kaburns1214 Mentor Group 2013 (Year 3!) - CLOSED (Page 19)

Morning everyone.  Swim this morning and easy bike after work for me today.

Also I registered yesterday for the US Masters / American Swimming Coaching Association Level 1 and 2 coaching clinic in March in NYC.  There's a entire "chapter" on triathlon swimming, which should be interesting. 

I'm pretty sure the Whole30 plan just calls for coconut milk.

Morning everyone.  Swim this morning and easy bike after work for me today.

Also I registered yesterday for the US Masters / American Swimming Coaching Association Level 1 and 2 coaching clinic in March in NYC.  There's a entire "chapter" on triathlon swimming, which should be interesting. 

The unsweetened I was buying has carageenan (spelling?) and that's not allowed. It was Almond Breeze brand, and I loved it. Oh well.

Kelly - is the one you found online really fatty? Like 17grams per serving? I know fat is "ok", but I'm already adding coconut oil, ghee, olive oil all day long! I'm not used to that much fat.

The unsweetened I was buying has carageenan (spelling?) and that's not allowed. It was Almond Breeze brand, and I loved it. Oh well.

Kelly - is the one you found online really fatty? Like 17grams per serving? I know fat is "ok", but I'm already adding coconut oil, ghee, olive oil all day long! I'm not used to that much fat.

Pop up the incline on the treadmill to 4 or 5% and go.

As an aside a flat treadmill is actually like running ever so slightly down hill because the treadmill belt propels you forward.  The simulate a flat run the treadmill should be set a .5 or 1%. 

For hill repeats on the treadmill do the warm up at 1%, go to 4 or 5 % for about 90 seconds to simulate a hill, go back to 0% for the recovery (running downhill) and then repeat.  Just make sure the treadmill is all the way to 4 or 5% when you start the 90 seconds or so (it takes the treadmill a little while to adjust the incline). 

Only 4 or 5%??? How boring.

I started the day with a ZR/Z1 35 minute run.  I'm very interested to see how I will do in the 5k I am doing this Sunday.  It's not an easy course, and I'm awful when it comes to pacing myself.  I usually blow up because I start out too fast.

So I think I'm going to go with the healthier choices option.  Whole30 is sooo restrictive.  I did do very well yesterday, as I was at my moms, and lunch was ham and broccoli.  The more impressive thing was that I would have had, but chose to decline, pepperoni bread, mashed potatoes, corn, diet coke, pudding pie, and tons of cookies with artificially sweetened coffee.  For dinner I had salad with olives, avocado, and a dressing with lemon and extra virgin olive oil.  Yes, this was only day 1, but this was a success for me.

I have a question.  Can someone explain the difference between a paleo diet and whole30.  As Whole30 is a huge extreme for someone that eats as poorly as myself, I'm wondering if a Paleo diet at this time would be a nice transition for me, rather than diving into Whole30.  Thoughts?

The diets are very similar.  Kind of like any diet they draw lines around the For edges somewhat randomly. 

The real goal should be to eliminate as much processed food from your diet as possible, make sure to include fat, protein and carbohydrates (from fruits and vegetables) at each meal and eat to fuel your body.  Going from eating almost 100% processed foods to strict Paleo or whole 30 is a really dramatic step.  I think the real goal should be moving in the right direction and thinking about making better food choices. 

It was pitch black and 1 degree at 5AM as I drove to the Y. 2000 swim, 4 mile easy run.

It's strange, some days when I swim I find that I struggle to catch my breath. Whereas today I felt as if I could just keep going and going and my last 100 was the fastest I have ever done and i wasn't out of breath.

Can anyone else relate?

I started the day with a ZR/Z1 35 minute run.  I'm very interested to see how I will do in the 5k I am doing this Sunday.  It's not an easy course, and I'm awful when it comes to pacing myself.  I usually blow up because I start out too fast.

So I think I'm going to go with the healthier choices option.  Whole30 is sooo restrictive.  I did do very well yesterday, as I was at my moms, and lunch was ham and broccoli.  The more impressive thing was that I would have had, but chose to decline, pepperoni bread, mashed potatoes, corn, diet coke, pudding pie, and tons of cookies with artificially sweetened coffee.  For dinner I had salad with olives, avocado, and a dressing with lemon and extra virgin olive oil.  Yes, this was only day 1, but this was a success for me.

I have a question.  Can someone explain the difference between a paleo diet and whole30.  As Whole30 is a huge extreme for someone that eats as poorly as myself, I'm wondering if a Paleo diet at this time would be a nice transition for me, rather than diving into Whole30.  Thoughts?

Amen.

I started the day with a ZR/Z1 35 minute run.  I'm very interested to see how I will do in the 5k I am doing this Sunday.  It's not an easy course, and I'm awful when it comes to pacing myself.  I usually blow up because I start out too fast.

So I think I'm going to go with the healthier choices option.  Whole30 is sooo restrictive.  I did do very well yesterday, as I was at my moms, and lunch was ham and broccoli.  The more impressive thing was that I would have had, but chose to decline, pepperoni bread, mashed potatoes, corn, diet coke, pudding pie, and tons of cookies with artificially sweetened coffee.  For dinner I had salad with olives, avocado, and a dressing with lemon and extra virgin olive oil.  Yes, this was only day 1, but this was a success for me.

I have a question.  Can someone explain the difference between a paleo diet and whole30.  As Whole30 is a huge extreme for someone that eats as poorly as myself, I'm wondering if a Paleo diet at this time would be a nice transition for me, rather than diving into Whole30.  Thoughts?

X2 Very well said Kelly.

Start looking at labels, and if you can't pronounce half the ingredients you should put back on the shelf.

Shop the perimeter of the store, the aisles are full of the processed crap - the perimeter is where the fruits and veggies and meat are. Load up on that and you'll be doing good.

It is very restrictive, but the point of Whole30 is to try and reset your homone level.  All the chemical laden junk we put in our bodies throws our body chemistry off.  If we can just detox in a healthy way, lots of things get better.  But Kelly is 100% correct  in that any changes you make are better than none.  And the Paleo diet does allow sweetners and dessert items whereas Whole30 doesn't.

They're a complete necessity in cold climates.  Trainers are essentially stable fly wheels that place resistance on the back wheel of the bike.  Different trainers use different methods to create resistance (e.g. magnets, wind and fluid).  Outside of a compu trainer, fluid trainers give the most accurate road feel. 

Trainers aren't just good for cold weather, they also provide an incredibly efficient way to train.  You can control variables much better on a trainer and I lots of people who will use a trainer year round for interval work.  After my bike crash in July, I did 80-90% of my biking on the trainer.