There’s no schedule, no routine, no science at all …and half the time I have no idea what I’m doing.
Old Farts Home gyms - Exercises techniques/equipment
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Once again people's love lives seem to mirror the world of MTB..There’s no schedule, no routine, no science at all …and half the time I have no idea what I’m doing.
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The road to no alcohol is a long and winding one.
It's hot (31) sunny and beautiful.... So was drawn into the beer Venus fly trap on the way back from the gym...
Life is about balance
It's hot (31) sunny and beautiful.... So was drawn into the beer Venus fly trap on the way back from the gym...
Life is about balance
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Sh1t ! ....Try food poisoning, it's an incredibly effective shortcut to ditching the hooch. Day five & still going here.
5 days ? Double ending ? You're not going anorexic on us are you ? Don't want to buy a lighter bike so going for the lighter rider option ?
Hope your staying hydrated.
Sure it's just food poisoning. Last time I had 5 days was giardia with repeat bouts.
Whoa
, that a serious case of tummy-trouble. Any idea of what it was?(cause?)I heard that fermenting potatoes can be toxic (or really bad).
Edit; but that doesn’t make sense. How do they make vodka?
But i still love Ceasure’s (vodka and Clamato juice) without the vodka.
It’s a Canadian thing.
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Feel like I'm hijacking Zim's buffing himself up thread now but yep, potatoes. Week old spuds, thought nothing of it & just knocked off the sprouts, peeled & cooked them. Turns out they produce a toxin when they sprout as a defence mechanism & it's a bad idea going near them but stupid here knows best 
www.poison.org
Are sprouted potatoes safe to eat? | Poison Control
You are better off tossing potatoes that have turned green or grown sprouts. Eating them puts you at risk for toxicity from solanine and chaconine, two natural toxins found in green or sprouted potatoes.
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Hijack away, dumb ass threads like this are for disrupting and talking "crap" ....Feel like I'm hijacking Zim's buffing himself up thread now but yep, potatoes. Week old spuds, thought nothing of it & just knocked off the sprouts, peeled & cooked them. Turns out they produce a toxin when they sprout as a defence mechanism & it's a bad idea going near them but stupid here knows best
Are sprouted potatoes safe to eat? | Poison Control
You are better off tossing potatoes that have turned green or grown sprouts. Eating them puts you at risk for toxicity from solanine and chaconine, two natural toxins found in green or sprouted potatoes.
Sounds like you were very unlucky, I suspect most of the world has eaten spuds like that and been ok.
Well, whatever it is, I hope for the sake of your saddle that you get over it soon !
Edit : just back from a ride to burn off the lunchtime beer ... forgot to take water which backfired when I stopped at a mates to re-hydrate and had a couple of beer ... It seems fate was just saying - drink beer ..
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@RustyMTB
OK maybe you should have your own thread called "Rapid Evacuation" or something like that ....
How's the body holding up ? Were you one of those people who cached 5 years worth of toilet paper during covid ? or are you just curled up in a ball in the shower for most of the day/lying outside at the bottom of the garden on a tarpaulin as the other half lovingly hoses you down every few hours - think fully automated 360 degree bidet !
OK maybe you should have your own thread called "Rapid Evacuation" or something like that ....
How's the body holding up ? Were you one of those people who cached 5 years worth of toilet paper during covid ? or are you just curled up in a ball in the shower for most of the day/lying outside at the bottom of the garden on a tarpaulin as the other half lovingly hoses you down every few hours - think fully automated 360 degree bidet !
It's not my first rodeo...
The very worst experience of my life I blame on the French. Specifically, Carrefour. Even more specifically, selling me a load of Brie in August when they should have known I would stick it in the boot of my car & drive home for five hours in the middle of a heatwave.
That one went on for nearly two weeks. Not to put too fine a point on it, the night was spent crouching in the bath tub & hoping for the best. At the time, we had a newborn. Mrs. Rusty was laughing at the state of me until she went down with it & started crying - who's going to look after the baby?
The very worst experience of my life I blame on the French. Specifically, Carrefour. Even more specifically, selling me a load of Brie in August when they should have known I would stick it in the boot of my car & drive home for five hours in the middle of a heatwave.
That one went on for nearly two weeks. Not to put too fine a point on it, the night was spent crouching in the bath tub & hoping for the best. At the time, we had a newborn. Mrs. Rusty was laughing at the state of me until she went down with it & started crying - who's going to look after the baby?
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Ah, that would explain things. Though I don't remember them ever rushing off to the toilet. Maybe those bits are on the cutting room floor .... ???
I hope (not) that you're videoing it all so we have documentary evidence.
Go Throw?
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Hopefully @RustyMTB has a more intact dietary tract by now .....
