Time of day to do road work

I think the tests with the calapers where they pinch your fat in a few places on your body, are preety accurate. I assume you can call up a fitness facility and ask if you could come in and pay to have a profile done.

 

Whatever time you are most likely to stick with it and run on a regular basis is the best time to run.

 

Running pre-breakfast DOES NOT burn more fat. High intensity anaerobic work burns fat a whole lot faster then slow aerobic work. Without food you won't be able to run, swim, row, cycle, whatever intense enough. Like I said in another post compare the bodies of a top level sprinter to a marathon runner (Anaerobic vs Aerobic).

 

That's one theory, and it was reading theories like that which caused me to want to try it out in the first place. Since experiencing my terrible results, I began looking deeper, and found that the issue isnt so clear cut - in fact its quite controversial. A lot of scientists believe that even if more fat is burnt during early morning fasted cardio, this will be compensated for later by the body, the end result being that calories in is calories out - that all that matters is that you do the exercise at some point, and that you eat x amount of calories. Additionally, fasted cardio also creates an environment conducive to burning muscle away (as I experienced).

If I'd been taking in more protein, maybe it wouldnt have been so bad. But I'm not about to experiment with that routine again.

In terms of the machines, I think they're best as an indicator of progress rather than of exactly where you are, as long as you take the measurement in consistent cirucmstances - eg, same time of day, same level of hydration etc. If you're starting to see abs, I'd say you're closer to 12% than 17%, and certainly not 23%.

The most accurate measurement is some sort of submergence test, which I've never had done, and is supposed to be expensive. They submerge you in water, which I guess gives them your total volume, which they can relate to your mass and probably calliper measurements, I'm not entirely sure.

The easiest accurate way is simply with the callipers.

 

so did u lose a lot of muscle

 

2kg, yeah, and I only lost 800g of fat! ****ing disaster.

 

how did u work out how much muscle and fat u lost?
thats a bad ratio 5:2

 

A little while after I started trying to get into shape I went to a nutritionist, and part of the assessment she gave me was to measure my bodyfat percentage. I went to her every few months for a while, and between the weight change and the bodyfat percentages, you can work out what made up any particular change in weight. So in that instance I'd lost almost 3kg but my bodyfat percentage went up! Ugh.

 

wow
dont blame u 4 not doin it again

 

I prefer roadwork in the evening to i always find i can run longer in the evening i realised that its because iv been to work and consumed enough clean calories to make this possible diomedes you seem to know what ur talking about so i wanna ask a question whens the best time to take a protein shake before you run how many hours before you run i mean?

 

wat club do u fight 4

 

Well, my experiences are applicable to myself - everyone's different, so basically I can warn against certain things, or talk about what's worked for me, but I dont want it to seem as though I'm talking in universals. Different things work for different people.

Before a run, or boxing or whatever, I like to have a protein shake preferably 2 hours or so beforehand - usually whey, milk, sometimes half a banana or some frozen berries. If I'm not going to have a shake, but a substantial solid meal, preferably 3 or even 4 hours beforehand - but I seem to have slow gastric emptying.

 

nice to no

 

running is running fit it in where you can, if you live in an urban area running early in the morning is prob the best time for your lungs, before co2 smog from traffic builds up, this is one reason running early morning is advised by some, when you run your lungs process ten times the amount of oxygen than when your are at rest, so you can see the logic of this, others run early because they feel it gives them the edge, that they are going the extra mile so to speak, others because they have watched too many Rocky movies!! running is important and the important thing is to do it, when is less important so long as it fits with your schedule