Concept2 Forum

Still at it. I am stuck on 30# down, but I am not worried since my belt is tightened a couple more notches. I am probably building muscle to offset the fat loss now since I am working out harder this week than I was a week or so ago. I am being really disciplined about my diet though. Sticking to a ...

Making progress...this a.m. I hit the scales showing a 28# loss so far...got to love it...I notice that I am not as hungry, that I look forward to working out, and that I feel better and better. Also, my capacity to train has continued to improve as I gain fitness and improved health. I am running h...

You simply are wrong and really don,t know what working hard is. right, that why have been I teaching doctoral students at a major university since 1996 , manage the health status and fitness of a national championship rugby team and function as the sole sports science consultant to a professional ...

As of this a.m., I am down 25# - the key is the blending of eating less of lean meat, fruits and vegetables exclusively in several smaller meals a day, AND exercising more than once a day to keep my metabolism humming along. I am up to 3.5 miles running, lifting a 45# kettle bell and doing a variety...

Look, i am not opposed to steady state training at all. In fact, i agree with you that especially endurance athletes mostly train in a steady state. But if you look at sports like soccer, for example, where there are a 1000 bouts of action, each one lasting less than 10 seconds - their training matc...

Your ad hominid attacks make you right of course. Facts be damned.

OK, so you have convinced yourself that sub-maximal exercise is the way to go. Have at it. Tune up your four cylinder engine all you want. It will always be a four cylinder engine. I on the other hand will turn my 4 cylinder engine into a 6 cylinder engine and then as 8 cylinder engine and then a 12...

So If I understand you correctly, you are suggesting that a person who does a steady state workout does the same amount of work as the person who sprints for one minute intervals over the same unit of time? Are you also taking account of the additional muscle building that takes place from the highe...

Except that in the same unit of time, one of them will have done more work. Guess which one...

I fail to see your point. Should you be a natural athlete, your fitness will increase more or less indefinitely. It is possible to achieve over training, but just as in running fast, the only way to run faster is to train by running faster. If you monitor your power output, and maintain your stroke ...

Care to share your sources? This argument has been attempted many times and is not backed up by data. I literally have dozens of research articles. See below for a list You are born with a certain proportion of muscle fibers. There is no way to drastically change this - and to suggest that type II ...

One word: kettlebell Have to agree. Buy yourself a 35# KB and start squatting! You can also do swings, single hand overhead lifts, dead lifts on one leg or two and many more - (the Turkish Get Up comes to mind)...Also, I agree with another poster who said push ups. Try this - we call it "the up and ...

I am the sideline trainer for a Super League Team - Old Puget Sound Beach. I suggest that you think in terms of a half of rugby - so plan on 40 minute rows. Then because interval training is the key to fitness and also approximates the action cycles in a rugby match, I suggest that you do short spri...

Just curious, does anybody here use this device? And to what end?

I would add that type II muscle is preferential in fat metabolism. This means that you have to work at maximal intensity to train type II muscle. Interval training is best, but the intervals need to be at maximal output. Type II muscle also selectively atrophies. Low intensity training does not deve...