Anyone get better at running without training for it specifically?

So I casually play slow pitch in the summer and have always been embarrassed about running the bases. I’ve basically avoided running since I was 13 years old and got teased in gym class for being so sweaty and red after playing sports.

I found myself running sometimes last season but always got reminded how slow I was by my team since I’m “the fat funny guy who can handle being teased”.

I know people will suggest just running if I wanna get better at it, but I have been told to avoid running when I work out due to arthritis in my lower back, so I’m kind of wondering if just general weight loss and strength training will make a significant difference? I’m sure the 20-40lbs of weight I hope to lose will help, but has anyone with experience with a situation like this?

Thanks!

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need motivation

hey! i’m turning 22 (F) in a couple of weeks and have been on and off dieting since i was 13. at my highest i was 184 pounds. last june, i was down to 130 and starting to feel pretty good about it and in a healthy space with my eating and working out. anyways, series of events super stressful few months, i’ve started eating A LOt. like most days i’m okay, under 2000 cal but three/four times a month the stress gets to me and i eat 4000-7000 calories in one day. despite maintaining an okay diet most days, these binges and very inconsistent gym routine have brought me up to hover around 145. i feel crappy. like terrible tbh. i keep reminding myself that i’m still a long way off from being back at square one but i would love to get back to the great routine and progress i had going last year. i think my point with this post is just that i would like a space to come and feel motivated to not sabotage myself. if anyone has any tips or stories of their own to share about the ups and downs of weight loss, i’d love to hear them! i really want to feel better and do better because i want to get back to the point where i was feeling really proud of myself.

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Question about calories and exercise

Hi! So im about 5'3" 133lbs right now and I want to get down to 115. I started at 165 and have been eating between 1200-1300 for the past year. In the last 2 months the weight loss has been very painfully slow (a 3lb loss as opposed to a 8lbs loss) and I recently joined a gym to try to jumpstart my weightloss again.

My problem is that when I joined the gym they said my MBR is around 2000 and I should be eating 1600 calories a day if I work out 3 times a week for about an hour. For me this seems kind of high? Im not exactly tiny but I'm still pretty short and I'm afraid that if I eat 1600 a day I'll start gaining weight back.

So should I eat at 1600? Or do a compromise at 1400? Also did eating between 1200-1300 for a year cause my weight loss to slow down so much? Thanks!

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We're Stronger By Science! Ask Us Anything

Hey everyone! We'll be kicking off the AMA at 5pm EST, but I'm going ahead an posting the thread so questions can start coming in.

There should be seven members of the Stronger By Science crew kicking around in here for parts or all of the AMA. Stronger By Science is a website/burgeoning media empire dedicated to educating and coaching anyone who's trying to get stronger, build muscle, lose weight, or perform better. We tend to lean pretty hard toward the sciency side of things, but not in a pubmed abstract warrior way. Most of us have actually conducted original research and all of us have a lot of practical experience with training and coaching, so I think we do a pretty good job of avoiding some of the worst excesses of the pubmed warriors who claim to be doing "Evidence Based Fitness." We'll be happy to answer any questions you have about fitness-related topics. The only topics we'll ask you to avoid are clinical nutrition (i.e. nutrition advice for different disease states) or eating disorder questions; we have a dietician on staff for those issues, but he can't make the AMA unfortunately. Since this is /r/LoseIt, I'm assuming most of the questions will be about nutrition and weight loss, but we're happy to answer any questions within our collective areas of expertise.

I'm Greg Nuckols. I'm a powerlifter and powerlifting coach. I have a MA in exercise and sport science, and have been coaching for a little over a decade.

Cody Haun: Cody has a PhD in Exercise Physiology and researches responses to exercise and nutrition interventions and how to monitor the training process for best results. He’s a coach and professor as well. /u/drcodyhaun

Jason Eure: Jason currently practices full time as an orthopedic physical therapist while also coaching competitive sport and strength athletes in person and online. /u/jmeure

Dale Keith: Dale has a bachelor's degree in exercise and sport science and is currently completing a master's degree in strength and conditioning. He is an avid powerlifter and wrestler. /u/dalekeith

Lauren Colenso-Semple: Lauren is pursuing a PhD in integrative physiology at McMaster University. Her research explores the influence of exercise, nutrition, and hormones on skeletal muscle. She also coaches recreational lifters and aspiring physique competitors. /u/laurencs1

Eric Trexler: Eric is a pro natural bodybuilder, a coach, and a sports nutrition researcher with a PhD in Human Movement Science. He is currently the Stronger By Science Director of Education, and a co-author of the MASS Research Review. /u/TrexlerFitness

Aaron Thomas: Aaron has a Master’s degree in Exercise Physiology and Sport Performance with a concentration in coaching. He has trained hundreds of college and professional athletes. Currently, he works primarily with powerlifters and physique athletes. /u/Strengthalytics

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Finally losing weight with CICO but energy is sacrificed. What should I do?

