My race on Saturday went well!  It was good mentally in a way that other races haven't been.  I think I might have turned a corner - for the first time I found myself thinking "You know, you can run faster than this."  I'm looking forward to trying when I resume training tomorrow.  

Monday - rest
Tuesday - running/stretching
Wednesday - pilates class
Thursday - running/stretching
Friday - piyo class, tai chi class, pilates class
Saturday - yoga at home
Sunday - running/stretching

Monday-Strength Training; Swimming

Tuesday-3 Mile Run

Wednesday- Spin Class

Thursday-TRX Class

Friday-Spin Class

Saturday-5k race here in my hometown?

Sunday- Rest

Have a happy, healthy week!

Yours in WLS,

Bill Mac

The habits of your youth will dictate the problems of your old age.  Even if you don't have extra fat now, you DID, and the damage to your joints was done.  So I wouldn't discount joint trouble.  

I would recommend making an appointment with a physical therapist or orthopedist and getting checked out.  

Protein pills?  The efficacy and bioavailability of these post WLS have to be giving you a considerably under dosed total...You'd have to take dozens of them per day to initiate any type of protein synthesis response.  What type and mg are they?  Again, as for the muscular fatigue in the legs while running, I suggest building up your slow twitch muscle fibers first....try a leg workout twice per week outside of your cardio.  Focus on unilateral exercises, such as single leg leg curls and leg extensions, high volume squats and lunges.  Be sure to add in work for your abductors and adductors as well as calves and soleus.  These will allow a greater strength curve over time and will help build ALL of the muscles in the leg.  Remember, when you begin to fatigue, the most underdeveloped portion of the leg will go first (think of shin splints for example), so you want to make sure you're adhering to a program that hits the entire muscle properly, not just one specific portion (like people who focus on quads and don't do much for hamstrings...or people that do a bunch of standing and seated calf raises and neglect the soleus, or front portion of the lower leg).  You MUST work antagonistic muscle groups together!  Best of luck!  Keep us posted!

You must focus on training specifically for endurance to help with your leg strength.  Simply put, for the purposes of this conversation, we have two main types of muscle fibers, slow twitch and fast twitch.  Fast twitch are your 'fight or flight' muscles that allow explosive movements.  These grow larger and at a more rapid rate than slow twitch.  Slow twitch muscle fibers are those that allow a longer time under tension and are typically found in the abs, legs and calves.  These can sustain a heavier volume of work inherently by the way they are trained (walking, standing upright, etc), otherwise we'd be falling all over ourselves 24/7!  That being said, you should focus on training your slow twitch muscle fibers accordingly to help maintain proper posture during exercise while keeping the amount of work volume high.  Supplementation and nutrition peri-workout is also key for this.  You can check out glutamine, chondroitin, MSM, glucosamine for the 'pain'.  I would also make sure I had sufficient carbohydrates in my system (the RIGHT ones at the RIGHT times) to further help fuel the workout.  Lastly, understand that you can absolutely train a specific muscle fiber properly.  It goes well beyond the standard weight lifting practices of "3 sets of 10", you have to train according to your goals.  So remember, high volume training and secondary isolation exercises for quads and hams are key to eliciting further Type II muscle fibers.  Feel free to message me for more info! Thanks and best of luck!