@luv2sharpen and @steve, thanks for your feedback, I really appreciate it. I was leaning towards the North Machine, but haven’t never climbed on them I was a little reticent to pull the trigger.
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I didn’t realize this was the female uphill athlete forum, thought it was the nutrition forum…doh!
ParticipantI can honestly say I’ve never lost weight from training, only by being mindful of what I eat, and by being mindful I mean not consuming a the “Standard American Diet” (SAD).
A couple years ago I read Chris McDougall’s “Natural Born Heroes” book and went down a rabbit hole that introduced me to Phil Maffetone’s take on carbohydrate intolerance. I did his two-week test, removed all carbs from my diet, and promptly dropped ~10lbs. I slowly introduced carbs back into my diet which eventually led me back to eating SAD and gaining the weight back. In hindsight I don’t view this as a failure, but rather an introduction into understanding how what I consume effects my body.
This eventually lead me to reading Mark Sisson’s “Primal Blueprint” which provided me with the understanding and knowledge, and eventually the path, for getting my diet dialed and breaking away from eating SAD. By slowly moving to a primal diet, unlike when I did the two-week test, the carb-withdrawl symptoms where minimal, and I’ve regulated my weight in a more healthy manner. I was already fairly fat adapted from training for an ultra last year, following the Luke Nelson training plan , and that process continues even though I’m not training. I honestly view this book as the diet companion for TFTNA and TFTUA, there’s a whole chapter devoted to exercising aerobically at MAF.
Good luck
Participantdeadpoint on September 18, 2019 at 2:12 pm · in reply to: What's the UA approach to nutrition? #28641One approach to breaking your “junk food” addiction is Phil Maffetone’s 2 Week Test. The first 4-6 days are the most difficult, primary sugar/carb withdrawal, and then it goes from easier to no cravings. If you go down this road then do not do anything other than easy/short exercise or you will bonk hard, especially if you primarily fuel yourself on carbs. I made that mistake once and it was very unpleasant.
ParticipantI ran my first 50k this past April and my heart rate averaged at the high end of Z2 low end of Z3 for the duration of 7.5 hours, while maintaining a consistent pace. I can honestly say that without the 20 weeks of training I did leading up the event, thanks Uphill Athlete, that would not have been possible.
ParticipantYou should be at or below AeT for the whole run, even if it means walking the hills.
Participantdeadpoint on March 28, 2019 at 7:20 am · in reply to: Recs for smallish fitness watch with decent wrist HR monitor? #19212As has already been mentioned, you need to pair a chest strap with the watch to get the most accurate results period. I have a Suunto Spartan Trainer w/HR and over the past 18 weeks I’ve been training for an ultra, whenever I did not have the chest strap or pairing was lost due the battery the HR data was wildly inaccurate. When this would happen I’d just close my mouth and nose breath to stay within AeT.
For those wanting something “cheap”, you get what you pay for. For a long time my “cheap” option was a used Garmin Forerunner w/HR from Ebay, it did the job but I know there where accuracy issues. If you’re going to invest in training for an objective invest in the equipment that will help make you successful. If a couple hundred dollars is beyond your reach, then search “nose breathing” on this site.
Suunto supports XLSX data export via their MovesCount platform and Garmin will export splits to CSV from Connect, I can’t speak any others.
ParticipantBased on the Suunto’s announcement, see below, movescount will be gone mid-2020. Their strategy is to move/migrate to Suunto App, but at the moment it *sucks* and is only available as an app, which has a lot of their dedicated community fairly upset. Personally I could careless how they brand their “digital presence”, movescount, suunto app, BuzzWordCompliantFuckingApp, as long as they don’t take away functionality, like the web platform. Maybe I’m just old and crusty, #defendanalog, but doing anything beyond aimless scrolling on phone screen freaking sucks!
Enough rant. I suggest you, and anyone loyal to the Suunto brand, to register for their forum and +1 that feature request thread so they don’t make a drastic mistake.
https://www.suunto.com/en-us/Content-pages/digital-service-transition/
ParticipantJoined. To bad Suunto’s shutting down Movescount in 2020 in favor of Suunto App. Be sure to add your vote, if you haven’t already, for a web interface for App!
https://forum.suunto.com/topic/1730/web-interface-for-suunto-app/156
ParticipantHi Scott,
The first 2 weeks were super easy so I’ll start week 2 over again. I wanted to ensure I had adequately built my base so this is actually my second time cycling through the based period.
This leads to my followup question. At the end of the 20 week training cycle is the event I’m training for, the Zion 50K. Since I’ll be repeating a week, and the event is obviously not going to reschedule itself on account of my missed week, should I “finesse” those workouts by increasing the mileage to get back “on track” with the schedule? It may have been shortsighted of me to not leave a buffer for illness/injury, but I certainly wasn’t expecting something like this to hit me right at the beginning of the most important period of the cycle.
thanks again!
darinParticipantTP got back to me and it basically takes around 24 hours for workouts to show up in your calendar after they’ve been added. The training plan workouts appeared in my calendar sometime last night.
Thanks!
ParticipantI replaced a Garmin Forerunner 405 w/HR with the Suunto Spartian Trainer w/HR and I much prefer the Suunto over the Garmin. Battery life is way better, GPS and HR is very accurate, it has tons of exercise “moves” that you can customize, and I prefer movescount.com for viewing the data (integrates with trainingpeak too). You can’t get the raw data files from the watch like I could with the Garmin, but I don’t really miss it so that’s not a big deal.
Compelling review which closed the deal for me. Also if you an AAC member it’s only $195 after the discount which is a great deal IMO.
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2017/08/spartan-trainer-wrist-hr-review.html
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