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tri-sexual
Joined: 21 Mar 2009
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 Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:57 am |
too much is never enough!
you can rest when you are dead
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Cychologist
Joined: 13 Aug 2009
Posts: 14
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 8:36 am |
Wanna gain strength?
Do this along with the other stuff:
www.stronglifts.com
Youll get so much stronger!
C
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Always Tyred
Joined: 27 Dec 2007
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 9:09 am |
| MonkeyMonster wrote: | sounds like enough to me...
Problem begins when you stuff deep fried pizza with chips into the equation... or is that just an edinburgh thing... |
Don't joke. The life epectancy in parts of Glasgow is in the mid 50's. I think everyone from Richmond, Twickers and Esher should be forced to visit at least once in their lifetimes in order to feel less annoyed at paying 40% income tax, and ever so slightly guilty that they live in the same country.
Edinburgh is populated almost entirely by English people, or Scots who have been to Fetters and St. Andrews. Plenty cous cous, vegitarian pad thai or sushi, but you have to show that you are visiting for the festival in order to be served deep fried pizza in Edinburgh.
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roger merriman
Joined: 01 Jan 2008
Posts: 1891
Location: Londonish
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:32 am |
| Always Tyred wrote: | | MonkeyMonster wrote: | sounds like enough to me...
Problem begins when you stuff deep fried pizza with chips into the equation... or is that just an edinburgh thing... |
Don't joke. The life epectancy in parts of Glasgow is in the mid 50's. I think everyone from Richmond, Twickers and Esher should be forced to visit at least once in their lifetimes in order to feel less annoyed at paying 40% income tax, and ever so slightly guilty that they live in the same country.
Edinburgh is populated almost entirely by English people, or Scots who have been to Fetters and St. Andrews. Plenty cous cous, vegitarian pad thai or sushi, but you have to show that you are visiting for the festival in order to be served deep fried pizza in Edinburgh. |
I may live in richmond/twick etc but the area I'm from or rather where I worked are depopulating with entire streets and estates going, the worse bits do look very bad as the weather, being fairly high up tends to find it's way in.
though the areas in spite of booze and drug use tends not to be violent.
the areas reason for being has gone so they are year on year reducing.
silly tash time http://uk.movember.com/mospace/204583 |
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Greg66
Joined: 04 Jul 2008
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Location: The Embankment
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 10:57 am |
| Wallace1492 wrote: | | feltkuota wrote: | Wallace,
This might not be the most popular post but here goes. It is meant with the best intentions..
If your daily commute is 15 miles I doubt that it is really effective in "managing weight" or increasing fitness. Yes you're doing 75-100 miles per week but the advantages would be much greater to both if you were doing 2 rides of 50 or 3 of 33. I don't think there is much benefit to a 20-25 minute commute ride other than to improve bike handling. You don't get your HR up long enough to make a change and the ride is not long enough to manage weight and improve fitness.
The answer on the question re squash or badminton I'm not as sure about. Seen plenty of overweight squash players. I guess it all depends how active/hard the games are..
Bottom line though is you cannot do everything ie eat what you like, lose weight/increase fitness and strength. Something has to give.
As I say, if you were to increase the length of your rides or throw in an additional couple of runs of an hour then you'd see some results. |
I see where you are coming from and to a degree agree, however I feel that the 15 miles a day, although not in itself a great deal, is a good core start to decent fitness. Doing and hour of squash or badminton quite soon after (usually within half an hour of getting off bike) certainly adds to the mix. I have found it pretty good so far, but keen to hear others opinion, so on the contrary, it is advise like your is EXACTLY what I want to hear. Doesn't mean I will do loads more just good to hear what others think.
Incidentally I feel fitter than I have been for 15 years, so it is doing me good. I do want to do an extra run on foot each week of up to 1/2 hour, and when weather was decent, and before the clocks changed I did up to 25 miles on way home.
Keep the comments coming!! |
The distance itself isn't necessarily determinative. Sure, one/two/three hours on the bike is a good run out. But 25 mins of intervals (sprinting between lights) is a different exercise to 25 mins of pootling. It all depends what you make of it.
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don_don
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
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Location: Cheltenham
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Wallace1492
Joined: 03 Jul 2009
Posts: 1145
Location: North Glasgow
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Posted Sat Nov 7, 2009 12:22 pm |
| Greg66 wrote: | | Wallace1492 wrote: | | feltkuota wrote: | Wallace,
This might not be the most popular post but here goes. It is meant with the best intentions..
If your daily commute is 15 miles I doubt that it is really effective in "managing weight" or increasing fitness. Yes you're doing 75-100 miles per week but the advantages would be much greater to both if you were doing 2 rides of 50 or 3 of 33. I don't think there is much benefit to a 20-25 minute commute ride other than to improve bike handling. You don't get your HR up long enough to make a change and the ride is not long enough to manage weight and improve fitness.
The answer on the question re squash or badminton I'm not as sure about. Seen plenty of overweight squash players. I guess it all depends how active/hard the games are..
Bottom line though is you cannot do everything ie eat what you like, lose weight/increase fitness and strength. Something has to give.
As I say, if you were to increase the length of your rides or throw in an additional couple of runs of an hour then you'd see some results. |
I see where you are coming from and to a degree agree, however I feel that the 15 miles a day, although not in itself a great deal, is a good core start to decent fitness. Doing and hour of squash or badminton quite soon after (usually within half an hour of getting off bike) certainly adds to the mix. I have found it pretty good so far, but keen to hear others opinion, so on the contrary, it is advise like your is EXACTLY what I want to hear. Doesn't mean I will do loads more just good to hear what others think.
Incidentally I feel fitter than I have been for 15 years, so it is doing me good. I do want to do an extra run on foot each week of up to 1/2 hour, and when weather was decent, and before the clocks changed I did up to 25 miles on way home.
Keep the comments coming!! |
The distance itself isn't necessarily determinative. Sure, one/two/three hours on the bike is a good run out. But 25 mins of intervals (sprinting between lights) is a different exercise to 25 mins of pootling. It all depends what you make of it. |
I agree with you here Greg, I do pootle at times, but at other times go for a really fast time. Sprinting after others, a bit of SCRing. I certainly can get a good sweat going when I work it, and I do try and do that at least half of the commutes. As I said, I do feel it has made a difference so far, but just wanting to guage opinion.
My goals for next year are to ride from Glasgow to Durness (about 350 miles) in a week and get a personal best time in the Rob Roy Challenge (17 miles on foot, 42 on bike) I want to be able to say I am the fittest I have ever been, but not sure if I could get back to the levels I had in early 20's. But to put in in context, I am probably fitter now than I have ben since late 20's, so I think there is certainly scope for more improvement.
I also want to get a fe Munro's in the bag over winter.
Think I will not be worrying too much about diet, but trying to eat reasonably healthily, will run more and some light weights, that should sort me out for next few months.
Thanks everyone!!
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