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opinions on excersise bike??
iv got an excersise bike which shows caliories burnt, its fairly accurate
for the average person and iv looked on websites and their estimated calories burnt whilst cycling stationary are the same as the bike says, just varies on the weight of you. im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , i only do about 10min or maybe more a day just to get my heart working a little bit more, is this good excersise or not, am i wasting my time doing it for only 10 min a day, is it gonna give me benifits or not, on occasion every now and then i do half hour, but its better then doing nowt right yea??? |
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opinions on excersise bike??
you should do at least 30 mins at a time to get benefits. And at least 3
times a week. The latest reports actually recommend to exercise for 1hr at least 3 times a week. You will not build enough muscle in your legs to make them "bulky". Get on that bike and get peddling! "B Sneap" wrote in message news iv got an excersise bike which shows caliories burnt, its fairly accurate for the average person and iv looked on websites and their estimated calories burnt whilst cycling stationary are the same as the bike says, just varies on the weight of you. im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , i only do about 10min or maybe more a day just to get my heart working a little bit more, is this good excersise or not, am i wasting my time doing it for only 10 min a day, is it gonna give me benifits or not, on occasion every now and then i do half hour, but its better then doing nowt right yea??? |
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B Sneap wrote:
im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Let's talk about muscles for a minute. Muscle mass is metabolically active. It needs fuel just to exist. That means that more muscle on your thighs means you burn more fat 24 hours a day. Burning fat means you dip into the fat stores on your thighs. Ergo, more muscle on your thighs means your thighs get thinner, as long as you eat the same amount. (Case in point: I've been working my thighs quite seriously doing weight-lifting for the past year and my thigh measurement has dropped by two full inches in that time.) i only do about 10min or maybe more a day just to get my heart working a little bit more, is this good excersise or not, am i wasting my time doing it for only 10 min a day, is it gonna give me benifits or not, on occasion every now and then i do half hour, but its better then doing nowt right yea??? Are those the two choices? 10 minutes or nothing? Then ten minutes is a winner. My experience was that it was important to make daily exercise normal in my life before I could work on either the quality of that exercise or work on tackling the food issues. By normal I mean I just do it without arguing, the same way I brush my teeth each day. I don't ever sit around thinking, "I think I'll skip teeth brushing. I really don't like it and it takes time and I'd rather go straight to bed." I just brush my teeth because it needs doing. No drama, no calendars with stars for the days I brushed my teeth, it's just a normal part of my life. That's what exercise is for me NOW. (I just got back from a run outside in the mud with my dog.) If you don't have exercise that regular in your life then cut yourself some slack about the QUALITY of the exercise and just work on getting it done. Do it day after day after day until it becomes a habit. Then you can tackle how to use that time best. Do this in baby steps. You've got the rest of your life to get these routines worked out. Dally |
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Ignoramus5605 wrote:
In article , Dally wrote: B Sneap wrote: im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Let's talk about muscles for a minute. Muscle mass is metabolically active. It needs fuel just to exist. Supposedly, a pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day. But that doesn't tell the whole story. Muscle demands more fat-burning enzymes so you are more capable of using the fat you've got when you exercise rather than just depleting glycogen reserves and getting hungry. Muscle mass helps you to be less insulin resistant which means you are less likely to store excess calories as fat (and more likely to burn them off in the course of extra fidgeting, etc during the day.) Muscle also makes you less prone to injury, more comfortable with activity and, as we've discussed, building muscle is a self-re-enforcing behavior to all the rest of the weight-loss behaviors. (Case in point: I've been working my thighs quite seriously doing weight-lifting for the past year and my thigh measurement has dropped by two full inches in that time.) That's because you lost fat everywhere. But she was worried that building muscles in her thighs would make her thighs bigger. It didn't. I've also lost nearly 10 inches off my waist in the past 22 months. There's a rumor that doing ab crunches can make your waist thicker. I'm telling you that building muscle helps me to burn fat which helps me to be