EoinMag Member

Can someone who's saying yes post a link to a peer reviewed study please? Stories about how you did it or someone you know just don't cut it, thanks.

I'm finding that I'm having to reset regularly and repeat days. I had to take a weeks break due to a neck injury and I was just aggrivating it with more strength training, so I took the break and have reset. It's all good though, I'll get there eventually, and if not I'll still be knocking out almost a hundred pushups…

Google search, "the Myth of the starvation mode" Take your pick of articles.

Not if you are a person who is in the overweight category, I repeat it is nonsense. Someone who is overweight is nowhere near starvation, hell in the West we hardly know what starvation is. The fat reserves will go a long time before the muscle is attacked and starvation mode kicks in. It's a myth and should not be…

Think about it, how can you lose weight by eating more calories? It's a nonsense.

I wish my friend in the Thai prison had known this when he was in jail there recently, he lost about 25KG in a few months from eating so little, strange that. He put on 7KG in the week after he got out of jail...weird or what? I guess he started eating less again?

World records are generally set mid afternoon, the inference that is drawn from this fact is that you perform better in the afternoon. I'm not a morning person anyway, so it suits me to do the excercise when I get home in the evening.

I've started doing planks to increase my back strength as I have an old injury there I'd like to work on so I'm finding that is putting extra demand on me and I'm stalling out a bit. That said all I'm doing is holding back and getting them right before moving on to the next day, same is happening on the situps, but I'd…

I'm thinking of stalling around this level now and starting to repeat days so that I am stronger when I move on. It's getting tough around the end of week three.

Sop it gives you bad headaches and stomach issues but it's not because it's a poison? Weird that. You really do like to sit on the the fence, what?

No diet drinks in the house, neither me nor my wife like the taste and we won't feed it to our 4 year old. If there are any sodas, which is very very rare these days then they are full fat, sugar must be better for you than that chemical rubbish.

I'm onto week 3 day 3 today. I have no problems doing these unless I've done a heavy session of weights the evening before, when I've done that I find my arms are a bit too tired to be good at this one. That said I am moving along nicely.

week 1 Day 3 done, 87 situps, all good form going back and starting again and hammering the first sets has really paid off, that said I'm also doing some ab work with the curling bar, so that might be helping too.

Not even for Questions like this one? That's what he's there for not just serious treatment.

Ok I've done my first thirty minutes on the X-trainer HRM says 30mins = 347 kcal MFP says 30mins =408kcal Interestingly the Elliptical display is showing 402, so effectively the same as MFP. It's a Reebok Z9 machine so an alright home machine.

If I want to eat them I do, then I hop on the crosstrainer for a while longer.

I'll qualify this for you after this evenings workout if I remember.

To be frank, if you're tracking everything then the concept of a "cheat day" becomes a nonsense. I'm not cheating if I eat more and then do more excercise in the evening to make up for it. I have a cross trainer setup in the living room so I can keep my calory account in check whenever I want to. I suppose not everyone has…

According to my HRM, it's high.

I use Endomondo with a Polar Wearlink HRM, the difference with a HRM vs without are not substantial, over a larger workout it does come to a bit though. If I use Endomondo to track my daily cycle commute without a HRM , just with GPS, then it tracks 100kcal, if I do it with a HRM it tracks 111kcal, so it's out by 11% in…

I'd say talk to your doctor, it's not something you should be asking on a fitness and weight loss forum.

I got the android Application for this, it's a big help. I have been doing it a few weeks now. I was starting from a pretty unfit place and was fairly overweight at the start. I got up to about week 4 day 3 until I realised that my form was not good for about the last half of the crunches, so at that point I made the…

I track everything, if I didn't then I wouldn't know where I'm at and how much excercise I need to do to counteract whatever it was that I eat that might need me to hop on the bike for another while to get my calorie account back in order.

I'm mostly telling my 4 year old to stay away from the excercise bike while I'm on it or he'll get hurt, or the same with the freestyle weights. He likes to hop on the bike and do a workout too.