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

"Ryan Cousineau" <rcousine@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
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> In article <68ub35F2uh4cqU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> "Steve Freides" <steve@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> "Donald Munro" <fat-dumbass@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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>> > Steve Freides wrote:
>> >> In short, eat less, and find heavy objects and move them - in
>> >> addition to
>> >> continuing to ride your bike.
>> >
>> > And drink less beer.
>>
>> Absolutely, especially immediately post-training.
>>
>> -S-
>> http://www.kbnj.com
>
> For heaven's sake!
>
> Beer is WHY I engage in a s****t with high cardio-training 
> requirements.
>
> So I can drink beer!
>
> Dumb*****s...
>
> PS: good advice, will consider.

:)

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I have to admit I've never been much of an alcohol drinker, so not 
having much isn't a big deal to me.  Funny thing - I remember when my 
wife and I were, 20+ years ago, traveling in France and Italy, and 
drinking a liter of wine between us every night.  You do get used to it, 
no doubt, and if I drank more than the half a beer once every few weeks 
I usually now have, I'm sure it wouldn't make me quite so much feel like 
s#$% later.  But the other side of that coin is that my exercise wasn't 
a priority to me back then, and it is now, and there's a difference 
between taking care of yourself well enough to be a tourist or ride a 
desk the next day when you're 20-something and taking care of yourself 
well enough to push yourself pretty hard athletically when you're 
middle-aged and beyond.

For the record, that half a beer (yes, I know it's criminal not to 
finish your beer - I have no defense) is Guinness Stout.  I figure half 
a Stout is worth one regular beer, anyway. :)

Last but not least, I am firmly convinced that, regardless of what s****t 
you enjoy engaging in, resistance training becomes more and more 
im****tant the older you get.  I got by just fine without it until my 
early 40's or so, and was a regular runner and swimmer as well.  FWIW, 
I was never a triathlete, I just enjoyed all three so I ran most days, 
biked 2-3 times a week (your basic A level club rider, including a lot 
of fixed gear), and swam 2-3 times a week.  It was my wife who commented 
that I was too skinny - she looked at me and said I had basically no 
upper body muscle and was starting to get a little belly - that's when I 
started to moving heavy objects, and weight lifting has been berry, 
berry good to me since.  I'm exactly the same weight I've always been 
but my bodyfat percentage has dropped a few points and I still look like 
a runner or bikie according to most folks, which is fine w/ me - no need 
to look like an ironhead if you know how to lift to improve your 
strength without encouraging growth in muscle size.

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-S-
http://www.kbnj.com