sixaxles:
i’ve just put my old bike back on the truck, went out the other night for an hour and came back feeling great!
had to put a couple of bits of plate up the top coming from the air kit fixings to hook the top straps onto but no major mods required, paid 40 quid for the bike years ago and probs the same for the halfrauds bike rack(which i got at the same time)
that looks like my bike, lol, I spend more time pushing it or wobbling off it good form of exercise though
lol - practise makes perfect so they say, there was at least one occasion when i needed to go down a steep hill when i got “off piste” i thought i might go over the handle bars, gained even more respect for those lads like steve peat!
sixaxles:
i’ve just put my old bike back on the truck, went out the other night for an hour and came back feeling great!
had to put a couple of bits of plate up the top coming from the air kit fixings to hook the top straps onto but no major mods required, paid 40 quid for the bike years ago and probs the same for the halfrauds bike rack(which i got at the same time)
that looks like my bike, lol, I spend more time pushing it or wobbling off it good form of exercise though
lol - practise makes perfect so they say, there was at least one occasion when i needed to go down a steep hill when i got “off piste” i thought i might go over the handle bars, gained even more respect for those lads like steve peat!
I ll take my hat off to anyone who can ride a bicycle, I have to get off it at junctions and that’s if I haven’t wobbled off it already before I get there
thewheel:
Cheers monarch iv already give up on butter only thing in lunch box is 2 ham sarnies banana and maybe a bag of crisp. Dont eat a lot of crap but do have a proper evening meal every day. Never bothered having brekkie. Cycling to and from work is 24miles a week sp o should be off to a good start, saves petrol too!
Turning that round is a good start, good healthy breakfast, scrambled eggs/omelette, lean bacon, tomatoes, porridge, Special K are good examples, followed by 3/4 smaller portion meals throughout the day, don’t cut out carbs, swap them for brown, wholemeal, wholegrain pasta, rice & bread. Try no carbs after a set time 4/5pm & no food after a set time, 3/4 hours before bed time. Once you get used to cycling, join a gym and try a Spinning/RPM classes & HIIT on a treadmill. Drink lots of water & get a good nights sleep.
Good advice, I’ve studied nutrition but have no formal qualification (more for personal use) and this is the best way about it its just a shame I’m not following it myself atm
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jimboy124:
I am fully endorsing what coffeeholic has said . I am north of 18 stone at the moment and I am desperate to shift a couple of stone. I have downloaded the C25k app and it is brilliant! I am very careful in what I eat now and am exercising more than I have done in 25 years. Although I have not lost any weight in a week a feel like I have and the mrs reckons I look like I have !?
I also have done a spinning class, I found it really quite hard … probably because the bike was not set up properly … now that I have been shown how to do it properly …I love it!
Also I have found that a rowing machine gives you a fantastic work out … I am trying to complete 500 metres in less than two minutes. I have not achieved it yet but are getting closer every day !
So in my conclusion I would recommend a balanced healthy diet coupled with a good exercise you will lose weight and feel great!
I don’t like to blow my own trumpet but to give you a insight to my previous levels of fitness (3/4 years ago) , I rowed 15105 meters in an hour and kept it under 2 mins per 500m the whole time, like ■■■■ could I do that now and hate this job because of what it has done to my physical health
From someone who was supremely fit until 3-4yrs ago, please don’t go jogging if you weigh 18st & wish to lose weight.
If you want to lose weight then all you have to do is eat less, simples innit.
If you want to lose weight & improve your fitness level, then cycling is good but swimming is better. Both will only work if you also start to eat less. Please don’t subject your body to the punishment of 18st of LARD pounding it on a hard surface.
If you have a ■■■■■■ fantasy involving sweaty bodies, adorned in the latest ‘Gym’ fashion & also have access to lots of money, then gym workouts might be for you. You won’t lose weight but you will turn all that fat into muscle . . . at great £expense.
Ask that you want to lose weight & improve your aerobic fitness at 99% of Gyms & they’ll just look slightly past you with a glazed expression.
Until 3yrs ago my fitness level ranked just below God like, I’ve slackened off a little recently, so now it’s merely ‘awesome’.
