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Best advice I've seen for a "cleanse" is to stop drinking alcohol for about a month, eat a lot of fresh vegetables and fruit with the minimum cooking required, reduce dairy as much as possible without compromising calcium intake, reduce red meat for a month making sure it is as low fat as possible, and reduce processed…
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Fitness instructors are, in general, sadists. In about 9 months I've gone from barely surviving a warm up to changing instructors because the old ones classes weren't pushing me enough. As a friend says repeatedly on tough bike rides a "we're not here for a haircut." If you're feeling unmotivated you won't be pushing…
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If you have a friend who knows what they are looking at in terms of potential cracks etc. then get second hand carbon. Find your local facebook bike buy/swap/sell and keep an eye on it. Serious Racers bikes with no visible damage about 1-2 years old can often be had pretty cheap or people who buy qand never use them.…
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From memory Polar are a bit weird in their communications protocol, so getting a garmin, suunto or wahoo chest strap would probably mean it won't talk to a polar watch or GPS. There are a few HR straps around that talk directly to watches via bluetooth like the Wahoo range. I have a tickr X which has the advantage of…
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Wahoo sell dual Ant+/bluetooth speed/cadence and HR sensors, but they may need a bluetooth bridge for a laptop, alternatively they also sell an ANT+ dongle for iphones which may work for you if you are after connectivity. I use a Suunto Ant+ plug in my PC with a mix of Wahoo and Garmin sensors and a kickr which sometimes…
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I've got a Wahoo Tickr X that gives me all sorts of info on running (Not sure what it means but the graphs look pretty) as well as storing the data to allow me to run without the phone and then log it to training peaks post run. The extra that makes me recommend it is rep counting and workouts through the wahoo fitness…
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I did a test in September which had low "Good" Cholesterol and high "Bad". I retested two weeks ago and, while I haven't get the results (I was told that if it was ok they wouldn't call me) on the phone the nurse just said that it was amazing looking at the records and I can pick them up tomorrow. During that time I've…
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Think about it in two ways, Accuracy and precision. Accuracy is how correct the answer is, while precision is whether you get the same result (or close to) every time. Commercial scales (green grocer/butcher) are expensive and need to be both, for weight loss you only need precision (assuming you only use one set of…
