-
Good News: obesity rates in the US "plummet"
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/26/health/obesity-rate-for-young-children-plummets-43-in-a-decade.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20140226
-
Canucks Giving Up Sleep
I'm sure I'm not the only one here. It's a 4AM start local time. Who else is in?
-
NSVs for 2013...
It's been one hell of a year. In no particular order... - Spontaneous "congrats" from friends and family over the holidays - Fitting back into slim-cut jeans (at the not-biggest waist size!) - Going in to see the knee specialist and seeing his eyes literally bulge when he heard what my exercise routine is now like -…
-
McFlurry vs Blizzard
Make your case! Flavour, nutrition, whatever. Current undisputed champion is...Skor Blizzard.
-
Lean Body Mass comparisons
Just putting together some examples of single-digit-body-fat bodies to see what LBM actually looks like at different heights/weights... 5'11, 155 lbs 6'0, 170 lbs 6'1, 185 lbs 6'2", 230 lbs
-
Fat Loss vs Total Weight Loss
During the past 5-6 months I have studiously tracked not just weight, but body fat %. This is where I'm at so far: Total weight loss: 41.5 lbs Starting FFM (Fat-free mass): 170 lbs Current FFM: 166.5 lbs FFM Loss: 3.5 lbs Fat Loss: 37.5 lbs Fat-loss : FFM-loss ratio -> 10:1 I have been very careful to maintain 1g/lb-LBM…
-
Let's do some science!
Don't just read about it - be part of it. https://lift.do/quantified-diet
-
Difficulty Exceeding Lactate Threshold
Hey all. Can't believe I've gone from couch potato to needing this advice, but hey, it's all good. :smile: My problem is that during hill sprints, I can't seem to get over my LT level (~87% max heart rate). The uphill portion takes about 30-40 seconds to complete, and I am dying at the end of it. Is it just that I'm not…
-
Best Xmas Movies
I'm in with "Trading Places".
-
How to log texting calories?
I do about 200 text messages a day - about 125 inbound, 75 outbound. Each one involves a distinct arm motion to get the phone out of and back into the inside pocket of my suit/blazer, that kind of looks like a bicep curl. Now I get that a modern smartphone is fairly light, but it doesn't weigh *nothing*. And 200 reps of…
-
My 9 Year Old...
...has started reading nutrition labels! :happy: And is asking if he can start tracking his own food. Seems to me that in a world (or at least locale) of abundant feeding opportunities, there's really no reason not to introduce these tools at a young age.
-
Approaching GW, Revamping Diet Plan
Top to bottom, I've now lost over 70 pounds, and am at the point where the standard method says 2 lbs/week is no longer possible without screwing up lean body mass or extreme exercise levels. But I'm an impatient geek :tongue: and it seems to me that I still have sufficient fat stores to keep the strong momentum. Here's my…
-
A Body only Sprinting Can Give You
Here's possibly the fastest white dude in history. No, seriously, he was the first caucasion to ever officially crack the 10 second mark for the 100m. Only intervals and Tabata and power training can give you musculature like this!
-
Need a new training plan
My goal: to complete a Sprint distance triathlon in May, and to finish with a *fast* time for my "old man" age group. My background: stopped being a couch potato about five months ago. I know that doesn't sound like very long, but (many years ago) I used to be an athlete at a Div1 level. Where I am now is I can crank out…
-
PS4 Launch
Just received my shipping notice and tracking number. It'll be here Friday. See y'all in a month or two. :laugh: :drinker:
-
Fitness Before the World Got Complicated
I was curious what a physical specimen looked like Back In The Day, before we knew enough to make fitness complicated. This is Georg Hackenschmidt, born in 1877 and holds the original bench press record (361 pounds, 1898, age 21). Six foot even, 230 pounds. These photos from over 100 years ago...before Gear, meal timing,…
-
A Legend Is Gone
Lou Reed died this morning. I don't know how much he means to the current crop of kids, but for me, he completely shaped my perception of what music - what rock'n'roll - could sound like. And what it could say. RIP, old friend. I don't know what comes after this life, but whatever it is, I hope you find that perfect third…
-
What do you do with excess calories at the end of the day?
