FH Fitness Thread

[Moriath]

So.

Tough Mudder? Fucking brutal.

That is all.

Gratz.

 

[TdC]

Nice one @Big G !!


In other news, while my toe fixes itself I've been doing sprints on the stationary trainer. I've just completed a set. I look like I've been standing under a waterfall for a few hours 0_o

 

[Scouse]

Sigh. Back to work.

I was doing this sort of thing last week

Spoiler

*no, not me - a couple of mates

 

[TdC]

Declared my toe fixed and did 50km on the road-bike in two hours including a stop to sit in the sun, eat apple pie and drink hot chocolate.

The carbon monster is something else altogether... Just rides beautifully.

Evidently my regime of trainer sprints is doing something to/for me, because for someone who's just done 4,5 weeks of fuck and all I was really strong and just floated along. I had to work a bit for the 300 vertical meters, but hey ho, such is life

 

[Moriath]

Declared my toe fixed and did 50km on the road-bike in two hours including a stop to sit in the sun, eat apple pie and drink hot chocolate.

The carbon monster is something else altogether... Just rides beautifully.

Evidently my regime of trainer sprints is doing something to/for me, because for someone who's just done 4,5 weeks of fuck and all I was really strong and just floated along. I had to work a bit for the 300 vertical meters, but hey ho, such is life

As if there are hills in dutchlands.

 

[SilverHood]

So.

Tough Mudder? Fucking brutal.

That is all.

Congrats! I did a few of these when they were just starting out on the East Coast. The one on Mount Snow in Vermont was particularly brutal, running up and down ski runs in the snow.

 

[TdC]

As if there are hills in dutchlands.

hence the working for it

 

[Moriath]

hence the working for it

I dont get written sarcasm cause of my aspergers. But go to swiss. Hit some hills.

 

[TdC]

no worries chumlar! I am trying to do La Suisse, but atm I've just discoverd that the MTB holiday (booked by someone's girlfriend) is actually not where it was supposed to be. We were supposed to be on the French/Swiss border, but the silly cow has booked a bunch of us in a place on the French/Spanish border. Her response: hills are hills, dudes. Nice.

And there was me wondering why people were talking about having to drive for 12 hours, pff. Us nerds had kind of wanted to see if we could visit CERN as well. Anyway hey ho it's no real punishment to lie on a French med beach

 

[Moriath]

See if you can cycle to andora. Instead of cern. Guess they both begin with s lol

 

[Tom]

I did my fifth half marathon yesterday and my legs are wrecked. Couldn't be arsed cycling today either, I'm giving my body a brief rest. I also had a major diet failure as I've eaten about 4,000 calories so far today :/

 

[Scouse]

I did my fifth half marathon yesterday and my legs are wrecked. Couldn't be arsed cycling today either, I'm giving my body a brief rest. I also had a major diet failure as I've eaten about 4,000 calories so far today :/

You prolly burned up 4000 cals on your half marathon so don't beat yourself up. There's only so much weight you can lose. What's your fat percentage dya reckon?

I on the other hand had a gentle hour or so's ride this evening - with a stop for 20 minutes to climb a tree and pick a metric fuckton of cherries.

That's right. A metric fuckton. Says science.

I'll be eating cherry pie for ages. Ho hum

 

[TdC]

I did my fifth half marathon yesterday and my legs are wrecked. Couldn't be arsed cycling today either, I'm giving my body a brief rest. I also had a major diet failure as I've eaten about 4,000 calories so far today :/

Beast!

 

[Tom]

You prolly burned up 4000 cals on your half marathon so don't beat yourself up. There's only so much weight you can lose. What's your fat percentage dya reckon?

I on the other hand had a gentle hour or so's ride this evening - with a stop for 20 minutes to climb a tree and pick a metric fuckton of cherries.

That's right. A metric fuckton. Says science.

I'll be eating cherry pie for ages. Ho hum

More like 2,000 calories. I'm still about a stone overweight although unless I wear a tight t-shirt you'd never know.

