Fitness Challenge!

[biblemonkey]

So, let's also eat right lads, and try to keep the pints and wee drams to a minimum, as challenging as that may be at times!

I gave up beer completely for at least my first month back on P-90X. I'm already missing my hopped little 12 oz friends. But by gum I'm gonna stick to it!

My Deca Ironman training is going well, only 4 and a half months left to get as fit as possible, finished the base training at the end of Dec and started the endurance phase till the end of Feb, then it's just 3 months of beast training till the event, throwing in a double marathon at the end of Feb as a training session.

There will be photos and possibility of a dvd at the end of the race, I will try to popst some of them. Only 3 finished the race last year in the UK, if I can finish I will be the first super vet to finish ( I'm in the 55-60 age group ) in the UK.

As a side issue, I thought this thread was about fitness training, not just about diet ? maybe I got it wrong

Graham

Awesome!

And the thread is about fitness goals in general. Including dietary goals considering the fuel is what makes the machine go. (;0P
Hugh

[creagdhubh]

I gave up beer completely for at least my first month back on P-90X. I'm already missing my hopped little 12 oz friends. But by gum I'm gonna stick to it!




Awesome!

And the thread is about fitness goals in general. Including dietary goals considering the fuel is what makes the machine go. (;0P
Hugh

I have restricted the consumption of Belhaven Scottish Ale and any single-malt whisky, to specific Scottish-related events, only. If I choose to have a beer with my wife over a weekend, it is Michelob Ultra, and only one or two. Michelob Ultra is just fine for active-types.

Cheers,

[Rab]

Hi rev Graham, sounds like the trainings going well whats the double mara you have planned?
How does the deca work then is it ten IM one after each other ?

Sounds like everyones doing well, keep it up

[LitTrog]

Never had any Michelob, but I will say that Guinness is the finest "light" beer I've ever had. Makes a good recovery drink after P90X, too! (Just trying to mantain the thread.)

[creagdhubh]

Never had any Michelob, but I will say that Guinness is the finest "light" beer I've ever had. Makes a good recovery drink after P90X, too! (Just trying to mantain the thread.)

Haha! Quite! int:

[Pleater]

On the Atkins diet list I visit there are a couple of men who are athletes and doing Atkins and being rather astonished by the way their times are improving both for the distances and recovery.

One was still eating carb dense foods, 'to keep going' and 'to recover' and then stopped because it wasn't working.

This is the actual Atkins diet, not the one described in the media.

I know I ought to stick to strict Atkins and lose weight, but just eating the allowed foods makes me feel so much better that after three days when my joints stop aching and I feel more alert and energetic I am far less motivated. Whilst I can get around on my bicycle and bounce on the trampoline my weight doesn't seem important.

I know that I lose more weight eating Atkins than fasting - so calories in/calories out thinking has to be wrong where my metabolism is concerned.

Anyone who is seriously into the idea of losing weight and being fitter would, I believe, do well to examine just how much of the established advice on eating applies to their own selves.

Anne the Pleater :ootd: