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Eating less is all good and well, and naturally eating less helps ( calorie deficit as hubbers assert). Problem with emphasizing diet is that calorie info is not always at your finger tips. Canteen food does not come with calorie certificates, neither does King steer burger or 13.5% glass of semi sweet red wine drank with peanuts and and a bite on a kudu biltong.

 

This is what works for me. Much as I am reasonably careful with what I eat, I use training as a currency to purchase credits. Credits that come to my rescue for that extra wine glass I drink or the chocolate bar I munch. This for me creates mental balance needed to consistently keep a balance life style, without creating a log book of what I ate or creating panic and/or guilty feeling of being lagging behind with calorie tracking.

 

Cardio vs strengh training

Cycling, spinning or running are great for cardio, also they switch on your metabolism to burn off that chocolate bar you had 72 hrs ago. However what cardio is not great at is switching on your metabolism for longer periods, and that's where strengh training is great at. By creating demand for repair and recovery work on the body, this essentially switches on the metabolism for longer periods which in turn needs calories to do the repair work and this in turn creates a potential calorie deficit without you drastically altering your normal eating habits (assuming you're reasonable with the both quantity and quality of foods you ingest)

 

Running vs cycling

It's no conincidence that triathletes look a lot in shape than your average gym enthusiast. I am currently averaging 160kms per week of cycling and my body fat is around 16-17% and am carrying on average 2 kg more than I normally do. Here is the difference, it's winter and I am not running. Come triathlon season around October, and I will gradually introduce an additional running regime of around 30-40 kms per week (made up of hills and flat), I will loose about a further 4-5% in body fat and weight 2-3 kg less consistently for about 8 months, and this is achieved without altering my eating habits by much.

 

The key though is concsistency, embark on a regime you're likely to stick to, quick fixes create anxiety and confusion to your body, and the body dislikes starvation....so rather work around the the quality of training whilst keeping the body well fed, it creates a better balance both physiologically and psycologically needed for you keep well balnced life style

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Not an expert, but, what does your daily diet consist of? I've taken bread out, replaced with patotoes/bananas/pasta/rice during the day. Milk as well, replaced with Cremora. I eat 6 times a day. A while ago in one of the local cycling mags(dare I mention that) one of the teams descibed how their more natural diet was working for them. Follow that advice. And look at portion size.

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ha ha haaa jong my redinasie is: dit kon erger gewees het dis hoekom ek ma tevrede is met wat ek het...baie dankbaar dat ek nie saddlebags, midriff-tubes, etc het nie! :D

 

ek wou net bygesit het: dus, ek het niks wat in die skaduwee hang nie! :D

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Daily nutrition intake is what I consider standard, i.e. two slices of toast with full cream coffee for breakfast..lunch and supper very much similar in that I have starch (rice) two veges ( different colours) and white meat ( 300g). for snacking I personally abuse red apples.

 

Little adjustment can be quite helpful, for instance we had a Chaywa machine at work that dispenses various drinks for free. It didn't take long for the ladies to start moaning about their figures that googled calorie difference between coffee and cappucino, I challenge you to do the same, since then I have never had cappucino more than three times in a month. Coffee is fantastic, defers the hunger pangs at minimal calorie intake ( instead of choc bar)

 

I have taken out king steer burgers, KFC etc, and be careful of fruit drinks such as Liqui fruit, appletiser etc. check the calorie intake on those goodies, they're just as bad as the likes of coke, fanta etc. I love my coke, then again in modeation it's fine.

 

A night before my saturday ride, I don't mind vanilla ice creams, ciders etc, because I know the uphills will burn off quite a bit of those calories, it's probaly the only day, i.e. friday night that I do not mind being a pig, all other days I am a good boy.

 

It's really just being pragmatic, I do a 45 min spinning twice a week at most, what I notice is people brining 750ml energade and powerade bottles, all this for a mere 45min of spinning...if you ask me, that's an overkill in my opinion.

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