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This group was founded to be a Virtual Workout Room were members go to share fitness and nutrition ideas and inspirational successes. QUESTIONS about the these things are welcomed.

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Aerobic Base Building is the single most important way to reduce bodyfat, next to eating wisely. Working out just below the tipping point from Aerobic to Anaerobic is the key to training your body to burn fat instead of sugar (glucose).

For many years I've struggled to understand that despite busting my butt in the gym my bodyfat remained in the 13-15% range. The reason is that I had trained my body to prefer glucose as fuel. An Aerobic conditioned athlete burns fat for fuel during training. Too much Anaerobic Threshold work turns off fat burning and creates other negative side effects such as cravings for sugar.

To find your Aerobic baseline number use 180-age +/- 5-10 depending on conditioning. Example age 60: 180-60= 120. Add 10 if you are in great condition, 5 if good. Subtract 10 if you're just resuming exercise, and 5 if you're deconditioned. Stay just below the baseline number to train your body to become a fat burining machine. One your reach your targeted bodyfat then introduce Anaerobic training (about 10% of the work) to increase your fitness further.

If you're working out hard and not getting the desired results then you need to working solely on Aerobic conditioning. Forget the hard stuff until later!

It might be interesting to share our most recent health statistics. This includes a data base of blood lipids, glucose, stress test results, bone density scans, heart scans, bodyfat measurements, heart scans etc.

This would serve as a resource for others to examine their lifestyles, eating and exercise habits and demonstrate the impact of good habits on health and fitness.

How much is too much? That's always up for debate! But here's an idea of what a fit 60 year old should be able to do...

Sunday: 50 mile bike ride (Aver. 16 mph)
Monday: Upper body weight lifting; 1 hour spinning class (medium intervals)
Tuesday: Lower body weight lifting followed by hard intervals on treadmill
Wednesday: Golf 18 holes carry bag
Thursday: 5 mile medium intensity run; Upper body weights 50 minutes
Friday: Lower Body weights plus core 60 minutes.
Saturday: 6 mile easy run with 3 dogs

This is my workout for this past week. It's a heavy schedule burning about 8000 calories. One more week like this then I'll cut back 2-3000 calories ahead of a 5 mile race.

My body feels pretty good as of Saturday morning. I'm going to do another 50 mile ride tomorrow.

Here's an interesting quiz that has some excellent information in it. I thought I new "Nutrition" quite well, but I did NOT do very well on this quiz! How did you do?

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Hi there. I really like staying healthy but sometimes I feel like I'm putting too much pressure on myself. Does anyone else feel like that? I have talked to my doctor about how much is too much but sometimes she isn't really sure. I've also been trying to find articles about it. I found this one:
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after I found a different article about diabetes there--my husband was just diagnosed and it's really important to me to stay healthy and to make him healthy again.
Can anyone else recommend any articles to me?

I have listed my self as fatboyover50, since that is what I have been most of my life. I am in better shape now after joining a anti aging center. I guess I lacked a certin amount of whatever to look and feel like I was in shape. I still have eating issues though. I try and diet, but after a few days that goes out the window. Any suggestions of sticking to certin foods? I know if I can get the eating right part down, I'll look like Mr. America. Anti aging stuff works, but food is still a big part how a person looks and feels.

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OCTOBER 18TH THRU NOVEMBER 1ST.

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Sometimes I think I am going overboard with the exercise and nutrition goals I have set for myself. I don't know what to think when someone at the age of 58 says to me that the type of physical activities I am engaged in is not for someone my age. Then the person will say "perhaps in another life I will be able to do strenous physical activities, but not in this life". I think this is giving up on life. I hope these are the best years of my life and like Michelle Obama says in Prevention Magazine, at 70 years old I would like to look as good as I look today.

What say ye?