Weight / Fat loss

Mal, why would decreasing your body fat percentage increase the weight you can lift. There will be a correlation between muscle mass and lifting ability. Body fat in this context is just extra padding unless I am wrong.

By big guy did you mean fat guy or built hench like fuck guy?

If a fat guy - he'd just weak. Built hench like fuck guy might have been injured.

Surely - with same power - you'd lift a bit more, because there's less of you that needs to be lifted with it?

Finally seeing some results from healthy eating. Down to 81.7kg will hopefully stay about the same as I've planned a fair bit of strength workouts for the next 6 weeks. Would be for good to lose fat and gain muscle.

Good weekend for me 35 miles of cycling yesterday. Knees are sore still but I desperately want to start running again. It could be the cold weather though.

Mal, why would decreasing your body fat percentage increase the weight you can lift. There will be a correlation between muscle mass and lifting ability. Body fat in this context is just extra padding unless I am wrong.

By big guy did you mean fat guy or built hench like fuck guy?

If a fat guy - he'd just weak. Built hench like fuck guy might have been injured.

Not hench guy.

Well because, body weight squats when you weigh less are going to be less effective right? So, if your body weight affects the squat, then I thought :

Surely - with same power - you'd lift a bit more, because there's less of you that needs to be lifted with it?

I'm purely curious, watching the not hench guy struggle, wondering if he weighed 30kf less would he be squatting more.

Personally by the time I hit 90kg I expect to have added about 40 to my squat...

71.5
Hmmm, not happy at all with that.
Reassessing diet, etc today, and will have to change my exercise regime too.
Thing is, I can't really pinch that much fat at all, but want to change to a more cardio based exercise regime, rather than the gym and weights.

Don't suppose they give you this figure in watts?

At the end of a 30 minute test I ended at 350.

81kg dead on this morning. Means I've gone up on last week even though I've kept an eye on what I'm eating more than usual the last 5 days I've been well within my intake of 1600 a day, whether that was with exercise or not, it may be down to my body not knowing what's going on.

On to my next question, is 1600 calories before exercise healthy? On Saturday I only cycled 35 miles but didn't really feel as though I had much in reserve, I managed to drink 2 bottles of water, eat a banana and a yoghurt fruit slice.

I desperately want to start running but my knee is really causing me problems at the moment, if It's IT band problems is it ok to start exercising on it?

60.8 kg this morning, managed to stabilise and actually put some on which is what i'm after as im starting to lift again. Admittedly it wasn't by the healthiest of foods, but i've started getting a regular breakfast which can only be a good thing.

Quick question, if I'm trying to burn stubborn fat, what would be better

Cycling like a madman the 6 mile return journey to work (fixed, naturally)

or

Walking it?

70.5 this morning, but I had a complete day off yesterday and ate and drank everything ikve been denying myself for the last 3 months so not too bothered.

My pre bed snack was a melted cheese sandwich, banana bread and a glass of wine, I don't want to look at myfitnesspal as I put everything I ate in yesterday and it was pretty spectacular!

Manflu. It will ruin everything.

Back on track today, have even made my own brown flatbreads so I'm not eating white bread...

I think I read somewhere that 60g is the RDA for a average man, but that for an athletic man 140g is a more realistic number. I figure I'm on around 200g at the moment, as I'm trying to build muscle. I dont think I'm going to keep that level up into March though.
I will PM you the moment my 366% RDA protein diet kills me.

Peak Performance book:

endurance athletes:
general training: 1g / kg per day
heavy training: 1.2-1.6g / kg per day
extreme loads: 2g / kg per day

strength training athletes:
heavy training 1.2-1.7g per kg per day

growing athletes (teens)
2g per kg per day

being hungry all day was fucked, fuck this!

ftfy

My opinion* on the cycle commute is that once your body is used to the effort, you expend very minimal calorie burn.
So I'd always under state my calorific expenditure of your commute to work.
Training is a different matter.

• I am no expert!
  
  

You'd be wrong. You still have to expend the same calories to cover the same distance in the same time, it might just feel easier. Efficiency improvements account for fsck all change. Maybe if you were commuting at 40kph+ and swapped for a TT bike..

Dieting makes girls think you're a cock. Just so you know.

ftfy

91.6 kg.

Damn, it works! I was 96 kg when I started.

That's like.. a shit..

Kangaroo is pure meat eating dietry win, mince is only 1.8% fat, tastes great, is cheap, and well its skippy, who wouldn't want to eat that smug little bugger?

Shoot maybe, eat.. only if proper steak wasn't about.

I was eating kangaroo before it was cool.

I was wasting roo meat before it was seen in Europe.

I have a full on six pack now

Pics or DTM.

mmm.. beer...

i emptied the six pack at the weekend, did you not read that post?

plus i'm not posting pictures of me half nekkid on the forum!

At the end of a 30 minute test I ended at 350.

I have the power output of a little girl.

That's like.. a shit..

That was before.

Manflu. It will ruin everything.

This, I feel like death today. If I wake up like this tomorrow I'm having the day off.

Back below 70 again this morning, phew!

Unhealthy dinner tonight is being written off by running to and from work and missing my peanut and raisin afternoon snack.

Hope to be at or around 69 at the weekend and then try and maintain that weight, but its something I find really difficult to do.