I saw this news release from the National Runners Study the other day. This study tracks runners, their mileage, and their weight over time.
I've mentioned this study before, as it has shown that even at high mileages, runners gain weight with age. This new finding from the study tracked runners and their mileage over seven consecutive years, and looked at the change in weight. Here are the results:
| Annual Weight Gain(lbs) |
| Miles Per Week | Men | Women |
| < 15 | 1.4 | 2 |
| 15 - 30 | 0.8 | 1.4 |
| 30> | 0.6 | 0.75 |
Overall, there is a relationship beween miles run and weight, with the more miles run the less the weight gain. But still, even running over 30 miles per week, the subjects gained weight every year. And the answer to stopping this continual weight gain is not in adding more miles, but in designing a better exercise program, as I'll talk about in the next post.
I saw this news release from the National Runners Study the other day. This study tracks runners, their mileage, and their weight over time.
I've mentioned this study before, as it has shown that even at high mileages, runners gain weight with age. This new finding from the study tracked runners and their mileage over seven consecutive years, and looked at the change in weight. Here are the results:
Overall, there is a relationship beween miles run and weight, with the more miles run the less the weight gain. But still, even running over 30 miles per week, the subjects gained weight every year. And the answer to stopping this continual weight gain is not in adding more miles, but in designing a better exercise program, as I'll talk about in the next post.