re: Beginning to run. Advice? About.com 8 week program.

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Body weight workouts are way better for you

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Any workout that sufficiently exhausts your muscles is the best workout. Jogging and other cardio workouts are pointless and possibly detrimental to your health.

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I get terrible shin splints from running on direct cement. I would suggest a track or treadmill if you could.

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This

Also once you get used to it that "runners high" is very niiiice

Just get the nike+ app. Go out for a light jog one day and then keep trying to beat your distance/pace records. That got me from a mile walk to running 3.1 miles a day in about 2 months.

The guy is 260 pounds. I don't think the guy I'd in shape enough to do interval training.

Insanity for him would be insane. The only thing that HIIT type training would do for him is get him injured real fast.

From the sounds of things being close to 300 pounds and dropping down to 260 is a good start.

I would recommend you start doing light weight training with light cardio. As for running, do a couple miles a day at first. Start by walking the whole thing first. When OK with that, start interspersing running in there till you can run the whole thing. Do a beginning right training thing.

The key here is do slow and light training when beginning because you are older and out of shape and you risk for injury is going to be highest at the beginning if you push yourself to hard.

Also I would recommend you start everything off with a visit to your doctor and have him do a quick physical to make sure you are healthy enough to start exercising. This is important.

Don't listen to the guys wanting you to do intervals right now, I don't think you are in shape for that yet. You have to enjoy what you are doing to keep doing it. You have to stay healthy to keep doing it.

Slow, light, and steady will win the race for you till you can handles more.

The key to dominating a 5k is to consume as much fettuccine alfredo as humanly possible and then shoot high for a 5.3 minute mile for each consecutive mile.

I'd say don't get caught up in time/pace since you're just starting to run. It's easy to get down on yourself when you have slow day or others might be faster. I think once you can run a couple miles without stopping then you can focus more on your times.

Just my two cents.

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Jogging and other cardio workouts are pointless and possibly detrimental to your health.

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I started back to the gym last October and have lost about 15 pounds. I used to work out a lot but let myself creep up to 250 and lost strength over the last several years. I would go to the gym very sporadically. I would work out for 2 months then lay off for 6. Wasn't going well. I've been eating healthier (try to keep my calories under 1850). I hit the weights. I'm more interested in muscle building. Strength is coming back. But I feel it's good to get a little cardio type worked in. I'm getting back into mountain biking, so I start every workout on the bike. I usually do 15-20 minutes. Good warmup for working out. I do pretty high resistance on the bike. Legs have actually gotten really strong, and I have no problem hitting the big hills on my real bike now. Then after the workout, I play a few games of 2 on 2 bball.

This system seems to be working for me right now. My only problem is keeping it up for the next 6 months (I like going by short term goals).

I have been doing a body weight circuit in my garage in the morning. I lost almost 10 lbs in the first week with the exercise and diet change.

Circuit training gets your heart up will still doing muscle training.

The thing lots of beginners don't understand about running is that you aren't really supposed to get winded.

Run at a pace where you can hold a conversation. Seriously. It's okay if your conversation involves more breathing than normal, but you should be able to at least exchange words with someone.

Yes, it's slow at first but after a year you'll be amazed at how fast you can go and chit-chat. Most running clubs are more social than anything else.

Not usually. Lifting heavy weights tends to burn more total calories then running an equal amount of time. But your diet should be the main reason you are losing weight. The heavy lifting and running should be to make you stronger and be able to do every day things easier.