Posts by ksylvan

Hi everyone. Another followup on the heart rate training thread.

Thanks for the reference to Joe Friel. I picked up his Total Heart Rate Training book at the book store and have been devouring the information.

Today, for my mid-week training run, I decided to play around and explore the heart rate zones. First of all, I found out by doing more measurements that my resting heart rate is actually 50 and I set up the following zones in my Garmin watch:

Zone 1: 130-146
Zone 2: 146-162
Zone 3: 162-178
Zone 4: 178-194
Zone 5: 194-210

And, I set up the following workout:

5 minutes in zone 1, 5 minutes in zone 2, 1 minute walk break
3 minutes in zone 3, 1 minute walk, 3 minutes in zone 4,
1 minute walk break, then 90 seconds in zone 5, 1 minute walk break,
then reverse it (zone 4, walk break, zone 3, walk break, zone 2, zone 1)

Here is the run data.

I managed to push myself up to a 197 HR while speeding up to 7:23 minutes/mile.

The difference between zone 4 and zone 5 is the difference between a nice hard (but sustainable) run and pure torture! Also, I'm not sure that zone 1 is very useful to me, I always want to go much faster than that, however, I have a feeling that the discipline of forcing myself to go slow is as important as pushing myself to go fast (especially at the start of a marathon).

I think this heart rate training information is going to prove to be extremely useful in my training.

Thanks!

Placing 190 as the low number of zone 5, with a resting heart rate of 60, then I can say that:

MHR = Max Heart Rate

RHR = Resting Heart Rate

HR = Heart reserve (difference between max and resting heart rate)

Zone 5 starts at (90% * HR ) + RHR = 190, so...

0.9 * (MHR - 60) + 60 = 190, and so MHR = 204

Zone 1 = (50-60%) of the heart reserve (difference between max and resting heart rate) = 132 - 146

Zone 2 = (60-70%) of HR: 146-161

Zone 3 = (70-80%) of HR: 161-175

Zone 4 = (80-90%) of HR: 175-190

Zone 5 = (90-100%) of HR: 190-204

Does this seem right?

Thanks for the responses.

Sounds like I should do one of the actual maximum heart rate tests to actually figure out what this number is for me.

If anyone has anything more to add to this thread, I am very interested.

Original Post by gi-jane:

Partners are in a no-win situation when it comes to weight-issues.  If they complain about eating healthy food at home... they're difficult.  If they start getting us up at 5am to go jogging... they're control-freaks.   If they don't say a thing... they get your response.  If they say 'you look great now you've lost weight'... the come-back is 'so I didn't look great before?'.  If they say.... 'you should lose some weight'... they get frying pans lobbed at them. 

Rather than expecting some kind of telepathy to do the trick, take the straight-line approach and ask him if he thinks you look slimmer.... I'm pretty sure he'll say 'yes'.

I agree with gi-jane's answer 100%.

He probably notices but doesn't know what the acceptable way is to comment on it.

I agree with everything that smwhipple and lalabanana just said. It doesn't really sound like you have fully recovered and it's probably easiest to nip this in the bud.

It's great that you noticed what you were thinking/feeling at this stage.

If you have a support team, you need to go talk with them about all this.

Yes, you absolutely need to tell them.

I was naturally slim up to my 20's. Around 30, I started slowly gaining weight (about 2-3 pounds a year) because of a serious lack of exercise and a typical diet.

Late in 2006 , I was around 180 pounds, and I could only wear oversized t-shirts and stretchy sweatpants. I was finally fed up, found CC and started logging my food and slowly started adding exercise.

Nowadays, I do serious exercising; about an hour on intense working out, six times a week, along with training for a marathon. At 42, I am in the best shape I have ever been in my life, but it was a very slow process.

I am 40 pounds lighter and much more fit than I could have imagined.

Is there any movement on this issue? If I could post via the iPhone, it would be truly sweet.

Or maybe there is someone I can work with on your end to point out which interfaces and APIs I would have to use so I can create an integrated iPhone Application (for downloading via the Apple AppStore) to interface with the site. This would also create a wave of new CC users.

Best regards,

---Kayvan

Have you tried these?

http://livinlavidalocarb.blogspot.com/2006/03 /shirataki-oodles-of-noodles-tofu.html

Bump. I have not seen any replies about this. Thanks for any answers. Not being able to post to the Forums, Groups, or my Journal is definitely annoying.

Original Post by direwolf689:

I don't eat anything past 8:00 p.m and I usually go to bed at around 10 or 11 at night. The thing is I'm getting all these different weird symptoms since I've increased my calories that I NEVER had when I was under eating. My last period was VERY light and lasted only 1 1/2 days, and the one before that was light and lasted only about 4 days. I'm also very tired and crabby even though I'm eating more than adequate calories.

Sounds like you might still need to go see the doctor (or get a second opinion if his "it's all in your head." diagnosis bugs you enough that you don't want to see him for the same problem). There is no reason I can think of for why your increased food intake would cause the symptoms you are describing.

Best of luck to you!

Yes, I guess I was logged into CC classic (I don't know why). It's fixed now. Thanks.

I completely agree.

It's counter-intuitive, but if you increase your calories by a few hundred calories,  after an initial bump up on the scale, you will start losing weight.

Are you are also feeling burned out and low energy?

Original Post by ta2man:

The problem you might run into with stability shoes for a pronator (or over) is that stability shoes have some arch support and most of us that wear motion control shoes have flat feet (no arch). You might run into some problems like blisters and open sores where your arch should be. Try Asics gel - foundation (whatever number, I think they are on 8 now). I run with these motion control shoes (I overpronate as well) and they are very lightweight and you can find some for pretty cheap on Yahoo shopping.

I run in the Asics Gel shoes and they work pretty well for me (I also overpronate). They feel very comfortable and I feel very nicely supported and my joints (knee, ankles) feel comfortable.

How accurate is your 1200-1500 calories? How are you feeling throughout the day?

It could be that you are actually eating too few calories. What do the CC tools tell you about your recommended intake?