thinner. My take on this quest for increasing metabolism is that this effort is completely misdirected for two reasons. One is that the metabolism boost from, say, extra muscle is quite negligible, as I showed. Besides, it is hard to build much more muscle while dieting. Supposedly, just preserving the muscle is great for an exercising dieter who is losing weight. Newbies can gain muscle (and glycogen reserves) while losing fat for up to about six months. It's common. It's just not duplicatable after you've been working out for years. Secondly, the "lower metabolism", as such, may be a sign that the body adapts to lower calorie intake, and can be associated with life prolonging effects of calorie restriction. (check out www.caloriesestriction.org, and Roy Walford's Beyond 120 Year Diet) I've heard you say this before. It sounds like bull**** to me. I haven't had time to read your links so I'll leave it at that - just a word to the readers that there is significant disagreement about your whole "more efficient" metabolism shtick. And "higher metabolism", can easily be causing a need to eat more and higher appetite, thus not having the desired effect of "fat loss". Possibly. I find exercise lowers my appetite, though. Exercise is great and building muscle is a wonderful process, although hard to do for a person losing weight, harder for females, and at any rate it is a very slow process. Not for newbies. I would simply hate to see someone have unrealistic expectation about just how much muscle they can build, how much energy those muscles will burn, that the extra energy would not demand eating more, etc. The poster is in no peril of trying to gain too much muscle from 10 minutes of exercise biking. I personally want to gain 5 lbs of muscle this year, but have no expectation that it will somehow improve my metabolism by much. And quite possibly, I will fail to reach my goal. I've gained 1 pound of muscle (and lost about 9 pounds of fat) in the past three months doing Bryon Haycock's Hypertrophy Specific Training. Dally |
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opinions on excersise bike??
"B Sneap" wrote in message news iv got an excersise bike which shows caliories burnt, its fairly accurate for the average person and iv looked on websites and their estimated calories burnt whilst cycling stationary are the same as the bike says, just varies on the weight of you. im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Huh? Funny, I've never, ever seen a *chunky* professional bike racer...never. Not gonna happen. Martha |
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"Ignoramus5605" wrote in message ... In article , Dally wrote: B Sneap wrote: im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Let's talk about muscles for a minute. Muscle mass is metabolically active. It needs fuel just to exist. Supposedly, a pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day. Let's see - 140 calories a day = 51,100 divided by 3500 = 14.6 pounds in a year. Question: Are we looking for quick fixes or long term solutions? http://www.spineuniverse.com/display...rticle887.html So, if you add 5 lbs of muscle -- a very sizable amount, especially for a woman -- these extra 5 lbs will burn extra 140 calories. Hardly a big "metabolism boost". 140 calories is about 18 almonds, much less than a fistful. |
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"Ignoramus10668" wrote in message ... In article Wl%2c.14387$PY.1315@lakeread05, Julianne wrote: "Ignoramus5605" wrote in message ... In article , Dally wrote: B Sneap wrote: im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Let's talk about muscles for a minute. Muscle mass is metabolically active. It needs fuel just to exist. Supposedly, a pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day. Let's see - 140 calories a day = 51,100 divided by 3500 = 14.6 pounds in a year. Question: Are we looking for quick fixes or long term solutions? Skipping an equivalent of 2 oreo cookies per day would create the same 51,100 calories per day difference. So, while the effect obviously exists, it is rather small, which was my point. i Point taken. However, it is often the aggregate effect of many small changes that make for the big changes. Skipping two Oreos and adding muscle and reaping the daily benefits of calories burned through exercise and eating better foods, etc. etc. act synergistically to promote weight loss. It is true that one can eliminate one or more of those options and still be successful but each small change can accelerate progress and work towards maintaining a healthy weight in the long run. I tend to lose weight very slowly. Losing an additional pound each month simply because I have five additional pounds of muscle, which looks good anyway and prevents injury, is rather like Christmas in my book! j |
