I've been on my weight loss journey for almost 3 months now and am really pleased to say that my fitness has improved a LOT from going to the gym 5 times plus a week and doing cardio and a little strength training.
Currently I do 15mins on the treadmill at a speed of 5.7k an hour, at a gradient of 5%. The thing is that I have it in my head that one day soon I want to be able to jog/run. For a lot of years I've had a dream of running the London Marathon one day (I know, I'm mad!) I don't know why I have this dream, have never done more than run for a bus or something, but it's there all the same.
In all honesty I doubt I'll ever run that marathon, but if I could just get to the point where I can jog/run on that treadmill then I'll really feel I've achieved something.
My weight at the moment, 249.5lbs, I feel may still be too heavy for me to try, am I right or is that an excuse? How about the speed I'm currently walking? Is that a million miles away from the speed of a jog? I think when jogging you do it on the flat, am I right? And finally, my biggest problem, my chest lol, I'm currently a 42f I reckon. I'm wearing a 46f at the moment but have two new 42e which fit on the band, but are still too small in the cup. These babies bounce big time so how on earth am I going to jog with them? I'm in the UK and it's really difficult to get a sports bra that size. If that is what it takes then I will get one, but I don't want to lay out the cash if I'm a way off trying to jog yet, because if I keep shrinking then it won't fit again by the time I really need it.
I've read about the C25K and it sounds good, but I'm that new to all this I don't even know how to go about doing those first 60 seconds of jogging, what speed I should put the treadmill at etc.
Sorry for all the questions, but I hope there are some of you seasoned joggers/runners out there who may be able to help answer some of them.