Losing weight/fitness thread

[PaulMdj]

South Lanarkshire Council has an excellent scheme for the over 60's called Active Age.
For £10 a month we
get access to:

• 9 swimming pools
• 16 fitness gyms
• 9 health suites
• Racquet sports *
• Fitness classes
• East Kilbride Ice Rink
• Libraries activities
• Cultural activities
• Golf courses (**terms and conditions apply)

My missus and I have joined and it's a great scheme for keeping fit, meeting people socially and giving us some activity in our retirement.

That’s brilliant, we have a scheme around here, but nowhere near that good.

 

[PaulMdj]

Tried something a little bit different today, decided to do a slow 10 miler, as it was to be slow I thought I’d try a weighted vest.

Did a bit of research, main advice was to wear no more than 10% of your body weight, so vest weighed 7Kg and on initial fitting it didn’t really feel like much…felt it up hill after about 2-3 mile.

10 mile done in 1:39:09, so pace was ok.

Totally different feeling to wearing a pack for a CFT etc, and a lot less weight, anywhere between 15-25kg,(depending on OC) but weird as it’s distributed around your middle.

Has anyone used one or have experience of them? Not sure i’ll use it for short runs, but maybe for the longer slower runs.