I don't seem to be doing much home gym'ing at the moment.. Stretching and trying different calisthenics moves or just finishing off bits I missed at the gym.
Just to keep @Mikerb happy, I've pretty much stopped eating red meat and now it's mainly fish. In fairness I was put off as I had two crap steaks in a row. I did throw one on the BBQ a couple of days ago and it was nice, but I'm actually enjoying my fish more at the moment.
Lots of eggs too .. but I like eggs and I've found a farm down the road which will sell me trays of 30*90g double yokers for €5 so hard to resist
Training, between sets I've been trying to use heart rate as my "go" indicator rather that specific time periods or "feel". (Unless I'm doing drop sets or just some mixed up pain session).
This has led to the interesting discovery that watches are absolutely crap at tracking Heart Rate accurately for weight training. The wrist is full of tendons, ligaments and other crap which is all moving around so the watches take a while to get the HR correct. At first I thought I was just weird (well, more weird) then did some research and found out it's a known issue.
Hence why lots of people wear Whoop bands on the bicep as you get a much more consistent reading for most sports or even just generally.
Contemplated buying one of the new Amazfit Helios Straps and fitting it with a bicep band (they haven't released their band yet, probably this month). It's like a Whoop band but without the €400 ish annual subscription ! but with crapper automatic activity detection.
Also considered a chest strap paired to my watch, but I was never a fan of chest straps in the past.
Eventually went for a Coospo HW9 band which comes with wrist and arm bands. Has good battery life, is rechargeable, should pair with my watch for seeing HR easily, though I think you can program it's LED to change colour at set HR's. Just looked and noticed I've ordered a white one rather than a black one- oh well. (I only looked at the picture ! doh).
It's only a 2 point sensor, as opposed to the more expensive ones with 4 point sensors, so it will lag about 1-2 seconds on HR compared to a 4 point, but I don't think that will affect me much.
Will be interesting to see how it performs.
I don't seem to be doing much home gym'ing at the moment.. Stretching and trying different calisthenics moves or just finishing off bits I missed at the gym.
Just to keep @Mikerb happy, I've pretty much stopped eating red meat and now it's mainly fish. In fairness I was put off as I had two crap steaks in a row. I did throw one on the BBQ a couple of days ago and it was nice, but I'm actually enjoying my fish more at the moment.
Lots of eggs too .. but I like eggs and I've found a farm down the road which will sell me trays of 30*90g double yokers for €5 so hard to resist
Training, between sets I've been trying to use heart rate as my "go" indicator rather that specific time periods or "feel". (Unless I'm doing drop sets or just some mixed up pain session).
This has led to the interesting discovery that watches are absolutely crap at tracking Heart Rate accurately for weight training. The wrist is full of tendons, ligaments and other crap which is all moving around so the watches take a while to get the HR correct. At first I thought I was just weird (well, more weird) then did some research and found out it's a known issue.
Hence why lots of people wear Whoop bands on the bicep as you get a much more consistent reading for most sports or even just generally.
Contemplated buying one of the new Amazfit Helios Straps and fitting it with a bicep band (they haven't released their band yet, probably this month). It's like a Whoop band but without the €400 ish annual subscription ! but with crapper automatic activity detection.
Also considered a chest strap paired to my watch, but I was never a fan of chest straps in the past.
Eventually went for a Coospo HW9 band which comes with wrist and arm bands. Has good battery life, is rechargeable, should pair with my watch for seeing HR easily, though I think you can program it's LED to change colour at set HR's. Just looked and noticed I've ordered a white one rather than a black one- oh well. (I only looked at the picture ! doh).
It's only a 2 point sensor, as opposed to the more expensive ones with 4 point sensors, so it will lag about 1-2 seconds on HR compared to a 4 point, but I don't think that will affect me much.
Will be interesting to see how it performs.
I would reckon if your exercise is largely aerobic then monitoring heart rate is a good way to determine a rest period between sets. On the other hand if the exercise is aimed at a muscle group ( zone 2) the rest period is best set such that the muscle has not fully recovered which can be determined by how tiring the last few reps of the next set are.Hopefully @RustyMTB has a more intact dietary tract by now .....
I don't seem to be doing much home gym'ing at the moment.. Stretching and trying different calisthenics moves or just finishing off bits I missed at the gym.
Just to keep @Mikerb happy, I've pretty much stopped eating red meat and now it's mainly fish. In fairness I was put off as I had two crap steaks in a row. I did throw one on the BBQ a couple of days ago and it was nice, but I'm actually enjoying my fish more at the moment.
Lots of eggs too .. but I like eggs and I've found a farm down the road which will sell me trays of 30*90g double yokers for €5 so hard to resist
Training, between sets I've been trying to use heart rate as my "go" indicator rather that specific time periods or "feel". (Unless I'm doing drop sets or just some mixed up pain session).
