I have already spoken here about «ragged tempo».

Jogging during more than an hour and a half makes organism to use saved fat supply by way of energy source. Yes, it uses, but not in such volume as we want. Nothing of the sort. As many fat as person wants to burn during jogging, wouldn’t burn. The marathon distance – it is a maximum of 300g of fat. How many people are there who want to lose weight and can rightly do this?

P.S. Jogging more than 3 times per week – and you can say «Goodbye» to the muscle bulk. Losing weight more than 1kg per week – is proportional to later weight gain. Jogging is a good help by competent training and diet!

P.P.S. There are a lot of weightlifters, but making photos of different jogging competitions, I haven’t seen any person with an excess weight. But what is the meaning of competition? I often see guys with excellent build in the gym, they do not take part in jogging competitions, but in bodybuilding and swimming. Accordingly I have never seen a runner with normal mass of a body.

Let me draw a conclusion, in order to run – one must be light, in order to raise weight – must have muscles.

The quantity of burned calories is count approximately as kg/km (the kilograms of your own weight multiply by kilometers you have run). It is relatively exact calculation. In the book of Arcelli and Canova there are some examples of run’s energy content by different runners. This index fluctuated from 165 to 240 ml/kg/km (milliliter of oxygen to kilogram-mass to kilometer of run). The liter of oxygen will be enough to oxidize carbohydrates on 5,05kcal. (i.e. oxidized 1,23g of carbohydrates, 1g of carbohydrate = 4,1 kcal.). So we get mean value of energy content from 0,83325 to 1,212 kcal/kg/km. By person with average technique this factor is equal to one.

It means, for example, for 10km I spend 700-750 kcal.

Speaking about 150 for an hour of jogging – I think, 150 will be burnt itself, for example, while traveling by subway. Perhaps, during sleeping it spent about 50 kcal per hour, and while sitting on the chair – approximately 100.

Speaking about 1500 per hour, so 75-kilogram fatso should run 20km for an hour. I believe not many people are able for this.

By the way, there are fat runners. They run 160km per week and stay fat. (They do not have a paunch, but they want to lose weight).

Perhaps it is good that there are not any video courses which tell about how to run rightly. I should say that nobody knows how to do it correctly. However it is quite possible to shoot something inspiring (like a history of one training). But runners do not need it, and not-runners will not see it.

Thanks again.