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Polar WearLink Chest Strap Transmitter stopped working?
Hey guys, I've had a BRAND NEW Polar RS300X since January, but recently started getting erratic readings and today just getting 00 or check wearlink message on the watch. On some occasions it was reading correctly on the machines (checked quickly vs an iphone app- not 100% accurate but has proven accurate enough in the…
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My Wedding/Tesco Diets/Wedding dress
Hey all! I got engaged 2 weeks ago so it's early days but I want to start out married life, slim and slender and with both me and husband not only in good shape but in a good routine/lifestyle. Today I've committed to 6 weeks of Tesco Diets (i.e. the meal plan and exercise plan so I don't have to worry about my plans for…
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Olympic shambles
Here's some chit chat/rant space... FML... G4S waste of space... I'm on less than 48 hours notice to move...don't even get a definite yes or no til less than 24 hours before I go...if I go. I don't have half the kit as its not standard issue to all... hoping stores have it in at the last minute if I am going... G4S been…
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Adidas Thunder Run
Anybody else doing this next week at Catton Park next week?! Adidas Thunder Run - a 24 hour cross country running event... I'm doing it as part of a team of 5 but others are doing it as pairs or even solo, and others as a team of 8... 24 hours of constant running of a 10km cross country course. Come rain/shine/night/day.…
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Calling all Lincoln UK Users!
Hi all, I'm looking for some fitness pals to be able to go out and about with as training partners. I'm in good physical nick, my fitness is good-very good, but I'm bored of the dreadmill/ergo/stationary bike but hate running alone as is hard to push myself and potentially unsafe and it can be dull! Likewise with cycling.…
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Calling all Lincoln, UK MFPs!
Hi all, I'm looking for some fitness pals to be able to go out and about with as training partners. I'm in good physical nick, my fitness is good-very good, but I'm bored of the dreadmill/ergo/stationary bike but hate running alone as is hard to push myself and potentially unsafe and it can be dull! Likewise with cycling.…
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Calling all Lincoln UK Users!
Hi all, I'm looking for some fitness pals to be able to go out and about with as training partners. I'm in good physical nick, my fitness is good-very good, but I'm bored of the dreadmill/ergo/stationary bike but hate running alone as is hard to push myself and potentially unsafe and it can be dull! Likewise with cycling.…
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Intros!
Hey all! I'm Val and a "newly qualified" controller (Terminal) at an RAF base in Lincolnshire, UK... how about the rest of you!? Valc
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Weight increase, waist size going down, hips staying same...
OK... I'm no novice to all this and I know fundamentals such as muscle is more dense than fat... However, I know that even the most hardcore of bodybuilders wouldn't gain "muscle" THAT quickly! However, in a week, I've noticed the scales go up by 7lbs, but my waist shrink an inch, hips stayed the same... what on EARTH is…
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Controversial Athletic Officials - UK Top athletes "Fat"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/olympics/athletics/9289903/London-2012-Olympics-Jessica-Enniss-heptathlon-team-mate-Louise-Hazel-also-told-she-was-overweight.html Clearly she's not and this seems to be a very unprofessional view which will only breed an unhealthy generation of athletes if they believe it and further…
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Queen's Diamond Jubilee Fly Past
UK residents can watch the Muster live on BBC1 from 10:30 to 12:40GMT. It is going to be SPECTACULAR! I will be watching...at work...on Radar! Well worth a watch! :)
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Air Traffic Graduation... and why Phys helped!
Tomorrow I am graduating as one of HM's finest RAF Air Traffic Control Officers.... but I just wanted to say part of my success is due to my effective stress management by making sure my lifestyle helped encourage and influence a good learning environment for me. Plenty of decent grub, sleep and EXERCISE... they all helped…
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Sport Relief Run
Hey all! Who is doing a Sport Relief run tomorrow be it 1, 3 or 6 miles?! I'm doing the 6 mile one in Wem, Shropshire and looking to get a time of about 48 minutes? Which are you doing, what time do you aim to complete it in!? Any fancy dress?! I normally wouldn't eat anything special before a race of this size because…
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Military Combat Fitness NSV
Just come back off a 3 day exercise which was absolutely brilliant (BUT VERY TIRING AND HARD!) and was really chuffed at how I noticed how easy it was to move around and RUN in all the gear plus extra gear specific to the exercise compared to when I was Initial Officer Training 2 and a half years ago when my fitness scores…
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Great Manchester (10Km) Run 2012
Hallo MFPs! Just wondering if any of you are taking part in the Great Machester Run on 20 May this year and how you're doing with training, your expected time etc? I managed to do it for free last year and ran for the RNLI... this years I have paid the extortionate entrance fee, but I am running for myself, so no pressure…
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Cooking
Cooking the act of preparing a food be it making a salad, baking, roasting, hobtop cooking, in a microwave, is all processing food. So where do you draw the line with "processed foods" ...? DISCUSS!
