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I bought a thermal compression top from Skins and it’s really great. I really like to run or bike using compression tops and this one is really one of the best one I have. It keeps me warm and keeps the sweat out.

This is the first Skins product I have bought and since I got it I decided that I will only buy Skins product now on because it’s so great. The compression is good and the quality of the product is excellent.

It’s not cheap and when I bought I wasn’t sure if I should get it because of the price, but I really don’t regret it.

This is the one I’m talking about: http://store.skins.net/intl/all-products/therma…

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Compression base layers anyone?

I would also think that you risk injury before overtraining. If you’re just starting working out, the load you need to reach overtraining will probably lead you to injury before you reach actual overtraining.
Listen to your body and try to follow what it tells you. Although it’s not always easy to make the difference between pain leading to an injury and pain just resulting of a good workout.
Anyways, it’s probably better to take a bit longer to reach your goal than to be stopped at once because of an injury.
Good luck to you!

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Do I risk overtraining?

I use my heart rate monitor to record calories burned.
If I don’t use it I let DB do the estimation instead (which usually is about the same that what my heart monitor displays)

Topic: Fitness Challenges / Survival of the Fittest by G Series FIT

@jimknox1234: got a flat yesterday ;( actually my tire litterlally exploded, luckily it did while I was not moving and reaching home…

Topic: Fitness Challenges / Survival of the Fittest by G Series FIT

@jimknox1234: actually you’re getting close… I won’t be able to have a day off if I want to stay on the lead.
I can’t really run at the moment because I injured my ankle about three weeks ago (badly sprained ankle). It’s still sore and I tried an 18km run the other day and I ended up with a really painful swollen ankle. So I’m sticking with the bike and the swim at the moment.
I have an half Ironman and an Ironman lined up in the timeframe of this challenge, so I will eventually have to taper before those events and even get some rest after (not so much after the half IM but after the IM… which is a few days before the challenge ends).

Anyways, keep it up because it keeps me motivated!

Topic: Fitness Challenges / Survival of the Fittest by G Series FIT

@cuerv77: did you enter data for another day? I noticed that it doesn’t count calories burnt for a workout recorded for a day that is before the current day.
I’ve also noticed that when you enter a workout with a high level of calories burnt it doesn’t take it in account before you enter a new workout (the same day) with a low number of burnt calories (do 25 pushups and add the workout for example).

Topic: Fitness Challenges / Survival of the Fittest by G Series FIT

I guess the previous post was intended for me… I did an Ironman on Sunday, it’s not a 13 hour marathon run, but still over 11 hours of non stop effort (3,8km swim, 180km bike and 42,2km run).
But I had to taper a week before (so very few calories burnt over the previous week) and now I need to rest (so no more calories burnt for a few days)… so overall over a 10 day period, if you average it, it comes down to a more reasonnable number.

Topic: Fitness Challenges / Survival of the Fittest by G Series FIT

@spikerga: I carry food (energy bars and gels) with me on the bike and eat every hour (even if not hungry). Plus I drink energy drinks and you have aid station all along to fill up.
On the run, they have aid stations too, usually every 2.5km or so. I try to drink coke at every station as it is fast energy and it becomes hard to digest solid food after so much effort but I still try to get some fruits (little bites).
3 hours before the event I eat around 3000 calories (which is about as much as your body can store for immediate use) and I try to store glycogen 2 to 3 days before.
And I usually feel hungry for a couple of days after the event.
I try to train as much as I can on an empty stomach to train my body to work on fat rather than glycogen so it tries to get the energy from the fat first.

Cyclist on the Tour de France are known to eat up to 8000 calories on a stage (even if you don’t see it on tv, they eat a lot).
Athletes like Michael Phelps, training over 5 hours per day eat up to 7000 calories per day.

I usually train between 2 and 3 hours per day and eat between 4000 and 5000 calories per day. If I eat less (2000 cal) I can loose up to 5 or 6 pounds in less than a week, which I sometimes do when I try to get fitter and lose body fat.

I will burn more calories on the bike. Going 38 to 40kmh will burn up to 1300 calories per hour. On the run going 13 to 14kmh will burn close to 1000 calories per hour. On an Ironman I run around 10kmh at maximum effort so it’s probably below 1000 calories per hour but I don’t know how the length of the event affects your metabolism.

Topic: Fitness Challenges / Survival of the Fittest by G Series FIT

It all depends on what you are trying to achieve.