30 yo F 5'4, SW: 130 CW: 128 GW: 115

Long story short I was on wellbutrin about 5 years ago and that brought my weight down to 107-115 I was fluctuating and didn't realize it was the wellbutrin causing the appetite suppression. I was pretty restrictive at the time too. I was eating mainly a lot of nuts, veggies and fruit unintentional vegan due to stomach in tolerances... I started eating more and more nuts and that turned into trail mix and within two months I gained 15 lbs at the time I also stopped my wellbutrin (Oct2018) Since then I have been trying to lose the 15 lbs at least maybe get down to 120! I tried coaches, keto, vegan, paleo, IF, OMAD. I have restrictive behavior which causes binges. Also I have tried a lot of medication recently I've gotten back on my wellbutrin, phentermine, phendemetrizine and rhodiola. I worked at a weight loss clinic for a while and had some of the appetite suppressants left. My weight has maintained at 130lbs since Oct 2018. I know my weight has maintained because of the nuts and I am addicted to them no matter what I do I overeat and binge until I finish the container.

Cut to now I am finally seeing movement on the scale! I wanted to try an experiment to see if I eat all bars all day with some yogurt and nuts which is what I like. I dont like a lot of food. So currently I'm eating Lara bars about 3 a day with Choboni yogurt and some nuts in the morning. The rest of the day I'm at work or at yoga so I dont mind not having the nuts. So weight loss is about .5lb a week so i'm down to 127.5 currently with eating bars all day pretty much my calories to lose weight according to MFP after tracking its about 1300 calories. Where my maintenance with hot yoga is 1800 I have a good amount of muscle.

I'm noticing my energy EXTREMELY low, its taking a lot of stimulants and caffeine to keep me up and this could also have to do with my new office (boring corporate world) job. If I replace my bars with bags of steamed veggies and fruit here and there will that help with energy? I just love how im losing weight but I just dont feel good this way. The whole point of the bar experiment was to see if I could do without eating the nuts and lose weight and it worked so I'm just looking for whole foods that are low calories that I can eat throughout the day.

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Is 1,000 cals/day sustainable weight loss?

(19F/5'4"/CW175) I've been on the journey and gradually changing my lifestyle for a little over two months now and feel great. I slip up occasionally, as one does, but I'm learning to live with my mistakes and don't beat myself up over it as much as I used to.

Now, I've been doing IF ever since I started and it's been working really well for me. But as it turns out, getting your meals in during only six hours of the day is pretty challenging. I don't get noticeably hungry anymore and as long as I keep my cravings in check, I end up around 1000 calories a day (sometimes less). In my experience, one of the most frequently given advice is that too much restriction is bad/not sustainable, which is perfectly valid. I know going so low generally isn't recommended and I don't mean to keep it up forever (duh) but at the moment, I don't feel as if it's impacting me negatively. I'm not drained or tired for no apparent reason, I can get my workouts done and generally feel well.

I guess I'm really just asking for your honest opinion or any related experiences you might have. I don't feel as if I'm depraving myself of something, but my biggest fear is honestly that I'll up my calorie intake again when I feel like maintaining/going slower for a while and discover that my metabolism slowed to the point I'll plateau completely or even gain weight. I know, rationally, that it's rather unlikely for my BMR to drop this low, but if you were willing to put in your two cents on the matter, I'd be glad.

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Please help, I'm stuck !

Hello you courageous people trying to lose weight. I'm turning to Reddit to solve this problem, hopefully with your help, because all my research on Google was pretty useless ( it's full of articles with bullshit tips I already know ).

I'm sure my story is pretty common, but I'll tell it anyway to give some details ( might be a bit long to read, sorry ). I'm 35 now, male, and I've been overweight since I was a teen. 2.5 years ago I reached 110kg ( 252lbs ) and decided to go on a final "diet", well not really a diet, more of a lifestyle change.

So I stopped eating and drinking sugars and carbs, only eating white meat, fruits and vegetables, no exercise. I lost 25kg ( 55lbs ) in around a year maybe, without counting calories ( seems pretty useless since 1000 calories of carbs are not worth 1000 of proteins or vegetables, I just eat 2-3 times a day until I'm not hungry, with fruits inbetween meals ).

And then I hit the infamous plateau, couldn't go lower than 85kg ( 187lbs ), and I'm still fat. For a year I tried to not gain that weight back, keeping the same diet ( I'm probably condemned to eat chicken for the rest of my life if I don't want to get fat again ), and it mostly worked. But everytime I have a family dinner at my parent's I can easily get 2-3kg back, just by eating some chips, spaghetti or drinking a beer. Quite disheartening.

During Christmas 2019 I reached 90kg ( 198lbs ) because of chocolate and other tasty stuff. After some research I found something about how insulino-resistance and diabetes running in the family ( my grandma is diabetic ) could affect my weight loss/gain. Coupled with a sedentary life ( I work all day with a computer ), my metabolism must be pretty low and inefficient.

So, since Christmas I started exercising to boost my metabolism. 30 minutes of fast walking on a threadmill, 3 to 5 times a week, while lifting weight at the same time. Exercising is really hard for me, not physically, but because it's boring, even if I listen to music or watch a movie at the same time.

And it's made worse by the fact that... it doesn't seem to work. It's been more than a month, with no results. I measure my belly and it's still the same ( 111cm or 43 inches ), and the scale barely moved. I'm not expecting to lose 10lbs per week, but I'm wondering if it's gonna pay off in the long run. I hate exercising and if it's useless on top of that it's really going to drag me down. Not losing weight while avoiding all the things I like to eat is already hard enough, but working extra hard for no result is even worse.

I'd be glad to hear people who had the same problem and found a solution.

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