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Started Day 1 of Week 4 of the NHS C25K plan and noticed for the first time I didn't feel completely exhausted after running for longer. This plan seems to be efficient in building up stamina and I have no doubt now it will bring me back to jogging for longer, which I *was* capable of when I was younger. The human body is actually built for endurance: a chimpanzee while having the physical strength of several men, can't perform tasks that require stamina like long distance running. In fact there are many examples where humans on foot practise persistence hunting, meaning running down an antelope or a horse to the point of exhaustion and even cardiac arrest.
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I am no athlete and not planning to become one by a long shot and my ambition isn't to run down kudus like the San hunters in the video, as it is far easier to go to the supermarket instead but I had completely forgotten that my body is capable of greater endurance than what it is currently capable of achieving. I shouldn't have stopped.
Diet Calendar Entries for 04 October 2015:
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1294 kcal
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Fat: 45.90g | Prot: 44.01g | Carb: 180.60g.
Breakfast: Kellogg's Corn Flakes, Whole Milk, Weetabix Whole Grain Cereal. Lunch: Tomatoes, Chinese Cabbage (Bok-Choy, Pak-Choi) (Without Salt, Drained, Cooked, Boiled), Zucchini, Green Giant Hass Avocado, Basmati Rice. Dinner: Philadelphia Original Cream Cheese, Rivercote Wholegrain Rye Crispbread, The Fishmonger Smoked Salmon, Rivercote Wholegrain Rye Crispbread. Snacks/Other: The Foodie Market Blissful Blackcurrant & Seeds, The Cooperative Triple Belgian Chocolate Cookies, Tea with Milk, Coffee with Milk and Sugar. more...
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3105 kcal
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Activities & Exercise:
Walking (brisk) - 4/mph - 20 minutes, Running (jogging) - 5/mph - 16 minutes, Resting - 15 hours and 24 minutes, Sleeping - 8 hours. more...
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