“RE: More Efficient Weight Loss ?”

On 9/2/04, Brian Andresen said:

>But you're not so interested in what happens at 3pm when you've been
>sitting in front of code all day.

Actually, that's likely to become more interesting in the winter when I can't spend as much time on the bike. (Though I'm still trying to decide what I want to do for alternative exercises.)

>In the middle of your ride, I think the same basic principle is true
>though -- dehydration will inhibit your metabolism.  You'll have some
>interesting logistic constraints, I expect... for instance, in the
>course of heavy exertion, you can only drink so much before you start
>to feel sick.  And you can only carry so much water on your back.

The latter is likely to be the biggest constraint for me. I'm already carrying *three* water bottles. I could drop one of those bottles and go back to using the CamelBak, and may do so, but I found that I'm not as hot without the CB as I was with it... which means I'm sweating a little less, and therefore losing less fluid. (I still sweat a lot on the bike, though, so the difference may not be enough. The CamelBak is probably the right way to go for training rides.)

>But yeah, maintaining full hydration is a good area of focus.  And good
>breathing patterns, too, since these metabolic pathways are aerobic.

I've always been very careful with my breathing patterns, using a 2-1 pattern on the flats (sometimes even a 3-1) and a 1-1 when climbing. I've been doing that for so many years that I don't even have to think about it anymore.

Note that the exercise I'm doing is extremely aerobic, also.

>I'll dig out my textbooks one of these days...

Yeah yeah, you keep saying that. ;-)

Seth