Yes.
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Don’t allow yourself to be goaded into foolish decisions.
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When, like all married men, you find yourself being goaded by your wife, remember #1.
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The key to surviving this will seem counterintuitive, and it is this: Don’t run too much. The temptation is to jump into daily running. Don’t–it is a 100% lock to get you an overtraining injury. Instead, run 3 days a week. On Monday do an easy 2-3 mile recovery run. (Recovery from what? Wait for it.) Wed is when you stretch your legs and run a brisk (but not hard) 3-4 miles or so. Friday is your long run, and is the key to your success (= survival). You’ve got 11 weeks to get your legs used to turning for 4+ hours, and the Friday runs are how you do it. This week, do the longest run you can comfortably do without risking injury–somewhere around 5-6 miles, I reckon. Then, every Friday add 1-2 miles to what you did the week prior. Weekends are for recovering from the long run. (The first few weekends might seem like a waste in this regard, but once your Friday mileage exceeds 12-15 miles, this will no longer be the case.)
And for god’s sake, don’t train legs in the gym while you’re doing this.
The swimming you’ll have to do–I suppose it’s too much to hope that it takes place in a pool?
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Theres no real ‘swimming’ involved, just cliff jumps and a short paddle to get out. More part of the obstacle course vibe than an sort of triathlon thing.
This is definitely the temptaation i have so a timely warning. I found a beginner marathon training guide along the lines you mentioned, two short, easy (starting at 20 minutes adding 5 or so minutes every week or two) weekly runs, with a long run at the weekend which gets progressively longer up to a half marathon. Ill stick to the plan and not improvise.
This one I’ll struggle with. But I can definitely dial it back, maybe specialise deadlift for a few months.
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Ill get this put on my gravestone haha
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No worries. I’ll contact your wife and get her to say to you ‘I bet you can’t go 12 weeks without working legs, Dear.’ Should do the trick.
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Here’s a fun confession.
A few folks know that I’m a staunch “no liquids during training” guy. Never cared for it. A few months ago I had an energy drink while I trained, just because I was behind schedule, and I thought it was pretty weird.
That said, there WAS one exception: back when I was running Deep Water. The squat days gave me AWFUL exertion headaches, and I took to drinking a zero carb Powerade during the workouts, followed immediately by an Excederin chased by a Rockstar (500mg of caffeine, for those keeping track).
I’m sitting here at work right now, drinking a Powerade, because work dehydrates me…and I’m panicking. My brain thinks we’re doing Deep Water right now, because that’s the only time I ever drank Powerade before.
I’m not sure EXACTLY what it is I’m confessing, but I’m about 5 weeks out from running it all over again…better get more Powerade.
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The confession could be that you inadvertently conditioned a panic response into the taste of zero carb powerade.
I have a couple of conditioned stimulus->response things inadvertently built into other things too.
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I confess I joined a sorority-at least it’s a CMU sorority so no typical Greek life stuff
I did it because:
- I need more female friends
- Connections are important for the future
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So I’m trying to see if I can get my hands on renting a barbell since gyms are closed anyway here in the Philippines. Some friends were suggesting to just do 100 burpees, 100 push ups, 100 this and that…
It’s a weird feeling to try and explain that doing 100 body weight squats is simply not the same as squatting 100kg…
Which leads me to the conclusion that… we’re a bunch of weirdos.
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Squats thrusts are world wide? That irritates me.
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Are you trying to get an olympic (2") barbell by chance?
Yes sir! But any bar will do as long as I can load it. Heck i’d even settle for thinner bars lol.
Try this
Axle are awesome, you’re bound to be able to get some pipe somewhere, and it’ll make you brutally strong all over.
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Nice!! I’ll be on the lookout. Thanks!
I agree - there is no way that it is as efffective to do bodyweight exercises.
my $0.02
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Don’t even need a barbell. Get a 100kg friend to sit on your shoulders and squat him.
(Note: the above is from a movie called Shot Caller and not from gay porn)
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Good thing you included a disclaimer… otherwise I would have thought that gay porn is somewhat different from what one would imagine 
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How much time do you spend imagining gay porn?
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I’d be surprised if it’s more than @Cyrrex 
Why imagine when you can just…
Um, I mean uh…
