Brawny's time machine

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Congrats on the dropped poundage!!

Started using the exercise bike at the club from time to time. Still prefer the treadmill in terms of the "bang for the buck" or basketball for fun, but the bike keeps me off my legs and probably mixing it up will help my joints stay healthy.
 
Funny vee, I am thinking about starting some walking with hopes of progressing to some light light jogging. It is supposed to be cool here next week (by cool I mean low 90s) so I'm gonna try a late evening walk on the high school track while my sons do their football prep running.

In a couple of hours I go to my 30 th class reunion...hard to believe. Going to this was not my motivation to get going with weight loss, heck most of them are fatter, balder and more tore up than me but it is better to go at 279 than it would have been to go at 336.
 
Went to reunion...great time, lots of remember when stories. But I did eat a plate of BBQ....We do take our BBQ seriously down here and I could not pass when I knew it was smoked by my old buddies. But I stopped at one plate, came home ate a light supper and rode bike. Probably was still at least 500 calories in the negative.
 
Way to ride through that stall Brawny! Sub 280 is awesome. Really good BBQ is worth the work. Nice job staying in limits on that one.

I understand how good BBQ usually goes:
1. Get some of everything and eat it.
2. Go back and pile on the 2 or 3 favorite things and eat that.
3. Repeat or have pie/cobbler.
4. Moan and wish you were in a setting where unbuttoning your pants was aceptable.
 
I've never actually spent any real time in Texas. Passed through Amarillo on several occasions. I think I'd like some Texas BBQ. Hell I like Norwegian BBQ so I'm an easy mark in the BBQ department.
 
Good job on the weight loss, it's looking pretty steady right now!

Hrrm, do you mean food cooked on a bbq or is bbq a coating of some kind?
 
I had to stop in here after that comment in Gideon's diary :p

Hey, if you don't get to have BBQ often, then don't feel bad about it! You can easily burn that extra bit off!
 
Thanks for all yall hitting my thread. In interest of maintaining international relations (especially with Lucy in Oz) I feel led to offer a brief description of Texas BBQ
1. Get a large hunk of meat. You might have shot it, trapped it, snared it, wrestled it, fed it in your pasture or if absolutely necessary bought it.
2. Get a large apparatus for smoking meat. Probably built by your cousin Billy Ray Clete Don (but known as slick). Size and shape will vary greatly. Artistic redneck creativity is encouraged.
3. Aquire wood. Pecan, white oak, red oak, mesquite (west Texas) which wood is best is hotly debated.
4. Fire that Mutha up!
5. Put meat in smoker might baste with secret family recipe or rub with secret spices might wrap in foil might not
6. Get some alcohol. (not for the meat but for human consumtion)
7. Consume alcohol with relatives and friends (they just show up when you fire up the smoker)
8. After many hours of alcohol consumption someone should remember to remove meat.
9. Slice and eat!
 
Haha ok... Aussie bbq is just steak and sausages cooked on a barbecue outside. Usually alcohol is also consumed. Thanks for the explanation :p
 
Well my bike riding is no longer limited by my aerobic fitness level. It is limited by how much my butt can endure. My tailbone was sore. So I have taken 2 days off from the bike. On Sunday I did no exercise but last night I went to the H.S. track and walked while watching my sons and friends doing a football running workout then playing touch football. Walked at a good clip for 35 minutes. I was very tired after this. It seemed to work my quads differently and harder than the bike. I started this quest because on June 1 I was so winded by strolling on a college tour with my oldest. I realized last night that I had just walked farther and faster than that with much less trouble. Progress. Now if I get another loss on Thursday when I weigh in for the week.
I will probably try a bike ride tonight and see how ye ol arse is feeling. Already sitting on 2 pillows while I ride. I am still wanting to smash my 150 miles in July goal but maybe I wont smash it quite so hard. At least I can walk if I can stand the heat.
 
Saddle soreness has always been a problem for me when riding. It was a problem for me back at 190 pounds. Eventually it goes away, but to get to that point you have to ride regularly and endure the pain. I think as a general rule it's probably best to mix up what exercises you do for a variety of reasons. Often that's not easy with work and other restraints on your time, but when the chance arises it's nice to mix it up.

Had a bunch of long walks through airports in early June and it was stunning how much easier it is to physically handle all of that these days. Still a pain mentally, but it's really nice to be able to get about without producing buckets of sweat.
 
The saddle is an important piece of the puzzle, as a Dutchman I own several bikes and some are better saddled than others. I rode my "commuter" bike once for a two hour ride, and my ass felt like it was made of wood, even though the saddle is fitted with springs and such.
My ATB has a spartan looking saddle but actually doesn't cause any discomfort at all.
 
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