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Knowing your caloric intake isn't much use unless you're also monitoring your total daily energy expenditure using a device like a Fitbit or Garmin watch. If you're mostly sedentary during your day you'd be surprised how little energy you're burning, and consequently your daily caloric intake should be lowered to remain in…

Same. Stupid thing is, Mapmyrun records the activities correctly, and that's part of the same web app group as MFP!

I've been playing the hell out of the new Mutoid Man album of late. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2OBw-LhNto

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In my opinion, running for weight loss is an unnecessary stress on the joints. It's good to build up endurance if you eventually want to participate in events like races or marathons but as far as general exercise goes, once you reach a certain point it's not particularly useful unless you're keeping the pace up above your…

Started the weight loss in earnest on March 1st. Down 10kg/22lb at this point.

Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness certainly isn't unusual when you start getting into more intense workouts. And walking is a good exercise by itself, and will help get bloodflow to those stressed leg muscles. I attend around 6 bootcamp workouts a week at the moment and I've had a good spell of not suffering with DOMS however…

I'm a screen printer by trade so I can get athletic gear wholesale. Womens leggings can be had for around £8-12. I'd understand you not wanting to buy through some random on the internet though. :expressionless:

"You sound like an informercial. But not a good one, like 'Slap Chop', more... 'Shake Weight'-y" - Deadpool :D

We're there (Wallaton Hall) 3 times a week. It's a great park.

I spent years lodging with a couple that were both extremely obese (I'd known the male half for years before he married). I would bring up the concept of of CICO to him and he would usually brush it off with breezy "oh there's more to it than that" excuses, usually while grating about 300g of mature cheddar onto half a…

300 squats, 200 crunches, 100 HRPU's and a mile run on each end. 0_o I finished pretty much dead last of the entire group although to be fair, after a while everybody's form went completely to s**t. After doing all those pushups and then charging off for that last mile run I felt like my goddamn arms were about to fall…

On my Monday workouts I run/walk to the park & back as it's only about 1.8k from my flat. If I do it at a run my Garmin clocks it at 162 kCal. If I walk at a quick pace (which I do anyway) it's 143. It's almost not worth the effort of going faster. :p

Scrambled eggs and Burnmax fat burner caps. I don't know if they do jack to burn fat, but the caffeine content helps to push me during a workout and they seem to suppress hunger afterwards as well. Turns my pee a disturbing Mountain Dew green though.

I don't do CrossFit but my local British Military Fitness group threw a murph into a "hell week" we did at the start of the month. I only managed half the prescribed crunches (100 instead of 200) and I needed someone to keep yelling at me to get me through 100 hand-release push ups. I hate crunches, so very very much. I…

People that reach the point of outright refusing to discuss a subject are usually not operating from a rational point of view.

I was doing a basic tabata routine I found on Buzzfeed at work for a while. 20 minutes total, 2 10 minute circuits. Do as many of the sets within each circuit as you can until the 10 mins is up. Circuit 1: 10 jump squats 15 mountain climbers (15 per leg) 10 side lunges (each leg) 10 elevated push-ups 30 second v-sit…

A good few years back I did the C25K program from a starting point of barely being capable of running to the end of the street. It's worth doing.

If I can fit it inside my calorie target I might have a bottle or 2 and if I've not got much wiggle room I'll stick to whisky. I've been keeping it low for the last couple months though, too much alcohol doesn't really help with workout recovery.

Funny thing is, if I didn't have alcohol in my system I could probably stand to go run some more. Fitness is weird.

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Real job: Screen printer Dream job: Jesus I don't know, literally everything bores me if I have to do it. I'll settle for what I've got. After all, I get to abandon work in the middle of the day 'cause I felt like going for a run in the sun. Can't complain right?

Sitting at home drinking beer listening to horrid heavy metal on vinyl through a tube powered stereo I just finished building last week. Yes, I'm a huge nerd.

If I'm just out for a run then I can get by on an empty stomach, but my group workout sessions tend towards high intensity so if I've not eaten I start to burn out very early.

Yeah, having taken a few minutes to read up on it more it would appear I wasn't very well informed. Apparently tests on mice found that artificial sweeteners led to changes in gut bacteria resulting in increased blood sugar levels, but these results weren't reproduced in humans.

Wasn't there a study done not so long ago that showed that artificial sweeteners actually caused a similar insulin spike to sugars and made so called "diet" drinks effectively pointless? I'm sure I read that somewhere... Aspartame is gross though.

Myself, no. And the workouts I do are often pretty heavy on the squats/lunges/dips, not to mention the bashing my calves, glutes & quads get when drumming. Are you warming up/down adequately? One instructor swears by hamstring swings for DOMS in the legs in order to increase blood flow (as in, just swinging your legs until…