Me and cycling, it works great.

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knotty1

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Speaking for myself, I can say as a rule, regular, four-five day a week cycling workouts combined with reduced calories, keeps the fat burning. My cycling training consists of a minimum hour and a half daily ride with several sessions up to 100% max heart rate and a couple sustained efforts at about 85%+ On weekends, we do longer, easier rides in the 40-60 mile distances and about 4 to 5 hours. Fatloss is probably about 2 pounds a week, that's with heavy carbs to fuel the rides.

On recovery days with just perhaps easy walking, the fatloss drops to minimal, perhaps half a pound a week.

knotty
 
Wow your doing 40 to 60 miles. Dam. Most I ever got was 50. But that was a long time ago. I have started cycling to work as well but I'm only on the bike for 30 min a day. But then I come home and do about a hour workout at home.
 
Jmann8686 said:
Wow your doing 40 to 60 miles. Dam. Most I ever got was 50. But that was a long time ago. I have started cycling to work as well but I'm only on the bike for 30 min a day. But then I come home and do about a hour workout at home.
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Hey how's it going? good to see you. Yes, I ride with my old racing buddies from the 1970's, we're all in the 60 something ages. We do two or three short rides about 30 miles each during the weekdays and a long ride into Marin to Point Reyes, Nicasio. Within those rides are always climbs and long flat stretches where we try to see who makes it to the top first, I guess we'll never get over that racing instinct! It's how we used to train way back then. When the weather gets warmer shortly, we go up to 100+ miles, I'm counting on that to really burn the fat away.

I occasionally ride with and her club group when their in my area, one amazing person, they regularly do up to 200 miles. For fat burning, it's absolutely great.
 
It's going good. I got in my first two commutes to work this week. But round trip is just over 8.5 miles. I wish I still had my road bike. But I had to pay for my wedding so i knew someone who wanted it. So I sold it. Then I quit riding for a couple if years. It wasn't till last year that I got another bike. Picked up a cannondale trail six. Now I have three bikes again. Only one is rideable. I'm hoping to have my schwinn le tour up and running in the next couple of months though.
 
Good on the commute and a belated congrats on the wedding. Yes we're all retired so that gives us time to ride a lot. I can see how working will hamper things.
 
Thanks. Yes working does put a damper on the amount of time I can ride. I'm in the middle of doing the insanity workout as well. I have two and half more weeks till I'm done with that. So after that's done I'm going to add some milage on to the end of my ride home.
 
Jmann8686 said:
Thanks. Yes working does put a damper on the amount of time I can ride. I'm in the middle of doing the insanity workout as well. I have two and half more weeks till I'm done with that. So after that's done I'm going to add some milage on to the end of my ride home.
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Riding with a group is a lot of fun once you get used to it, my group varies up to 25 riders. Many clubs in your area has club rides where others can join in too. Another good thing about groups is, you can see what fitness other riders in your age range are in and gives you something to train for.

Once I get my weight down enough, I plan to ride with a Google group that commutes from SF to Mt. View a 45 mile one way ride. Their group is open for all who wants to try it.
 
I have thought about joining a group. But the LBS groups are all kinda hardcore riders. I know I would have to up my game big time before I can start to ride with them.
 
Cycling is great sort of low impact physical activity which will enhance the inner abilities, strength as well as help you in building muscles in terms of losing the extra weight.
 
Hi Steve53, good to meet you. Yes a tour through Europe sounds great, would love to do it. Unfortunately, I'm pretty much stuck in the SF Bay Area. But, there are many places we ride, from Mt. Diablo and Hamilton and north to Bodega Bay. Fortunately I used to race in the 1970's so am still familiar with things like interval training and back then I weighed 130, but now that we're up in years, mostly just go out for the fun of it but that competitiveness is still there, so we see who makes it to the summit of climbs first. The goal is to again come close to that weight of 130, that would be 30 lbs more to go. Already lost 30+ pounds since Jan of 2013.
 
Cycling is my absolutely favorite exercise to do. I live in the country side, so I have additional motivation because it's just beautiful out here. I've lost 100 lbs doing nothing but cycling and HIIT (in the Winter). I got into cycling because I have a damaged left knee and running hurts. But I've found that cycling actually made my knee feel a little better. Definitely a great choice if you wanna lose weight and have fun doing it.

All the best to you, knotty.
 
Well I just thought I would share my bike and my fastest time commuting to and from work. I got my SS built up and have started commuting on it now. It's been four days and today I found a groove and pulled out my best time yet.
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Jmann8686 said:
Well I just thought I would share my bike and my fastest time commuting to and from work. I got my SS built up and have started commuting on it now. It's been four days and today I found a groove and pulled out my best time yet.
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Good going! yes, I have to work on getting a SS together, I have the frame but need to get it painted. I saw a belt drive SS the other day, interesting. They are really getting bike lanes with green boxes painted all over SF.

Careful riding on the commute.
 
I saw a pic of a belt drive SS the other day as well. Looks interesting. I took my longest ride so far on Friday. I ended up do 22.92 miles. 4 of them were before work everything else was after work. It was nice. Had a couple of narley climbs one of them almost made me get off but I held on and made it to the top. After that it was all down hill and flat.
 
Good on the 22.92 miles, that's about all I've been doing these days. If I wanted to build up to longer distances, I increase the rides by about 2-3 miles and soon you'll be up to 30, 40, and so on. Yes, on hills you need the lightest body possible, that's why the thinnest cyclists are generally superior on climbs.

Not sure how popular belt drives are, don't see too many of them. I guess they're pretty durable, I had a car that had a timing belt and it never wore out. It's a lot lighter than a chain though.

knotty
 
Got in another 23 miles today on the SS. Went out with one hill in mind. And climbed it better then I thought I would. It climbed about 256 feet in a mile. Had to stand the hold time but I climbed it with out getting off. Used a new app on this ride and I placed 6 out of 10 who have climbed that hill. Thought that was cool.
 
Love to go cycling as well.
I have a Trek mountainbike, so usually do a combination of paved roads and unpaved paths (through the woods or singletrack courses), right around 25 miles most of the times right now.
Unfortunately no hills here to climb, but ploughing through mud is also an excellent way of burning calories
 
Yes Guideon, there are lots of hills of every grade where I live right in the city. From a very gentle slope up to 32-34% I ride a fat tire MTB in the city because it handles the rough pavement and cracks easily. Many times for a change of pace, I just take the camera and go into the heart of downtown and industrial districts. But for distance rides it's the road bike.

knotty
 
Linkon said:
I am totally agree with that cycling is the most effective way to loss weight but do you think just cycling is effective??? I don't think so. According to me with any exercise you should also need to take balanced diet always. So try to eat less fat and carbs in your diet. And also drink green tea to boost your metabolism. It's helps to burn extra body fat.
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Linkon I agree about the balanced diet but I go heavy on carbs otherwise I could never train in cycling, let me explain. I ride and train with my former racing buddies and our rides go up to max heart rate and into anaerobic a number of times on a training ride. In addition, we do distance rides up to 100 miles every weekend and also do an occasional double century, (200 miles)

Next day after a hard ride, I can visually see a slight fat loss and the tape measurement verifies it.

My only problem is due to other commitments, I haven't been able to ride with my buddies for perhaps a year and in that time gained a lot of fat which I'm trying to lose now so I can train again. In cycling body weight makes all the difference in the world, especially on climbs.

knotty
 
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