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Weight Lifting spotters
I struggle to find an available partner for lifting weights... Some of the guys in the gym are on CV equipment when I want to lift and others seem very much hostile... So when this is the case, I tend to lift a little lighter than I know I'm capable of on the free weights or just go for the resistance machines or smith…
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A random thought - Men vs Women
I notice pretty much every post regarding a "bad day" is posted by a woman. Men either are better at not having "bad days" or perhaps us ladies should take a leaf out of the guys books and care less or rather, fret less, just accept it instead of announcing it to the world as the worst thing in the world with added drama…
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Air Traffic Controllers
Air Traffic Controllers (Be you tower/ground, terminal radar or area radar) I can't be the only one on here! How do you manage your time to get the phys in? Personally, I try to go on lunchtimes and after work and do whatever I can and want to do on weekends! Where do you work? Are your employers good about giving you time…
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Great Manchester Run (20 May 2012 - 10Km - UK)
Hallo MFPs! Just wondering if any of you are taking part in the Great Machester Run on 20 May this year and how you're doing with training, your expected time etc? I managed to do it for free last year and ran for the RNLI... this years I have paid the extortionate entrance fee, but I am running for myself, so no pressure…
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Nijmegen
Just wondered if any of you MFPs have ever participated in the Nijmegen Marches in Holland (4 day 100 mile march/walk - 25miles/day) or are planning to do so? Either in civilian or military capacity?! I've done it twice, be cool to find MFPs to share experiences from training and the event itself as would love to do it…
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Green Lentil recipes
Anyone got any simple recipes requiring minimal additional ingredients for a can of green lentils? I've got a couple of cans of the things and trying to use up my cupboard stocks in the mess before I get posted. Low calorie, low fat and nothing too fussy. oh and pretty much hob based cooking preferred as the grill I have…
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Is MFP and crazy NEW fitness gear breeding injuries?
Just scrolling down my news feed, I've noticed, have quite a few injured friends as a result of training, me I'm injured from a fall yet continue to train (OK, so I've adapted mine and it's been deemed not bad enough to ban me from anything but I should take a cautious approach to my training and what I choose to do). In…
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Why carbs are your friend and low-carb isn't great long term
Found this online... OK, so its a newspaper article, but the Torigraph (read Telegraph) is a respected credible newspaper here in the UK (whether you support in it's political bias or not! :) ) http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9069276/Chocolate-cake-breakfast-could-help-you-lose-weight.html Makes sense to me…
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UK Sport Relief "mile"
Hello all! Just wondering if any of you are doing the Sport Relief "mile"?! If so where at and which "one"?! (They do 1 mile, 3 mile and 6 mile) We're doing a local 6 mile one as a course just before we graduate as Air Traffic Controllers from HM Forces! Really looking forward to it and just wanted to see if anyone's…
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Knee pain
Guys and gals, before you tell me to go to a doctor etc etc, I am on this and also seeing a physiotherapist and will later being referred to podiatry and exercise rehabilitation! Just really wanting to gauge some responses from others that may have experienced the same. By nature, I'm a runner. I love to run, I like to run…
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Runners- are we to be blighted forever?
Just thought I'd get a post going for a bit of discussion, hopefully no fighting. Amateur/recreational runners. For me personally I find as fast as I sort one niggle out, another one appears which normally restrains me from training how I would like to. If it's not shin splints, its a tendon problem, if its not them, its a…
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Photo Gallery
Wouldn't it be wonderful if the pictures we had in our gallery could be enlarged more so people could see them better?
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Compression wear - General Disucussion! :)
Those who use compression wear - I notice my HR is only slightly lower, but my breathing is significantly lighter and I sweat just about the same when wearing them. The perceived effort seems less. Fluke or expected? The science kind of makes sense in my head but would expect my HR to be lower, or rather much lower, then…
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Duathlon
Hello all! So, I'm a runner by nature, but cross train on a gym bike and elliptical. I've fancied my hand at something combining the two sports, and thought of Duathlon. I've been out and about on real bikes before, predominately mountain bikes... I decided that I prefer the pedalling aspect of biking to the going downhill…
