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that's an excellent strategy. In fact, for anyone starting out, I'd recommend you "bookend" your diet with strength training. For the first month, I did a high intensity weight circuit three days a week- about thirty minutes a pop, with no rest between exercises. There's a couple pieces of pop literature around on this-…
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I bike well before sunrise. Before the weather broke it was the gym at the same time. I bike 35-40 miles and am home by the time The Kid gets up at 7AM! I always have a diet mountain dew and a fiber plus chocolate chip bar before I start. Not so much because I'm worried about lack of energy, but because I've always heard…
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I use sportypal for my bike rides. It's way cool. Your tracks are even overlayed on google maps so you can see where you were. It's free. www.sportypal.com
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don't know exactly, but you can get close based on what you set your weekly loss to be. Each pound is roughly 3500 calories. So if you set MFP to lose 1 pound a week, your deficit is set at approximately 3500 calories. Divided by 7days, that's 500 calories a day. So once you reach your goal weight, you'll have 500 more…
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YMMV, but what worked for me was buying a cheap litte MP3 player, but instead of just listening to music I started buying/downloading audio books. I love to read, but have zero "still" time to do so these days. So my exercise time became my "reading" time. When I'm in the middle of a good book, I can't wait to get to the…
