WTDWTF Fitness Group
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@Polygeekery said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
the discrepancy in the data.
Is that what the kids are calling it these days?
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@Polygeekery said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Tsaukpaetra I think we found the discrepancy in the data.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/535606518075228160/551487980112576524/6cyqi4zvp9h21.jpg
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@Polygeekery said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Gribnit said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
I am now exactly at 100kg, my goal weight, and have expended no personal effort whatsoever to achieve this. I ate a lot of candy and cookies yesterday.
Are you on your way up or down? The post could go either way.
I read it as going down. 100 kg (220 lbs) is a pretty lazy goal weight, unless he's pretty tall - that's "overweight" for a body height less than about 200 cm (6.5 ft). It wouldn't really make sense to set a target weight that's overweight, unless he's on his way down. (Or a bodybuilder, but that would contradict his statement about expending no personal effort.)
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@brie I'm 6'. If I got down to 220 lbs by burning only fat, I'd have like a 2-3% body fat. The standards are wack.
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@Benjamin-Hall I hear you. I'm 1m90, to hit a BMI of 25 I'd have to weigh only 90kg, but I'm about 120kg. I'll admit I'm somewhat overweight, but I doubt it'd be healthy for me to try to get below 100kg.
I have heard it argue BMI was calibrated on 1m50-1m60 Frenchmen.
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@Benjamin-Hall It's debatable how accurate the BMI scale is for people who are tall, and it's less debatable and more just obviously wrong for people who are more muscular than average.
6 feet is pretty tall... that's above the 80th percentile for an adult male in the U.S. The BMI scale should really only be used as a vague estimate really, especially for individuals who deviate from the norm.
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@Benjamin-Hall I'm 6'2" and 150 lbs.
I don't exercise and eat lots of poutine.I'm a lucky bastard
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@TimeBandit said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall I'm 6'2" and 150 lbs.
I don't exercise and eat lots of poutine.I'm a lucky bastard
I hate you. And everyone like you.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@TimeBandit said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall I'm 6'2" and 150 lbs.
I don't exercise and eat lots of poutine.I'm a lucky bastard
I hate you. And everyone like you.
I too hate Canadians.
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@Polygeekery said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@TimeBandit said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall I'm 6'2" and 150 lbs.
I don't exercise and eat lots of poutine.I'm a lucky bastard
I hate you. And everyone like you.
I too hate Canadians.
Anyone who hates Red Green or Ricky LaFleur is just ...
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@jinpa said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
Anyone who hates Red Green is just ...
But I love War Plan Red. That has to count for something.
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@TimeBandit said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall I'm 6'2" and 150 lbs.
I don't exercise and eat lots of poutine.I'm a lucky bastard
And this perfectly illustrates how useless BMI can be. I'm 5'11" and around 175 lbs. I look like a Holocaust survivor at 150 lbs.
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@mott555 Better than looking like one of the millions who didn't survive.
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@HardwareGeek said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
Bad luck?
Yes. If I was fat, I would have more natural insulation
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I hate intervals
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Muddy ride of 45km with a total climb of 429m
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Articles like this make me glad that I've always been more fast than slow twitch:
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@boomzilla
Gah their header, constantly popping down when I stop scrolling to actually read the article, thus overlapping what I was trying to read
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@boomzilla said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
Articles like this make me glad that I've always been more fast than slow twitch:
why_some_people_cant_stop_running_110916.html
"His body is shot to pieces"
This sounds like hyperbole. They didn't provide any further detail on this assertion. Most runners are in pretty good health - it would seem to be a pretty specific situation where someone was able to run > 20 miles a week but had a body that was "shot to pieces"
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@izzion said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@boomzilla
Gah their header, constantly popping down when I stop scrolling to actually read the article, thus overlapping what I was trying to readI don't know what device you're reading from, but I click this bookmarklet about 100 times a day:
Kill Sticky
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@Zenith said in interview attire 2019:
@izzion said in interview attire 2019:
Of course, if I ever actually stay on my "no pop" diet long enough to lose weight, I'll have to wear the belt so as not to flash my co-workers on the regular, but hey
Because I've been there: At around 200, cutting back to one soda a week will only help you lose about 10. After that I found I needed to exercise. Like three hours a week on a bike minimum to lose another 10. It didn't take long to lose either 10, about 4-6 weeks, but then I plateaued and didn't know what to do.
So as not to drag out a help channel with a sub-thread...
Yeah, I've been on the wagon semi-successfully before, about 5 years ago. Managed about 9 months before I fell off, went from 195 to 180 over the period (I did have some difference in my exercise pattern as well, besides just cutting out ~60-80 fl oz/day of soda to 0). So far I'm at -5 lbs over 8 weeks on the wagon so far this time
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100k in the bag!
@pie_flavor I was wearing spandex this time, sorry
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@Luhmann said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
total climb of 429m
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@bb36e
Not even halfway of really mountainous terrain and practically halfway the sea and the not really mountains in a flat country.
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@bb36e said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
wearing spandex
An evil necessity in many cases unfortunately ...
