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Azael
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chroot said:Azael,
I agree that you can't eat slop and then try to exercise yourself to death to counteract it. I agree that poor diets are hard on the liver, kidneys, and other organs.
I disagree that an average person can work their way up to 1000 kcal/hr exercise. From the time that I began biking, it probably took me about two months to get to the point where I can maintain 160+ bpm heart rate indefinitely, which burns about 1000 kcal/hr. I'm no elite cyclist by any means. I'm probably in the 60th-70th percentile among (recreational) competitive cyclists.
It sounds to me like you're hitting the stair master a bit too hard. The highest heart-rate that I can maintain indefinitely is about 175 bpm. Anything over 185 bpm (which would correspond to about 1400 kcal/hr) is not sustainable for me. That's above my lactate threshold, and I end up taking about five minutes to recover from even a brief sprint above 190 bpm. I strongly suggest that people use a heart rate monitor for any kind of cardiovascular exercise -- they make a remarkable difference. And, you're right, the vast majority of people are not physically capable of sustaining more than 1000 kcal/hr without enormous amounts of lactate-threshold training, which is pretty much hell on earth.
- Warren
Om doing a variation of HIIT(High intensity intervall training)on the stairmaster. What I have read about HIIT suggests that it is the most efficient way to increase endurance. Not sure if that is true but its fun and time efficient(I do it right after my weightlifting) :)
Most of my fatburning I do by regular walking. I walk 1,5 hours each day. Nothing like a long walk to calm the mind down
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The rule of thumb in bodybuilding circles to burn fat is to stay betwen 75%-85% of max heart rate so that would be around 160 for me aswell. To bad that I have never dished out the cash for a heart rate monitor
If I sometime seem a bit defensive/offensive in my posts in this thread its just a bad habit, I am a moderator at a fitness forum so I have been discussing these things for years and years.