FH Fitness Thread

[soze]

Yes they are a lot but it comes with a decent warranty and I am not small and Delicate. I tried 3 or 4 others and some of them I was lifting the back feet of the ground when I was going for it. Big and heavy with plenty of resistance was important. It is also brilliantly arse friendly so if I want to go for a 8 hour endurance ride I will not need a doctor to retrieve my boxers.

 

[MYstIC G]

I've been wondering about getting a heart rate monitor so I can target BPMs instead of speeds on my bike. What do you use and what would you recommend? I dont want one of those chest straps - too much hassles.

Also interested in heart rate monitor stuff at the moment if anyone does know anything about them

 

[Chilly]

The problem with most of them is that they're either wrist-watch like or chest strap. When cycling, watches are a nightmare and a chest strap is not very good when hunched over as for cycling.

 

[Gumbo]

You really don't notice the chest strap after a while, and it's pretty much the only reliable way of doing it. The cycling pros all use them so it can't be a cycling thing. I have the polar FT7 which I use for all cardio and running, it's basic but aces

 

[Chilly]

furry muff. will look into it.

 

[Exioce]

You're not gonna get an accurate heartrate reading without a chest strap. I use a Garmin Forerunner 610, chest strap included.
Pretty useful to see the log, you can see below my habit of taking it easy until the halfway point, then just going hell for leather until I get home.

 

[TdC]

I've been wondering about getting a heart rate monitor so I can target BPMs instead of speeds on my bike. What do you use and what would you recommend? I dont want one of those chest straps - too much hassles.

tbh I would get one with a chest band because they are much more accurate, and also because they decouple you from the wrist unit. I had a generic Polar, because I don't believe in splashing out for a Suunto.

 

[Chilly]

Hmm. Been looking at various items. I reckon I want to go for a bluetooth chest strap hrm so I can use it with any apps I happen to use on my phone. That way I can log everything in one place (both at home on the turbo and out on the road) and play with purdy graphs all day.

 

[Chilly]

Thinking of getting the wahoo blue heart sensor strap and their speed&cadence sensor. All bluetooth so I can hook it up to my phone or my pc, indoors or outdoors.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wahoo-Fitne...&qid=1392114194&sr=8-3&keywords=wahoo+fitness
and
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wahoo-Fitne...&qid=1392114194&sr=8-1&keywords=wahoo+fitness

 

[Chilly]

OK, well I bought em. Only £100 for the both. bit steep given what they are, but there's not a lot of alternatives on the market and the heart rate monitor has excellent reviews. They're bluetooth low power (4.0 thing) so they work on modern android phones. Wahoo have a beta android app so I'm using that, it's export function is fucked, though, and it wont display cadence on the screen. So, almost there, but I may just end up writing my own data logger app for the sensors with export to google drive or whatever. Anyone know of a windows based set of tools to look at this kind of data, other than manually fucking about in excel?

 

[TdC]

hospital today. shoulder is still fucked as in not fully healed; I have to wait two more months and then get some more x-rays done. It's now basically a race between the date the brace in my shoulder has to be taken out, and my slow-ass healing faculty

This is what I looked like today. Its an x-ray. Don't look at it if you don't enjoy bones and stuff

Spoiler

 

[Chilly]

unlucky homeslice

 

[MYstIC G]

hospital today. shoulder is still fucked as in not fully healed; I have to wait two more months and then get some more x-rays done. It's now basically a race between the date the brace in my shoulder has to be taken out, and my slow-ass healing faculty

This is what I looked like today. Its an x-ray. Don't look at it if you don't enjoy bones and stuff

Spoiler

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You appear to have been microchipped

 

[TdC]

meh

 

[Scouse]

meh

MOAR MILKZ!

 

[TdC]

I don't like milk per-se, but I drink lots of latte and cappuccino

 

[Nate]

Done a half marathon on Sunday got a really big medal!

 

[Chilly]

I've been wearing old shirts that now fit again and buying smaller stuff than before. Very gratifying, keeps me eager to carry on.

 

[Scouse]

Pilates (or the particular type I'm doing) is working great. Core strength is much better and back problems are disappearing quickly.

Used to get a very sore back on the first hard climb of a mountain bike ride. Now it's just a moderate ache that I know will go away when I've warmed up properly - and I don't walk and groan like an octogenarian when I get off my bike after 30 miles of jarring offroad madness any more

 

[Scouse]

How's the shoulder @TdC?

 

[TdC]

How's the shoulder @TdC?

hospital again in four weeks chum

 

[Tom]

Well this is a personal best I doubt I'll have the opportunity to beat this year. I'm aiming for 10,000 miles cycling in 2014, so far I'm at about 2,600 miles.

 

[Scouse]

I'm aiming for 10,000 miles cycling in 2014, so far I'm at about 2,600 miles

Jeesus christ Tom - I thought I'd done a fuckton of cycling last year - probably about your current level for the entire year. But then I'm a mountain biker rather than a recumbent roadie.

Still, ten thousand miles. How many miles are you doing on your average ride and how fast are you averaging?

Why not do a round the world cycle movie for the next two years. I'll come along. With my big lumpy tyres

 

[ileks]

That's really impressive. I thought going to the gym 4 times a week was good but damn.

Edit - just over 14 mph apparently @Scouse

Edit edit - And 51K calories. That's so much food.

 

[Tom]

I cycle about 16mph over a 46 mile ride. About 18mph over 23. My usual daily is 36 miles.

10,000 is a target, I'll try but work will be an issue. I may have to do some huge rides in the summer to make up the gaps.

 

[Nate]

Do you ride to work?

Guess bringing it in to more of your dailys would make it easier to get there Tom

 

[Chilly]

Just completed my first month of weight training at the gym under the supervision of my trainer. Three sessions of one hour each per week. Costing me a fortune but I'm making amazing progress. I do 50% more reps with 100% more weight today than when I started. I can *do* certain things I couldn't when I started and, crucially, I'm getting all muscle-y. Girls actually talk to me now, it's fucking amazing, I tells ye. I'm also down another pile of weight since the beginning of the year. Someone showed me a photo of me at a new years party and the difference is massive, just in those three months. I'm fucking proud of myself, frankly. Now, time to chase some more poon tang and bet on more cricket!

 

[TdC]

 

[Tom]

Do you ride to work?

Guess bringing it in to more of your dailys would make it easier to get there Tom

Difficult to ride hundreds of miles to work in a day...

 

[Scouse]

Great work Chilly.

Just completed my first month of weight training at the gym under the supervision of my trainer.

Any advice? I really don't want to muscle-build but I injured my arm last year basically because I lack the strength to avoid those injuries (I basically tweaked a ligament in my elbow lifting and twisting my bike) so I'm gonna have to man up and do it.

I go to the local council leisure centre twice a week to do a pilates class simply because you do a shitload of stretching (which I do none of) and work on core strength - which I had none of previously. However, I could do an hour of weights before both classes which would be massively beneficial I reckon and not too much of a disruption.

Legs are fine, I'd just want arms, shoulders and core strength...

I can *do* certain things I couldn't when I started

What sort of things?

Girls actually talk to me now, it's fucking amazing, I tells ye.

Aye, last time I had bicep bulges was when I split up with my ex (ten+ years ago) and the amount of interest you get is massive. However, I was suspicious of all those women - because I was the same person on the inside, y'know?