Weight loss Vs Training
scott_burrows
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A little history of me: A rugby player by trade, recovering from a knee injury got me into triathlon, I play second row which will tell you enough about my general physical shape and size... I’m about 188cm and I currently weight around 110kg (not an ideal triathletes weight [;)]) I’ve entered a couple of Olympic Tris next year in June and August and I’m about to start training over the winter – obviously I need to lose weight but should I put weight loss as a priority over base training or just assume that training for the Tri will cause the weight loss I desire? On the flip side - dieting is an easy way, but how do I balance exercising lots with reducing my intake – I guess I’m hoping for a magical answer from people that doesn’t include putting a spreadsheet together to calculate calorie /protein/carb etc.. intakes What’s an ideal body fat % for Triathletes? This is what I’m working towards rather than specific weight... Scott
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Just put in the training, eat the right stuff and it will come.
Basically Energy in must be less than energy out
To be honest mate, on a personal level, I simply train to do as well as I can for the shape I am, and accept that I am better in some areas than others. In a recent race for example, I placed in the top 50 of 1200 for the swim and cycle, but was quite rubbish in the run. I'm improving on that with every run I do, but there's no way that I'd diet hard, or risk losing any more muscle than I have, simply to improve my run times slightly. I'm with TommiTri on the 'train hard, eat good and good things would happen' style of things.
I definitely wouldn't advocate cutting the beer out completely. A man needs something to look forward to!!!! [:D]
Flipflopman
Amen