We came across an interesting article in the NY Post where many women say arathon training caused them to gain a lot of weight - between 15 and 30 pounds.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/03/marathon-training-made-me-fat/
Have any of you put on major weight while training?
"I'm training for a marathon - I can eat anything I want!"
No. No you can't.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We came across an interesting article in the NY Post where many women say arathon training caused them to gain a lot of weight - between 15 and 30 pounds.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/03/marathon-training-made-me-fat/Have any of you put on major weight while training?
I've talked to these types. I didn't click on the article but the ones I talked to were running 20-25 miles per week which is soooo easy to out eat. They are exercising so they are hungrier and are burning such a negligable amount of calories, especially when you factor in sports drinks and gels during jogs. I'd actually be surprised if I started hearing that they were losing weight while marathon training.
Water weight due to increased blood volume.
I just posted about this (see the "Fatties..." thread).
I've been refreshing every ten seconds and NO ONE has replied to my thread. How did you scoop me this way? My thread was way more explicitly hostile and thereby delightful...
Ahem wrote:
"I'm training for a marathon - I can eat anything I want!"
No. No you can't.
If i run 100 miles a week I can. and do.
It's certainly possible that marathon entrants who do low mileage and do it slowly can gain weight. I contributed to the charity of as woman on my street who was doing a fall marathon. I noticed that as the race approached, she actually looked heavier. And she "ran" about 6:45.
LetsRun.com wrote:
We came across an interesting article in the NY Post where many women say arathon training caused them to gain a lot of weight - between 15 and 30 pounds.
http://nypost.com/2016/10/03/marathon-training-made-me-fat/Have any of you put on major weight while training?
Run 150 mpw and I guarantee their bodies will look more like Ritz than Oprah.
You don't get fit by running, but you have to be fit to run.
I bet everyone on this board who is a runner was already relatively skinny and fit looking before they started running.
This concept is not new.
https://runningugly.com/tag/rachel-cosgrove/
Alan
Ahem wrote:
"I'm training for a marathon - I can eat anything I want!"
No. No you can't.
^This
Also happens to men who double down on their food consumption.
according to people who study obesity, running doesn't do as good a job as diet because people increase their calories as much or more than the extra calories they burn from running. However, those are people doing limited mileage and not burning a lot of calories and probably drinking lots of sports drinks. I have yet to meet an overweight person running 100 miles per week.
jjjjjj wrote:
according to people who study obesity, running doesn't do as good a job as diet because people increase their calories as much or more than the extra calories they burn from running. However, those are people doing limited mileage and not burning a lot of calories and probably drinking lots of sports drinks. I have yet to meet an overweight person running 100 miles per week.
They'd get hurt before they even got close to 100 mpw
bigtool05 wrote:
jjjjjj wrote:according to people who study obesity, running doesn't do as good a job as diet because people increase their calories as much or more than the extra calories they burn from running. However, those are people doing limited mileage and not burning a lot of calories and probably drinking lots of sports drinks. I have yet to meet an overweight person running 100 miles per week.
They'd get hurt before they even got close to 100 mpw
I think they'd be able to build up to that level over the course of a couple of years but I doubt the vast majority of them would want to. I think the bigger issue is time. Most people don't want to devote much to any kind of training/exercise/weight loss. "It cuts into my Netflix time lol." 30 minutes a day is seen by many as a tremendous investment. 100 MPW is a completely different world; it's a considerable amount of time even if you're fast. For the average jogger type, maybe hitting 9m miles on a good day, it's completely out of the question.
Not surprised
Walking for 10 minutes while downing energy bars and then eating extra food for meals because you're in training isn't healthy.
It's not marathon training that's making them fat, it's marathon eating.
I think the main issue here is that there is a big difference in what people are calling "marathon training". The women I see out in my training group who are all very fit and lean (but not elite athlete lean) all train very hard for marathons. They run 40-50 mpw, maxing out @60. They push themselves very hard at interval sessions, tempos and long runs. On easy days, they still run with some pace and do not just shuffle out 12 min miles. No one obsesses about diet other than making the usual good choices on what to eat.
Then there are the people who go out with the "couch to marathon" programs and run minimal mileage, very easy workouts and most everything is at a pace that is just faster than walking. On long runs, they will stop for 10-15 minutes to chat with friends. The pace is so slow that they can talk the entire way and sound like they are sitting on the couch at a coffee shop. At first, the increased activity might knock off a few pound. But after awhile, they acclimate to the distance and consume enough calories to easily cover what little was burned off. If self control goes out the window, they will gain weight very quickly. But the result would be the same if they were doing yoga, cross fit, pilates or cycling. They just think that because they are doing a marathon "training" program they can eat freely. If they actually trained for a marathon instead of doing the minimum amount of shuffling needed to finish the race, they would not be gaining weight.
As expected, article does not report training mileage or anything beyond how \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\"starving\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\" running made fatties feel...
ya I noticed myself gaining weight while training for a marathon and then guess what I became smarter about what I was eating and how much and holy shit I started losing weight instead.
These are the types where the main goal is just to finish the marathon, which equals a 10k of jogging/walking, and then 20 miles of walking. To achieve this, they most likely max out at about 20-20 miles a week, as the poster in the other thread mentioned. These are the type of people as well who gorge themselves on crap because they are a "runner." It is very easy to imagine them putting on tons of weight.
You will not come across a runner who is actually marathon training at 80+ miles a week that gains weight.
xcrunner6 wrote:
Ahem wrote:"I'm training for a marathon - I can eat anything I want!"
No. No you can't.
If i run 100 miles a week I can. and do.
You really can't, and shouldn't. But keep on ruining your training, no worries bro.