New year, new belly, the threads about weight loss have already started. I need to shift some, so I thought I'd resurrect the tradition of the STW FitFat club. Who's in?
Why FitFat? 'Cos it's not just about losing the spare tyre, it's also about seeing the benefit on fitness. The idea is that, as well as weekly weigh in, there's also a weekly set workout (set it yourself, ideally a bike route given this is a bike website, but run, swim, pogo, whatever) that you will repeat each week and time to track your (hopefully) improving times over the weeks.
I'll run it until the end of March, and this is how it'll work:
1) Mail me to let me know you're in (address in profile) with your:
- current weight in KG
- target weight in KG (something challenging but acheivable)
- what your workout will be
- your STW username
[b]by this Friday (9th Jan)[/b].
2) Each week, mail me your weigh in results and that weeks time result [b]by Midday Tuesday[/b]
I'll pull it all together and post a hall of shame/fame up here each week. I'll even see if the STW bods can rustle up some prizes for the biggest losers/most improved times or whatever.
So, who's in?
In
Oh no 🙂
In
Sod it, I'm in.
In, just hoping lurgy will disappear.
Absolutely - yes!
Good-oh 🙂
Just to be clear, the 'workout' bit should be something that is timed and you'll repeat each week, like a certain bike or running route or swim length. Some of you are saying things like 'tennis twice a week', which is great for the weight loss, but tricky to make into a graph on a spreadsheet 🙂
I've never been much for this sort of thing but maybe it'll provide some additional motivation.
So, I'm in...
Not sure on my workout yet though - will probably be a strava segment but that's very variable on conditions and which bike I ride, not to mention that I have weeks when I don't get to ride 🙁 which I suppose is why I'm on here...
End of March? ideal, I'm in.
I'm in too gotta lose 72 pounds by April as doing a training camp with mates in April in Majorca and don't want to be tbe fatty at the back, ;0)
I'm in
Thanks
Good job.
I am in. Ties in with the Endomondo commute through GMT challenge too.
I'm in.
My workout will be the test lap in my local woods. For which there is a Strava segment. Although it won't be every week.
Ah what the hell, I'm in.
Perfect, will get some scales tomorrow 😳
Can the results be posted as a percentage loss rather than absolute 😳
[i]Can the results be posted as a percentage loss rather than absolute[/i]
It'll be both; carrot and stick 😉
Bastard 😉
go on, I'm in too.
Def ate to much cake over xmas so I'll sign up
Does turbo or treadmill sessions count? I'm firmly in the indoor workout mode at the moment as had a fair bit of snow/ice on most of my local trails. If so I guess I'm in since it'll be extra motivation.
If you can measure it so as to see time improvements over the weeks, it counts.
Ok I'm in if that's the case
Sounds like the motivation I might need if standing near a mirror in lycra doesn't work as well as I expect it to - I'm in.
Sounds just what I need ...
I'M IN !!
I'm in!
I'm in!
As the man would have said if the film was tubby-cyclists-get-less-fat-and-more-fit and not big-shark-terrorises-seaside-town:
We're gonna need a bigger spreasheet
I'm in too, this should be interesting as I'm a right lardy b'stard at the moment!
I'm IN
Mail Sent - live in Malaysia - who is going to monitor my progress???
Great Idea!
cheers
shiny
Do I need to be a lard-arse to play? If anything I could do with gaining rather than losing weight. [i]BUT[/i], this year's a fitness year (I'm of the undernourished-skinny rather than the fit-skinny type) so I plan on doing some cycle machine gymmyness with a view to one day going back to that spin class and taking revenge on those merciless, superhuman housewives who humiliated me last month.
So [b]Malvern Rider[/b], is it you or me that starts the "Which set of scales?" thread? (and what're the Malvern Hills like at this time of year? I'll be popping over to see my grandma on saturday and thought of taking the bike along, but if it'll be chockablock with new year fitness ramblers then I'll give it a miss)
Surely you could set a positive weight gain? That combined with the fitness aspect would be pretty good as it would (hopefully) stop you sitting down with a whole trifle every day and necking it.
Yep, if you want to go for a upwards target rather than a downwards one, go for it.
Just be prepared for the karma-kicking you're going to get each week as I try get the spreadsheet working properly just for you 🙂
I'm not actively beefcaking (and I doubt I'll ever be one for regular meals), but it'd be interesting to see what effect, if any, exercise has. This'd just be handy to quantify any fitness gains, and a public competition should help me stick to it.
IN
good call, stw fatclub a few years back helped me enormously (well, just over 5st at very best to be exact).