Well from what I know (and I don’t know that much, so anyone please feel free to step in), you should be burning more or less the same amount of calories no matter how you spread it throughout the day.
It’s where the calories are taken from that may differ. As doing 5 sets of 50 push-ups in 10 minutes could be considered as a cardio workout and will probably get into fat burning (although 10 minutes is a bit short for that), and as a more spreade muscular effort will limit in burning glycogen stored into the muscle.

Theoretically you would also have been consuming some calories during the day (eating) which means that when you do your push-ups during the day, you will have more readily available calories and your body will not need to look for calories in your fat (I’m not saying you’re fat ;) ).

So if you’re looking into burning fat, do more push-ups in a shorter time so you’ll probably burn more fat, but you might need to do assisted push-ups to be able to do a lot of them, like doing them on your knees or with your hands higher than your feet so you can actually do them.

In terms of muscle development, there are two ways of looking at it. Are you trying to get more strength or more volume?
Again, from what I know, more volume is achieved by doing more sets but with a lower weight and more strength is achieved by lifting heavier, with less sets, but probably more reps and going up to failure (to the point you can’t push anymore). Although there are a lot approaches which can differ widely on the subject, so I’m not sure that there is a definite way to do strength vs. volume.
But it’s not because you have bigger muscles that you can lift heavier and the opposite is true too (to some extent, obviously someone with huge muscles will lift more weight than a skinny guy… but you can have guys (or girls for that matter) with not so huge muscles that can actually lift heavy weights).

With push-ups heavier would mean, your feet higher than your hands (or with some extra weight on your back) and lighter would mean with your hands higher that your feet.

Again this is from what I have gathered and should not be taken as scientific facts and might need someone more knowledgeable to get into the specific aspects, so I’ll be glad to hear what other have to say about this topic.

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Reps and Timing

I’m having trouble login in using Safari on my Mac since the upgrade (name change?).
Chrome works fine (that’s the way I got in).

I like the new logo though ;)
(also a member from the Gyminee days)

UPDATE: cleared the cookies and it works again, thanks to the support team for the help

Topic: General Discussion / DailyBurn Tracker

Unless I go for a longer workout (2+ hours), I usually workout fasted too and I usually work out early in the morning too.
I would be with Erik on that aspect, I would believe there are more benefits in working out in a fasted state.

Above 2 hours, if I go for a long run or ride, I usually won’t be able to keep going if I haven’t eaten either before the workout or during the workout, and it usually is mostly carbs.
If I run, I have to eat way before my run not to feel bloated, but on the bike, I can go straight after eating. Same for lifting weights.

I usually also eat right after my workouts with a mix of carbs and proteins.

If I go for a very long workout (like for example when I do a 10 to 11 hour Ironman), I usually eat a lot of carbs 3 to 4 hours before the race starts (so I would wake up around 2 or 3AM and eat 3 to 4000 calories which are mostly carbs). Obviously I don’t eat during the swim (so that’s over an hour) and then I eat about 400 calories (mostly carbs) every hour on the bike. On the run, I just eat when I need energy (that’s where I probably should be eating in a more scientific way, because usually when you start feeling hungry or in need of energy, it is usually too late).

Topic: Diet and Nutrition / Pre-Workout Snack

Most body fat measurement are not very accurate. The key there is consistency over accuracy. If you use a scale, you should always measure your body fat at the same time of the day.

Because of the way the scale works, you hydration level will impact the results, meaning that if you measure your body fat after a workout, your hydration level may be lower and the scale will give you a higher figure that it would before a workout.
That’s why you should always measure your body fat at the same time.

You can use calipers that are more accurate, if you use them right. The problem is that the measure will depend on exactly where you take your measure and how much pressure you apply to the calipers. So it can also vary a lot.

So unless you go to a lab with fancy and expensive equipment, BF measure will usually not be accurate.

Topic: Fitness and Exercise / Don't understand this Body fat % thing, need help!!!

It started a while ago with the name Gyminee at first.

I’ve been a member since 2008 with something like 1000 members I think at the time, and according to the site something like 1 570 000 calories burned since I subscribed…

The core has remained more or less the same, so it was very innovative at the time and now lacks some features that you can find in other similar websites but remains one of the most detailed and easy to use service around so I’m sticking with it.

Topic: General Discussion / When did Daily Burn Start~?