On Tue, 05 Feb 2013 20:28:31 +0000, Orchid Win7 v1 wrote:

> On 05/02/2013 05:11 PM, scott wrote:
> 
>> I have a crazy guy who sits next to me in our office (so again training
>> is not his full time job). He's going to run the London marathon this
>> year, but for him that is just a warm up for the iron man triathlon
>> he's doing later in the year. In case you don't know (I didn't until I
>> looked it up) it's 2.4 miles swimming, 112 miles cycling and then a
>> full marathon running. That probably will burn a few days worth of
>> calories :-)
> 
> Yeah, I'm not saying that nobody can run a marathon. (Clearly quite a
> lot of people can.) I'm saying that normal people don't end up looking
> like Arnold Schwarzenegger - you know, the whole "arms thicker than tree
> trunks" kind of thing. Heck, I'm walking around a public *gym* and
> nobody looks like that!

You seem to think, though, that it's a binary state.  Either you go to 
the gym full time to look like Schwarzenegger, or you sit on your butt 
all day in front of a computer and have the endurance of a half dead 
sloth.

Surely you realise there /is/ a middle ground.

Jim

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