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Porridge.

That's not the kind of infection he was hoping to be at risk from. On a different note I had a mate whose girlfriend went on a diet once. He put on sticker on the door of the fridge saying "F**k off fatty". He seemed to get away with it.

As long as you set them up with sufficient float then they shouldn't effect your knees.

There is no way you are burning 4000cals for 12 miles of cycling. If this took you about a hour to do you would be looking at 600ish +/- 150ish depending on how fit you are and how much you weigh. Gearing on a BMX is very easy to push round, I wouldn't have thought you will get any real strength benefits but it's not going…

A big handful of Vaseline. It works for 10+ hours in the saddle for me so good chance that it will work. Cheap as well.

For the endurance riding its way more comfortable to not wear baggies over the spandex. After 10hours+ in the saddle that extra layer of fabric between saddle and *kitten* can get fairly uncomfortable. However there is nothing on this earth that will persuade me that I need to shave my legs. I reckon all problems that are…

I forgot that this forum doesn't resize. Will have to wait until later. :(

Clipless for sure. SPD's for me.

There is no substitute for getting a demo bike and going and riding it. A bike that rides well for you is a bike that rides well for you, no matter how much or little it costs. I guess you have looked up reviews for the bikes you are looking at? Personally I think your budget is fine and the lady in your club is being all…

Customer service wasn't my point. It's that a life time warranty is not your life time. A lot of people seemed to have been caught out by this and particularity on Ti frames. It seems that the whole "bike for life" thing on Ti has really taken off. Ti will fatigue just like any other metal, although they tend to be well…

Great for increasing Vo2 Max & improving leg speed. Brutal though and far more tiring than 4 mins of work should be. :)

Remember that "Lifetime warranty" normally doesn't mean what you think it does. Check this out: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/psa-the-sad-reality-of-a-liftime-frame-warranty This story has been repeated again and again with many different companies. It's not a reason to not buy a Ti frame it's just so you…

My site is www.composite-projects.co.uk I blog about different stuff but these days its almost all mountain bike related. Might be bike packing, getting ready to get into racing, ride reports, kit reviews, mtb films I make or the home cooked trail food series I have been writing.

1) Lose weight. 2) Leg weights in the gym. 3) Do intervals, threshold and tabata. But all of this is for nothing if you don't go ride your bike loads.

Really work on planks. IMO it's the best abs/core exercise for cycling as it mimics almost exactly what you are doing on the bike. Your core on the bike is resisting movement almost exactly as it is when you do the plank.

I'm pretty much in the same boat, as I'm training for endurance mountain biking. If I'm not doing 4-10 hour rides, I'm doing high intensity intervals so either way there are some serious calorie burns. I always "eat back" or more accurately "eat forwards", so I'm fuelled and ready to go. On very long rides (longer than 4…

Hmmm just realised something about what I said. I first ask if you still think I should increase the prep/hypertrophy period from 6 to 7 weeks, then in the next question I suggest I might reduce the hypertrophy period by 1 week to make maximal strength longer. Clearly that makes no sense. Haha. Hmmm maybe I could reduce…

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I will be doing some weight work up until the 2 weeks specific prep so I will not be going from nothing straight into the prep phase. I'm using the "prep phase" to step it up some (with minimal riding) before the bigger lifting of the hypertrophy phase which in my current schedule is 4 weeks; so 6 in total before getting…

Commute 5 days a week, 2 evening rides mountain biking 2-4 hours then the big weekend mountain bike endurance training ride 4-10 hours (depending on fatigue from the week). I then lift twice a week doing this routine: Rack squat, Ham string curl, Leg press, dead lift, plank, incline bench press, Seated cable rows, Lat pull…

Great that's how I understood it, thanks. Think I'm just going to experiment in terms of what % of 1 RM I use.

So firstly just an explanation that's 6 sets in a session. Sets 1&2 65% 1RM 8-10reps, Sets 3&4 70% 1RM 8-10reps, Sets 5&6 75% 1RM 8-10reps. Does that make any difference to your point? The point of this period of training is about increasing muscle mass most importantly on the legs but all over would be OK. I'm only…

My routine is: Rack squat Ham string curl Leg press Plank Dumbbell incline bench press (I may change this to Dumbbell chest press and add in Dumbbell shoulder press) Seated cable rows Lat pull down Dead lift (I will be managing the weight separately for dead lift for various reasons.) These tend to be the lifts that most…

Bought myself a Carbon mountain bike frame to build a new race bike. Not point losing 7-8lbs off the bike weight if I wasn't going to lose at least 20lbs off my body weight. :glasses:

Don't cut 2lbs a week then. That's 1000 cals a day less that you would have to eat. Go for 1lb a week and hey presto you can eat 1700 a day, is that a healthy enough amount for you?

Not clean eating is the new clean eating.

I'm using the Tanita BC-543 body comp scales. I got mine at Wiggle. http://www.wiggle.co.uk/tanita-bc-543-body-composition-monitor/ I have found the weight to be pretty accurate and very consistent. I happened to get them the same week I went for a body comp consultation at the High Performance sports centre at Birmingham…

I have found that my Gamin 800 with HRM has been pretty accurate for me. I wanted to lose at 1lb a week and with eating back the calories burnt that it has said I have burnt I have consistently lost at roughly this amount. However I'm into endurance mountain biking and hope to race ultra endurance so the majority of my…

Just to say now I've never bothered with wearing a HRM for lifting. In fact I don't even count lifting as any sort of calorie burn tbh. I'm more interested in this at the other end of the scale. Are you saying then that when you go over threshold the relationship between HR and VO2 Max changes in terms of calories burnt?…

Azdak is saying that it's a more accurate measure for steady state cardio than other types of exercise. I'm interested in the deification for "steady state cardio" though. How does consistently paced medium intensity cardio stack up against intervals (cardio) in terms of accuracy? The name "steady state cardio" does not…