NLU Peloton Thread - Weekly Ride: 30 minute 2010’s Hip Hop Ride with Ally from 7/25/24

[TeddyPargame]

Speaking of output… The thing I remember from when I was riding more outdoors, and it’s true on the peloton- is everyone’s different and some people’s legs get spent before their lungs and vice versa. I have endurance but I’m scrawny as shit so my legs always burn out more often than my lungs.

On a bike it doesn’t hurt my speed as much vs other riders because my power is moving my own body weight, considerably less than most of my friends.

But on peloton they all crush me.

This is also potentially something I just tell myself to feel better!

[Max_Power]

Ok Peloton fam, it’s accountability time. I have been treating my body like a garbage disposal since July 4th. It’s time to course correct now that summer is over. The below pictures are a bit of a cause and effect.

This, combined with way too much drinking has led to not only weight gain, but more importantly to me, a general feeling of grossness and lethargy. I plan to turn things around starting September 1. Here is the plan

• Limit myself to alcohol 2 nights a week
• Record some activity 6 days a week through the Peloton. At least 5 days of bike/tread/strength/bootcamp
• Aim for 2400-2800 calories per day. I downloaded the “Lose It” app to try to track this

I am hoping by the end of the month we will be back to normal and this will be part of a normal routine. Look forward to seeing you all back on the leaderboard soon!

[rkris]

Go get it…I’m a big fan of tangible plans. I’m off the bubble a little too–normally will restrict “dessert” to weekends and make rules like no beer Monday tru Thursday ( but allow a single cocktail before dinner).

[t8ertots]

Been battling a nasty cold the last several days (tested negative for COVID twice). Have a bachelor party coming up this weekend. Man, next week’s rides are going to be BRUTAL.

[greebs]

The “just do SOMETHING” mantra that @rkris has been espousing has helped for me. I have done that now for 45 straight days - there are a few days in there where I played golf, had no desire to get on the bike, but took a few stretching classes those days. Honestly, I have become an advocate for trying to do a 5-10 stretching class every day as I get older and older.

Food is for sure where I need help. I am considering a food diary app for that reason as I know I can get way better with that part and at my age dropping lbs is tougher than it used to be (and it’s never been easy for me).

[tnord]

I have all sorts of thoughts on food, far more than the actual exercise piece.

but I’m a big fan of time restricted eating or intermittent fasting. I try to go from 6pm-11am on weekdays when I’m just sitting around working anyway. weekends I get up and eat breakfast before golf.

also, I should add I’m perhaps a bigger advocate of massively reducing animal protein for a whole host of reasons. I’ve done it and have seen significant improvements in energy levels as well as weight loss.

[oski]

I with you. We’ve had a lot of my wife’s friend’s visiting this summer for like a week at a time, so there’s been lots of eating and drinking we normally wouldn’t do every day. I hopped on the scale yesterday and yikes, probably heaviest I’ve ever been. In addition, just had my annual physical, and got some harsh truth from the doc. I’m liking your you plan and will be stealing a good chunk of it.

Go get it man!

[rkris]

Reminder that it is the last day of the month–don’t forget to record your monthly minutes and keep chasing your personal The Annual Challenge goals. No worries if you didn’t record a month, jump back in! No worries if you’re new, jump on in!

#NLURefuge tackles Peloton's "The Annual"; or, We are Not One-dimensional...

[Colin_M]

Talk to me about the “restricting animal protein”. Ive been thinking about this a lot lately and wanting to do it. However everytime i try i struggle with energy crashes. Are you replacing with protein shakes (shoutout faux scientist)? Or some other way? Did you experience any similar energy crashes but they subsided after a short period of time?

[tnord]

I won’t claim to be a vegetarian, because there are too many times when I’m eating out, or at somebody else’s house that I allow for exceptions. But I try to be. On average I probably go about 7-10 days without “exceptions.”

I almost never eat red meat anymore. I will rarely eat fish and chicken, almost always when I’m out to eat and have no other options. I did not really experience energy crashes when I made the change. My energy crashes occur after a big intake of sugar, which is my last, and most difficult frontier. If I have a very small meal I might supplement with the Orgain plant based protein, and I used the typical whey protein more frequently to start, but I don’t use it much anymore.

I try to eat “real food” as much as possible. There are definitely still traps with highly processed, heavy palm oil types of vegetarian junk food. My typical day might include steel cut oatmeal with nuts, berries, flax, chia, and made with unsweetened vanilla almond milk around 11. some sort of leftover, PB sandwich, salad or the like around 1 with a plant based protein bar (dessert replacement attempt). Snack around 3, and I crush some fried rice/tofu stir fry variant around 530 and I’m done.

I’ve quit focusing on the commonly accepted 100g of protein/day, and decided that I don’t really need it. My peloton outputs would tend to agree.

My wife has lowered her BP enough going vegetarian that she’s now off her small dose of BP med.

I got a call today that I’m going to lose a friend to a ruptured brain aneurysm. He’s about 52, and survived a couple weeks in the hospital with COVID last year. I had another friend who can’t weigh over 145lbs, and younger than 60 suffer a significant stroke not long ago.

