Sweating like buggery

[tyred]

Cycling is great for losing weight providing you combine it with a good diet. 

Sitting in an armchair reading the Daily Mirror is great for weight loss if the diet's good. Burn more than you consume, you will lose weight.

 

[gb155]

Sitting in an armchair reading the Daily Mirror is great for weight loss if the diet's good. Burn more than you consume, you will lose weight.

HERE HERE

 

[gb155]

That's an amazing achievement. No-one can take away from you the sense of success and pride you must have.

Granted, you chose to be a cyclist and we all commend you for your choice, but knowing the science and the math, I wouldn't pin the rosette on the bicycle as the major contributor. I would have to pin the gold rosette on the kitchen scales.


BTW , Your blog 'Goals' has walking, running and benchpress included. Walking is about the same intensity as cycling and running is four times as calorific expensive as cycling ie a 5 mile run is equivalent of 20 miles on a bike.
Also, to get to a 100 kg bench press, there must have been a lot of reps at lesser weights. Remember lifting 1kg for a distance of 1 metre in 1 second is 1 Joule. How many Joules left your body lifting all that iron?

LOL Fair enough mate, but these are things I did as a "one off" 1 month in the Gym, in addition to cycling, 1 months worth of 1 hour sessions in the Gym in the morning, wouldnt produce the results cycling has produced :-)

 

[jimboalee]

LOL Fair enough mate, but these are things I did as a "one off" 1 month in the Gym, in addition to cycling, 1 months worth of 1 hour sessions in the Gym in the morning, wouldnt produce the results cycling has produced :-)

You'll be surprised.

10 reps of 105kg in a strict 2 second cadence will cost 100 kCals

An hour's session of eight exercises at reasonable weights for a 13 stone Special Forces Applicant will get rid of 500 kCals no problems.

 

[iendicott]

Oh, and back to the original question, I've seen it writ that the fitter you are the more you sweat (efficient neural response & all that) - so well done for getting fitter! Keep it up!

I to have heard this.

Also I have heard some cyclist get a destended belly due to a large lung capacity as they get fitter, not sure how true this is though !

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Ah, so you have started to sweat like a Priest in a Playground eh?? (Yes I watched the old guy on the telly this morning, more out of curiosity than anything else).

Seriously though, I hear that a well known cyclist in the past (I can never remember the name, Miguel Induraine?? was it??) always appeared to have a bit of a belly, but it was just because his lungs were so large that everything else was displaced outwards!