How good is jogging for losing weight? Please read details.?!


Question: Ok, so my bike got stolen, I can't go biking to lose weight. I don't have the money to buy another one, 4 the time being. I wish I could jog, how do I start if I'm a beginner?
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Sorry to hear about your bike!

If you want to start jogging, here a few tips:
-Start slowly. Be sure to walk for at least 5 min first before you jog. Do some stretching once your muscles are warmed up.

-Bring a water bottle (and maybe a music player (mp3, CD, radio, etc) to keep you motivated)

-Jog slowly or you may be out of breath really quickly.

-Bring a stopwatch and try jogging for ___minutes then walking for ____minutes (ie. 5min jogging, 3min walking). This will help you build up your cardio fitness and make the jog longer and more bearable!

-Check to see if there is a local "Running Room" store or another group like that where beginners can jog together and learn good techniques. It's usually not very expensive to join a jogging group- plus the added benefit is that you have people around who help you keep up with your jogging!

-Visit some sites online for tips for joggers.

Hope that helps!
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It would depend on your fitness level, and overall health. I would say, if you are in good health, just set reasonable goals to begin and build up slowly. Don't try to do too much right away or you could set yourself up for disappointment, frustration, and physical pain that might lead to giving up. Drink lots of water, try to get a partner to help you out. Check out these sites for info and encouragement.
Source(s):
http://www.halhigdon.com/beginrunner/plan.htm

http://www.sparkpeople.com
jogging is great for weight loss and over all health. To start, you can either do a treadmill or go outside. Outside is best since the tred does half the work for you and it is actually harder on the knees.

First of all, form is important. That is something I am working on too and a book called Chi Running is really helpful. It will keep you injury free. If you ever heard that jogging is hard on your body, this book/method helps the body move naturally while running and helps the body avoid the damage associated with running.

As for how to get into it, it depends on how much you could do. Try going very slowly for 30 minutes going into a brisk walk when you can't jog anymore and then go back into a jog after a minute of walking. Once a week jog/walk for twice as long as you normally go for, so go for an hour--even if you can't jog the whole time, just keep moving for an hour. Eventually you will be able to do it continuously and that will be your "long run." long runs should be done at a slow pace.

A heart rate monitor will help you check if you are working hard enough or too hard. Keep your heart rate between 140-155 for the easier runs, and you could get higher for the harder runs but it is hard to maintain that pace for a long time.

You could start with 3 days (2 easy and one long run) and build up to this workout:

M: easy run
T: tempo run
W: rest
Th: interval training
F: easy run
S: rest
Sun: long run

You should do your long run after resting a day. Easy runs are the same pace as long runs but and half the time. tempo runs are basically running at a race pace, so you could start out easy but get faster as you go on. Interval training is going easy then sprinting and then going easy. Try this ratio: 5 minutes easy to 1 minute all out sprint.

Do that for a month and you could actually not only improve your health, but you could consider racing 5 Ks.

Also, be sure you have a really good running sneaker or you will get an injury. Also warm up, cool down and stretch properly. You could find tips on all of that on runnersworld.com and in the magazine.
Source(s):
Chi Running by by Danny Dreyer and Katherine Dreyer
http://www.chirunning.com/shop/home.php

http://www.runnersworld.com/

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