Trainer shows:

SportsCenter

College Football

NFL

MLB

Ironman on DVR

Yep that's about it

I just discovered Freaks and Geeks.  Love it!!!!

I second Game of Thrones.  

Breaking Bad 

Walking Dead

Dexter 

American Horror Story 

Girls 

True Blood (guilty pleasure)  

Are these the round paddles (form v. strength)?  I was told to pick up a pair of these as well.  Let me know what you think of them!

These are the round ones.  All about the form (early vertical forearm and high elbow) with these. Rather than increase the resitance of the hand to work on stregnth, they actually decrease the resistance, which forces the swimmer to become more efficient with the front end of the stroke and to hold an early vertical forearm.  They can be frustrating but they are also very effective. 

So you're saying I'm going to be more frustrated in the pool than normal???  WTH?!?!?!?!  :P

Seriously though I see no way to "grip" the water with your hand while using these things.  Going to have to be forearms.

I bought those, they are AWFUL!! I couldn't swim to save my life! (Probably need to use them more.)

Ta-Da!  That's the point!  You need a vertical forarm (think forearm parallel to the all you pushed off of and perpendicular to the bottom of the pool) in order to move forward.  Without an early vertical forearm you wont be going anywhere.

Karen -- yes indeed-y the more you hate thtese paddles, the more you probably need them.

I have 900y with them next Wednesday, might sneak in a couple hundred Monday sometime so I know what I'm in for.

 900 yards, I'd be there all day!

If you like Game of Thrones you will probably like Rome (also an HBO series)

Second - X-Files

Lord of the Rings

X-Men movies

Boston Legal

Most sports

NCIS or Criminal Minds reruns

JAG (old but love it)

Okay, thanks. Just thought I'd ask.

All the reviews for the trainer that I've seen say it's "whisper quiet" so I was just surprised. And I'm a little concerned that the noise might start to annoy my downstairs neighbors. 

We are 27 pages in so I figure its OK to ask .... I hate the feeling when you have to take a potty break and the burn of getting back on the bike.

How many here pee on the bike? 

Is there a distance where you learn to do the deed or shorter stuff just hold it? 

Is it going to be hard to learn?  Am I going to be dribbing down my legs and get my shoes totally soaked and be totally grossed out?

Is there etiquette when peeing on the bike?  A proper distance between you and the person behind?

Anyone ever do it to punish someone for drafting?

5 Reasons to Break Up With Your Scale

We work hard to present our Whole30 program as a tool for creating optimal health, and not a weight-loss quick fix.  We have strict rules about weighing yourself during your program (you can’t) and focusing on weight loss as a measure of Whole30 success (you shouldn’t). But despite all our efforts, many people still find it impossible to take their eyes off the scale.  So today, we’ll present five reasons to kick your scale to the curb – not just during your Whole30, but for good.

1. Scale weight fluctuates wildly.

It’s good to measure things to track progress – and if you weighed yourself monthly, that might help you spot a trend in your body weight (gaining, losing or maintaining). But over the course of a day (or a few hours!) your weight can fluctuate by as many as five pounds – sometimes more. Food and beverage intake, time of day, dietary choices and activity levels all factor into that number on the dial. (And we won’t even mention clothes, because we’re pretty sure most of you are obsessive enough to weigh yourself naked.) You can lose two pounds just by going to the bathroom – and gain it right back by eating a big meal.

Those fluctuations are not representative of body fat lost or gained. But seeing a number jump up by four pounds sure does a mental number on you, doesn’t it? Weighing yourself daily tells you nothing about your big-picture trend, and only serves to reinforce the next four points.

2. Scale weight says nothing of health.

That number on a scale says nothing about whether you’re moving in the right direction with your health. You want to get skinny? We can make you skinny. Cut your daily calories in half and spend two hours a day doing low-intensity cardio. That’ll make you skinny… for about a month. Until your willpower runs out (as those behaviors aren’t at all sustainable), and your messed-up metabolism fights back. At which point, you gain all the weight back and then some. But hey, for a few weeks, you were skinny!

Is gaining or losing five pounds moving you in the direction of better health? It’s impossible to say, because that number tells you very little about what’s going on with your relationship with food, hormones, digestive health or inflammatory status. And those are the factors that impact your health far more directly than body weight.

3. The scale blinds you to real results.

By focusing so much of your attention on that number in the scale, you effectively miss out on observing the other, more significant, results of your efforts. You’re sleeping better, have more energy, are less moody or depressed. Your cravings have dissipated, you recover faster from exercise, your symptoms or medical condition have greatly improved. And yet, your program is a “failure,” because the number on the scale hasn’t moved enough for your liking?

Re-read point #2, and tell us which factors speak more to your health – the scale weight, or everything else? Those results could be motivating you to continue with your new eating habits – but until you get your head out of the scale, you’ll never be able to see the health progress you’ve actually been making.

4. The scale keeps you stuck on on food.

You associate that number on the scale with one major factor – food.  Maybe exercise factors in too – after all, if you ate less (or differently) and exercised more (or differently), that number would start to move. Wouldn’t it? Not so fast. There are other health factors at play here – sleep, recovery from activity, psychological stress and health history – all of which play a major role in body composition. But no one looks at the scale and thinks, “Darn it – I need to get more sleep.”

