kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2012 Part 2 - CLOSED (Page 140)

I pay $50 / month for a coaching membership, which lets me load workouts for people I work with.  I can load as many individuals as I want.  I also have the option of upgrading people to "premier" accounts for an additional charge.  On my end it makes life easier because I can save workouts to a library and can do easy analysis on data when people log their workouts in training peaks. 

ETA -- with my coach, we use addearo.com , which is similar to training peaks.

I thought the 2 weeks rest/recovery was brutal with respect to body image issues and weight (I put on 4 lbs. by the end of it...LOL), and I'd grown so accustomed to my increasing activity level that it was difficult to remain sedentary and do nothing, but I'm hopeful you'll have a different experience.  It was great for family, as I was able to be 100% present in the moment because I was so well rested.  You'll just have to focus on your girls & wife.   

Scott, with you in particular, I think it might be a good thing to gain a few pounds post-Oilman (not a ton of weight, but a little).  You want to have some weight to loose during your build phases. 

Yeah.  I hear ya.  I'm kinda scared of what I'm going to look like come March/April of next year. 

Hey...I remember you saying something about a nutritionist speaking to your tri club about eating for IM training.  Did you come away from it having learned anything new?  Just curious.  My hubs wants me to see someone this winter regarding the fueling for IM training, and I'm not exactly sure who will fit the bill.  I've seen nutritionists in the past and some of them are completely clueless!

Thank you, Karen!

Everyday eating for IM is important but in my opinion don't get carried away with it.  I am 6'0

2 years prior to my IM I was 220 When I became IM focused with 30 weeks to the race I was 185. Prior to mt taper I was as low at 167 and I raced at 171 pounds.

I eat smart with a lot of proteins and did my morning workouts fasted. I eat a bigger lunch then normal to fuel my afternoon workouts so I did not have to fuel prior to them. I eat a normal dinner being really aware of my portion sizes. I would limit myself to one goodie and one soad a week on Sunday evenings.

I kept one soda in my diet becuase I knew I would be using it to fuel my Marathon. And for the Goodie that was my weeks reward for suffering

As far as race day nutrition. I would do your best to use whats on the course test and train with it. If you can get it to work for you it will make your life much easier on race day.

Scott do you do a brick or short intervals on race week. I have found out thats the best way for me to wake my legs up.

If my race is Sunday.

THursday I do my bike with 2 3-5 min race pace or faster intervals

Friday for my run I do the same thing I will add 2 good efforts

Then Sat I do a short brick 5 mile bike & 1 mile run.

I have done this for years and it works for me

Pretty crappy.

Sick last week.  My fiscal year ends on September 30th so work is crazy.  Shaun is generally a mess and ignored several letters from the IRS (dealing with tax issues before we were married) so all of our bank accounts were levied and garnished this morning.  Not a great week. 

Ton of stress. 

You're recovering.  Totally normal.

Thanks.  Needed that.

Good morning!!!  Up early for lifting + short run later this morning.  I'm looking forward to the weekend, as we're heading to the orchard to pick lots of cheap, tasty apples.  Yum!!  

I started logging my calories this morning in an effort to get my eating under control.  While I'm pretty good at logging exactly what I've eaten, I have a difficult time determining how many calories I should be consuming in order to lose weight.  When I got my BF testing done, he said my BMR is around 1750.  I am active every day in addition to chasing after the kids and cleaning.  How many calories should I eat in order to lose 1 lb. per week for the next 2 months?  This can't be done during the season for me because my body just doesn't work that way, so I'm focusing on this now when training volume is really, really low and caloric needs are low.  Help, calorie loggers???  

500 less calories a day X 7 days = 3500 calories, or 1 pound/week.  The tricky part is determining what you really need.  If your BMR is 1750, then it would be 1250 if you did not exercise at all.  But you exercise.

The guy I went to basically said to fuel your workouts, so take in the calories you need for working out while you are working out.  Don't store them - which is what I would do.

And be cautious of how many calories you are burning while working out.  Gym equipment and online calculators over estimate most of the time, buy a lot.  I loosely use the calories that show I burned on my Garmin which uses my HR in the calculation.  I still think that's not very accurate though.

I always underestimate calories burned for that reason.  For Wednesday's 3.1 mile run, my Garmin said I burned 284 calories based on my weight and HR for run.  I would think that's close to being right if not a tad high.  It's never right for rides, so I go by the rough assumption that 4 miles = 90 calories (I think they say it's 100, so I go lower because I'm not that big).  

How many calories do you burn lifting weights for 40 minutes?  

I think I'm going to stick to eating 1600 a day for now (adding in exercise + on my feet for most of the day).  Too much?  Too little?  How annoying!  I've never had problems losing weight before, but it's been darn near impossible this past year.     

I've used mydailyplate in the past.  Is fitness pal better?

Aging and hormonal changes suck.  LOL  My mother is in her early 50s and says losing weight is a real PITA, so I need to enjoy my 30s metabolism.  I just want to stay at 140 lbs...no losing/no gaining.  Why is that so hard, for crying out loud?