How fit are you?

[Bushman_uk]

close your eye's ladies

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The playground body In a sauna in Tatu after a long hard ride from Tallin

[backofbeyond]

You'd have to very self-confident to reply to this topic along the lines of "I'm ultra fit and all you slobs should be ashamed of yourselves"!

Over the years a desire to get off the couch and get do something about my fitness levels has waxed and waned in the usual way. Whenever I've had a long trip in the pipeline I've treated getting a bit fitter / losing a bit of weight as one of the items on the prep list. My benchmark has been whether I can fit into a pair of leather jeans that I bought many years ago. If I can - that'll do.

Three years ago I saw a narrow window of opportunity to do a trip down to West Africa the following year so I started the prep - both bike and me. My brother in law is a keen runner and convinced me it would be a good method of getting in shape. As I had about a year I thought I'd be able to get seriously fit, so I stuck with the training. The following autumn (2008), seven weeks before departure, I'd lost a lot of weight and was running well enough to enter one of his club races. Two miles into the five mile race I felt something give way in my left foot. I'd broken a bone and spent the best part of the next six months either in plaster or on crutches. That was the end of the bike trip.

Moral of the story - sometimes fat beats fit.

[Warthog]

Right now, not very...

I have a cold, and I managed to put my back-out this morning.

Presently lying in bed in not insignificant pain, dreaming of reincarnation as an invertebrate...
:(

[Bryn]

I'm getting there. This time 2 years ago i was at my fittest and feeling my best, i was playing rugby 5 times a week, and going to the gym 4 times, so i was pretty in shape.

Then i had heart surgery last september and another surgery in october and everything went downhill, until about a month and a half ago. I went on a cycle tour around Europe with a mate, and it was exactly the kick start i needed. I lost just over half a stone on the trip and my resting heart rate went from being 90-100 to a nice 66.

I have before and after pics as well if you'd like to see them

[snaphappy]

No excerise, but I do eat healthy stuff, if you include the salad round the quarterpounder

Seriously, when I gave up the fags I put on a fair bit then wrecked my back lifting one roof tile, since then a series of back problems.
Last year I was told that I was on the verge of a gaut breakout, my biking is more important so I changed my diet cut meat out by 75% and shed 2 stone in 6 weeks.
I just havn't got the same drive to get back to former fitness so I'll ride instead of walking

[Alun]

snaphappy wrote:

I changed my diet cut meat out by 75% and shed 2 stone in 6 weeks.

Have you ever thought of penning the 'Snaphappy Diet' a best seller no doubt.

I've dropped 8lb this week and that's despite going to an Elvis night in the local Indian last night. Mind you I stuck to Tandoori and Ticka chicken

[backofbeyond]

Alun wrote:

snaphappy wrote:

I changed my diet cut meat out by 75% and shed 2 stone in 6 weeks.

I've dropped 8lb this week and that's despite going to an Elvis night in the local Indian last night. Mind you I stuck to Tandoori and Ticka chicken

Blimey, you guys must be chopping lumps off with an axe to lose that much so quickly.

My wife's been on Weightwatchers 1200 cals /day regime for the last three months so that's all I get as well. We run at least 20 miles a week on top and I've lost about 5kg / 12lbs over that time. No cheating on the diet either!

[Alun]

backofbeyond wrote:

Alun wrote:

snaphappy wrote:

I changed my diet cut meat out by 75% and shed 2 stone in 6 weeks.

I've dropped 8lb this week and that's despite going to an Elvis night in the local Indian last night. Mind you I stuck to Tandoori and Ticka chicken

Blimey, you guys must be chopping lumps off with an axe to lose that much so quickly.

My wife's been on Weightwatchers 1200 cals /day regime for the last three months so that's all I get as well. We run at least 20 miles a week on top and I've lost about 5kg / 12lbs over that time. No cheating on the diet either!

A lot depends on how much you weigh at the start, but the axe does help.

[snaphappy]

The fear of getting gout also helped
I cut out all sorts but never went hungry; we even made our own bread with no yeast
I was surprised at how fast I dumped the weight and it’s been easy to keep it down.
I weighed 15stone, gout by all accounts runs in my family I thought it was a fat mans problem ‘cos I have really fat relatives and they have gout
No snaphappy diet we just looked at diet for gout avoidence and found loads of stuff

[MidnightSerenity]

Bryn wrote:

I'm getting there. This time 2 years ago i was at my fittest and feeling my best, i was playing rugby 5 times a week, and going to the gym 4 times, so i was pretty in shape.

Then i had heart surgery last september and another surgery in october and everything went downhill, until about a month and a half ago. I went on a cycle tour around Europe with a mate, and it was exactly the kick start i needed. I lost just over half a stone on the trip and my resting heart rate went from being 90-100 to a nice 66.

I have before and after pics as well if you'd like to see them

Go on then Master Bryn...lets see the before and after shots....!!