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Biking '10 part 2

#484
BassXgirl said:
I know that fat loss also has a lot to do with sustaining a maximum heart rate steadily for a minimum of time. This is where some confusion on interval training and fat loss comes in. At least with regards to cycling.

I haven't really learned to control my heartrate on my bike yet. This is probably just making my results more confusing. I can control my heartrate while speedskating. I'm just more accustomed to skating. The bike is still kind of a newish thing for me and I find it hard to get my heart rate up on it unless i'm pushing higher gears than i'd like to. So lately, i've been doing more interval type riding on it instead of 'fat burning' spinning type riding. You're right though, a calorie burned is a calorie burned and thats still accomplishing something.

So I don't actually need to lose weight in numbers. I'm thin/average sized...not overweight. I just want to get more defined and change my muscle to fat ratio back to something i can be happy with. Thats really what changed during my surgery recovery. Seems like I got that extra layer of stuff while also losing a little bit of muscle. I basically stayed the same size though.

It has proven very difficult to try to gain muscle and lose fat at the same time. I think i've managed to maintain the muscle I have though. You and my name is mudd both make a good point of just concentrating on one or the other at a time. This is gonna be my new approach :)
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Training with heart rate can be somewhat of a hard variable to control. Quite often, it's a function of controlling your effort, but sometimes factors outside of your actual workout like temperature, hydration status, etc. can also influence your heart rate. In my case, my race heart rate is dramatically higher than anything I can sustain during a workout.

A good training program will encompass endurance phases, intervals, and very critical recovery times. Following the program will allow you to slim down during the endurance phases and get stronger for the interval phases. The only real downside to following a dedicated training program is that it can be a little boring. Last winter I did nothing but endurance for about 3 months. If I really didn't enjoy cycling, I think it would have been too boring for general cyclists.
 
#492
I'm the thread's noob, can't really help you, my saddle was really hurtful at first to but I guess my butt got harder and now it's fairly tolerable, however I want to start a quest for the perfect saddle sometime :)
 
#495
Ziltoid said:
Let the newfies joke begin! ;)

Cool pictures, how was your trip?
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I'm not sure I'd recommend that... ;)

Erick Lam said:
Windy.
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It's windy everywhere on the island pretty much all the time.

The plan was to bike up to Cartwright in Labrador and take a long ferry back to Newfoundland, but there were too much pack ice so the ferry never made it to port. I ended biking down the west coast which is insanely windy. With a couple of pick-up ride, I managed to make for most lost time. Then I went to Twillingate, "iceberg capital of the world" where not a single iceberg could be found. I went there to see icebergs but didn't see many because of the pack ice. How ironic.

It was still amazing though. It was my second tour in Newfoundland and I've been looking at routes for a third trip, although I might go without the bike and concentrate on photography.

This is two years ago in Gros Morne park:
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This year? It was a really bad/good year for icebergs. Bad for tourism, good for shipping and oil businesses. There was no pack ice to speak of on the northeast or east coasts this year though.

That piece of road in that picture always amazes me. Beautiful lush greens on the seaward side and barren red rock on the inland side. We've hiked up to trout river gulch in the Tablelands for some sweet "above treeline" skiing.


Have you ever made it out to the east coast/St. John's area? Not quite as spectacular as Gros Morne but pretty beautiful all the same.
 
#498
Actually tennis got me thinking (that doesn't happens very often), you could go to a specialized BG fit certified dealer and get your butt measured with their little butt measure tool and buy a saddle of the size it tells you and also at the same time you could get a fitting! Ain't it wonderful?
 
#500
Ziltoid said:
Actually tennis got me thinking (that doesn't happens very often), you could go to a specialized BG fit certified dealer and get your butt measured with their little butt measure tool and buy a saddle of the size it tells you and also at the same time you could get a fitting! Ain't it wonderful?
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Thanks?

Yes, BG stuff works IME. I ended up with a road saddle on my MTB based on the local Spez dealer and it fits just right. Most of the BG saddles come in 2 or 3 different widths so pick the shape ,padding, rail material, and price that works for you and then it should be available in a size that works for your sit bone width.

That's the main thing I like about Spez BG saddles, I don't think any other brand has the same saddle in multiple widths.
 

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