Concept2 Forum

Last February I was gold panning with my fiancee on the island of Bohol. My fiancee later admitted it was her fault and that we erred by not burning a certain herb that grows there (this is all serious btw) and notifying the water spirits that we meant them no harm. At any rate I slipped and fell do...

A loss of one pound in a week is statistically meaningless. When people diet often they reduce carbs. A reduction in carbs tends to be a bit, to highly diuretic (very low carb diets are very diuretic). People on very low carb diets will literally pee out 4-6lbs of water over a week--stop the very lo...

Thank you all for your helpful posts. It's almost two months after my initial post. I'm pleased to say that now, after eight weeks, having started after being very sedentary at a rate of 1000C/week (C=kilocalories) I'm up to 4400C/wk ~6 hours rowing (which equals ~1 1/4 lb fat burn/week) . My knees ...

Thank you Spencer, but there is no real "injury," or if there is, it's a lifetime of wear on the cartilage causing thinning. There is no pulling, snapping, no pain or heat, only the fact that I wake up in the middle of the night apparently due to inactivity with pain, I'll take 2 naprosyn and I'm ok...

Concept II, Model D. I have typical osteoarthritis, mild, no redness, no heat--my biggest problem is discomfort late at night after sleeping for four or more hours. I'm in my late 50's and have been quite sedentary having gone through major shoulder surgery about 8 months ago after suffering a massi...