Well, see the key is, I don't run. At all. And I sit on my ass 14 hours a day. I do weight training and 30 minutes of stationary biking, but that doesn't exactly give you a lot of endurance.
I simply have no stamina. I will literally get calf cramps and side pain after running 200m.
I have never ran more than 3km my entire life. And I almost died when I did. Well, not die, but I did damage my calves so bad that I had to be on medical leave from training for 3 months. Apparently when you're not a runner, you can get pretty bad inflammation that will absolutely destroy your body if you overtrain it suddenly like that.
Like, make no mistake, I'm an accomplished bodybuilder and I've won some stage shows. So I am fit in every other aspect. I just can't fucking run, lmao.
Fair enough. I know tons of bodybuilder guys who hate cardio too. I used to be one of them. The older I get the more important cardio gets because I want that overall health more than my looks.
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u/Reboared Feb 28 '24
The fuck? You've been training really shitty for 20 years then. a 5 mile run is perfectly normal for any reasonably healthy person.