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For everyone working on their swim stroke, attached videos may provide help and inspiration - Fred

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1387883746453817821

http://granthackettonline.free.fr/?page_id=104

I can guarantee that 1000 calories is WAY too little for someone not in training, much less someone in training.  You absolutely cannot expect to be able to train for anything on that little of calories.  I think this is most likely your main cause of lack of energy on your workouts.  You say you are used to this amount of food and your body doens't want any more, that is because you have starved yourself and caused your metabolism to plummet.

You gotta feed the machine.  I know you want to lose weight and that is possible while training, but you have to eat to lose.

There are two ways you can raise your metabolism, that is exercise and eating.  You need to be eating more calories, but from clean food.  You should eat 5-6 small meals a day, each consisting of a lean protein such as fish, chicken or lean beef, a complex carb such as brown rice, sweet potatoes, whole wheat bread or whole wheat pasta, and a veggie.  You can eat this as 3 of your meals or all 5-6, the "snack" meals you can have a piece of fibrous fruit like apples, pears, and fat free cottage cheese, or maybe some tuna and whole wheat crackers.

If you eat more often and more calories, but keep your diet clean, you will lose weight and fuel your body for training.  

You should probably be eating around 2000 calories a day, if not more.  Usually the formula for calories is 15 * your body weight for maintanence and no less then 10 * your body weight for loss.  You have to adjust it for you as everyone is different.

Feel free to ask me any questions about nutrition, I am not an expert, but I know a lot because I used to work for a sports nutritional supplement company and my best friend has her sports nutrition certification from ISSN and taught me everything she knows.  

Additional Note:

Because you have been starving yourself when you start this diet don't be discouraged if you gain a few pounds before you start losing.  Also, because you are training, weight loss might occur slower because once you start eating right your body will soak up all that food and start to grow your muscles.  This is a good thing, you want more muscle.  Because the same density of muscle weighs more then fat, you will not see as quick of a decrease in the scale, but you will be losing bodyfat.  So the scale weight might not go down, but your body fat will.  Your best measure of how you are losing is to do your body fat not your scale weight. 

If you don't have a reliable source of having this done, then take your measurements with a tape measure every couple of weeks and record that along with your weight.

When I started training for my first triathlon I was 158 lbs and 23% bodyfat.  16 weeks later I was 152 lbs and 18% bodyfat.  So I only lost 6 lbs, but I had lost 2 inches off my waist, 2 inches off my hips, 1 inch off my arms, and 1.5 inches off my thigh.  I had put on a a lot of muscle and lost a lot of bodyfat, thereby changing my body composition and I looked great.  Unfortunatly Christmas came and I'm back up to about 21% now and some of those inches came back, but not all of them, thank goodness.  

I was really good last week with my training, but I am sick now so I haven't done anything for the last 3 days, sucks.  I hope I feel better by tomorrow. 

Hey all,

 Long week at work, haven't done any training at all mid-week so need to do something this weekend. Winter base is not working, no foundation for 2007 season. Talking of this years events I have posted a tentative event schedule in my training log. Don't plan to do all of these but they are all currently under consideration. After watching the Xterra a couple of weeks ago I plan to take in a couple of mountain bike races this season to add some variety. It would be good if everyone posted their planned events, tentative or otherwise, so we can see each others goals. 

GDOG, interested in your comments on your TI training session in Cleveland, sounds like a tough course. Was it one day or two.

What's everyone got planned for the weekend. I'm aiming for 2 swims, 2 runs and time on the bike trainer. Then watching Daytona 500 tomorrow.

Fred

So I am finally well. It sucks being sick, I haven't been sick in a while.  I rode my horse today for the first time in a week and he was horrible.  I hate it when he has that much time off.  What a booger. 

Anyhow, back to training tomorrow. 

GDOG - I agree this years Daytona was a pretty amazing race. Seeing that car cross the finishing line on its roof, flip back onto its wheels and then catch fire was like something out of a movie. Hollywood could not have staged it better. Best part was the driver being OK.

 Fred

Laura - Glad to see you are feeling better and back in the saddle. Never a good time to be sick but at least it happened in the off season. Good luck getting back into your training, don't push too hard too soon. Take it easy at first.

Fred

Yea, so on Tuesday I got up and ran 1.5 miles and it kicked my butt.  Guess I wasn't 100% recovered yet from being sick.  I rode my horse on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, but on Wed and Thurs was so tired I couldn't get out of bed to go workout.  Today I'm tired cause I was up all night programming in my sleep.  I just laid in bed and was thinking about how to solve this problem I'm working on.  I tried all my meditation methods to put myself to sleep but I just couldn't get over it.  I suppose I'm stressing about work cause I have this big deadline coming up in 2 weeks.  I've been working a lot, but tomorrow I get to work from home so I'm gonna go run outside (what a concept!).  The snow finally melted, but not for long, we got more coming on Saturday.  We tied the record for most consecutive days with snow on the ground here - 63.  Amazing.  I better go run outside before it comes back!

Greg - Logs show you are making good progress, training is well balanced and on track. I saw the comment about your legs feeling heavy when you ran after biking. This is normal as biking uses the muscles in a different way to running. I personally find the transition the hardest part of any triathlon.

As it gets nearer to the event you can practice doing a Brick: hard bike session followed be a one mile run. THe run doesn't need to be any longer as the purpose of the exercise is to become accustomed to the transition and is not aimed directly at improving the run.

I see you are experiencing some shin pain. Don't push it to hard if they become very painful. I once didn't pay attention to same advice and ended up getting a stress fracture. Not sure how big a problem your shins are right now.  Take it easy on the runs.

Fred

Hope the rest of the group are doing better than me. Had bronchitis for the past week and still not yet on the road to recovery. Dosed up on a 10 day course of penicilin so hopefully it will kick in soon and aid recovery. Feel like the training is going backwards.

 Fred