I have a target!

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Originally Posted by Luckypants

'Professional' kayaker! I suppose you trained at HPP most of time though which does not count as water. Brown sludge is more accurate....

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As for training most of my winter training full time was 25% Tryweryn( various places on the dee and in northwales, the team tended to hire a large bunkhouse in Llangolen looking over town falls) 25% Grandtully 50% Hpp amongst various other places.

Summer training mainly included, bratislava, Austria, Bourg stmaurice, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland.....All of which count as water that is considerably bigger in volume and standard than most in the uk.....I have paddled in more countries and on more rivers than most people can even begin imagine or dream of.

And that was just competing, not even mentioning what i did and where I went in persuit of personal kayaking fun.

Anyway off my soapbox

Cheers for all the support and comments guys. Gym is the best way to go for me, got an Esporta membership through work so no excuse really. I am a heavy Coke drinker, don't really have sweets too much. Not a fan of fruit at all, I can't seem to muscle fruit, apple maybe but banana's make me heave.

I want to do it cos i need to do it. Gonna live off mum's dinners and lunch's for a while, should save me some money also.

Not eating breakfast though is that a benefit to it or can it affect the pattern i eat in?

Cheers

Stu

Originally Posted by hovis

happy and slightly overweight.......... but define slightly

im not wanting to offend the good mr plowsie, but he has posted his weight, so i feel he is ok with it, if he was to look at the hight to weight chart it would probaly say he should be 10 stone (slight exsageration)(as they IMO are utter b*ll*x).

now, he has said he is close to 20 stone, (which i was) but he looks a fair bit taller than me? in piccys?

so i would say about 15 stone would be his ideal weight,

all this is IMO only

6ft 1 or 2ish

breakfast is a must, as it kicks your metalisum (?) in to work

20 mins of cardio b4 breaky is good

scrap the coke 7 spoons of suger in 1 can

What about the Pepsi Max idea?

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Originally Posted by plowsie

What about the Pepsi Max idea?

Pepsi Max is amazing mmmmmm......I'm not sure if it is actually healthy but it does have next to nothing in it. I'm sure someone more well informed will let me know its actually bad for me

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what Hovis said.

Some things I found helped me

1. Eat breakfast, try porridge or museli, it'll keep you going till lunchtime and you wont feel like snacking on sweets.

2. Cut out all the fizzy drinks, try fruit juice or just water, even Pepsi max I suspect is probably full of junk, even though it says its not.

3. Instead of eating a Mars bar, eat a piece of fruit.

4. You could try drinking green tea, its supposed to promote your body into fat burning. I think its called diuretic ( sp )

5. If you must have sugar in your drinks or on museli etc, use brown sugar.

6. Stay off ready meals they are full of fat and rubbish, prepare your own meals from fresh ingredients.

Rice and Pasta are good to eat, but only if you eat the brown / wholemeal stuff, the white stuff has been processed and it doesnt have any good stuff in it.

Basically I found that eating what I liked was the way that worked for me, I just had to eat less of it, Liz and I will quite happily eat between the two of us a curry that is supposed to serve 4, so have smaller portions to.

Your going to find it hard, its not easy, but if you have will power you will do it.

I found I felt like dog poo when I stopped eating sweets and foods that were high in salt and sugar. Really bad cold turkey no the sugar withdrawl for a week or so. So you'll have that go through but it does get easier and after a while you wont miss the sweets and crips.

Just remember any excercise is better than none, I would ditch the bike in the winter months and go to work on a spacehopper, you,ll lose pounds and it will be good for the enviroment as well, plus all the good advice everyone else gave and dont forget any decent gym will give a checkover and a program to stick to. Good luck

Originally Posted by graemepaterson

Put on weight in muscle, get lazy, then end up even fatter.

true, but it depends on what sort of muscle you put on, if you gain loads of it in low reps high weight then yes but it is far better to do low weight and high reps. This will define the muscle rather than pack it on. yes you will add some but it will be defined. Also do CV 3 times a week to burn fat, raise your metabolic rate whic hwill cause you to burn fat at a faster rate wht ever you do.

my current regime is:

run 3 times a week 5-6 miles a piece taking in some big hills!!

and do the following weights regime

Monday and Friday

Bench Dip 2 sets 12 reps
Kick back 2 sets 12 reps
Tricep extensions 2 sets 12 reps
Zottman curl 2 sets 12 reps
Hammer curl or concentration curl 2 sets 12 reps
Biceps curl or preachers curl 2 sets 12 reps
Wrist curl 1 set 12 reps
reverse wrist curl 1 set 12 reps
Weighted squats (20KG) 2 sets 15 reps
Weighted lunge (20KG) 2 sets 15 reps
Calf raises 2 sets 15 reps
2 different abb exersises 15 reps each

Wednesday

Bench Press 3 sets 12 reps
Bent over row 3 sets 12 reps
rotation press 3 sets 12 reps
Catch (abbs) 3 sets 15 reps
isometric back extensions 3 sets 4 reps (4 second hold on each rep)

That seems to keep me going quite well

Don't skip breakfast. You'll only end up eating far too much lunch.

I wouldn't cut out the food you like entirely. Just have it in moderation and exercise more.