertainment, fitness, youthful looks, health, runner's high, joy of being outside, and on and on. Not everything is about money.
4) If you are at a crossroads, you can still continue to run, but just allow other things to gain more priority. Ask yourself this - why do YOU run? If it is a chore, then quit or step it back a bit. You're only on this planet so long. Some will take that statement and run MORE. Others will take it and run less, allowing time for other things. Just seems like you've got some thinking to do.
I feel the need to point this out, b/c many a thread turns into talking about anorexic female runners....
The guys on here seem to be WAY more into posting their weight and talking about losing weight to "get fitter". Some of you are way too obsessed about weight and losing weight that its a bit scary sometimes. I think a lot of people on here need a reality check.
I'm not pointing a finger at the original poster, I just wanted to make a point.
i'm 43, 5.8 and 130 lbs. 35 mpw at 6.45 pace. is this a man? hells yeah. i get laid all i can handle!!
8" wrote:
Why don't you ask Mr Chest
Ha! I have trained you all well....you are coming around finally! The day you put 50 more puounds of muscle on your puny weak frame will be the greatest day in your life.
Don't complain--a lot of us "men" would love to have your problem. As you get older, getting fat is too easy for the majority of us. Be skinny and happy.
Because we can.
You either love it or you don't. If you feel being 130 is soemhow hurting you, then quit.
And at 27, you won't grow up, just out!
Flome wrote:
3) Why do we run? Entertainment, fitness, youthful looks, health, runner's high, joy of being outside, and on and on. Not everything is about money.
I think you can scratch health off that list. Most people on this board, including myself, would continue to run even if it made them less healthy, which in some ways it does.
Just stop runnin' dude! I was 130 last June, now I am 160 pounds o'love! I was 127 in college 10 years ago! Holy shit I'm pathetic...
dukerdog wrote:
Flome wrote:
3) Why do we run? Entertainment, fitness, youthful looks, health, runner's high, joy of being outside, and on and on. Not everything is about money.
I think you can scratch health off that list. Most people on this board, including myself, would continue to run even if it made them less healthy, which in some ways it does.
Well, there's the give and take with health, but certainly the beneifts far outweigh the negatives for most people.
beer & pizza, milk shakes and McD's- a certain starting point at gaining weight. Fried chicken is a tasty way to throw on some poundage as well.
Of course you may end up being 150 with the same swany build and 20 lbs of fat sitting on your waist and gut.
Personally I'd take the 130 and running well.
I'm 37 and 113lbs., so I'm just a little offended. I kid. I'm a father of two and a faithful husband, have a successful career, and treat people with respect. Those are the things that make me grown up, not my weight. Plus, I currently have a beard, so there's no doubt that I'm a man.
Sorry, but thats gross.. you need to put on some weight, unless you're only like 5 feet tall. But still, thats gross
"For dangerously underweight individuals such as yourself...If you rub some food on a piece of paper and it turns clear- then you know that is a good food for you. It is your window to weight gain!"
Stop running! Seriously! When I was in HS I wrestled and stayed around 154lbs. at 5'7". After hiking the Appalachian Trail twenty years later I lost 29 lbs and never got it back. When I started racing seriously in the 80s, I bottomed out at 112lbs. Now I stay at 122lbs. Stop running and grow up & out.
When is it time to grow up (or out, rather)? (The following aren't jokes or sarcasm, they were me)
When she asks you to carry her to bed and you can't.
When anyone bigger than you looks threatening.
When you can't even bench your weight once.
You can't give your kids a piggyback ride very far.
No one respects your space.
When you have no self confidence.
When no one is impressed by how skinny you are.
When you ask, "Why the hell am I still running so much?"
Ironman was once all of the above. Ironman now bench presses 300 and looks great because all those years of running gave him a low body fat %.
It's your world, you can change it.