Before we get into this I need to throw a disclaimer up, this is not my area of expertise, so what I’m going to do is give you some possibilities so you can explore them with your personal health team.
Based on the email Joanne sent us I think this is what she is actually asking.
‘I feel like I’m starving myself and I’m still not losing any weight, I’m at the end of my road and I don’t know what to do anymore, can you help me?’
Does a workout have to be at least 30 minutes long to be effective? The short answer to your question is No it doesn’t but it really depends what you want, If you’re an elite athlete then no it won’t be enough, if you’re just trying to live a healthy life then it probably is. There are are several considerations you have to make in deciding how long a workout should be.
There are a couple of things we need to cover here, the first being for most people there is nothing inherently dangerous with losing weight quickly, but you should check with your doctor first in case it is for your individual circumstance. But for the most part if losing weight quickly was dangerous for everyone gastric bypass surgery wouldn’t exist.
Unless you and your partner together decide to make a change or live a certain way, you probably won’t get buy-in from your partner, so you need to find work arounds if you want to stay with that person. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned you can’t change someone that doesn’t want to change, and most people don’t want to, but here’s my best guess for how you can make it work.
We're doing this episode because you have a box of what exercise is in your mind, not a literal box a metaphorical one, it’s a story you tell yourself about what exercise is. Where you've come to the conclusion that there are only one or two ways to exercise.I think we really need to broaden the definition of exercise.
But at a certain point you might ask yourself ‘I’m doing all this running and can go really far, but why am I not getting any faster? So these are the top six strategies you can use to run faster, you can try as many of them as you like, each one should be good to add a little bit of speed to your runs.