Just do this 7 minutes a day without any tools you will be fine: https://7-min.com/ , at least it is a good start.
It might be a good start to get people moving, but I can't imagine this being enough. That amounts to not even an hour of exercise in the 168 hours in a week. Do you have any source for "you will be fine"?
Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
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Re: Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
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You do that on empty stomach? Serious question, it's my main difficulty with morning workout.
I do the majority of my training fasted (ie 8-14 hours since last I ate). I used to struggly wildly with working out before breakfast, but with some experience now I think training fasted is definitely superior [for my own needs, N=1, #YouDoYou]. Not only is it not uncomfortable, I feel _way_ better before/during/after working out. Firstly: the food in your mouth is not used for your workout. You work out with food a…
Is L-carnitine allowed with that black coffee ?
Re: Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
#333ZOMG find something to do, and keep doing it. Cycling is very nerd-friendly. There are numbers and gadgets and even what amounts to an MMO in Zwift.
Huh, Zwift sure looks like something I'd be into I'll guess I'll save up for one of their rollers?
To do Zwift right, you need a "smart trainer".
Bike trainers have traditionally been of two types: rollers and resistance trainers. Rollers aren't super popular; they're pretty much used just to improve efficiency and smoothness on the bike, and are a poor choice for resistance training.
The other type of trainer uses some mechanism to impose artificial load on the drive train, for better resistance training. Most serious riders have one of these.
Traditionally, resistance trainers clamped to your rear axle and had a flywheel or some other mechanism that would screw down to your rear tire and provide resistance. In the last several years, though, some folks have created "wheel off" trainers where you remove the rear wheel entirely and attach the bike to the trainer.
These have their own rear cassette, and are appealing to folks for lots of reasons -- probably the biggest is that you don't need to keep a "trainer wheel" around. (The traditional type will wear out your tire pretty fast, so you don't want to be using your nice road tire on the trainer if you can help it.)
Anyway, smart trainers are all resistance trainers. Companies like Wahoo Fitness have smart trainers of both wheel-on and wheel-off varieties (the latter is ~ 180% the cost).
A smart trainer will track power for you, and will interface with your other sensors (cadence, heart rate) to get the full set of telemetry. By pairing it with a service like Zwift, you can do "virtual" rides based on real places, including the hills -- and, in some contexts, even other real riders who are in Zwift at the same time.
All this costs a lot, but cyclists are crazy. (Source: I are one, and I use a Wahoo KICKR Snap.)
Re: Preventing Muscle Loss as We Age
#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do the majority of my training fasted (ie 8-14 hours since last I ate). I used to struggly wildly with working out before breakfast, but with some experience now I think training fasted is definitely superior [for my own needs, N=1, #YouDoYou]. Not only is it not uncomfortable, I feel _way_ better before/during/after working out. Firstly: the food in your mouth is not used for your workout. You work out with food a…
Is L-carnitine allowed with that black coffee ?
Late reply, but:
I take my daily L-carnitine during my feeding window at night.
There are different levels of fast, for most people most of the time (ie those looking for weight loss), taking a pill during the fast should be just fine (as long as you're under 30-50 calories).
That said, personally I do not like taking pills during my fast, as it will wake my stomach up and cause some hunger. Same thing with gum and stuff, but that's all individual preference :)