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The 2 Day Diet
I’m trying yet again to lose weight. This time I’m trying The 2 Day Diet, not the 5:2 diet. So far it seems doable, but I would like to connect with like-minded people. Rather than trying to describe it, it’s probably better for people to look up the protocol themselves.
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Intermittent dieting
Has anyone tried the dieting pattern alternating two weeks on followed by two weeks off. The energy intake for the diet weeks is 67% of maintenance.
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Polar M400 for water-sports
I'm considering buying the Polar M400 with dragon boat paddling and rowing in mind. I would be interested to hear about your experience with the M400 and doing these kinds of activities. Specifically, I'd like to know if the speed/pace seems realistic, and if the GPS trace looks reasonable. I use a HRM for calorie burn, so…
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Dragon Boat Paddling
I have been trying to get into dragon boat paddling for over a year now, but it seems like an all or nothing kind of sport and I'm having trouble getting up to speed. I would like to hear from others who have started a new sport that was beyond your body to begin with, but you stuck with it and became fit enough to really…
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Getting in shape to row on the water
Apart from wanting to be healthy, I want to row on the water again. I had a problem with tendons in my feet and that stopped me from doing the two kinds of exercise I like. My favourite way to exercise is rowing and bush-walking/hiking. I got quite down about my situation and put on about 40kgs. So, after a couple of years…
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Adding other activities to Garmin Connect
I just went into GC and looked at my "Sports" tab and found that there is an area to add other activities not captured by a Garmin device. Yay!...but i can't get it to work at present. I am really excited about this and I did write to them not long ago about this. When it works I can use my Polar products for some…
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Sitting time
One reason I like the Polar Loop is that it quantifies sitting time as well as encouraging not sitting too long at a time. The paper below has some reasons for the relationship between sitting time and health. I haven't looked for a Cochrane Review, but I think it's well established that sitting time is a risk factor for…
