Did my first Ironman (IMC) this year. Not knowing what to expect, I was figuring on post-event weight gain. I had to work hard the last 2 months training to drop 6 pounds to 189, so have found it odd that I've only gained back 2 pounds in 2 months, despite continuing to eat plenty and train less.
Overall I'm feeling very healthy with an excess of energy, but have been experiencing "gastro irregularities" (frequency) which I've blamed on my body's metabolism readjusting to the dramatic reduction in training volume.
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Did my first Ironman (IMC) this year. Not knowing what to expect, I was figuring on post-event weight gain. I had to work hard the last 2 months training to drop 6 pounds to 189, so have found it odd that I've only gained back 2 pounds in 2 months, despite continuing to eat plenty and train less.
Overall I'm feeling very healthy with an excess of energy, but have been experiencing "gastro irregularities" (frequency) which I've blamed on my body's metabolism readjusting to the dramatic reduction in training volume.
Any thoughts on this?
Only that I hope the same thing happens to me!
I would guess that your body stayed at a higher metabolic rate for at least a couple weeks, so you kept burning more calories to maintain all those muscles, and that subsequently a certain (hopefully small) amount of muscle has been being converted to less-heavy fat. Just a guess; I'm not an expert.
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Did my first Ironman (IMC) this year. Not knowing what to expect, I was figuring on post-event weight gain. I had to work hard the last 2 months training to drop 6 pounds to 189, so have found it odd that I've only gained back 2 pounds in 2 months, despite continuing to eat plenty and train less.
Overall I'm feeling very healthy with an excess of energy, but have been experiencing "gastro irregularities" (frequency) which I've blamed on my body's metabolism readjusting to the dramatic reduction in training volume.
Any thoughts on this?
mike p
If your experience tracks with mine, give it a little more time; you're due.
OK, so now I'm REALLY interested in this topic. How are you doing keeping the weight off?
I would SO love to keep this IM leanness but I can't exercise 3 hours a day anymore....maybe one if I'm lucky with a long session or two on the weekends. I have a bad feeling that since this is not my natural body type I would have to eat practically nothing to maintain it. :-(
Oh well. At least I can still leap tall buildings in a single bound....
Susan
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Did my first Ironman (IMC) this year. Not knowing what to expect, I was figuring on post-event weight gain. I had to work hard the last 2 months training to drop 6 pounds to 189, so have found it odd that I've only gained back 2 pounds in 2 months, despite continuing to eat plenty and train less.
Overall I'm feeling very healthy with an excess of energy, but have been experiencing "gastro irregularities" (frequency) which I've blamed on my body's metabolism readjusting to the dramatic reduction in training volume.
OK, so now I'm REALLY interested in this topic. How are you doing keeping the weight off?
I would SO love to keep this IM leanness but I can't exercise 3 hours a day anymore....maybe one if I'm lucky with a long session or two on the weekends. I have a bad feeling that since this is not my natural body type I would have to eat practically nothing to maintain it. :-(
My suggestion is to stop thinking about weight since leanness doesn't necessarily correlate with weight.
Here's my experience after IMC'01 (13h11).
I was about 165lbs for the race and dropped my workouts down to about 50% afterwards. Over the next 2 months or so I dropped down to 156lbs. Given what I was eating and expending in workouts I realized pretty quickly that I was very likely losing muscle mass and not fat. To keep the leanness I needed to stay reasonable about fats and trim back the carbos and general intake since I wasn't using as many calories. The weight stabilized for a time at 160lbs and I'm now back to 170 (long story. pinched nerve, no training/racing for 18 months although some limited other sports, weight+fat gain to 185, rehab and back to some racing and other sports) but I've been playing more fast-twitch sports lately. I think the best measure for guys is waist size since our un-leanness tends to accumulate there. I went from 34.5" 10 years ago to 30.5" for IMC and I'm now at about 32" which is good I think.
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Oh well. At least I can still leap tall buildings in a single bound....