This has led to the interesting discovery that watches are absolutely crap at tracking Heart Rate accurately for weight training. The wrist is full of tendons, ligaments and other crap which is all moving around so the watches take a while to get the HR correct. At first I thought I was just weird (well, more weird) then did some research and found out it's a known issue.
Hence why lots of people wear Whoop bands on the bicep as you get a much more consistent reading for most sports or even just generally.
Contemplated buying one of the new Amazfit Helios Straps and fitting it with a bicep band (they haven't released their band yet, probably this month). It's like a Whoop band but without the €400 ish annual subscription ! but with crapper automatic activity detection.
Also considered a chest strap paired to my watch, but I was never a fan of chest straps in the past.
Eventually went for a Coospo HW9 band which comes with wrist and arm bands. Has good battery life, is rechargeable, should pair with my watch for seeing HR easily, though I think you can program it's LED to change colour at set HR's. Just looked and noticed I've ordered a white one rather than a black one- oh well. (I only looked at the picture ! doh).
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It's only a 2 point sensor, as opposed to the more expensive ones with 4 point sensors, so it will lag about 1-2 seconds on HR compared to a 4 point, but I don't think that will affect me much.
Will be interesting to see how it performs.
Well done cutting down on the red meat. Once a week is OK though.
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The Heart Arm band tracker arrived.
Used it several times now. The Coospo app is a bit crap but it also pairs with Strava and the Polar apps.
First tip - remove the plastic film over the sensor, it's much more accurate like that !
It seems to track accurately. Pretty similar to a chest strap, within 1% anyway.
A watch worn higher up the wrist would give better results than on the wrist, but they're obviously relying a lot on their algorithm's to guess when they've not getting accurate readings due to wrist movement.
It has a nice little blinking led pattern on the front which changes colour within different heart rates, so blue and I'm back below 122 and in theory, ready to go .. No need to check an app or wear the watch and pair with that.
Chest day and some Abs today (Graph from Polar Flow) :
The downside is that my heart rate is back to 120ish too quickly with the band and most of the time I'm not feeling ready for the next set yet.
Used it several times now. The Coospo app is a bit crap but it also pairs with Strava and the Polar apps.
First tip - remove the plastic film over the sensor, it's much more accurate like that !
It seems to track accurately. Pretty similar to a chest strap, within 1% anyway.
A watch worn higher up the wrist would give better results than on the wrist, but they're obviously relying a lot on their algorithm's to guess when they've not getting accurate readings due to wrist movement.
It has a nice little blinking led pattern on the front which changes colour within different heart rates, so blue and I'm back below 122 and in theory, ready to go .. No need to check an app or wear the watch and pair with that.
Chest day and some Abs today (Graph from Polar Flow) :
The downside is that my heart rate is back to 120ish too quickly with the band and most of the time I'm not feeling ready for the next set yet.
The Heart Arm band tracker arrived.
Used it several times now. The Coospo app is a bit crap but it also pairs with Strava and the Polar apps.
First tip - remove the plastic film over the sensor, it's much more accurate like that !
It seems to track accurately. Pretty similar to a chest strap, within 1% anyway.
A watch worn higher up the wrist would give better results than on the wrist, but they're obviously relying a lot on their algorithm's to guess when they've not getting accurate readings due to wrist movement.
It has a nice little blinking led pattern on the front which changes colour within different heart rates, so blue and I'm back below 122 and in theory, ready to go .. No need to check an app or wear the watch and pair with that.
Chest day and some Abs today (Graph from Polar Flow) :
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The downside is that my heart rate is back to 120ish too quickly with the band and most of the time I'm not feeling ready for the next set yet.
So have you worn it for a full 24 hour period to see your max/min?
I use a Huawei D watch as it measures BP as well.
I use a Huawei D watch as it measures BP as well.
To make muscle exercise effective any resistance work should be done slowly......whether pushing pulling or lifting the resistance becomes lighter with momentum....plus if you do it fast it turns into a more aerobic exercise. Each set should get more difficult but only in terms of muscle tiredness not greatly increased heart rate
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It's not really intended for that. Think it has a 35 hour ish life between charges. It's designed to be an alternative to a chest strap when working out, rather than a 24/7 life tracker. Put it on for your workout, then take it off.
I'd use my watch for that, which gives me upto 2 months between charges if I don't use it for GPS tracking. Personally, I'm not overly interested though so don't bother with the watch 24/7 anymore.
I am slightly interested in the Amazfit Helios Strap, when they also release the factory arm band - but then, as I say, I'm not overly interested in 24/7 tracking so probably won't bother as my watch gives me more, though it would give far higher heart accuracy on the arm compared to a watch.
The advances in what they offer is interesting though, as you say BP and various other things.
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