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Needing some help to get started running. (lemmy.zip)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/running

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Trying to see if anyone has a routine for someone totally new to running. I'm a big fan of "this week do this, build up to do this, etc..." I'm in my thirties and from a young age until I was about 20 I had severe asthma. I've never been good at running. Asthma doesn't bother me anymore but I'm needing something to do while traveling for work. I work construction all across the state and come home on the weekends.

If anyone has some ideas that would be great. When I do stuff I tend to over do it then it then it's hard to make myself go out again.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I'll look into finding some kind of a watch. The first and only smart watch I ever owned I forgot to take it off and melted the screen while welding. Decided they weren't for me.

I'm pretty sure my form is bad. My walking form is bad. I fractured my leg right under my knee in a dirt bike crash. I thought I just sprained my knee so never thought anything of it. Took about a year for the pain to go away but I basically re-learned how to walk to compensate for the pain. So I tend to walk with a limp even though it doesn't hurt anymore and I have people ask all the time why I'm limping. It's something I have to think about all the time to try to walk normal. After a hike my wife is like "my calves are sore" and I'm always like "weird my thighs are sore right above my knees"

Can you recommend any guides or videos on a proper running form?

[–] JohnnyH842 1 points 10 months ago

If you decide you do want a watch, my wife loves her Garmin. It comes with running training software/program for free which she used to train for a 10k and then a half marathon. She found not having to program for herself to be very valuable and motivating. It's not one of the top tier ones but it does everything she needs.