 

[Tom]

Had a nice ride around the Trough of Bowland today (Lancashire). Lovely area, a bit like Wales except the sheep aren't as worried.

https://www.strava.com/activities/359698619

Only downside is that the sun was out, but only wherever I wasn't.

 

[TdC]

back from my little holiday to the Jura. it was quite nice. I got out on the MTB a few times. need to train my climbing, pfff

here's the view after 600 meters of climbing. for perspective, the highest point of my home town in the NL is 80 meters above sea level.

Spoiler

 

[Tom]

 

[leggy]

For those with a Fitbit device, I've created a FH group on the Fitbit site:

https://www.fitbit.com/group/22GKBL

I've found a little bit of competition has already got me walking 26 miles this week (since Wednesday).

 

[TdC]

I'm >< that far away from buying a Cotic Soul 650B MTB. Component list's about 3K euros now

 

[Tom]

I have an Ultegra Di2 groupset waiting for a frame. My wheels are on order, custom build with Royce hubs. I'm currently trying to find someone in the UK who sells eggplant-coloured cotton bar tape so I can do a harlequin wrap, because I don't like the modern bar tapes - they all look ugly.

 

[Scouse]

I'm >< that far away from buying a Cotic Soul 650B MTB. Component list's about 3K euros now

Dooo it!

Buy it from where Cy makes the frames in Sheffield then book yerself a weekend's MTBing in the adjacent Peak District to celebrate

 

[Scouse]

So. The culmination of the nerdy awesome shit I've been buying has resutled in my missus' car looking like this at the weekends:

Spoiler

Sorry - awful blurry photo from a bad angle, but

I daresay that my aerobic fitness will take a hit as I'll often no longer be doing two days lung-busting on the mountain bike but instead a day on the bike and a day in the kayak. But my upper body strength and muscle tone will, if I can get us to do it often enough, come on leaps and bounds.

Tried the boats out on Llyn Gwynant over the b/h weekend and was pleased to find that I still retain a lot of my old canoeing skills - including the ability to roll back upright on both sides - with or without paddles. In fact I find the new boat a lot easier to do that than with my old one (kayak design having come on leaps and bounds in the last 30 years).

Tam's struggling to consistently go in straight lines, however. It's going to be a long and arduous road for her again - just as it was with the mountain biking. But she's pretty good at that now so there's no reason she can't get to the level of being able to do a few days sea jaunt with overnight camps on secluded beaches, long multi-day river trips and reasonable-level white water.

Only problem with the kayaks is that it's a lot of either-end faff with loading and securing the boats, unloading, washing equipment etc. etc. Not exactly the motivation you need for a mid-week evening jaunt which she'll require to really bring her skills on. I may see if I can find a local club that do an evening pool session however.

Either way. The car looks cool with boats on the roof and bikes on the back. And it easily stands up to the rule that the kit you carry should be worth more than the car itself

 

[Trem]

I had a Fitbit and I liked it but hated pressing the button to see the time, so I sent it back.

Anyway back to fitness, today I found out that white vinegar is good for removing tobacco stains from your fingers, dab a bit on and scour away a little bit and hey presto those stains are far better. Fit fingers once again.

 

[Scouse]

@TdC. Keto. I'm kinda interested to give it a bash. Not sure how practical it'd be for me but interested. Could just do with boshing a last stone and a half and getting to the lower end of my healthy BMI range (so MTB climbs and long-distance shit is easier more than anything else).

You got a decent resource you could recommend me to start reading? Diet plans and the like?

 

[Exioce]

Spent the weekend sea kayaking and wild camping off Arisaig.
Loads of common seals, cormorants and shags, even spotted a couple of otters.

 

[Scouse]

Awesome @Exoice. I'm well jell. Looks like the weather was excellent.

I took Tam out last year near a little north of Arisaig - lovely place called Applecross (we camped on the beach for a few nights) and paddled out to a seal colony. If the weather's not too bad this weekend I'll be doing the same near Hilbre on the Wirral.

