Call to Arms (and Stomachs)
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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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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.
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only been doing this early rowing thing for a couple weeks, so won't be that! Who are the 'people' who 'say' all these things we are spouting off though, that is what I want to know!!<br />
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Like in all those gym junkie mags that say, one week, deep squats are bad for you, then a week later, good for you, then bad, then good etc...<br />
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Go as deeps as you bloody want. If it hurts, don't go so deep (this is starting to sound like a 'how to handle John Holmes' instruction manual). If it doesn't do.<br />
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But 'they say' once you go past that 90 degree, you start seperating your knee joint, and the exta amount of benefit you get is not worth the extra amount of gain you get by going that deep. That makes sense to me! personally, love squatting, but can't go past 90 as right knee ends up poked the next day -
[quote]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.[/quote]<br />
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Spot on mate: the laws of physics are not yet defeated, even by the most hyped of diets. It's like all the bollocks about the 'unhealthiness' of some foods as opposed to others. It's all poured into a vat of sulphuric acid in your stomach, and reduced to the basic constituents: protein, carbs, fats. The only 'unhealthiness' is in getting the relative proportions stupidly out of wack, or in shovelling more energy in than you expend, and becoming a fat bastard. Otherwise, if you want a Big Mac, fire away - it's no worse for you than a fresh, organically raised steak. People get insanely - and irrationally - obsessive about food 'quality'. -
I find myself these days trying to stick to food which are 'low GI', therefore releasing energy more slowly throughout the day and reducing cravings for high energy/sugary foods.<br />
I think with carbs it all comes down to balance. I personally will never cut them out but I would never eat 6 baked potatoes for dinner (remember the food pyramid). <br />
More often these day though I try and cut out those refined carbs which have been mentioned on here and switching to most things which havent been tinkered with by humans. -
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[quote]More often these day though I try and cut out those refined carbs which have been mentioned on here and switching to most things which havent been tinkered with by humans.[/quote]<br />
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Err: so you only eat space dust??<br />
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You know what I mean - stuff which hasn't had machines mess with it (ie. white bread). I've gone wholemeal everything where possible.<br />
I dont think you can get wholemeal space dust though.