Re: Training Qs: intervals, blowing up, fat...

In article <rubrum-57B8E3.17375113052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 Michael Press <rubrum@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> In article 
> <rcousine-BCAB86.20071312052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>  Ryan Cousineau <rcousine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
> > If the biggest result from my training is that I lose 25 pounds and 
> > maintain some semblance of current power, I will be highly competitive

> > in the local crits, and should shoot up the CX results as if I was 
> > experimenting with The **** That Will Kill Them.
> 
> Losing 25 pounds in the time frame
> and with the physical effort you outline
> is a huge jolt to the body. You should
> find out everything you can about large
> weight loss, including how to maintain. 
> Have you seriously considered a lifelong
> commitment to maintaining some particular
> weight range? Or are you at risk to blimp
> up, dissipating the results of your effort?

Let's put it this way:

mid-1996 (living in LA, no exercise, apparently lost weight by osmosis): 
156 lbs.
mid-2000 (got married): 190 lbs.
mid-2001 (wife cooks well and healthy): 175 lbs.
2002-2005 progressive reductions in normal mid-summer weight of about 5 
lbs. per year, peaking with a record low of 148 lbs. in August 2005, 
when I won 5 mid-week crit primes in a row and took some podiums.
2006-2007: the enfattening. Due to personal distractions from the 
im****tant work of riding my bike (grand finale was knee problems), I 
blimp up to 180 by the start of 2008.

2008: to quote Daniel Coyle, er, Ben Franklin, speaking about Jan 
Ullrich, er, Ben Franklin: "fat boy was pissed." Time to stop making the 
donuts.

I'm already reasonably happy with my training, in that unlike last year, 
I'm consistently getting on my bike and riding.

> A very gradual weight loss program may be in order,
> concentrating on ****tion size. I recommend
> the no-guilt diet.

I have only two weaknesses that hamstring my diet efforts: ****tion 
control and impulse control. Also, I like beer, wine, and hard liquor.

In 2005, what "worked" for me was essentially eating whatever I wanted 
and riding a (for me) ridiculous amount. I was physically unable to 
catch up to the calorie debts I was inducing. The system worked!

I don't have a good idea of what to do long-term, most especially for 
off-season. The eat-whatever diet probably will be not too bad as long 
as I keep riding as much as I am, but it's quite clear I'm just 
consuming way too many calories, and my theory is the best way to work 
that out is to just really work hard on avoiding the behavior that leads 
me to consume certain types of marginal (as in the extra 10%, not as in 
doughnuts) calories.

-- 
Ryan Cousineau rcousine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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