Weight / Fat loss

96.8
95.0
95.2
94.2
94.5
93.8
93.6
93.7 Doh. I'm going to put this down to eating a lot yesterday as I did two days gym back to back.

Oh wow a whole 100 grams! :P

64.9>64.1 so that's the holiday glycogen gone. Now the slog begins...

But I ate salad!!!

sobs

But I ate salad!!!

Salad is what food eats.

#hippyisfood?

It was next to a steak :)

I have been informed green tea has caffeine in.

Of course it does. So does black tea. I think one of those weird ones - Roobois/Red bush??? is the one that doesn't have caffeine. Green tea is about the only tea I find at all palatable.

Caffeine pills FTW btw if you really want a kick before exercise.
200 mg is one cup of coffee, so don't go nuts and take more than 1-2 (depending on bodyweight)

Or really good coffee, but our work stuff is anything but...

I use a pre-workout.

I'm an expert on the improper doses of caffeine. Don't ever ask me to measure out caffeine powder.

Will be interesting to see how a few days of taking 150mg caffeine a day (in Max Strength Cold + Flu medicine) affects me given that I only drink decaf nowadays (so my usual caffeine intake is 50mg/day max). Ugh.

Was down a kilo yesterday, brilliant.

went for tacos last night (unavoidable girlfriend mandated social event), back up a kilo today. ffs.

There's no fucking way my lunch was >1000 calories. Your numbers are bullshit Wasabi!
https://wasabi.uk.com/sites/default/files/NutritionalGuide%20IAN%20v12.pdf

two days gym

Increase which anaerobic max?

Like on speed

Pizza, beer and bare baileys for tea. I went on a run though.

Realized that car school runs now mean some days I don't even get 30 mins of exercise.

Implementing lunch time walks.

Not much to see where I work, unless I want to walk all the way to the birds reservation but that's more than an hour walking. For that there's 4G and youtube and headphones though :)

I don't know Anna Robik.

I used to walk around the block reading a book.

Yeah, before being a smartphone zombie was cool.

This was in Oz though, where we can build flat concrete footpaths and don't fill every fucking street with shite to bump into.

don't fill every fucking street with shite to bump into.

There's a bit more space, when you have a huge continent with only around 1,000 inhabitants :-)

There's a bit more space

Unless they're all the same size as you.....

It's raining all the time here, I'd need a waterproof book... [island of Ireland weather stereotype jokes]

:)

On that note: Our footpath near work has an area with stupid steps which result in people walking on the cycle lane instead. Should complain to owner of grounds, see what they say.

The rest is fine, it's just one spot of weirdness. People can walk around it with a whole 5 meter detour, but that's just not how humans roll :)

09/11/2017 – Weight: 66.7kg. BMI = 21.0
02/01/2018 - Weight: 69.9kg. BMI = 22.1
12/01/2018 - Weight: 66.7kg. BMI = 21.0

Christmas flab gone just by returning to the pre-festive routine, which is a relief. Objective from here is to loose the last remaining flab and keep toning up with push/sit ups, but still need to work out some cycling fitness related goals. Been using a HRM, and from analysing some of the data and talking to friends it seems that my HR is relatively high for the speed I'm able to achieve. Any books or online training plans that anyone can recommend I look at?

Your friends talk absolute shite. HR is very very specific to you and comparable to nobody else.

It may be relatively high but that's neither a good nor a bad thing. With training you'll likely run faster at the same HR, but you should only be comparing your HR to your HR, not to anyone else's.
A clubmate who is 15yrs older than me runs a similar pace to me. At our 5k pace his HR sits in the high 180's, mine in the low 170's. We just have a different 'normal'

Interesting - didn't realise that. Some of my friends do talk a load of shite, that's for sure - and I did suspect there was a bit of weird machismo going on about it.

As a general rule, I've just been aiming to stay in Z4 as much as possible, conditions allowing - randomly selecting 170 as a target. I can keep doing that, but I'm curious as to what I can do that is more structured than that and what gains it could potentially deliver, whether or not it means I can ride faster at a lower HR.