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Last two days were good for me, just shy of 100m on the bike. Coach had me doing back to back hard workouts on the bike, both of 2+ hours w/intervals during the ride. Ouch. Right at my calorie target, and doing good keeping any sort of junk food to less than 5% of daily kcals as well as very minimal snacking (knowing I…

Too late to join? Or can you jump in at any time?

January 1:28.6 Miles - 1:16:23, 3x10 tempo, 1x10 threshold all at 50rpm January 2: OFF January 3: 27.8 Miles - 1:15:29 January 4: OFF January 5: 22.2 Miles - 1:05:00 January 6: 31.8 Miles - 1:30:00 January 7: 33.0 Miles - 1:25:00, 40 min tempo w/sprint surges January 8: 21.1 Miles - 1:05:00 January 9: 42.3 Miles - 1:50:00…

If it's for the house I'd recommend a trainer like the Wahoo Kickr. Cheaper, get to ride your own bike, has power, and much more compatible with all the good new virtual riding options to make rides much more interesting that staring at a readout screen.

This is like my dad. He is retired, but HATES the cold. When it's below 50 he doesn't want to go outside, but is trying to maintain his activity (and I think be a little competetive) and has been doing about 50k steps/day average. Usually is shooting to be at 30k by noon.

It's possible, but unlikely in many circumstances. I've done a few 40k days, those usually involved a long walk of 10-12 miles taking about 2-2.5 hours, and then I was on my feet at work for another 7-8 hours. 15k seems to be my standard if I don't make an effort to go for a walk/run, aka most days where I just bike. A…

BPM: 38-41 BP: 115/60 Height: 5'8 Weight: 148 lbs Age: 26 Activity level: Usually 15 hrs wk on the the bike

Honestly, I'm not sure this is all that bad. He has a wierd way of saying it but primarily seems to be arguing not that CICO is inherently wrong, but more that eating in the high sugar manner makes it difficult, if not impossible to begin to follow CICO because of the resultant hormonal changes.

It's not like holding the bars doesn't work. But you definitely don't need the treadmill to check your HR constantly. Main reason I would never hold onto the treadmill while running/walking is because it plain ole doesn't feel good to me. Feels really unnatural and can't get any rhythm. If it works for you, sounds like…

No breakfast, but I had a nice lunch: Large bowl of chili Salad (lettuce, cucumber, tomamto, mushroom) Banana Air popped popcorn PB&J Tasty!

Oh, I did. FRUITS! Namely berries. Blackberries, strawberries, rasberries, and especially blueberries. I'm that obnoxious guy that literally buys 20-30 containers of berries when they go on the $1/container sales they have occasionally here in CO

Yes, correct. It adjusts as you enter more exercise in MFP. I might start the day with a 120g protein target, but at the end that will have adjusted to 150 or 180 depending on how long my training session was that day and how active I was. I would think it would fit in with your general diet. I.e. if you start the day with…

You should be called: Eric/LMaster both work well You are from (Timezone): Mountain (GMT -7) Your weigh in day: 1/7 Favorite exercise: Riding a bicycle Favorite healthy food: Struggling Areas (night snacking/lack of motivation/ junk food etc): Soda, most thing sugary/fatty, cravings/late night snackin Do you want to be the…

January 1:28.6 Miles - 1:16:23, 3x10 tempo, 1x10 threshold all at 50rpm January 2: OFF January 3: 27.8 Miles - 1:15:29 January 4: OFF January 5: 22.2 Miles - 1:05:00 January 6: 31.8 Miles - 1:30:00 January 7: 33.0 Miles - 1:25:00, 40 min tempo w/sprint surges January 8: 21.1 Miles - 1:05:00 January 9: 42.3 Miles - 1:50:00…

Strava by far for phone apps. Hands down the best cycling app

First off, I HATE you. :tongue: #jealous Sounds like a pretty good ride. I adore climbing, it's by far my favorite thing on the bike, and coming back down is pretty fun too even if I'm only medicore at it. Guess that's to be expected for only 16 months of riding so far. That's awesome when you see little guys out there…

January 1:28.6 Miles - 1:16:23, 3x10 tempo, 1x10 threshold all at 50rpm January 2: OFF January 3: 27.8 Miles - 1:15:29 January 4: OFF January 5: 22.2 Miles - 1:05:00 January 6: 31.8 Miles - 1:30:00 January 7: 33.0 Miles - 1:25:00, 40 min tempo w/sprint surges January 8: 21.1 Miles - 1:05:00 January 9: 42.3 Miles - 1:50:00…

Couldn't agree more on the checking yourself with the actual results. If you're logging 500 kcal/day deficit according to MFP, weighing food meticulously, and a month later your weight is unchanged it becomes very clear that your estimations need to be altered.

Correct. They represent and measure the requisite mechanical energy applied to wherever the given brand of powermeter measures power at. Directly? No, they don't. However, they are still a very, very good estimate. Human efficiency on the bike is well studied, and ranges between 21%-27% are generally found across all…

More of a roadie, but ride MTB for fun when I can!

Okay, this is in line with my understanding. Thanks!

So you're saying that you SHOULD eat your exercise calories back? This makes sense to me, assuming you are confident in MFP's estimate of TDEE - EAT, your weighing and logging, and how many calories you are actually burning when you work out. The gist of what I am getting from people's posts saying to not eat back exercise…

So basically get faster. That's inherent to finishing whatever 10k program you're on, and naturally helps accomplish 3/4. If you're on a program right now, it's probably best to follow it. I assume it's a run/walk build up to 10k type of program? Assuming that is the case, then what you're doing right now is essentially…

150 is fairly high, assuming that max HR is accurate (which is definitely not a guarantee). That should be a pretty strong effort, something that would be a solid workout to hold for 20 minutes, and get pretty rough beyond about 30-40 mins. What you want to do with your walk speed depends totally on your goals. If these…

More of a cyclist now, but try and get in at least one decent running training cycle per year. Working on dropping those last 15lbs so I can really throw down a mean 5k.

This makes sense. In my case calories burned come from my power meter and known efficiency, so I'm confident that the calories I'm burning are accurate within 2%. For clarification purposes, it tends to estimate calorie burns from exercise? Or the equation it uses to determine the sedentary individual's calories needs,…

This is how I understand it, yea. While it won't default adjust for your exercise goal, MFP has an option to log your exercise. If you go under exercise -> add exercise, then select your activity and enter the duration it will then add those calories to your log, and "give" you the extra calories to eat as part of that…

@blankiefinder - Can someone explain this eating back exercise calories to me? Once you have a deficit setup in MFP it takes logged exercise into account. So in other words if I have it set for 1.5lb/wk and it thinks sedentary daily burn is 2000 it will give me a 1250 target. If I then go ride easy for 90 mins and burn…

MFP will do this for you. Go to Settings -> Update diet/fitness profile -> then at the bottom where it says "what is your goal" select the weight loss/deficit rate you want (1-1.5 lbs/wk is a good starting point) -> click My Home -> The green number will now tell you how many calories you have remaining for the day.…

That's like running at 10:00-11:00 pace for a 150lb person, or cycling at 150w. Not exactly what I would call hard efforts for the majority of people. 1000kcal an hour? Yea, that's something that's difficult for the average person to sustain. Since the OP is logging her runs as 6 or 6.7 mph I'm going to assume she isn't…