GOT Fitness LOG

[Black Belt Jones]

Got a mountain bike challenge at the weekend - 28 miles, 1500m ascent in the Peak. Sounds like nowt to you roadies, but Peak mountain bike miles count double! Will be a hard 4 hours I reckon.

There's one difficult descent - 'the beast', which is extremely rocky but ok if you mince down it. Course has it about 1 km from the start, so will be carnage as 200 blokes steam into a difficult trail about 2 m wide.

 

[sbbefc]

Its likely I'll be off the bike for a week, partly due to illness, will this impact on my fitness? Or is a short period off a positive thing?

 

[evilwebby]

Its likely I'll be off the bike for a week, partly due to illness, will this impact on my fitness? Or is a short period off a positive thing?

1 week probably won't dent in your fitness level too much, especially if you have a good base... indeed, you might even find that you fitness increases, similar to a taper effect. When you get to 10 days or so then the detraining effect will set in.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Its likely I'll be off the bike for a week, partly due to illness, will this impact on my fitness? Or is a short period off a positive thing?

It's getting to that time of year when I usually have a few weeks off anyway, just to refresh physically and mentally. I wouldn't worry too much, unless you have some events you're targeting late on in the season.

 

[Toffeelover]

On another thread, Woollyblue stated he did a full fitness in a lift whilst listening to Vivaldi's seasons which lasts for 42 minutes. Oh wait he confessed he lied! It was only 4 minutes.

 

[thirdmantackle]

Did a bit of testing recently, only back training in July after a year travelling.
bodyweight 80kg

Deadlift - 130kg
Squat - 105kg
Strict press - 58kg
Vertical jump - 110cm

doing loads of Olympic lifting too

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Doing a hill climb event in a few weeks time. Turns out David Millar's doing it. Should be kinda cool to see how easy he makes it look

 

[davideinstein]

Is the Paleo diet legit?

 

[Kiwi]

Is the Paleo diet legit?

As with all diets, it's about finding something that you like and that works for you. I've got mates on it that highly recommend it though.

 

[thirdmantackle]

Is the Paleo diet legit?

The problem with diets is that you have to come off them at some stage.
Then its back to old habits.

You'd be better off taking bits from various diets and forming your own healthy eating lifestyle.
Eg cut way back on bread, dairy and beer. Cut back on starchy carbs - spuds, pasta, rice.
Have meals 2/3 veg. So lunch is based around salad, dinner around steamed, stir fried or roasted veg.
Eat lean meat - no breading. Healthy protein with each meal - eggs, fish, hummus.

Diets are fads and a lot of them not sustainable

 

[Fuleco]

How was the Berlin Marathon @evilwebby ?

 

[ToffeeMark]

I'm on a brutal diet this week, cutting back carbs when it's over to maintain. Lost 6 pounds (3kg) since last thursday (4 days - 89kg to 86kg). Was supposed to have fruit for lunch yesterday but was out so had two jumbo sausages carrots and gravy for lunch and an omlette for evening meal, so despite not following the diet yesterday, still managed to have a low carb day. Fruit for lunch today, salad for tea with gym pm followed by 7 a side football tonight which should burn a pound or two. Diet ends Thursday but it's low carb, healthy eating after that and increase the gym work.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I'm on a brutal diet this week, cutting back carbs when it's over to maintain. Lost 6 pounds (3kg) since last thursday (4 days - 89kg to 86kg). Was supposed to have fruit for lunch yesterday but was out so had two jumbo sausages carrots and gravy for lunch and an omlette for evening meal, so despite not following the diet yesterday, still managed to have a low carb day. Fruit for lunch today, salad for tea with gym pm followed by 7 a side football tonight which should burn a pound or two. Diet ends Thursday but it's low carb, healthy eating after that and increase the gym work.

To lose 3kg of body fat you'd need to have burned off around 23,000 more calories than you ate. Reckon it'd be pretty hard to do that in a few days A rule of thumb is 1lb of fat is around 3,500 calories.

 

[McBain]

Sup Chubsters.

 

[ToffeeMark]

To lose 3kg of body fat you'd need to have burned off around 23,000 more calories than you ate. Reckon it'd be pretty hard to do that in a few days A rule of thumb is 1lb of fat is around 3,500 calories.

It's water and glycogen Bruce.