There are many potential causes, but my younger friend has been overweight as long as I’ve known him. Even tougher was that he had made significant strides, went through a rough couple of years, gained it back, and had just lost it all again. I did not know either of them to eat well.

There’s no better time to get your diet under control than right now. I think it’s significantly more important than exercise.

https://refuge.nolayingup.com/t/the-thread-for-plant-eaters/52977

[Colin_M]

That’s all great info. Thank you for taking the time to lay all of that out there for me/us. Much appreciated Homie.

[greebs]

Dude, so sorry to hear about your friends. I lost a very close friend to a brain aneurysm last June, out of nowhere. He was in fine physical shape in terms of weight though not super sure he was great about other things, but that kind of thing comes out of nowhere and is heartbreaking. We are going up in about six weeks for a memorial, about 15 months after we lost him because it hasn’t been safe from a COVID perspective (and we’ll still be taking tons of precautions but at least we’re all vaccinated now).

It definitely was yet another kick in the pants to me to get into better shape. He left behind a seven year old and I don’t want to do that to my kid.

[marklemcd]

I am 5’9" tall and have a small frame. I graduated college at 210 pounds and I am not of the frame where 210 pounds can look good. I was pretty chunky. I won’t declare there is a one size fits all solution for anyone to lose weight and be in shape. If cutting meat helps you, have at it. If fasting helps you, have at it. Whatever it takes. I still struggle with keeping my weight in check.

I can tell you though that for me to lose about 55 pounds all it took was calories in and calories out, and every time I see my weight creep up now that always works. In 2001 I used food labels and excel to track everything I took in and estimated burn from exercise. Now if I need to I re-baseline my eating I use lose it for a few weeks. And it always works, regardless of my activity level. I exercised about 30min a day when I first lost 55lb. I used to run 100+ miles a week at one point, and I am here to tell you that you can put on weight running that much. How much you put in matters a great deal. I don’t do that much activity anymore, and I eat a lot less. What I find most people who say CICO doesn’t work is that they often aren’t 100% precise with their intake/output. It’s hard to really get that. It’s hard to say you used 2 TBSP of butter and not 1. Or the same with peanut butter. And those add up. So do the booze calories.

Really any method of getting CO > CI will work if it’s followed. If eating 8 hours a day works, awesome. If it’s being Keto, great too. lots of “weighs” to skin the cat.

[tnord]

@greebs

Dude, so sorry to hear about your friends. I lost a very close friend to a brain aneurysm last June, out of nowhere. He was in fine physical shape in terms of weight though not super sure he was great about other things, but that kind of thing comes out of nowhere and is heartbreaking. We are going up in about six weeks for a memorial, about 15 months after we lost him because it hasn’t been safe from a COVID perspective (and we’ll still be taking tons of precautions but at least we’re all vaccinated now).

It definitely was yet another kick in the pants to me to get into better shape. He left behind a seven year old and I don’t want to do that to my kid.

Thank you, sorry to hear about your friend as well.

The friend I found out about today has two girls in college and one in high school. He lost his mom a couple years ago, and almost didn’t survive COVID last year. His dad is still kicking around, I can’t imagine how alone he feels now. Rough stretch for their whole family.

anyway…back to the point of this thread.

everybody get your butt on the bike and lay off the cheeseburgers.

[Max_Power]

Wanted to share a potentially cool thing I found today. Related to my note above about being less fat and lazy moving forward, I thought it would help me to build in workout time to my daily schedule. The better I plan it out, the more likely I am to do it.

So I saw there was a link to directly sync the live class schedule into your Google calendar. That way, I can easily see on my phone what classes are coming up and when, but it also doesn’t interfere with my work calendar which is through Outlook. Apologies if this has been shared previously, but this was new to me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/pelotoncycle/wiki/calendars

[greebs]

I have seen this. I wish I could add my stack to my calendar each day - I rarely take live classes. And being on the West Coast most of them are just not at a reasonable time. But it’s a cool feature.

[baberuth]

@marklemcd

Really any method of getting CO > CI will work if it’s followed. If eating 8 hours a day works, awesome. If it’s being Keto, great too. lots of “weighs” to skin the cat.

At 58, I found the best way was to play lots of golf on hilly courses, walk the course and carry my bag. Round after round. No power carts. No pull carts. It really really adds up. Started 25 months ago. Feel much better.

[jshel]

Anybody else buy the smaller Tread since it went on sale yesterday?

I visited one of my local stores Sunday for a Tread test drive and pulled the trigger yesterday.

Not sure when I will get it, but looking forward to mixing things up this winter.

[Hellyeahdude]

I turned to Peloton after gaining ~30 pounds during covid. I’m usually ~165 lbs at 5’10", but ballooned all the way up to 195, and I can’t look at myself in the mirror anymore. I’ve been hitting the bike hard enough to where the gain has stopped, but I’m stalled out. Y’all are right, I need to focus on food. Last weekend I decided I get to drink booze on Saturday (I dedicate all of Saturdays in the fall to CFB, I can’t just drop it completely) and no other time. Over covid I started drinking a cocktail or 2 a day, and it has been adding up. Hopefully I see a bit more progress. Keep it up boys.

[TTrentC]

I’m also 5’10 and can only dream of being 165