 

[TdC]

@TdC. Keto. I'm kinda interested to give it a bash. Not sure how practical it'd be for me but interested. Could just do with boshing a last stone and a half and getting to the lower end of my healthy BMI range (so MTB climbs and long-distance shit is easier more than anything else).

You got a decent resource you could recommend me to start reading? Diet plans and the like?

Well, there's the reddit on keto which is pretty comprehensive chumlar. They have all kinds of links to planning apps / websites that let you look into the future, so to speak, as well as -more important imo- decent recipes of things to cook.

Me, well, basically this is what I do: just stop consuming the major carb sources; this means no more bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, nuts (other than almonds), any grains, soft alcohol (super distilled like the gins, vodkas, whiskies of the world are ok every now and then), no fruit, none of the flavoured "dairy" drinks like chocolate milk or sweet dairy products and certainly nothing sweet. "Fuck me Teeds!", I hear you say, "I like them things!" Yeah chumlar, so do I. Still, keto is about training your bod to eat fat. The way to do this is no carbs. You'll want to aim for < 50g carbs per day. The well 'ard ketoites go for something like < 25g.

So what can you eat? Basically anything not on that list. So...all the meats, all the cheeses, (fatty) fishes like haddock, salmon, etc. Eggs...so many friggin eggs. Salad. Mountains and mountains of salad greens, especially spinach. Pure, unsweetened yogurt. Milk. Salt everything. Things like sodium and potassium are now your friends. Find sources in what you eat and go to with a will. Water. Go gay for water. Water is now your best friend with benefits, and you want him inside you as often as you can manage. When I'm full-on ketoing, I try to go for at least 3 liters of water per day. You'll pee like a camel, but you're also pissing out ketones and you don't particularly want the excess banging about your bod. Pee with a will, then drink more water. Drink tea too. Tea fills me up when I feel hungry.

A downside is that you *may* feel a bit ill in the first couple of weeks (first time around, I didn't). Flu-like symptoms (they actually call it keto-flu), headaches. Some people get muscle cramps, especially at night. Cure for that -I've been told- is to drink a couple mugs of lightly salted water, or some broth, bovril, whatever floats your boat. The thing I personally get -bit unsavory, sorry- is odd poo behaviour. Prolly lack of fiber; I've not yet paid attention to it long enough to work out what to do about it. Anyway, I go from going to the loo for a poo once or more every day to once every couple of days. Sometimes after eating a salad or some cheese I'll feel like it's gone straight through me. Other than that, no problems. In fact, I get energy in spades. Too much of it in fact, like I just never get tired.

First time I did some biking while on the keto I was well scared I would somehow run out of energy and just pass out or something. That didn't happen. You can get isotone drinks that are easy on the carbs for rehydration if you need, but water suits me just fine. For trail nibbles you might want to try some salted almonds. IIRC almonds have the lowest carbs to net weight ratio of the nuts...something like 13g/100g.

It's a bit of work, but you can get creative with the food so it won't be dull as fuck. Me, I don't particularly mind eating steak, chicken, roast, bacon, salmon 7 days a week. I consume mountains of salad greens, cheese, eggs. No problem!

 

[Scouse]

Interesting. Apart from:

Things like sodium and potassium are now your friends.

They're really not. Long term if you're exceeding the limits your body retains more water to get your blood sodium levels down - which is where high blood pressure comes from - eventually your body goes "fuck it" and just keeps retaining a higher proportion of water in your bloodstream to dilute.

Other than that, interesting. I may give it a go. Difficult with a partner who I share meals with tho.

 

[TdC]

Yeah, I know. I'd say only go salty if you find you need it. Maybe take a mineral supplement, again, if you find you need to.

Also, is any diet ever easy?

 

[TdC]

I may give it a go.

I'm 2Kg down as per this morning. I suppose this puts me on a kilo per week atm. I'll try to remember to post updates. Heck, I may even graph the results