CUK Fat Club

[OwlHoot]

... Basically swapped coke for diet cock, ...

er, ..., nah, it may have been a typo

[Mich the Tester]

I am not convinced. Following the incident where the tree jumped in front of my bike, I spent 2 weeks trying to train and it hurt. Alot. So I finally had to take a week off. My fitness never recovered - though it might be that in those 3 weeks I went up around 5kg.

Certainly a couple of days off can be good. But you don't have to do much to keep the muscles "patterned". For instance while tapering, on the advice of Dallas, I had 3 days where I did a 10 minute warm up followed by 3 minutes of hard exercise. On the 4th day I was raring to go!

BTW I love the bike stories. And your points about BMI are spot on.

You think you lost fitness due to rest, but I'd respectfully suggest that you actually lost fitness in the 2 weeks that you were trying to train with an injury, and not in the week that you rested; if you've got a nasty acute injury your body is busy healing the injury; that takes more out of you than you think, and if you train at the same time you're depleting your body's ability to recover. What your body also does is store fat because you've given it a signal that there are hard times ahead and it'll need that reserve. Remember, you get fitter while recovering from training (not during training) by the process of supercompensation, which is quite a similar process to healing from injury. Push a muscle to its maximum and in rest the muscle will recover and then grow to be stronger than before. Similar thing with an injury; cut your arm and then a scab, then a scar will grow, and the scar tissue will be thicker than the skin that was there before; same goes for bones; the point of the break will be thicker when it heals.

I learned about training and recovery the hard way by ending up with overtraining back in my 20s before I'd learnt the theoretical side of training, and it ain't pretty. Think depression, nausea, lack of sleep, loss of libido, loss of sporting performance and it can take months to recover.

And indeed, 'tapering' is important for any big sporting event and has a big effect.

[BrilloPad]

You think you lost fitness due to rest, but I'd respectfully suggest that you actually lost fitness in the 2 weeks that you were trying to train with an injury, and not in the week that you rested; if you've got a nasty acute injury your body is busy healing the injury; that takes more out of you than you think, and if you train at the same time you're depleting your body's ability to recover. What your body also does is store fat because you've given it a signal that there are hard times ahead and it'll need that reserve. Remember, you get fitter while recovering from training (not during training) by the process of supercompensation, which is quite a similar process to healing from injury. Push a muscle to its maximum and in rest the muscle will recover and then grow to be stronger than before. Similar thing with an injury; cut your arm and then a scab, then a scar will grow, and the scar tissue will be thicker than the skin that was there before; same goes for bones; the point of the break will be thicker when it heals.

I learned about training and recovery the hard way by ending up with overtraining back in my 20s before I'd learnt the theoretical side of training, and it ain't pretty. Think depression, nausea, lack of sleep, loss of libido, loss of sporting performance and it can take months to recover.

And indeed, 'tapering' is important for any big sporting event and has a big effect.

You could very well be right. The next time I am attacked by some street furniture I will rest straight away and I will find out. Makes me feel like cycling into a car just to see!

[BrilloPad]

Today was a good day. Over last 5 weeks since midnightman I have lost 4kg - 2kg over the last week. I ran 12 miles, cycled 25 miles, swam 1300m at Holborough, cycled another 25 miles. If I can keep this going I might be able to do the double iron man.

[shaunbhoy]

I am still 32 pounds down on when I started this 11 months ago. Have maintained this target weight for 7 months now too. Just need to keep going with the walking, which has not been too much of an issue really.
Got my BMI around 27.5 so fairly comfortable with that, although I have never really been a fan of the whole BMI thing as I believe it to be a bit flawed.

[mudskipper]

Yep - also staying put - around 20lb down. BMI around 23 so all good.

[Zippy]

Have gone from a Victoria sponge to a muffin top. Happy.

[mudskipper]

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Oi, this is a friendly, supportive thread.

If you can't be friendly and supportive, bugger off to the awkward sex thread.

[norrahe]

Yep - also staying put - around 20lb down. BMI around 23 so all good.

Same here, about 11 kg down, Would like to lose another 3kg ideally.

Need to tone up a tad, looking into some pilates classes, but its been quite nice having to buy a new work wardrobe and finding I'm 3 sizes down

[mudskipper]

Well, it's been nearly a year.

I'm 2 stone down on the start - very happy with progress, although I can still "pinch more than an inch"

I know Norrahe is looking svelte and fab.

So how's everyone else going?