Tip No’ 1. Learn to respect your body, without a respect for your own body no one can help you. Until you understand the full meaning of this, then tip No’ 2 is irrelevant.
You fellas doing all this are putting yourselves at a very great risk, lets forget the damage you can do to your bones by jogging. You heart is only good for so many beats, just like an engine. So, how do you treat an engine to make it last longer and stay in good shape? yeah, thats it…you make sure its run steady and well oiled. Nothing like jogging or excersising which is like running your engine on full throttle for nothing !!! Take it easy, you fat fellas should not kid yourselves, just eat less thats all. I’ve managed to maintain my honed 11st figure for years so i know my approach works.
I struggle to exercise, sometimes I struggle to walk but things are getting easier. Our star pupil in my group has just lost 11st 9lbs and become a father again, he has become a mentor to many and helps us if we are struggling.
Mike-C:
You fellas doing all this are putting yourselves at a very great risk, lets forget the damage you can do to your bones by jogging. You heart is only good for so many beats, just like an engine. So, how do you treat an engine to make it last longer and stay in good shape? yeah, thats it…you make sure its run steady and well oiled. Nothing like jogging or excersising which is like running your engine on full throttle for nothing !!! Take it easy, you fat fellas should not kid yourselves, just eat less thats all. I’ve managed to maintain my honed 11st figure for years so i know my approach works.
But regular cardio exercise leads to a stronger heart muscle particularly the left ventricle, the one responsible for pumping that oxygen rich blood that’s come in from the lungs out to your body. Aerobic exercise will cause improvements in stroke volume and therefore cardiac output through increasing oxygen levels and bringing more fresh blood to the heart. A stronger heart with a better stroke volume and cardiac output means a much lower resting heart rate so you are using less of those limited beats overall. In the last 14 months through regular exercise, mostly at 80% or less of max heart rate mixed with sessions keeping it over 80% and sessions of intervals where it bounces over and back below the 80% mark, my resting heart rate has dropped from 88bmp to 40bmp, plus my recovery time in getting its rate down from whatever level I was training at back to normal is so much faster.
That’s a lot of those limited beats I’ve saved myself even taking into account the ‘extra’ beats I’ve used running, cycling, swimming, lifting heavy lumps of metal up and putting them back down again and so on. I had a medical check on Tuesday, they were offering free NHS checks at the gym so I took advantage, and even though I’d only just finished weight training my BP was 121 over 66; they said it would have been lower with a longer gap between the workout and the check, my cholesterol was 4.04 with the good HDL cholesterol at 2.20 and apparently after taking this, some other figures and my height and weight into consideration my chance of a cardiovascular event in the next 10 years (it says this means a heart attack, stroke or death, no [zb] Sherlock ) is 5.02%. Those figures are much, much less than a year ago so the overall benefits surely far outweigh the fact you get your heart rate up a bit while breaking a sweat.
Also not all training needs to be carried out with the heart pumping to the max; running/jogging doesn’t mean your heart is pumping at, or near, 100%, you can’t maintain that level for long periods anyway. Aerobic training keeping the heart rate between 60 and 80% of maximum is a great fat burner and coupling that with a strength and weight training program where you build muscle will have the fat dropping off. Each pound of new muscle you gain burns extra calories each day and if for example you gained 10lbs of new muscle, and maintained it over a year that new muscle will burn a bit over 60lbs of fat a year. Throw in some anaerobic training, heart rate 80 - 90% of max, into that mix to build speed, power and strength and help to build muscle mass, add in some interval training just to mix it up and that’s a pretty good training program for fat loss, weight loss and increased fitness levels which will lead to a healthier heart that uses less beats per minute getting through the normal daily stuff we have to do.
What I did mate was, cereal for breakfast (cornflakes or weatabix), banana for brunch, for lunch brown bread sandwich with no butter and try and have meat, no cheese!! an orange or apple a couple of hours later, normal tea on a smaller plate with smaller folk!! psychological but does work. try not to eat after your tea and excersize but dont just cycle, run and walk! alternate them as your body gets used to the same activity, and swim. its depressing at first! good luck
Mike-C:
You fellas doing all this are putting yourselves at a very great risk, lets forget the damage you can do to your bones by jogging. You heart is only good for so many beats, just like an engine. So, how do you treat an engine to make it last longer and stay in good shape? yeah, thats it…you make sure its run steady and well oiled. Nothing like jogging or excersising which is like running your engine on full throttle for nothing !!! Take it easy, you fat fellas should not kid yourselves, just eat less thats all. I’ve managed to maintain my honed 11st figure for years so i know my approach works.
