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More Time To Get Fit - 2025

stangmx13 said:
I appreciate that they separated power, strength, and mass. The body is so nuts that things can be this complicated.
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Yeah kinda drives home the point that you can’t stop moving heavy shit if you don’t want to fall apart. :laughing

Master’s endurance athletes show little preservation of type II fibers…
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Damn. I guess Im gonna have to learn to love doing some meat head shit again. Lol
 
My coach is moving all his athletes to lifting year round. He coaches ~50 ppl ranging from newbs to pros, in cycling and running.

It seems the avg American lifestyle isn’t good enough for optimal health. We gotta go out of our way to exercise, lift, and eat well.
 
stangmx13 said:
My coach is moving all his athletes to lifting year round. He coaches ~50 ppl ranging from newbs to pros, in cycling and running.

It seems the avg American lifestyle isn’t good enough for optimal health. We gotta go out of our way to exercise, lift, and eat well.
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Yup. The biggest changes I have made were because I decided to prioritize my fitness over other things.

My “justification” is that I don’t want to be a burden to my kids when they are grown. Once that “clicked” everything is on the table in terms of staying functional.
 
i figured out what hr zone 2 feels like when rowing. i’m quite pleased. i already feel/see a small difference in my gut from a few weeks of rowing. per Berto’s suggestion i’ve been taking regular pics of my body. went on a decent walk yesterday and didn’t have much pain today. i feel like i turned another little corner
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Mike95060 said:
Yeah kinda drives home the point that you can’t stop moving heavy shit if you don’t want to fall apart. :laughing
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Hypertophy; Myofibrillar and Sarcoplasmic. "Heavy" meaning <85% 1RM, IIRC. Fully encouraging watching fitness transition into treadmills and bikes into, cardio + Resistance training with the focus shifting towards muscle growth / retention as age increases. The last 10 years has been a boom on validation of incorporating high impact with low/ medium impact fitness programs. It's awesome!

stangmx13 said:
My coach is moving all his athletes to lifting year round. He coaches ~50 ppl ranging from newbs to pros, in cycling and running.

It seems the avg American lifestyle isn’t good enough for optimal health. We gotta go out of our way to exercise, lift, and eat well.
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The average American doesn't have the motivation to even commit half of what's effective, sad to write; agree fully with your 2nd line. The 3rd line you know already
: It's not going out our way to remain committed...it's going out of our way when we give up on our activities/ programs...especially the activities we workout / train so we can continue doing them at a level we're proud of.

two wheel tramp said:
i figured out what hr zone 2 feels like when rowing. i’m quite pleased. i already feel/see a small difference in my gut from a few weeks of rowing. per Berto’s suggestion i’ve been taking regular pics of my body. went on a decent walk yesterday and didn’t have much pain today. i feel like i turned another little corner
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Rowing's just kinda hellish, especially at the end when you go from 50th to just trying to stay in the top 100. You'll deal with this soon enough...while you pay a fee for people to kick your ass online! Keep up the pics...they're motivating as F!
 
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i found my new favorite road! it’s a long steady incline that keeps me firmly in zones 2-3 while cycling.

this new bike is a lot easier and more fun than the old bike. i like climbing gentle hills now. it keeps getting easier. taking a day off today and rowing/yoga-ing.

i have lost 4 of the 30 lbs i wanted to lose so far. pretty happy about that.
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You're doing great, TWT!

Be careful about those upper heart rates. I don't know what your whole life workout pattern is, but unless you've been working out your whole like, you'd probably want to be careful about getting above 160.
 
Climber said:
You're doing great, TWT!

Be careful about those upper heart rates. I don't know what your whole life workout pattern is, but unless you've been working out your whole like, you'd probably want to be careful about getting above 160.
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i am really trying to stay in zones 2/3! i often don’t even know when i am above 160 unless i make a conscious effort, take a hand off the bars and poke at the watch. i wish my watch would yell at me at a certain HR. as long as i'm able to breathe i feel like i'm doing okay. i definitely know when i hit zone 5 tho, and i hate it. the roomie is going to put a bike carrier on my car so i can go to some flatter locations and ride. there is no escaping hills here.

rude!!

also: am 46 in case you thought i’m older. :laughing
 
two wheel tramp said:
i am really trying to stay in zones 2/3! i often don’t even know when i am above 160 unless i make a conscious effort, take a hand off the bars and poke at the watch. i wish my watch would yell at me at a certain HR. as long as i'm able to breathe i feel like i'm doing okay. i definitely know when i hit zone 5 tho, and i hate it. the roomie is going to put a bike carrier on my car so i can go to some flatter locations and ride. there is no escaping hills here.

rude!!

also: am 46 in case you thought i’m older. :laughing
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TWT, I know Garmin watches have alerts for HR, drinking water, eating, and a whole bunch of other metrics so I would guess Apple Watches have alerts too. Maybe google it.

One of our friends has an alert to consume calories while running. Every 45 minutes her watch says “Eat Bitch”. You can hear it through her phone speaker, pretty funny when you hear it the first few times.
 
Are dead hangs the latest exercise fad? I'm see a lot of such videos popping up on my YouTube suggestions.
Gave it a try and was shocked at how hard it was. Could barely manage 20 seconds, 30-40 if wearing lifting gloves but my grip is weak without.
Been a long time since I've done pull-ups on any sort of regular basis, wasn't expecting to have lost so much ability in that area.

What's odd is that it's so much easier to deadlift by bodyweight with a barbell and just hold the bar for that same duration.
 
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