Now would be a good time to revisit the Whole9 Health Equation. If you didn’t experience the Whole30 results you were hoping to see, perhaps it’s time to look at some other factors. All of our Health Equation variables factor into weight loss and body composition – but none of them are reflected in the number on the scale.

5. The scale maintains control of your self-esteem.

This is perhaps the most important reason of all to break up with your scale. It’s psychologically unhealthy to allow a number – any number – to determine your worth, your value or your self-image. And yet, that’s exactly what happens to people who are overly invested in their scale. It’s tragic that your daily weigh-in determines whether you have a good day or  bad day, or whether or not you feel good about yourself. The scale results can take you from confident to self-loathing in under 5 seconds, but what the scale is telling you is not real.

If this is your scenario, ditching the scale is the only way to get back to a healthy sense of self-worth. Let your actions, your intentions, your efforts and your grace influence how you feel about yourself. A $20 hunk of plastic from Target should not be the determining factor in your self-esteem.

Dear Scale, It’s Not Me, It’s You.

If you’ve got an unhealthy relationship with the scale, the only way to get back to a good place is to ditch it altogether. Donate it to Goodwill, recycle it or take it out back and give it a proper beat-down, Office Space-style. Because the sooner you ditch the idea that the scale is your ultimate measure of success, the healthier and happier you’ll be.

This was from a poster on the Whole30 Forum: 

My experience is that if you are seriously working out, you need to stay ahead of the curve.... As Tom said, eat a sweet potato every day, not just post... I do one every meal one and been throwing in a plantain or squash meal two... I'm on day thirty six ( going for 90) and really leaned out so far.... And eat fat fat fat... That really helped me kick it into overdrive.... I'm over 50 and participate In a program called " combat fitness". ( kinda like navy seals try outs) And I smoke most of the 20-30 year olds eating this way.

As a PreWO meal I have ( ok...6'2", 215, low body fat , so adjust accordingly) 1/3 can of coconut milk in my coffee, 4 whole eggs cooked in pastured beef fat or coconut oil, and two tbsp almond butter ( I was trying not to do the nut butter thing but I really need the calories early AM without barfing on a workout) It's a great feeling sitting at my table eating at 4:30am and feeling a wave of high octane energy and warmth, raging like an inferno, ready to concur the day!!!! Never never got that from oatmeal lol

So for me avocado almost every meal, lots of olive oil on my salads and even on veggies after they are cooked and on my plate, I make a lot of curry dishes using coconut milk, cook in pastured animal fat or ghee,or coconut oil, and don't for get ....hollandaise sauce ( egg yolk,lemon,ghee, cayenne ) on asparagus or broccoli/cauliflower (eat it by the spoonful ) and if they don't trigger you nut butters.

As per ISWF, I took the suggestion and only ate my three meals (plus fat & protein PreWo- lean protein & sweet potato PostWO) and no snacking..... I've been on the six meal a day roller coaster for so long that I really really truly believed that I could not go 2 1/2 hours without eating ( cranky,light headed,moody,fatigued). I truly was a slave and counted the minutes to my next meal/snack... I would watch the clock and salivate at 3:00pm and I could have my 1000 cal protein smoothie!!!

I look back and say to myself, " self! .... That was really messed up". I can say that for the first time I can remember, I am almost never head hungry and can go six- seven hours on a proper W30 meal .... Sometimes life dictates my meals closer together, but I do not crave my next meal in anticipation... It took a few weeks to get to this point, but OMG, is this freedom!!!! Sometimes I eat meal three at 7:30-8:00 PM and I'm not that hungry... just because I know I need to eat and be in bed before 10:30....

I suggest you try increasing your portion sizes, eat more fat and skip the snacks.... Your hormones will balance out in no time and you will be very very greatful that you did!!!! Your body will start burning its fat stores for fuel and you'll be pumped all the time....

Wondered how long before peeing on the bike came up.

Never have, never will. I will stop at the port-o-potties and give up time before I pee on myself.

(Carrie - you're shoes will really stink now!)

Norma - thanks for both posts, good info.

Lose the scale, up the fat! Got it!

Lie To Me

Damages

The IT Crowd

I peed on the bike once during my HIM.  I waited until no one was around me and stood up to do my thing.  Urine in my shoes didn't bother me at all, as I was just trying to get it done.  LOL  Port-o-johns were nowhere to be found anyway, and I'm not squatting in the bushes, especially after the verbal spanking I got after peeing through my shorts in transition during Chicago olympic.  I pee a lot, so I'll probably do it several times during IM, too.  

I almost always pee when I'm running, too.  4 babies in 5 years + uterine prolapse = pee during run portion of triathlons.

Course for Griskus is a little different Rev 3.  Both are tough but the Griskus bike is slightly different and the Griskus run is a double out and back.

Experience is totally different.  Griskus is a really well run race but its low key.  Rev 3 is a full fledged race party. 

Really depends on what you are looking for experience wise. 

Carrie, If you decide you're gonna pee on the bike, Please be sure and let me know so I can watch out for it... LOL