Age: 29
Height: 5' 11"
Weight: 165 lbs
Body Type: Thin
Goals: Be healthy and look good naked
I have a sedentary job and I work A LOT. That's the nature of my career, so there isn't much I can do about that. I try to counter act it by jogging in my neighborhood for about 20 minutes three times a week. I run every Mon, Wed, and Fri morning. My goals with running are to keep my heart and lungs healthy, and to keep from getting a gut. My heart and lungs really need to be strengthened, they currently force me to stop running every five minutes or so. Oddly enough, this isn't a problem I have on a treadmill, only when I run outside. I canceled my gym membership for financial reasons, so it's outside or nothing.
I look fairly healthy, but I don't FEEL healthy or strong because I'm not a particularly athletic person. Never have been. I'm guess you could call me an adult computer nerd from the original Nintendo generation
While I do want to keep the gut away, I'm concerned that running will cause me to loose weight. My grandfather has the same build and he looks like a stick figure that swallowed a grape. So it's a balancing act of trying to keep healthy and keep the gut off without making myself even thinner.
I have a simple weight bench at home with some free weights. I hit those two or three times a day. I'm not trying to get ripped, I just want to tone up a little. I guess I'm going for the "swimmer" look, thought perhaps not as extreme.
Bearing in mind that I don't want to loose weight, should I eat before or after I run? Most of the info I've read says after, but most of that is aimed at folks trying to loose weight.
Also, any other tips you guys can pass along given my situation will be greatly appreciated. I'm trying to keep this all very low cost and relatively low maintenance. No gym memberships or expensive weight gain shakes. Just stuff I can do easily and inexpensively from home.
Thanks in advance!
-Dustin
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