But regular cardio exercise leads to a stronger heart muscle particularly the left ventricle, the one responsible for pumping that oxygen rich blood that’s come in from the lungs out to your body. Aerobic exercise will cause improvements in stroke volume and therefore cardiac output through increasing oxygen levels and bringing more fresh blood to the heart. A stronger heart with a better stroke volume and cardiac output means a much lower resting heart rate so you are using less of those limited beats overall. In the last 14 months through regular exercise, mostly at 80% or less of max heart rate mixed with sessions keeping it over 80% and sessions of intervals where it bounces over and back below the 80% mark, my resting heart rate has dropped from 88bmp to 40bmp, plus my recovery time in getting its rate down from whatever level I was training at back to normal is so much faster.
That’s a lot of those limited beats I’ve saved myself even taking into account the ‘extra’ beats I’ve used running, cycling, swimming, lifting heavy lumps of metal up and putting them back down again and so on. I had a medical check on Tuesday, they were offering free NHS checks at the gym so I took advantage, and even though I’d only just finished weight training my BP was 121 over 66; they said it would have been lower with a longer gap between the workout and the check, my cholesterol was 4.04 with the good HDL cholesterol at 2.20 and apparently after taking this, some other figures and my height and weight into consideration my chance of a cardiovascular event in the next 10 years (it says this means a heart attack, stroke or death, no [zb] Sherlock ) is 5.02%. Those figures are much, much less than a year ago so the overall benefits surely far outweigh the fact you get your heart rate up a bit while breaking a sweat.
Also not all training needs to be carried out with the heart pumping to the max; running/jogging doesn’t mean your heart is pumping at, or near, 100%, you can’t maintain that level for long periods anyway. Aerobic training keeping the heart rate between 60 and 80% of maximum is a great fat burner and coupling that with a strength and weight training program where you build muscle will have the fat dropping off. Each pound of new muscle you gain burns extra calories each day and if for example you gained 10lbs of new muscle, and maintained it over a year that new muscle will burn a bit over 60lbs of fat a year. Throw in some anaerobic training, heart rate 80 - 90% of max, into that mix to build speed, power and strength and help to build muscle mass, add in some interval training just to mix it up and that’s a pretty good training program for fat loss, weight loss and increased fitness levels which will lead to a healthier heart that uses less beats per minute getting through the normal daily stuff we have to do.
Wheel Nut:
My signature tells it all, although it is much easier to eat healthy if you are not living in a lorry as I did for so many years. I needed help so joined Slimming World, it is the best fiver a week I have spent and is less than the two pints which I dont have.
SW isnt a fad diet, it just shows you what is good and what to avoid, after a few weeks it will fit into place and if you are struggling they have an app for that!
thewheel:
‘… Just wondering if anyone has any good diets they recommend when driving, cheers…’
Plain water to achieve and remain properly hydrated.
Either decanted into one’s own water bottle, ideally from a filtered dispenser or ambient, previously boiled water from a kettle.
Any other concoction (tea, coffee, pop, etc) contains clart that one’s body doesn’t really need in the long-term and often contains unwanted (?) carb’s & calories
Pimpdaddy:
Dried fruit can be pretty pricey where I shop, where do you people get yours from…?
Aldi is the best place, also I get all or most of my veggies and salad there, and save a bit of cash.
I have to say I’m a bit weight challenged, I cycle to work, take plenty of fruit, always salad, and 4 slices of bread and marge.
that looks like my bike, lol, I spend more time pushing it or wobbling off it
good form of exercise though
and that’s if I haven’t wobbled off it already before I get there 
) is 5.02%. Those figures are much, much less than a year ago so the overall benefits surely far outweigh the fact you get your heart rate up a bit while breaking a sweat.