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packrunning Anonymous
started doing conditioning stuff recently after 2 years of no sports or activities other than messing around on my bike.
A few days ago i got in a race with a guy who's almost exactly my size and build
(230-240lbs, 5'9" and 34" waist)
while he was carrying his girlfriend and I was carrying her twin sister (both around 105 to 115, small girls) on our backs for a 50 yrd sprint. I won by a default because his smoker ass fell down at the 40.
I had the bright idea of starting packrunning. decide if i could sprint 50 yrds with a 110 lb person on my back i could handle 36 lbs in a backpack for the half mile round trip to the intersection and back.
Now i live outside of town so i wasnt worried about being embarrassed or anything if i just stopped running or anything but 3 years of XC told me that if you just set a pace you can finish out anything...
i got home feeling like i was on fire in my thighs calves and everything above my abs and decided to ask a friend who's started training at West Point running with a 15 lb pack and he told me they're never expecting to run with more than 25. questions are:
Is this a good idea?[I survived the run, it'll be easier to continue in 2 days, correct?]
Is it to high impact?[235lbs of me with 36lbs of dead weight strapped on at the shoulders and with one restraint across my chest and another at my abs]
What long term effect will it have?[stam, speed, vertical, injury..]
Is my west point friend shitting me?[15 lbs wtf pussies]
>> Anonymous
the way the weight on your back hangs and shakes on your body - you are *far* more likely to cause permanent injury to your knees than if you were just 36lbs heavier.

Unless you are training for west point, professional football, or MMA... skip the weighted cardio and just LIFT MOAR in the gym.
>> Anonymous
Start with lighter weight and walk it out. It's going to take a while for your joints to adapt before you can even think about running with a ruck.
>> Anonymous
by outside of 'town' i meant the only public weights are at the public school. i dont go to the public school since the 2 years ago incident with the athletic director resulting in his public humiliation. [football game against the school's rival. he wouldnt play me because i was a soph on varsity, he had the starters in the entire first quarter and we were behind 36-3. He put me along with 2 junior friends of mine. 2 defensive series in 2nd quarter got me my entire season's action, 4 sacks and 60 yrds rushing. he took me out and we lost 60-9 at the half., when i didnt play the next game i joined Cross Country to finish the season and stopped showing up to football practices.]
>> ??
OP is severely overweight. diet, then excercise.
>> Anonymous
?? is about to be a clubbed nigger, go back to /b/
>> Anonymous
>>188849
well, ~235lb at 5'9" is pretty heavy
>> Anonymous
>>188817
Run with a pack of wolves.
>> Anonymous
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not exactly a fat guy friend, 34" waist and 56" at the shoulders
>> Anonymous
Don't run with them, just try to stay in front of them.
>> Anonymous
>>188873
should this make sense?
>> Anonymous
>>188877
i dunno. i'm trying to work out how to stuff wolves in a backpack..
>> Anonymous
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>>188864
ironic..
>> Anonymous
>>188870
huh, those shoulders look too built for no-exercise .. manual job or something?
>> Anonymous
>>188888
outside of town = on a farm, it's hay season, which means lifting and tossing and stacking 60lb bales of hay for hours on end right after...
planting season, which means carrying 80 lb bags of seed and dumping them into the planter at shoulder height right after...
Winter, 5 months of carrying a dozen 5gallon buckets of corn ground into feed for livestock over about a 100yrd spread at 3 locations every day, ever seen World's Strongest Man? they call it the Farmer's walk for a reason.
as for between hay season and winter? full on construction. from building Bins to Barns to pouring concrete and maintaining roofs. i'd call it a manual job yeah.
>> Anonymous
>>188906
wow, yeah.... we all came....
>> Anonymous
>>188906

Ah, you're a hayseed. No wonder you can't type coherent sentences.
>> Anonymous
k then if you work so much and you are still fat all you need to do us cut your calorie intake so eat less!
>> Anonymous
>>188916
>>No wonder you can't type coherent sentences.
In before fix'd
>> Anonymous
>>188923

You're a dumbass. Lrn2english
>> Anonymous
>>188917
I'm eating a hell of a lot less now than 2 months ago but still maintaining weight, propose a diet that's better than eggs fruits greens and coarse breads?
>> Anonymous
>>188917
Less eggs fruits greens and coarse breads.