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"Jayjay" wrote in message ... On 8 Mar 2004 14:29:42 GMT, Ignoramus10668 wrote: In article Wl%2c.14387$PY.1315@lakeread05, Julianne wrote: "Ignoramus5605" wrote in message ... In article , Dally wrote: B Sneap wrote: im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Let's talk about muscles for a minute. Muscle mass is metabolically active. It needs fuel just to exist. Supposedly, a pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day. Let's see - 140 calories a day = 51,100 divided by 3500 = 14.6 pounds in a year. Question: Are we looking for quick fixes or long term solutions? Skipping an equivalent of 2 oreo cookies per day would create the same 51,100 calories per day difference. So, while the effect obviously exists, it is rather small, which was my point. Ah, but... the exercise, combined with skipping those 2 oreo cookies and a regular can of coke, and you've got yourself 45lbs in a year. And that doesn't even take into the account the calories burned while exercising - just the effect on resting metabolism. j |
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"Ignoramus10668" wrote in message ... In article vN%2c.14389$PY.2202@lakeread05, Julianne wrote: "Ignoramus10668" wrote in message ... In article Wl%2c.14387$PY.1315@lakeread05, Julianne wrote: "Ignoramus5605" wrote in message ... In article , Dally wrote: B Sneap wrote: im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , Let's talk about muscles for a minute. Muscle mass is metabolically active. It needs fuel just to exist. Supposedly, a pound of muscle burns 35 calories per day. Let's see - 140 calories a day = 51,100 divided by 3500 = 14.6 pounds in a year. Question: Are we looking for quick fixes or long term solutions? Skipping an equivalent of 2 oreo cookies per day would create the same 51,100 calories per day difference. So, while the effect obviously exists, it is rather small, which was my point. i Point taken. However, it is often the aggregate effect of many small changes that make for the big changes. Skipping two Oreos and adding muscle and reaping the daily benefits of calories burned through exercise and eating better foods, etc. etc. act synergistically to promote weight loss. It is true that one can eliminate one or more of those options and still be successful but each small change can accelerate progress and work towards maintaining a healthy weight in the long run. I tend to lose weight very slowly. Losing an additional pound each month simply because I have five additional pounds of muscle, which looks good anyway and prevents injury, is rather like Christmas in my book! Julianne, do you lose weight slowly because it is difficult for you to eat much less than the maintenance amount of calories? If that is so, do you think that raising your maintenance amount by adding muscle would not change how much undereating you can tolerate? i I tend to lose weight slowly because frankly, my weight is not nearly the concern for me that my health is. I am 5'4" and weigh 137 this morning. I wear a size eight and though I would be much more attractive with another 20 pounds gone, no one would look at me and think I was obese. I would like to eventually end up in the low 120's but vanity doesn't motivate me. Rather, my health does. I am the poster child for insulin resistance which can be reversed by exercise and a low glycemic diet. If not reversed, the chances of getting Diabetes are very high. Therefore, my focus is more on my health. When I began eating this way and exercising, it was exceedingly difficult to lose weight - one symptom of high circulating insulin levels. As my insulin and blood sugars got more in control, the weight began to come off at a normal rate. As summer nears, I have ramped up the effort to lose a few more pounds as it is very hot down here in the summer time and the only comfy attire is not figure concealing. j |
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"B Sneap" wrote in
news iv got an excersise bike which shows caliories burnt, its fairly accurate for the average person and iv looked on websites and their estimated calories burnt whilst cycling stationary are the same as the bike says, just varies on the weight of you. im told if u cyle a lot on it, it builds muscle in your legs and thighs and make u chunky , i only do about 10min or maybe more a day just to get my heart working a little bit more, is this good excersise or not, am i wasting my time doing it for only 10 min a day, is it gonna give me benifits or not, on occasion every now and then i do half hour, but its better then doing nowt right yea??? Every little bit helps, though to burn fat, you generally need to break a sweat (about 20 minutes for most people). The usual formula is (220 minus your age) time .75. (Range is actual 65-80 percent) Example: For me this is 220-48=172 times .75 = 129 beats per mninute or roughly 22 per 10 second count. If fat burning is your goal, stay in that range. Gowing slower burns sugar (glycogen?), going faster can actually burn muscle (protein) as well as fat, though it's good for you heart. I don't bikes anymore, because of the "male condition" numbness caused by most exercise bikes which don't have newer split seats, but I used to find that me outter quads would get firm, but not bulky. There just isn't enough stress on the muscle to do that. I'm sure there are several other philosophies. These are what I've leaned. |
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