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 Posted: 10:01 - 03 Mar 2006  Post subject: commitment to get fitter.. |
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well after having found out I'm classed as "marginally overweight" I bit the bullet and decided to do something about it.
so after spending last night fitting my XC SPD pedals, and replacing the heavy, bombproof DH tyres with some tiny, skinny, superlight road ones, I cycled into work this morning.
21 miles 
took a little over an hour and a half.. which well exceeded my
expectations; I was expecting it to take about 2 hrs. After about 1/2 way, I found it less and less hard work, and evetually got into my stride just as I was nearing cambridge. Felt like I was never off the bike by the time I got here (i used to cycle shitloads, and thought nothing of 60 mile jaunts for the hell of it. Not been cycling proper for about 4 years tho.)
took me another 10 minutes to get changed, and thaw out my toes, mind... but other than that, i feel fine.
I do have that funny walk where your feet still want to move in little circles tho 
biggest frustration? getting about 1/2 way in, and going for a drink only to find all the water in the tube of the camelback had frozen solid. got some lovely frost on my hat, gloves, and bike too.
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Blimey, well done!
Not just the distance either but the getting up early, working a days graft and then doing it back home is a massive effort, you'll be trim in no time!
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| Posted: 11:39 - 03 Mar 2006 Post subject: |
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thanks for the peeps..
I've just checked up on the calorie burn calculator, and it looks like I've burnt about 1000 calories 
spose, that's 2000 each day I cycle in tho. (sounds a LOT)
the recommended daily intake for a bloke is about 2300 to maintain a steady weight, it should have an impact soon.
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Nice one feef.
If you are seriously looking at doing that to and from work every day you will definitely need to eat more, otherwise you'll have a body like a coatrack in no time at all.
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Hey, thats really good!
I have just started to get myself fit aswell. Started the weight training and the jogging. (Hopefully after a while I will go back to Thai Boxing aswell...when I am a little fitter though )
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| Posted: 15:58 - 03 Mar 2006 Post subject: Re: commitment to get fitter.. |
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| Posted: 16:09 - 03 Mar 2006 Post subject: Re: commitment to get fitter.. |
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I'll stay with jeans & waterproof trousers and just be cold.
Snow is fun but other than that I dislike anything to do with winter, I'm a southerner after all.
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You know that doing that much wont make you loose wieght dont you? Assuming you eat at the level required to keep your energy up. You'll merely put on more muscle as I'm sure your aware.
From what I've read BMI isnt really worth the paper it's written on. It doesnt take into account any factor's such as bone structure (large, average, small etc) or the amount of exercise you do. Most if not all rugby player's would be considered overweight if not obese for instance, even though theyre very fit and healthy.
EDIT: Make sure you dont lean too far round corner's as your pedal dog's in and you get flung off as I did earlier. 
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| Reuben wrote: | You know that doing that much wont make you loose wieght dont you? Assuming you eat at the level required to keep your energy up. You'll merely put on more muscle as I'm sure your aware. |
a total of 3 hrs of aerobic exercise will help lose weight.
if the energy expended is more than the energy in, and the energy in comes from a properly balancd diet, then it will help.
no muscle mass will be built for at least 12 weeks, as until then, despite feeling fitter, the body is just getting more used to the exercise, and becomeing more efficient at it, and not actually increeasing muscle mass. Equally, long bouts of aerobic exercise won't build muscle like short, repetitive bouts of anaerobic, resistance exercise.
my goal is 69kg by june.
from Wilmore & Costill, Physiology of Sport and Exercise :
| Quote: | physical training can substantially alter body composition. Many people have believed that physical activity has only limited influence on changing body compositionm and that even vigerous exercise burns too fw calories to lead to substiantial body fat reductins. Yet research has conclusivley demonstrated the effectiveness of exercise training in promoting major alterations in body composition..
.. most studies have found simila trends [ with regards to exercise's effect on bosy composition]
-total weight decreases
-fat mass and relative body fat decrease
-fat-free mass is either maintained or increases
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But to maxiise losses in body weight and body fat, it is necessary to cobine exercise with decreased calorific intake.
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one day a week instead of cycling the bike that 21 miles you should carry the bike hmmmm wonder if that's even possible to do? be good for building muscle I'd imagine? 
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when we used to jog quite abit to get fit they say every so often you should dart at full pace as fast as you can go for approx 5-10 seconds then slow it down back to a normal jogging pace and just do that every so often. Maybe give that a go but on the bike every 6-7 minutes.
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