Weight / Fat loss

Hmmm 77.3 this morning, despite waking up in the night and chucking my guts up for no apparent reason....

I averaged 77.4 for all of last week.

Got on the scales after my run yesterday to see that I was at 76.2, but that lasted only until I'd rehydrated.

173.5lbs

5lbs up with five days off cycling and lots of fried food and ale.

JDB yes indeed. The last three months I have cycled through recovery, re-injury and it has progressively got worse. I plan on two weeks complete rest before starting on forearm stretches & 1kg wrist curls. Any further pain and I immediately go back to further rest. I have full motion so I am assuming that I will be able to shadow box and jump rope so that my boxing training doesn't go immediately up the Swanee. Not the end of the world as my abs need work !!!

How did you injure yours?

Much the same as you I think. Mixing up different chin-up grips, and its just went. Have been through physio, lots of RICE. In the end I've just trained around it, started doing hammer grip curls and being really careful not to twist my arm and engage the inner elbow tendons. Has taken a while buy it seems to have helped adjust my arm usage enough to give the tendons time to heal properly. Still icing and stretching a lot, and have just stared very light normal grip curls .

Yes the same. I have straps with rings hung from the ceiling at home that allows my arms to naturally pronate - buggered my tendons by doing pull ups on tree branches in the park. For the moment I am pain free but will trying jumping some rope tomorrow and see how I get on ! Like you I am trying to figure out how to train around it.

Am currently hovering around 100kg. You guys on 70 / 75 good grief! Although bear in mind I am 6ft 3in (188cm in new money) and large frame. But I've been hovering around 100kg for over a month now. Need to get down to 98kg and I'm done - this will mean a 30kg weight loss since May of this year.

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30kg since May BLIMEY thats good going !!!

Am currently hovering around 100kg. You guys on 70 / 75 good grief! Although bear in mind I am 6ft 3in (188cm in new money) and large frame. But I've been hovering around 100kg for over a month now. Need to get down to 98kg and I'm done - this will mean a 30kg weight loss since May of this year.

I'm only 5'5'' 1/2, so being 75+ is overweight for me. The last time I was really lean was when I was in my early 20s and I weighed in at about 63kg.

I might not get as far down as that this time round as I think I potentially have a little more muscle mass then I had then. But at 70, which I weighed in at today, I can certainly still 'pinch' way more than an inch.

5'5" Rob with respect (as my gf would say) you are pickney! Pinching an inch is bullshit.

Personally from having lost the weight I have over the past 6 months I think this thread needs a reality check.

I did it because my blood pressure was high not because I couldn't fit into those skinny jeans. My blood pressure, thank you Jesus, is now low low and I'm enjoying all the benefits. But really - try and keep it real.

I'm only 5'5'' 1/2, so being 75+ is overweight for me. The last time I was really lean was when I was in my early 20s and I weighed in at about 63kg.

I might not get as far down as that this time round as I think I potentially have a little more muscle mass then I had then. But at 70, which I weighed in at today, I can certainly still 'pinch' way more than an inch.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121030210349.htm

Eating at least two servings of oily fish a week is moderately but significantly associated with a reduced risk of stroke, finds a study published on the British Medical Journal website But taking fish oil supplements doesn't seem to have the same effect, say the researchers.

Are you more or less likely to be made of flubber if you eat fish twice a week?

i.e. is the eating of fish a signifier of a generally healthier lifestyle, rather than the cause of the reduced stroke risk on it's own

Anchovies on a Pizza do not count

fish fingers?

Two portions per week of oily fish is in Chapter 9 of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth - its all in there

oily fish

5'5" Rob with respect (as my gf would say) you are pickney! Pinching an inch is bullshit.

Personally from having lost the weight I have over the past 6 months I think this thread needs a reality check.

I did it because my blood pressure was high not because I couldn't fit into those skinny jeans. My blood pressure, thank you Jesus, is now low low and I'm enjoying all the benefits. But really - try and keep it real.

Sorry, wasn't trying to patronise. I feel [---] <-- 'this' big now.

Well done on your weight loss, thats an astonishing achievement.

76.1 this morning.

Interview tomorrow and big presentation on friday so will almost certainly end up eating some bad stuff, but plans for a nice long run at the weekend combined with dodging the booze should see me through.

But really - try and keep it real.

Meh. Its a bike forum.

Kinda comes with the territory.

anyone on here have washboard abs ?

anyone on here have washboard abs ?

I did in the summer, for maybe a couple of days. My life style of over exercising, over eating, and old age. Meant it did'nt last.

I started the year with the ambition of going from 84Kg with a small pot belly. To 85+Kg with no pot.

I managed the 85+Kg bit.....

smallfurry I have got the eating right (see the book I recommended) * I just don't know how much ab work to do. I am thinking 400 - 500 reps every day together with planks (going on what we do at the boxing club) but having never done it I dunno if that is too much, too little, or just right?

• once a week I go for yogurt icecream with an old friend and once a week I eat half a loaf of stoneground bread with some French cheese, otherwise its fruit, veg, fish, lean meat, milk, eggs & Ryvitta crackers
  

smallfurry I have got the eating right (see the book I recommended) I just don't know how much ab work to do. I am thinking 400 - 500 reps every day together with planks (going on what we do at the boxing club) but having never done it I dunno if that is too much, too little, or just right?

Its a shite excuse. But I have a busy job, and small kids to look after. I obsessively crow bar in cycling, running, weights etc. To the point where if I'm showering I do 35 press-ups while the water warms. But my eating is very irratic.

If you want glory abs, use some weights. But if its strength you're after then repetition is more important. I tend to set up 2 lower back exercises, and 2 stomache exercises ( I have a swiss ball at home). Then alternate through reps of 15 or 20, untill I feel sick. Which is usually around the 300 mark. I could'nmt do that everyday though. Yuk.

For quick results take up distance running in the evenings, and dont eat untill breakfast. Thats probably a fast track to diabeties though.

• once a week I go for yogurt icecream with an old friend and once a week I eat half a loaf of stoneground bread with some French cheese, otherwise its fruit, veg, fish, lean meat, milk, eggs & Ryvitta crackers
  

My supper on Monday was....

a choc chip and custard one of these (yes the whole thing)

one of these (again. the whole thing)

washed down with a pint of protein shake.

I no longer have abs.