One of my former college swimming teammates is one of those people who prides herself on being (or being perceived as being) 110% intense about everything, all the time. It's tiresome. Anyway, she just posted her FB status:
A: If you can read while your working out, you should just get off the piece of whatever equipment your butt is on and sit on something more comfortable.
One of her other friends responded,
B: That's pretty judgmental... Reading on the elliptical at the gym was my breather in the middle of the day, and I still got a decent workout.
A writes back:
A: [ B ], if your able to read, it's not a decent work out. (Of course assuming one is healthy, abled bodied person). It's not judge mental, it's the truth. If you're doing it for a break, that's one thing. But if you're doing it to be healthier, lose weight, tone, etc, you have to work out much harder than people are able to while trying to read and exercise at the same time. It's not judgmental, it's facts.
--
So many things I want to say, but I know it's pointless to engage. Right?
Post by emilyinchile on Nov 19, 2014 13:59:28 GMT -5
Ugh, I say don't engage, but I would be so annoyed and would, in your shoes, be tempted to mention how you have the occasional relaxed TM run/trainer ride yet still managed to do a half IM. And maybe throw in something about how all that reading helped you learn the correct use of your/you're.
ha! I have trained for entire halves, at a pace of 6.2/9:40 for 14 miles, and done speed work at intervals of closer to 7.8 for short periods, while reading magazines. Actually reading them, yes.
I would respond with that because I take the bait all the time.
So I just edited the OP to add A and B to make it a little clearer. B just responded again:
B: Still judging! It's still a ton more calories burned than sitting on the couch. Not everyone is looking for the same thing in a workout. And its still healthier, you still tone your legs.
So firstly they both need @mrschicken's bar of soap.
Secondly, I was sort of hoping this would escalate more. I still have hopes. I just don't want to get into the fray, especially with A. A is one of those people who has to be right about everything, especially things like religion, politics, and how to workout and be intense, i.e. things where there isn't really a right answer anyway.
ha! I have trained for entire halves, at a pace of 6.2/9:40 for 14 miles, and done speed work at intervals of closer to 7.8 for short periods, while reading magazines. Actually reading them, yes.
I would respond with that because I take the bait all the time.
I need to understand how this works. I am literally the slowest runner on earth (R caught me once in a 10K which he was WALKING. I was still running at the time. (wilted)) and I cannot read and run at the same time. It's like I need a sports bra for my eyes because they just jiggle all over the place and I find myself getting dizzy and unable to focus.
I need to understand how this works. I am literally the slowest runner on earth (R caught me once in a 10K which he was WALKING. I was still running at the time. (wilted)) and I cannot read and run at the same time. It's like I need a sports bra for my eyes because they just jiggle all over the place and I find myself getting dizzy and unable to focus.
I require an explanation here.
I can't either, but there is a girl at my gym who constantly runs at 8.5+ while reading her kindle. I'm always in awe.
Also the thought of running on a treadmill for 14 miles makes me weep, so you're a double rockstar shauni27.
mrs.jacinthe It took a LOT of practice--I do not read books/kindles, the font is too small for me and harder to concentrate, but I can do magazines and read the articles. I started when I used the elliptical in college "reading" magazines, looking at at the pictures and scanning the headings. Then after about a year of that I was able to read the articles. Once I moved to the TM, it took a lot of practice, and I was a lot slower, running at like 5.2, but over the course of a few months I was able to read just fine and now I can read on the TM at any pace. I find that I NEED to read because it is just challenging enough to distract me from the fact that I am on a TM. A TV show or movie doesn't distract me enough
scm1011 I learned to run on a TM, so until I got to 8 miles, the longest run I had ever done outside was a mile. I just don't mind it--with the right reading material, ha!
"Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-"God damn it, you've got to be kind.”