Exercise Anyone?????????????

[Fenlason]

Went out on one bike ride this week and the 40 mph gusts were not for me. I turned around at 7.5 miles just to get back home with the 15 miles. It was a planned 25 - 40 mile ride but the winds were brutal.

I have been getting up early (4:45) to go run before work. So, I have not posted much.

Iowa ... it is probably pretty flat and treeless there

a 40mph wind there might be worse than here.. at times we get some protection from the trees and such.

but of course we also have to look out for falling trees and branches..

[Fenlason]

Tonight my two 15 min rides. Got a wild hair to see how fast I could spin the exercise bike, so I made an early 'sprint'. 27.5 MPH for a minute before Jeanne told me to stop before the bike blew up or something. (I was puffing by then, anyway)
Jeanne overdid thing around the house and skipped her rides yesterday and today, citing back pain.

I would puff a 27.5 for a minute also. Keep in motion.

27.5 Would be a lot harder on your bike, it goes up hills and has things like wind resistance to deal with. I just did it out of couriosity and silliness I guess.
Tonight twenty and Total gym, one level of resistance higher, but i may have been premature, as i had to 'cheat' almost half the reps on the second set even wit reduced (15) reps.
Jeanne no exercise

yeah into exercise equipment varies in how they read speed and distance.. and calories burned..

Most read much higher than what you can do outside.. some less.

It at least gives you something for a unit of measure.. so you can compare.

Seeing how fast you can go.. is not silly.. as long as you are warmed up.. and not hurting yourself [or trashing the equipment] ..............It's good for you.

For a great workout just repeat that a few times. It is less boring.. and it will give you an awesome work out..

[mk10108]

101 miles in 7 hrs. 4 minutes riding time. Average 14.8. Got side swiped (slammed into my calf) by a hedge hog at 17 mph. Glad it wasn't a porcupine.

[artwebb]

Tonight my two 15 min rides. Got a wild hair to see how fast I could spin the exercise bike, so I made an early 'sprint'. 27.5 MPH for a minute before Jeanne told me to stop before the bike blew up or something. (I was puffing by then, anyway)
Jeanne overdid thing around the house and skipped her rides yesterday and today, citing back pain.

I would puff a 27.5 for a minute also. Keep in motion.

27.5 Would be a lot harder on your bike, it goes up hills and has things like wind resistance to deal with. I just did it out of couriosity and silliness I guess.
Tonight twenty and Total gym, one level of resistance higher, but i may have been premature, as i had to 'cheat' almost half the reps on the second set even wit reduced (15) reps.
Jeanne no exercise

The only way I hit 27 is downhill.

Well, as I have hinted before, I'm sure the resistance 1 setting on my 'bike' don't come near the resistance a real bike would give at that speed, except maybe downhill . Imagine pedaling a beach cruiser with gearing that probably wouldn't reach 20 MPH to hit 27.5 at maybe 100-120 RPM (that is a guess, and probably optimistic)

[artwebb]

Tonight two fifteen min rides, but no foolishness this time, just fast enough to get me to 'hard to talk' level.
Jeanne isn't exercising anymore. complains of back pain. Might need a recumbent exercise bike, or maybe she's just giving up. Again

[flip18436572]

Tonight my two 15 min rides. Got a wild hair to see how fast I could spin the exercise bike, so I made an early 'sprint'. 27.5 MPH for a minute before Jeanne told me to stop before the bike blew up or something. (I was puffing by then, anyway)
Jeanne overdid thing around the house and skipped her rides yesterday and today, citing back pain.

I would puff a 27.5 for a minute also. Keep in motion.

27.5 Would be a lot harder on your bike, it goes up hills and has things like wind resistance to deal with. I just did it out of couriosity and silliness I guess.
Tonight twenty and Total gym, one level of resistance higher, but i may have been premature, as i had to 'cheat' almost half the reps on the second set even wit reduced (15) reps.
Jeanne no exercise

The only way I hit 27 is downhill.

I don't think I can hit 27 on the flat either, but I am sure if I put my heart rate near my max I could get there for a short period of time. I know on my rollers (winter training) I do interval workouts and hit up to 35, but those are very short hits.

[flip18436572]

Two mile run this morning. Then 6 hours of yard work for mother's day. Hopefully 3.1 miles of running after supper.

[Fenlason]

we had another very windy day here. We had plans to ride with friends.. and they all bailed..

Laurie and I went out for a mountain bike ride here on my trails. 1 hour and 10min. Some of it very intensely.

We did do a couple hours of trail work before hand. With all the wind we have had.. I have about a dozen trees and many limbs to clean up.

[artwebb]

Two mile run this morning. Then 6 hours of yard work for mother's day. Hopefully 3.1 miles of running after supper.

Yard work. Can't do that these days, arthritis won't allow it.
Today my day off, and Leanne is stating overnight with her aunt in the hospital, so no exercise for her either.

[Fenlason]

cold cloudy and guess what.. windy again..

I was sort of hoping ... and expecting my friends to cancel again tonight.