I'm in
this nicely coincides with my fitness drive and desire to complete a number of half-marathons this year (starting with Hudds HM inn april)
Wednesday bump.
Any more tubsters want to jump/waddle on board?
Can the workout be running instead of mtb?
In!
The workout/timed session can be whatever you want.
Ok I'm going to do my turbo sessions at 6am three times a week. Coffee then eat normal breakfast at 10am. This should help on the useless fat.
The workout/timed session can be whatever you want.
Run it is, then! In.
Not hugely fat here, BMI of 23.3, but want to lose a couple of kgs before trail racing season starts.
Username: Johndoh
Current weight: 71.7kg
Target weight: 65kg
Target deadline: June 01 2015
Approach: 3 x 1hr spinning sessions with a 50/50 mix of fat burinng and fitness zones
Ahem
I'll [b] run it until the end of March[/b], and this is how it'll work:
1)[b] Mail me[/b] to let me know you're in (address in profile) with your:
- current weight in KG
- target weight in KG (something challenging but acheivable)
- what your[b] timed session[/b][s]workout[/s] will be
- your STW username
Sorry
I'll do it by the end of March then.
F*&*^ it.
in
Mail sent.
I'm in.
In!
I'm in - not too fussed about losing a great deal of weight but would like to remove some of the wobble 🙂
Just have to time a mile loop (as I reckon come the apocalypse I will have outrun anyone after me after a mile, unless they've mutated in which case all bets are off).
Will email details tomorrow morning once I've timed the loop and had a weigh in
Speaking now as an EX tubster, if I may... The 5:2 diet.
It works.
post xmas the ****ing gyms full of the lard asses trying to get loose weight. Roll on Feb and they will all be back to stuffing their face and the gym will be free!
Final bump.
Email entry details to me by this time tomorrow, then we're off...
In.
Have gone for a swimming workout as timing an mtb route around here at the moment is influenced more by depth of mud than (lack of) fitness.
I'm not in as I don't need to lose weight but just thought I'd pop in to see who the fatties are 🙂
But this [i]'If you can measure it so as to see time improvements over the weeks, it counts.'[/i] has too many variables to just be based on fitness and weight loss surely. For example my commute to work on the bike can take me 60 minutes one day and 80 minutes another - but I haven't had a change in fitness or weight during that time. There are lots of other factors that change how long something takes.
To make this work you would need to do a fitness test in a controlled environment otherwise that stat is pretty meaningless.
Thanks for your input
What that noise? that'll be fat thighs slapping together to announce on my way to say - I'm in.
Just sent my entry off, hopefully not too late!
Aaaaand the entries are CLOSED.
*SSSSSSSSHHHHHHHTUUUUM!!!!*
Any entries made after this time will not be counted, but I'll still know you're a fat knacker 🙂
I'll pull together a full list of everyone over the weekend and mail everyone with a reminder of how it will work.
So Malvern Rider, is it you or me that starts the "Which set of scales?" thread? (and what're the Malvern Hills like at this time of year?
Gah I'm late with the scales, late with the reply. Just post-flu tardy as all hell. I just today bought some as new Salter mechanical scales, less than a fiver from the local Blue Cross. What can go wrong? I'm a full (Xmas?) stone more than I thought I would be. That's what went wrong.
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Hope you did take the bike along, there are always quiet places on the Hills, just stay away from the ridge to avoid the majority of people. The wooded east sides of the hills are permissible for bikes and arguably the largest network of trails traversing the hillsides, lots of zig-zag climbs, some level/swoopy stuff and sometimes challenging descents.
*Edit (as per below) PS I'm a fat knacker. Will privately compare my results in surly left-outness.
Slight hijack, just thought I'd stick this in here from the other thread in case anyone missed it:
So what day is the weekly update going to be posted on?
[b]In theory[/b] I will post it on a Monday, reminding people to get [b]results to me via mail by Tuesday Midday.[/b]I'll then aim to update it with the results on the Tuesday afternoon or evening. All depends a bit on business at work.
If you miss the Tuesday midday cutoff but get the mail to me before I start to pull it all together, I'll include your results if I'm feeling nice, but there's no guarantee. If you get missed out of the results for two weeks on the bounce, you're out.
This will start in earnest from the week after next, as I'm on hols from this weekend.
Username: Johndoh
Start weight: 71.7kg (I was 76kg on 14 September 2014)
Target weight: 65kg
[b]Current weight: 69.8kg[/b]
Excellent reading of the thread entry above your own there, well done.
Whoever reads posts? I only ever glance at the headline and take my guesses from there 🙂