Call to Arms (and Stomachs)
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Any Kiwi posters watching that Human Potential or whatever its called on Monday nights. Caught it last night - lot of stuff on this sort of thing. Quite interesting. Showed what happens when you free dive or the relative drag between a wolloen swimming costume and the latest shark suits. Threw a guy in 10o water a showed the body's reaction.<br />
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All I know about anaerobic and aerobic is that if you do endurance and are lean you burn muscle and your sweat smells like cats pee. -
Bart, I believe that clear piss means your body is close to full hydration, and when it's very yellow, your body is dehydrated. <br />
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Obviously this is not the case when you've been on the booze and you're pissing clear, because alcohol actually is a diuretic. -
and BMR looking to go from super super flywieght to super flyweight <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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Bart, I believe that clear piss means your body is close to full hydration, and when it's very yellow, your body is dehydrated. <br />
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Obviously this is not the case when you've been on the booze and you're pissing clear, because alcohol actually is a diuretic.<br />
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Or have had a berroca or eated asparagas -
Jumping on the fatty bandwagon:<br />
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Current weight: 86 kg<br />
Ideal weight: 78-80 kg <br />
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Got the CSIRO diet book and starting tonight. Will give up smoking after the carton of duty free fags run out (1 week approx) -
Welcome aboard CC and latest sign-ups.<br />
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Five days and counting left in the first week, after which we can review progress as a team and I'll give the lycra a quick rinse. It will have earned it! -
[quote]When you piss yellow is bad, clear is good?[/quote]<br />
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Bart, British Army's advice, aimed at simple souls like Infantrymen, is 'Pee white once a day'... Theory is, that means you're properly hydrating yourself. Crude measure, but effective - important when exercising.<br />
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If most of you are starting from (ahem) a 'relatively flabby midriff zone', 'core stability' is an area to start gently on - that's gut and lower back exercises to you and me.. Important, as it is believed to provide the base from which all body muscular action is powered, and it will protect against back injuries. One of the most effective is 'cycling', 'cos it exercises frontal and oblique abdominals (proven in a US study to be better than any other gut exercise): lie on your back, put hands clasped behind your head, and alternately raise left/right knee, in a cycling motion. As the knee comes up, swing the alternate elbow (eg left elbow to right knee) down toward it. Start with (say) 20 reps a side, and build to 200. I do it first thing in the morning, before showering.<br />
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The other point: the exercise leads to weight loss, but it's the time when you aren't exercising that lets the muscles get stronger, as they recover and react to new stress. I reckon that, for anyone over about 35, this means that you should exercise no more than every other day for at least the first month: it'll keep injuries down, and stop you losing heart. Build up by all means, but take it slowly at first: injuries are a bummer. -
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[quote]When you piss yellow is bad, clear is good?[/quote]<br />
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'core stability' is an area to start gently on - that's gut and lower back exercises to you and me.. Important, as it is believed to provide the base from which all body muscular action is powered, and it will protect against back injuries. [/quote]<br />
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Wholeheartedly agree with this - for those just starting on low to moderate exericise one of the ways to strengthen this is when walking to suck in both the gut and pull the butt muscles up while walking. This forces you to walk using the lower part of your body or "core" instead of just flopping your legs in front of you. Sounds easier to do that it is (the sucking part not the walking...) . But you will notice a difference after a week or two. Walking is one of the best exercises you can get if you are just starting out - walk slowing to one lampost and then walk so fast you can't talk to the next, then slow, then fast... before long you can walk fast for two lamposts and then slow for one... Best followed by those very unfit and slightly older ferners who while full of anticipation and excitement want to remain breathing until at least the S14 is over. :happy: -
I've lent them to Phooey.
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Somewhere on all these threads I posted about the exertion level at which it is best to lose weight, basically repeating what I'd heard over the years that the lower end of the scale of 65-85% of your max heart rate is the most efficient<br />
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Was talking to my physio today whilst he tried to kill me at the gym about the Fat Busters Forum and mentioned this. He's also a bio-mechanics researcher at local uni and works with Warriors, Blues, Team NZ etc so hopefully knows his stuff. He said that while I was right I was also wrong. Aat the lower end of the range you will burn a higher % of fat relative to the effort you're expending, but if you work much harder you will still burn more total calories. Thought this might be of interest to thoise of you pathologically inclined to flog yourselves to death.<br />
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Also somewhere someone says you'll never lose weight if you eat carbs after 4.00 pm. OK understand the theory, but what do you replace carbs with at dinner (usually around 8.30) as have to cook something and Mrs DM doesn't think a meal is a meal without rice, pasta or spuds - usully coated in a sauce? I've already ditched the sauce. -
Salad or more non-spud veggies doggy - if she wants to keep having spuds, then just cook less spuds and more carrots, peas, etc.<br />
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:edit: And if she keeps this up, give her the "don't you want me to be buff?" She'll probably do the "I love you however you look" then tell her she'd better be up for it twice a night for the next week in that case <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
[quote]you'll never lose weight if you eat carbs after 4.00 pm[/quote]<br />
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I think that, from personal experience, is a load of shit. I have at least a cup of rice every night with my veg n tuna n stuff. Have lost 13 kilos while doing this in the last year. <br />
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More important (based on nothing I have read, but seems common sense to this battered frontrowers brain), if you input xxxx amount of calories to your body a day, carb, protein or whatever, and expend xxxx+xxxx (more than you input), ergo, you will lose weight. <br />
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I usually eat dinner around 7:30 - 8:00. But that is before 4 in Perth, so maybe there is some truth in this... <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/invision/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' /> -
Depends what time of day you're doing everything too Bart. Some people say carbs hang around for use for about 12 hours so if you eat at 7 and exercise at dawn maybe you're able to consume them. I'd never know because the few times I've exercised at dawn I felt too bloody tired to exercise.