If you join the army of big, fat tires you can hide the pamper lined pants in baggy shorts. But the zeem is really a necessity, certainly when rides get longer and hotter.
After her first serious ride on her new bike my wife said: I need me some of those ugly pants.
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@Luhmann
Regarding biking cloths ... got a close shave earlier this week. Made a stupid mistake trying to catch some air an almost flat stretch of gravel road. Not even my worse or most spectacular tumble but apparently hit my head rather hard sideways on the gravel. And a nice piece of road rash on my leg as proof of my bad ass bike skills. Continued the ride after shaking it off. Back home I did notice that the inside of my bike helmet showed some small fractures. One opens up if you put slight pressure on the case ...Three cheers for wearing bike helmets!
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@Luhmann time to replace that helmet then. It did it's sacrifice, now let it retire.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Luhmann time to replace that helmet then. It did it's sacrifice, now let it retire.
This. Helmet effectiveness decreases quite quickly after usage.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
now let it retire
Oh jeah, replacement is already on it's way ... expect it today. saw a nice deal on a mips equiped one.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
Helmet effectiveness decreases quite quickly after usage.
Analysis: Not sure if serious or ... taking default value
Answer:
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@Luhmann said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
taking default value
Always take Default Value. She's pretty safe most of the time.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
She's pretty safe
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@Luhmann said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
now let it retire
Oh jeah, replacement is already on it's way ... expect it today. saw a nice deal on a mips equiped one.
https://www.aafp.org/practice-management/payment/medicare-payment/mips.html
This would be cool, but a bit heavy for a bike helmet:
Edit: Link to Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer redirects to the article for the whole Spitzer satellite.
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@Luhmann said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@Benjamin-Hall said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
now let it retire
Oh jeah, replacement is already on it's way ... expect it today. saw a nice deal on a mips equiped one.
Have you heard the buzz about this 'Wavecel' helmet? Marketing is saying it's 20-something times more effective than normal helmets at preventing concussions
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Short ride but I'm feeling faster after doing some interval training!
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@bb36e said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
Wavecel' helmet
Trek's biggest thing since sliced bread in 2019!
Muh ... at least mips is used by several marks and models. I went with something more geared towards the Martin Maes inside of me instead of looking like Eddy Merckx.
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@bb36e
I hope those are road speeds maxing out going downhill with the wind in your back?
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@Luhmann thankfully, there was a slight 1% downhill section 😃
But I can't wait to take this bike up to the hills and then wreck it in a crash and spend 2 months in the hospital 😃😃
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@bb36e
First do a helmet crash test like me
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@Luhmann said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
instead of looking like Eddy Merckx.
I wouldn't mind looking like Merckx if only I could ride like him. Actually, he's not a bad looking chap (or wasn't when he was younger, and at least as of the 2010 picture in Wikipedia, has aged reasonably well); other than being almost a decade-and-a-half older than me, I could do a lot worse.
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@HardwareGeek
I was more thinking about the on-bike looks but whatever floats your boat
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@Luhmann said in WTDWTF Fitness Group:
@bb36e
I hope those are road speeds maxing out going downhill with the wind in your back?Speaking of that, how accurate is Strava's max speed indication? My wife uses it for horse riding and while her horse can go pretty fast, sometimes the top speed reading really looks unrealistic. We've always assumed it's down to glitches in the GPS reading and therefore she only really looks at averages on somewhat longer stretches, but I have no idea whether this is the correct way to interpret it?
Also, a Strava track for a day of downhill skiing was fun to look at, with all the elevation changes (duh!).
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@remi
Not really a strava but more of an GPS issue ... Phones should be more accurate but still location is determined with an error of a few meters. Elevation based on GPS even has a bigger error margin. If you calculate speed based solely on the distance you traveled in a minute between A and B then you get that even small error margins can amplify.
On my bike I have an additional speed sensor on the wheel hub. This helps the gps to pinpoint locations in all directions and obviously gives a more accurate speed reading. On phones high precision location normally uses additional sensors (gyroscope, barometer) if present. But the error margins remain.The strava guys actually explain it better:
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/216919487-How-Distance-is-Calculated
https://support.strava.com/hc/en-us/articles/115001188664-Speed-and-Pace-Calculations
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@Luhmann That's what I assumed is happening, yes. The part about "Why is my max speed so high?" is exactly what we're seeing, I think. I guess this means this value is actually useless, which is a shame since it's so prominently displayed (and it makes for a nice bragging point!).
They admit themselves that in the graph they smooth out things a bit, which also makes it more reliable, I would have thought they would have used some similar technique on the max speed (or maybe shown some kind of error bar on it). Anyway, we'll keep using the max of the graph as a more reliable estimate of the top speed.
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@remi
yeah ... I notice the same thing on the Garmin Connect websiteRandom recent ride gives me a peak at 31 km/h
Max says 33,4
And as mentioned this is recorded with a bike gps+speed sensor
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Just watched Spider-Man: Homecoming. Tom Holland both makes me feel old and reminds me I really need to go back to the gym.
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@Luhmann Mentally I look more like
than
Physically, I look more like
except not actually riding the bike.