Weight Questions
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jalyon posted 1 year ago.
Of course you know this, two factors contribute to weight: diet and exercise. As for diet, be sure to eat breakfast. Also, if you can, space out small meals during the day (I use breakfast, small snack, lunch, midafternoon protein bar, dinner). More importantly though, is the exercise. Fat burning is only accomplished by muscles, and then at rest, peaking at low intensity, and ceasing at high intensity. So if you're training hard and not losing weight, you could already be at prime race weight (about 5-8% body fat) or you're exercising at too high an intensity to optimize fat-burning. There's science behind all that, but I'm too tired to type it all down now. Good luck!
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Paintrain posted 1 year ago.
What is your BMI?
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ggalvao posted 1 year ago.
Are you training at the fat burning interval (around 65% max HR)?
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Tikal Dog posted 1 year ago.
You should have lowered your fat % considerably in your base training. With 2 months to your IM you are in speed now but there are always arobic sessions there. Are you following your zones? (yet...I always loose more weight when I´m in speed than base)
I was overweight some time ago and I learned that it´s always a matter of quantity or type of food you eat. With your Veggies and fruit you have to take your dozes like if it was a medicine it´s a must. That´s the first advice I got from my nutritionist 4 years ago.
It´s hard to figure about how it is that you haven´t dropped weight during an IM training but I would recommend you to go to a nutritionist and work together. I could never have done it without mine.
Good luck
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djrez4 posted 1 year ago.
I haven't dropped any weight at all since I started IM training in Dec. I'm faster, I can go longer, and I have less fat, but I still weigh the same. You're not alone!
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goldsmithnb posted 1 year ago.
djrez4;71917 wrote:
I haven't dropped any weight at all since I started IM training in Dec. I'm faster, I can go longer, and I have less fat, but I still weigh the same. You're not alone!
well thats good to hear. thanks alot for all the responses.
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LongTime posted 1 year ago.
I recently read the "fat burning zone" stuff is nonsense. Long and slow, short and fast, etc., it's about calories in and calories out. Most training programs have short, intense sessions mixed with longer aerobic workouts, and that should cover the bases.
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kylie posted 1 year ago.
LongTime;71978 wrote:
I recently read the "fat burning zone" stuff is nonsense. Long and slow, short and fast, etc., it's about calories in and calories out. Most training programs have short, intense sessions mixed with longer aerobic workouts, and that should cover the bases.
I believe it depends on your goals. For weight loss, yes, it is cal in and cals out that matter.
With training though I think the zones are important: at certain heart rates your body processes food differently. In endurance events like the marathon, you go through more calories than your body stores as carbs. So your body has to be able to efficienly process and use fat, too.
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RV posted 1 year ago.
Basically it is a numbers game. People play with the percentages.
What changes is the ratio as you increase the intensity of the workout. Long and slow the ratio between energy from fat versus the other sources is closer together (thus this is refered to as the fat burning zone), when the intensity increases more energy is pulled from the other sources, while roughly the same output from fat is maintained, thus the ratio increases. So, it is easy to say that lower intensity is the fat burning zone, but that is not really the case. Over the course of training the body will become more efficient with processing the available calories from fat as well as the other sources.
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jharrell posted 1 year ago.
If you're doing everything right, eating, training, etc.. and you're still 6'0" 180 lbs. maybe your body is telling you that you're healthy where you are.
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Triguy98 posted 1 year ago.
Or that you may not be eating right. Simply avoiding certain foods and not eating too much isnt really gonna cut it. I would pick up a sports nutrition book or visit a dietician if you have that kind of money. I went for the book. I went from 190 pounds around christmas to 180 now.
How is your recovery plan? Eating within 30 minutes and again 2 hours later? Proper carb/ protein levels? There's even a chance you are not taking enough enough cals, or enough cals from the right foods.
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Paintrain posted 1 year ago.
LongTime;71978 wrote:
I recently read the "fat burning zone" stuff is nonsense. Long and slow, short and fast, etc., it's about calories in and calories out. Most training programs have short, intense sessions mixed with longer aerobic workouts, and that should cover the bases.
Joe Friel wrote about it being nonsense in his book "Your first triathlon"
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goldsmithnb posted 1 year ago.
Triguy98;72056 wrote:
Or that you may not be eating right. Simply avoiding certain foods and not eating too much isnt really gonna cut it. I would pick up a sports nutrition book or visit a dietician if you have that kind of money. I went for the book. I went from 190 pounds around christmas to 180 now.How is your recovery plan? Eating within 30 minutes and again 2 hours later? Proper carb/ protein levels? There's even a chance you are not taking enough enough cals, or enough cals from the right foods.
Im gonna check into some more sports nutrition stuff, because i think that I have a good handle on HEALTHY eating, but maybe not as much on endurance nutrition. I have another question also though, do you think that it may be that my body is just "programed" for this weight? is that possible? or just an excuse?
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goldsmithnb posted 1 year ago.
oh and slowtwitch has a forum going about "why there are so many fat triathletes". some responses are pretty funny.
http://forum.slowtwitch.com/gforum.cgi?post=1334677;sb=post_latest_reply;so=ASC;forum_view=forum_view_collapsed;guest=13185294
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Ok so heres the deal. I am a 19 years old male, and 6 feet tall. I weigh about 180 lbs.
Heres the thing. I cant lose weight. At least not a signifigant amount. I have taken a nutrition class in college and try to follow the general rules, whole grain flour, no HFCS, limit white sugar, no soda..etc. I am training for an Iron-distance race in about 2 months, and I have not really lost any weight during training. I feel like I eat well and not too much. I try not to eat after 830 pm or so, and I have figured my basal rate at around 2500 cals a day, excluding training. The thing is, FitDay.com tells me my BMR is waay higher, so am i undereating, or what? I feel like i cant change weight at all. Let me know what you think.
Ps sorry for the long post!
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