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Steve Freides
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"Ryan Cousineau" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:rcousine-2A97A1.18044113052008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Steve Freides" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Donald Munro" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > Steve Freides wrote:
>> >> In short, eat less, and find heavy objects and move them - in
>> >> addition to
>> >> continuing to ride your bike.
>> >
>> > And drink less beer.
>>
>> Absolutely, especially immediately post-training.
>>
>> -S-
>> http://www.kbnj.com
>
> For heaven's sake!
>
> Beer is WHY I engage in a sport with high cardio-training
> requirements.
>
> So I can drink beer!
>
> Dumbassess...
>
> PS: good advice, will consider.
<RAMBLE>
I have to admit I've never been much of an alcohol drinker, so not
having much isn't a big deal to me. Funny thing - I remember when my
wife and I were, 20+ years ago, traveling in France and Italy, and
drinking a liter of wine between us every night. You do get used to it,
no doubt, and if I drank more than the half a beer once every few weeks
I usually now have, I'm sure it wouldn't make me quite so much feel like
s#$% later. But the other side of that coin is that my exercise wasn't
a priority to me back then, and it is now, and there's a difference
between taking care of yourself well enough to be a tourist or ride a
desk the next day when you're 20-something and taking care of yourself
well enough to push yourself pretty hard athletically when you're
middle-aged and beyond.
For the record, that half a beer (yes, I know it's criminal not to
finish your beer - I have no defense) is Guinness Stout. I figure half
a Stout is worth one regular beer, anyway.
Last but not least, I am firmly convinced that, regardless of what sport
you enjoy engaging in, resistance training becomes more and more
important the older you get. I got by just fine without it until my
early 40's or so, and was a regular runner and swimmer as well. FWIW,
I was never a triathlete, I just enjoyed all three so I ran most days,
biked 2-3 times a week (your basic A level club rider, including a lot
of fixed gear), and swam 2-3 times a week. It was my wife who commented
that I was too skinny - she looked at me and said I had basically no
upper body muscle and was starting to get a little belly - that's when I
started to moving heavy objects, and weight lifting has been berry,
berry good to me since. I'm exactly the same weight I've always been
but my bodyfat percentage has dropped a few points and I still look like
a runner or bikie according to most folks, which is fine w/ me - no need
to look like an ironhead if you know how to lift to improve your
strength without encouraging growth in muscle size.
</RAMBLE>
-S-
http://www.kbnj.com
news:rcousine-2A97A1.18044113052008@[74.223.185.199.nw.nuvox.net]...
> In article <[email protected]>,
> "Steve Freides" <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> "Donald Munro" <[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>> > Steve Freides wrote:
>> >> In short, eat less, and find heavy objects and move them - in
>> >> addition to
>> >> continuing to ride your bike.
>> >
>> > And drink less beer.
>>
>> Absolutely, especially immediately post-training.
>>
>> -S-
>> http://www.kbnj.com
>
> For heaven's sake!
>
> Beer is WHY I engage in a sport with high cardio-training
> requirements.
>
> So I can drink beer!
>
> Dumbassess...
>
> PS: good advice, will consider.
<RAMBLE>
I have to admit I've never been much of an alcohol drinker, so not
having much isn't a big deal to me. Funny thing - I remember when my
wife and I were, 20+ years ago, traveling in France and Italy, and
drinking a liter of wine between us every night. You do get used to it,
no doubt, and if I drank more than the half a beer once every few weeks
I usually now have, I'm sure it wouldn't make me quite so much feel like
s#$% later. But the other side of that coin is that my exercise wasn't
a priority to me back then, and it is now, and there's a difference
between taking care of yourself well enough to be a tourist or ride a
desk the next day when you're 20-something and taking care of yourself
well enough to push yourself pretty hard athletically when you're
middle-aged and beyond.
For the record, that half a beer (yes, I know it's criminal not to
finish your beer - I have no defense) is Guinness Stout. I figure half
a Stout is worth one regular beer, anyway.
Last but not least, I am firmly convinced that, regardless of what sport
you enjoy engaging in, resistance training becomes more and more
important the older you get. I got by just fine without it until my
early 40's or so, and was a regular runner and swimmer as well. FWIW,
I was never a triathlete, I just enjoyed all three so I ran most days,
biked 2-3 times a week (your basic A level club rider, including a lot
of fixed gear), and swam 2-3 times a week. It was my wife who commented
that I was too skinny - she looked at me and said I had basically no
upper body muscle and was starting to get a little belly - that's when I
started to moving heavy objects, and weight lifting has been berry,
berry good to me since. I'm exactly the same weight I've always been
but my bodyfat percentage has dropped a few points and I still look like
a runner or bikie according to most folks, which is fine w/ me - no need
to look like an ironhead if you know how to lift to improve your
strength without encouraging growth in muscle size.
</RAMBLE>
-S-
http://www.kbnj.com