Reddit reviews Running for Mortals: A Commonsense Plan for Changing Your Life With Running
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This is a common challenge, and gets harder with marriage/kids/more job responsibilities/etc. I've been in the industry for ~25 years, and it has always been a constant struggle. The short of it is that you need to make the time. Personally, I run and do pilates for my exercise, total of 6 days a week, 1 hour a day. Where I work is conducive to exercise as we have a locker room and showers, so I do it there. To give you an idea of my schedule, I'm up at 4:40, on the train by 5:40, at the office by 7, exercise and clean up and in my seat by 8:30AM. I'm usually in bed by 10:30PM. I never thought I could run, but I used the book Running for Mortals . It literally changed my life. *EDIT* And I recommend Fitness Blender, TONS of free pilates videos on YouTube, from intro level to "dear god I want to stop" level.
I'm 43 years old, father of two energetic young boys and married for 15 years. I was at 265 lbs (120kg), over-eating, drinking too much and had no energy to live life, play with my kids or be a partner to my wife. Getting depressed....and cycling through eating and drinking and then feeling miserable. I was never an athlete, always a geek, but I'm thinking it has more and more to do with what you think you are; I never thought I could be a runner.
I had heard about the C25K, but was appalled at the thought of running. Might as well ask me to eat broken glass. I had finally had enough. I started thinking about a guy at work who in the past 18 months went from grouchy and 300+ lbs to 200 lbs and is now a pretty nice guy...all by running, watching his food and alcohol intake. If he could do it, why couldn't I?
So, one night I'm on my Kindle, and I search for 'running' and found Running For Mortals, which I bought, started reading and decided right then and there I could do it. The guy who wrote it sounded like me. Buy or borrow it, I think it is great. I went out and bought running shoes and started telling myself, my wife, my boss, my kids..that I was taking up running.
TL/DR: I was fat &, lazy but have decided to change that.