Inspired by Brillo, my fitness training ....

[sasguru]

... well the high ideals went out the window (being teetotal, cutting down on red meat etc, doing the London marathon).
So all things in moderation, a bit of what you fancy does you good etc.
But I've kept up the exercise regime and feel fitter than I've ever been in my adult life.
didn't need to lose a lot of weight but cut half a stone off.
Can run 5km in 30 mins (that's mainly uphill on my standard route) which is Ok. coupled with squash and a bit of gym that's ample.

[suityou01]

[Old Hack]

... well the high ideals went out the window (being teetotal, cutting down on red meat etc, doing the London marathon).
So all things in moderation, a bit of what you fancy does you good etc.
But I've kept up the exercise regime and feel fitter than I've ever been in my adult life.
didn't need to lose a lot of weight but cut half a stone off.
Can run 5km in 30 mins (that's mainly uphill on my standard route) which is Ok. coupled with squash and a bit of gym that's ample.

Start with your head. That should knock a couple of pounds off. Maybe 3 if you've read the beano that particular day.

[Mich the Tester]

... well the high ideals went out the window (being teetotal, cutting down on red meat etc, doing the London marathon).
So all things in moderation, a bit of what you fancy does you good etc.
But I've kept up the exercise regime and feel fitter than I've ever been in my adult life.
didn't need to lose a lot of weight but cut half a stone off.
Can run 5km in 30 mins (that's mainly uphill on my standard route) which is Ok. coupled with squash and a bit of gym that's ample.

If you manage 10kmh for an hour then you'll be a lot fitter than the average bod. Not top level sports material, but if that's not what you need then it's fine. Perhaps do a few short sprints of 40 to 50 metres with 40 to 50 metre walk recovery or leg speed exercises during your run now that you're reasonably fit; interval training is pretty good for burning calories, and the modern thinking is that maintaining leg speed and looking after the fast twitch muscle fibres will help in keeping your muscles strong as you get older; introducing a bit of power in the whole thing seems to help keep your bones strong too.

You might even consider buying a bike and taking a look at this; Routes - EuroVelo - the European cycle route network but perhaps that's for the real fitness loons. I don't know when I'll be benched, but hopefully this project will last long enough to let me take a couple of months off and perhaps do the route from the North Cape to Sicily.

[Old Hack]

If you manage 10kmh for an hour then you'll be a lot fitter than the average bod. Not top level sports material, but if that's not what you need then it's fine. Perhaps do a few short sprints of 40 to 50 metres with 40 to 50 metre walk recovery or leg speed exercises during your run now that you're reasonably fit; interval training is pretty good for burning calories, and the modern thinking is that maintaining leg speed and looking after the fast twitch muscle fibres will help in keeping your muscles strong as you get older; introducing a bit of power in the whole thing seems to help keep your bones strong too.

You might even consider buying a bike and taking a look at this; Routes - EuroVelo - the European cycle route network but perhaps that's for the real fitness loons. I don't know when I'll be benched, but hopefully this project will last long enough to let me take a couple of months off and perhaps do the route from the North Cape to Sicily.

Cycling, varying the cadence works for me.

[sasguru]

If you manage 10kmh for an hour then you'll be a lot fitter than the average bod. Not top level sports material, but if that's not what you need then it's fine. Perhaps do a few short sprints of 40 to 50 metres with 40 to 50 metre walk recovery or leg speed exercises during your run now that you're reasonably fit; interval training is pretty good for burning calories, and the modern thinking is that maintaining leg speed and looking after the fast twitch muscle fibres will help in keeping your muscles strong as you get older; introducing a bit of power in the whole thing seems to help keep your bones strong too.

You might even consider buying a bike and taking a look at this; Routes - EuroVelo - the European cycle route network but perhaps that's for the real fitness loons. I don't know when I'll be benched, but hopefully this project will last long enough to let me take a couple of months off and perhaps do the route from the North Cape to Sicily.

Just wanted to improve my basic fitness. Have joined a gym with a swimming pool - that should be the icing on the cake.

[Ketchup]

Cycling, varying the cadence works for me.

Road or mountain?

I am looking at buying a bike but can't decide which way to go.

[DimPrawn]

Just wanted to improve my basic fitness. Have joined a gym with a swimming pool - that should be the icing on the cake.

I'm amazed you fit it all in. Gym, swimming, two clients paying £900/day, reading endless math books, doing an Msc, driving your Toyota sports car, going on holiday, staying in your villa in Portugal, spending time with your sprog.....all combined with 10 hours straight shift of telling us all about it on CUK......

[MyUserName]

Just wanted to improve my basic fitness. Have joined a gym with a swimming pool - that should be the icing on the cake.

A lot of people think that but they do not realise that you also have to go to the gym and exercise.

[Old Hack]

Road or mountain?

I am looking at buying a bike but can't decide which way to go.

Road bike. The rolling resistance of a mountain bike makes longer distances almost impossible; it's altogether larger, heavier, and just not built for speed.

Depends what you want to do. If you want to get fit, quickly, I'd say road bike; start witha few weeks of 15 milers, then pop in 2*40 milers a week. Will kill you to start, but within 2-3 weeks, you'll be pissing them. Then start adding bigger hills in the rides. If you did 2*40 miles a week, you'd be fit, quickly, and could live normally, as such.

Tat's my take. But I have an MTB as well, and hooning down trails is a lot of fun, if slightly dangerous, from the not taking time off work injured front.