TimbukTOO Team Room

[damselfly]

Doc Mike is back!! Yay!!!

Good to hear you've got clearance for some meters, and welcome back to the team room!!

[Izzzmeister]

Now this is interesting about higher intensity exercise sometimes being a little too much of a good thing:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/0 ... ref=health

Let's follow the bouncing ball, boys and girls! Now, here's what we learned:
1) The younger athletes didn't have heart damage, but the older ones did.
2) The rats had heart damage, but after a few weeks their hearts returned to normal.
The lesson? Older runners need more recovery time. Shocker!

Let's be real. Would you rather have the life expectancy of the sedentary 60 year old with the "undamaged heart", or of the ultra-marathoner with the damaged heart? The endurance? The intimacy? The medical bills?

Dr. Kenneth Cooper of the Cooper Clinic (author of the classic "Aerobics" series) already noted that the improvements in heart health and cancer rates of exercisers stopped at a certain point, even reversed slightly. In his need to quantify, he chose 2,500 calories of exercise per week as the ideal, and 3,500 calories as the point at which benefits begin reversing. Similarly, Dr. Ralph Paffenbarger of Stanford, in his mega-study of the longevity of Harvard & UPenn alumni, found that longevity went up as people increased amounts of exercise from 100 to 3,500 calories, then stopped. (He considered 2,000 calories as ideal.)
So, for those who choose to go above 3,500kcal/wk, it's more important to take antioxidants, eat cruciferous vegies like broccoli, eat fruit, sleep enough, and take days off, etc.

Here's a more inspiring article from the same NYT blog:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/0 ... you-young/

[princemishkin]

Hi,

I've recently joined this team and am just saying hello. Hello!
I try and row 5k every morning before work, but will hopefully fit in some 10k rows in the odd evening to help push us along in the World ERG challenge

Cheers,
Gary.

[Dennis B.]

Hi,

I've recently joined this team and am just saying hello. Hello!
I try and row 5k every morning before work, but will hopefully fit in some 10k rows in the odd evening to help push us along in the World ERG challenge

Cheers,
Gary.

Welcome and hope that your stay is fun and as rewarding as mine....I joinned in October 2010 and really have come to call this Team friend and home.

[APM]

Hi,

I've recently joined this team and am just saying hello. Hello!
I try and row 5k every morning before work, but will hopefully fit in some 10k rows in the odd evening to help push us along in the World ERG challenge

Cheers,
Gary.

Wishing you a warm welcome Gary!

[damselfly]

Welcome to our new rowers!! Good to see our ranks swell.

Izz has asked me to enhance my stats collection program to track individual WEC goals and percentage met for our TimBukTWO team. If you would like to participate, please either post your WEC meter goal here in the team room, or PM it to me so I can record it in the database. Also, if you change your goal as the challenge progresses, please notify me of that as well.

Thanks team!

[dr. espo]

Hey there Lisa, good to see you on the forum as well

As far as goals go...hmmm, I would like to have a full head of hair again, as well as 6 pack abs...however, I will settle for a goal of 5k a day. Second thought, lets go with 25K a week...that should be doable!

Thanks!

Mike

[damselfly]

OK, MAKE me do the math... So I'll put you down for 100k total for the challenge.

[dr. espo]

She's beautiful, she's athletic AND she can do Math! Now, if you only owned a liquor store you'd be the perfect woman!!!

Mike

[princemishkin]

Hi again

Thanks for the welcomes and Lisa, please put me down for 180k for the challenge.

Cheers,
Gary.

[damselfly]

She's beautiful, she's athletic AND she can do Math! Now, if you only owned a liquor store you'd be the perfect woman!!!

Mike

Well, Doc Mike, this proves beyond any shadow of a doubt, that you are NOT an optometrist! You've shot Lidocaine into your eyes one too many times, my friend....

Got you, Gary (Dean, right?). And please consider joining our year-round affiliation as well!! We're a hoot all year round!

[ygreeny]

Hi all. I think I just joined this team [name's slightly different]? I got my rower for Christmas. My goal during this challenge is to row for 12 minutes before work everyday when at home [travel a lot]. As a weekly goal, I guess 12,000m would be good. Looking forward...

[Izzzmeister]

Captain’s Message
I’d like to welcome our entire team to the 2011 WEC, where we get to share blisters, friendship and laughs.
Today is the Ides of March: the day when – at least according to Willie “Globe-man” Shakespeare – the emperor Julius Caesar was stabbed to death in the Rotunda. (Comedian Jose Jiminez: “In the Rotunda? That’s painful!”)
Let’s think about that. Had old Julie been working out on his Concept 1 (that’s all they had back then), instead of laying around on his chaise lounge eating grapes, he might have been able to wrestle the knife from Brutus – or at least outrun him - and the whole course of history would’ve changed.
So this is a good day to start a worldwide fitness challenge, during which we hope to be able to change at least our personal histories. It’s a chance to pit your strength, endurance and persistence against other individuals and teams. It’s a fierce competition – yet everyone wins.
We have over 50 Team members, including many with hearts of champions. I know we’ll amaze ourselves and others with our rowing prowess.
Last night midnight, I set my PM3 for 2:00:00. I rowed 30,832 meters to help jumpstart our team. Now, I feel I’m able to ask you to join me in stretching yourself this next month, and reaching heretofore unrealized levels of physical fitness!

Let the games begin!
Cap’n Izzy

P.S. A warm welcome to Yogi Green! Thanks for joining our team!
P.P.S. If you want the captaincy, you needn’t hide a dagger under your cloak – just let me know!

[princemishkin]

She's beautiful, she's athletic AND she can do Math! Now, if you only owned a liquor store you'd be the perfect woman!!!

Mike

Well, Doc Mike, this proves beyond any shadow of a doubt, that you are NOT an optometrist! You've shot Lidocaine into your eyes one too many times, my friend....

Got you, Gary (Dean, right?). And please consider joining our year-round affiliation as well!! We're a hoot all year round!

Hi Lisa,

Yes, that's me. Would love to join the year-round affiliation. How do I do it?

[damselfly]

To join the TimBukToo year-round affiliation, follow these (convoluted!) steps:

1. Log into your logbook,
2. At the top of the page, click Profile.
3. Click Edit Profile (the link is in the header right under "Profile Settings").
4. Scroll most of the way down the page. Under Affiliation, follow the instructions to select "TimBukTOO" as your affiliation.
5. At the bottom of the page, click Update.

That should do it!