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Never ever run in my life! School sports never happened. I’m more of a lone sporter. (But not very good on exercise in general) I am considered as obese and in my 60’s with moderate asthma. I have a couple of questions

1. Do I have to do every other day? If I carry on exercising other ways at weekend, can I run Mon/Wed/Fridays

2. As I’m very unfit, can I repeat week one?

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Well done completing week one. Your plan sounds good re Monday, Wednesday and Friday with something else at weekend. For me I always left two days between each run as I felt I needed that. On this plan you can repeat whatever you like, however if you have successfully completed the first I would just move onto week 2.

Please remember as well as the five minute walk at either end of the run to do dynamic stretches pre walk/run and static stretches post run/walk. You will find plenty on you tube from Ben Parkes and James Dunne. Good luck with your running. Trust in this programme it really does work.

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Nannalaine in reply toHareshaw-Granny

Thank you 😊. This group are so lovely. I’m going to study some YouTube now ☺️

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Hareshaw-GrannyGraduate in reply toNannalaine

Also forgot to say try not to run too fast, a slow jog is just perfect at the beginning. We’re all a big family of snails 🐌 🐌 here.🤣🤣

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Nannalaine in reply toHareshaw-Granny

🤣😃

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Nannalaine in reply toHareshaw-Granny

I found a YouTube in slow jogging from Japan, that’s certainly me!

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Hareshaw-GrannyGraduate in reply toNannalaine

Very popular on here!!!👍👍

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