re: I quit doing cardio

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As a former collegiate strength coach, one of the more frustrating but also fascinating aspects of human adaptation is that they are highly individualistic and also adaptations are never in a vacuum. If even the most learned doctor tells me something so specific, I will be highly skeptical of what they say afterwards.

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Yeah, I definitely get that. Reminds me of starting out with my wife, she would get discouraged because I would make faster progress at the start, but hers was a more steady improvement week over week. Where I would have a huge improvement in the first couple of weeks, and end up in a plateau after a little while. Not talking about lifting, but strictly running. We decided to do a 5k together. I had ran a few but she wanted to train and actually race in one. I hadn't been running in a couple of months due to an injury, so we did it together. Naturally I got it back relatively quickly, but it took her more time to get to where she could run without walking breaks. We all adapt differently, even with the same/similar training.

As I've mentioned in here previously, walking is great. One of my kids has soccer practice for 90 minutes once a week, and I'll just make laps around the field for about half of that. Just a slow pace. I'll try to walk 2 miles while there, and do 15 minute walks once a day at work. Doesn't sound like much, but it adds up if you keep at it.