Can you run 1 mile right now, without stopping or having a heart attack?

SGT Kyle Taylor For Runners knee: work the Vastus Medialis...foam roll the ITB and TFL (lateral upper leg) these are the most common cause of runner's knee....unfortunately without any rest, it will persist.

I am on day 11 with no running or cycling. Driving me crazy and I think I am going to hold off till after Christmas before I do anything. I got a indoor trainer coming from Santa, new running shoes, and some cold weather gear. Will get back after it in a few days. I have been doing some swimming.

Congrats Keith on the marathon! It's a question of exercise physiology, i.e., slow-twitch muscles (marathon) versus intermediate twitch muscles (2 miler). Try some 400m and 800m interval work, plus interval work on hills (or stairs) at least once per week. My run times improved quite a bit when I added (free weight) squats and dead-lifts to my strength training routine. Look into the StrongLifts 5x5 weight training program (website and YouTube) for compound muscle - progressive weight training. I use the iPhone app 3 days/week in the gym. My Strava PRs keep increasing every week.

COL (Join to see) And probably another $73 Billion earned on diets, diet supplements and fad diets as well as gym memberships never used...that is a huge incentive to keep America fat.

I think that "study" is junk. If cops are so fat then how do they catch all these young kids? Think about it. Im a cop and I am probably the "fattest" person on the force at 5'11 240 - and no one has out run me (or won a fight).

SSgt Stevan Auldridge, What make you think this study is junk. At 5'11" a man would be considered obese at 215lbs. It is not a matter of running down kids it is a matter of being healthy and mitigating the onset of additional disease like diabetes, heart disease etc. What I think they are trying to do is identify a problem and then begin working to address the problem through the different pillars of fitness. We owe a debt of gratitude to the selfless service of our public servants. WE want to see them live a long time after they retire and the fact of the matter, retirement or when you are diagnosed with something isn't the time to start thinking about getting in shape or becoming healthy. We as tax payers want to pay your pensions for decades, not years.

Because the study comes from the 2010 National Health Interview Survey which infers obesity from Height and Weight and the sample size is fairly small. By their standards a 5'10 running back in the NFL is obese due to the deviation of the high weight scale as used which in turn the ALPM generates an article stating Cops are the most obese profession. I work here and as stated above I don't see fat people. Remember often times these studies come from imperfect samples and/or the person doing the study relegates their findings to fit their own perceived narrative. Are there fat cops? Yup. Fattest profession? I doubt it, but I could be wrong. There are aspects of the job that are very sedentary though as in every job. Here is an little tidbit from the study (Researchers did note some oddities within certain occupations. For example, they reported that firefighters and police officers had high rates of obesity, but also had the greatest amount of off-time vigorous physical activity. ) Supports my height weight hypothesis?