There was a mountain bike ride that had been posted on the list.. I had an itch to mountain bike ride again, and it would have been more comfortable with the cold and wind.... but my friends did not cancel .. so a road ride it was.

We did about 24.5 miles.. at 18.4 .. It was 37 degrees when we got back.

We had just our friends on their tandem tonight. We took off, with us doing the pulling. At the moment, we do a bit more than they do. We are fitter, right now.. so they sit in. [They do pull when they can.]

There are times we more casually ride side by side.. or times we ride side by side.. pushing the he!! out of each other. Halfway through the ride.. they started slowing pulling around us.. so I would pick up the pace.. to match theirs.

Where we had been doing all the pulling there were times it hurt like heck.. but we kept digging. I was getting really beat... and we had a decent sized hill coming up.. yech.. I dug hard from the bottom hoping to be able to hold him off.. and we get to the top and we had dropped them.

We did this off and on through the rest of the ride. When we got to the last few miles.. I was pretty blown up.. If they had tried it again.. I think he could have gotten past... He did not try. [He might have been as tired as I.. also by then his hands were cold enough he could not easily change gears]

I think they were colder than they wanted to be.. we were dressed ok for it. I am glad we got out.. and I got a good work out in.. and will be ready for our easy group ride tomorrow night.

[mk10108]

Awesome.......

Employed your spin page on Saturday. Spin up a hill....shot passed two riders like a rocket. Told myself...naw....so I did it again. COOL.

Weight down to 234....target 215

[artwebb]

Twenty min walk and Total Gym tonight, back at level 2 (2X25 reps)
Jeanne no exercise.

The Total Gym may not be as great as I thought. It works by having you work against a percentage of your own weight, cut in half on exercises where the pulley handles are used, and there lies the part I didn't take into consideration, the fact that the heavier you are, the bigger the jumps in resistance.
for example, at level two resistance, at a body-weight of roughly 260, I'm working with 15% of my body-weight, or 39 pounds, divided by two because on the pullover you use the handles, or 19.5 pounds.
At level three, it's 22 percent, or 57.2 pounds, divided makes 28.6 pounds, a difference of nearly 10 pounds, which doesn't sound like much until you're talking about an exercise like a straight arm pullover, and an increase of nearly half again, or close to a 50% increase in resistance, and since it's like a cable pullover, resistance actually spikes, bio mechanically speaking, right about where a dumbbell pullover eases up.
I though about using just one handle, but that would quarter the resistance, to 14.3, actually lower than level two resistance.
Hmmmm.
maybe free weights or tubes would be better

[mk10108]

Twenty min walk and Total Gym tonight, back at level 2 (2X25 reps)
Jeanne no exercise.

The Total Gym may not be as great as I thought. It works by having you work against a percentage of your own weight, cut in half on exercises where the pulley handles are used, and there lies the part I didn't take into consideration, the fact that the heavier you are, the bigger the jumps in resistance.
for example, at level two resistance, at a body-weight of roughly 260, I'm working with 15% of my body-weight, or 39 pounds, divided by two because on the pullover you use the handles, or 19.5 pounds.
At level three, it's 22 percent, or 57.2 pounds, divided makes 28.6 pounds, a difference of nearly 10 pounds, which doesn't sound like much until you're talking about an exercise like a straight arm pullover, and an increase of nearly half again, or close to a 50% increase in resistance, and since it's like a cable pullover, resistance actually spikes, bio mechanically speaking, right about where a dumbbell pullover eases up.
I though about using just one handle, but that would quarter the resistance, to 14.3, actually lower than level two resistance.
Hmmmm.
maybe free weights or tubes would be better

Total calorie burn for the listed activity assuming 3 mph for twenty min and 50 reps (assume 10 minutes) on your T gym is 238 calories. You burned the equivalent of 20 Kettle cooked potato chips or if you like 4, oreo cookies and your effort removed just under 1/10 of a pound of your body weight.

Continue this activity, at this level, and you will lose 40 lbs in 588 days assuming you eat 1500-1800 calories per day.

http://www.healthstatus.com/calculate/cbc

[Fenlason]

Awesome.......

Employed your spin page on Saturday. Spin up a hill....shot passed two riders like a rocket. Told myself...naw....so I did it again. COOL.

Weight down to 234....target 215

[Fenlason]

Well so much for an easy ride tonight..

I did not even get a rider count for tonight's ride. In the faster ride.. we had 4 other riders in addition to my wife and I. Of those we had one that we kept dropping. So we for the first part we periodically stop to regroup.

We did just under 27 miles.. at 21.5 ave.

Tonight hurt. After the last two hard days... at times it was like trying to beat a dead horse... there was not much there...



On the flatter sections.. we could turn the peddles over fairly good.. and maintain a decent pace.. and not have it hurt... but as soon as we needed some power.. It was not there.

It is like the fuel cells in my legs.. had some sort of vacuum lock... there is enough fuel flow to keep things going at a moderate intensity.. but as soon as more fuel was needed.. It feels like there is this vacuum.. and the fuel cells actually collapse [painfully] when they can't keep up with the fuel requirements.

We have a commital service tomorrow.. and a meeting in the evening.. so also a day off... thankfully..