So I met all my macro and micro nutrients and still had about 700 calories left over. Ok, cookie time! Had a couple of those (I'm not a sweet tooth, that was all I wanted), and still have a couple of hundred calories left. Will probably spend them on a bit of prosciutto and Boursin, but it did get me wondering... For those…
-
Strength Gain vs Muscle Mass Gain
I think most here understand that, especially when starting out, gaining strength on lifts does not necessarily mean an increase in actual muscle mass. My question is this - what level of strength improvement do you have to achieve before you can be confident that you have actually added muscle mass? For example, let's…
-
Powerlifting Competition/Competitors?
I was just messing around on the interwebz and stumbled across some powerlifting sites. Looking at the classifications, it appears I'm right on the cusp of being a "Class IV" lifter. I don't actually know what that means, lol, but then I saw that there is a regional competition locally. So I'm thinking....maybe I should go…
-
Numerical models for determining Max TDEE deficits
I've been trying to formalize the relationships between all the various energy stores in the body (glycogen, adipose fat, intramuscular triglycerides), energy sources (ingested food), and calorie burns (BMR, non-exercise, exercise). So I have this spreadsheet laid out where I map the rates of all these processes on an hour…
-
Changing up Lifting Routine...?
Ok, I've been lifting consistently 2x a week now for 3 months. Two-day pattern: A Day (5x5) Squats Bench press Bent-over barbell rows B Day (5x5) Overhead Press Barbell curls Close-grip bench press Deadlifts In that time, in terms of weight, I've gone from "Untrained" to "Novice" on the four big lifts (bench press,…
-
"Beach Muscles"
Was watching an old season of "The Ultimate Fighter", and one of the judges made this statement about one of the fighters/contestants: "That was a classic case of the dude with the beach muscles getting tired." I'm curious what (if anything) that statement means to others.
-
Recent paper on fat metabolism during exercise
All kinds of interesting tidbits in here. I apologize if this has been posted before - I did look but the MFP search is pretty hopeless. The most interesting conclusion is that for subjects in an energy balance (i.e. neither caloric deficit nor surplus), the amount of fat oxidized over a 24H period is independent of the…
-
Reached a training milestone
It's been a hell of a three months. I am now running 10km, cycling 40km, and swimming 1.5km, and can do all of those in the same day. In lifting, I've passed from "Untrained" thru "Novice" in all the major compound lifts and am approaching "Intermediate" (Starting Strength standards) in two of the lifts. So now I'm trying…
-
I'm a 10k-er! Now what?
I did the "Learn to 10k" program. Hit the 10km mark on this morning's run, Day 1 of Week 10. It was super, went from nothing to 10k in 10 weeks without any really serious pain, and without a single injury or setback. The problem is that it was supposed to take 13 weeks...so now I don't know what to do next! The reason I…
-
Sodium is @#$#ing P-ing me off!
One of the advantages of tracking pretty much everything there is to track is you can get a sense of your body's natural responses. For instance, I have noticed now that if I eat more than 7000mg of sodium over a 48 hour period, my body will retain 2 litres (~4.5 pounds) of water until my sodium intake drops significantly.…
-
Overtraining/How Much Can a Body Take?
Having significantly ramped up my own exercise regimen just over a week ago, I'm feeling seriously beat up right now. Nothing hurts in a serious way, but boy does my body get fatigued! And since one hears so much about overtraining etc I've been reading up on what other people do/can do, to see what constitutes a…
-
Can you use HRM to calculate more accurate RMR?
I'm just curious. If you hit "start" on your FT4 (or whatever) right before going to sleep, then sleep 8 hours, then hit "stop" and check the calorie burn...can you multiply that by 3 to get a "measured" value for RMR?
