KJG
How
TANITA could work for you!
“KJ
Goodhew fronts up”: Owner BM&S Imports – TANITA-NZ:
What’s this all about? I am putting my own “journey” with my TANITA
up as just one example of how you can achieve either health, fitness, or
sport goals with your monitor.
First, set a goal: Does
not matter how modest, whether a 5km annual fun run/walk event, and no
matter that you just casually walk or ride to train for it (I highly
recommend not to start by running, that is how I started after not running
for years, just by building up with long hikes!), then watch all of your
TANITA body comp stats improve! Try to find a friend or two or three to do
it with, even if that friend is a dog! 😉
Update:
Thursday, 21st March 2019:
Posts now run
down from oldest to newest!
Long overdue update!
Well! What a difference a year
makes. From what I felt was a reasonable effort last year after getting on
the Rowing Machine for competition purposes for the first time in about 20
years for the NZ Masters Games, I did okay at that but did not account for
the suffering of mostly legs when I switched goals quickly afterward to
convert to run up mountains for the Motatapu 15km
Miner’s Trail Mountain Run. Have to admit it was
really tough. Felt the difficulty was up there with some days of pain in
youthful rowing days and wondered what the heck I was doing to myself for
the whole of what felt like a very short month to become a runner again.
Lesson learnt. Sure won’t double up different
events like that again. But nevertheless, did break the 2 hours by a few
seconds on the run (walk, stagger, run!) and did place in the old fellas
age-group with a 3rd!
If you scroll right down, you can
see a fuller report on the outcomes of that season including Body Composition stats achieved.
Photo: Post event
R&R: We love our few chances to get upto Central Otago into the Mountains!
“Best laid plans of mice and men” – Robert Burns!
Last March 2018, feeling
somewhat cock-a-hoop, having actually made it to the Mountain-race day, and
then placing, I had all these intentions of maintaining the shape I was in
right through to the next season and then building on it to do a blinder at
next year’s event (being March 10, 2019, just gone!). Well we can never
tell what life itself has in store for us in the course of any year. Upto
this March (2019) I had two of amongst the most significant people in my
life pass in the space of 9 months (both elderly, good long lives!); Then I
smashed my right foot with the worst sprain in my whole life where I
actually just saw black for a few seconds and hit the deck rolling on
track, getting gravel rash, blood everywhere and on down a bank stopped by
saplings to get a month limping before back to very slow jogging; And! …
left knee decided to go out in weird sympathy with right foot whereby I have to use hands to push down on it to get up high
steps and banks.
Otherwise it was a good year since we did not have another GFC and I didn’t get a
kitchen sink thrown at me!
These things happen in life, tiz what life is about, for us to learn and somehow
grow from. Most of the same things happen to us all. However, I like to
think of myself as a rock, and “can handle it”, but realise now I was
treading water for periods of that past year, “all at sea” as my Gran used to say! Before picking up training
again, and going really well before the near
broken ankle, I had become too fond of alcohol grief-self-medication I guess, and I was really carelessly
over-eating. As you can see in the table below, I lost all the condition of
the previous March (2018). By the time September (Spring) had come along
and Summer’s Motatapu event was popping into
mind, I had gone from previous race-day weight of 81 kg and 21% BF to one
day hitting 90 kg and 26.9% BF. Wow!
I had not hit that weight level in years, since when I was body-building,
but my BF back then was down in the buff “teens” and sometimes single
figures %-wise (8%!).
So, the prospect in
mid-September of carrying an extra near 10kg up a 900m mountain track next
March was shock treatment time.
September saw immediate one month ban on booze. Dramatic cut-back on
carbs in diet and much more green-veg.
My
TANITA Body Composition progress:
Race-day
March 2018 to wake-up call September 2018
RD-953
“Supreme”
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Race day March 2018
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“Wake-up”
September
2018
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21.3%Setting # 2: “Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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26.9%
“Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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61.05
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56
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-
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44 years
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10.5/60
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12.5
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81.7kg
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88.9kg
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NB:
I cannot remember why I did not
record the full spectrum of “body comp” values in September, perhaps can be
said these were the biggest concerns at the time. The one to me of most
“health” concern is the visceral fat (belly) value of 12.5 in September.
The TANITA “guide” states that a “VF” of over 12 is the precursor to
increased serious health risks. I do not think I have ever (in 23 years)
been 12 or over on this measure. In this past 5 months I have found it most
stubborn to get it back down just 2 points to get back into the healthy
“safer” range of 12 and below!
March 2019 outcome:
Race-day 10th March
I got down to 82kg race-weight, commonly 80kg dehydrated after training runs,
around 8 kg weight off in 5 months and down to 20% BF: With a simple
calculation this percentage BF change is equal to just over 6kg body-FAT
removed. From September to first week March, that is average of just over a
Kilogram per month of lard removed not carried up the Mountain! This rate
of bodyfat loss happens to be close to 0.25kg/week
Was near 4 minutes quicker than 2018 but placed 6th (dropped from 3rd!). The “old-fellas” category got tougher
this year! 😉
In all, with significant life
events referred to (above) I think I did alright.
Crossing fingers that “life” is
a little kinder this next year so that I can roll on current condition
right through to next season’s build-up to launch from a much better
platform than the previous 2 years. That’s the goal again anyway!
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NB: For sustainability of weight-loss:
Research indicates that a rate of 0.25kg/week or less is
optimal. Research points to weight-loss
that is too rapid, above this rate, generates reactive bounce-back by the
body. The body will not be “re-programmed” by too fast loss, and as soon as
you drop your guard, your stringent resolves, the unwanted will quickly go
back on!
My
TANITA Body Composition progress:
Race-day
March 2019
RD-953
“Supreme”
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Race day March 2018
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“Wake-up”
September
2018
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Race day March
2019
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21.3%
Setting # 2: “Standard” mode
not “athlete”!
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26.9%
“Standard” mode not
“athlete”!
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20.2%
“Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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61.05
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60.5
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56
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55
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-
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-
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44 years
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45
years
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10.5/60
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12.5
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10.5/60
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81.7kg
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88.9kg
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81.9kg
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March 2019 Result:
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Below here was ancient history
I have archived my “diary” going back years that
was here since if you came across it and were not a fanatic like myself I felt it could have been more off-putting than
inspiring. I may do a separate page sometime if I sense there are other “lunatics”
who may be interested in such extreme “analysis”!
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Latest
Diary entry below is, Wednesday 11th July 2018: (scroll below tables!)
My TANITA Body Composition progress:
RD-953
“Supreme”
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Race day
2014
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November
2017
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December
2017
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January
2018
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Race day March 2018
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18%
Setting # 2: “Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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25.7%
“Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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23.1%
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23.5%
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21.3%
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64.4 kg
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60.2
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62.1
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60.65
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61.05
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No data
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45
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51
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49
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56
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58%
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52.3
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52.5
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52.1
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-
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42 years
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57
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48
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50
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44
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8 /60
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12.5
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11.5
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11.5
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10.5
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84.9 kg
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85.25
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85.00
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83.4
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81.7kg
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Performance
progress: “measuring sticks”!
Diary:
Most recent at top: Scroll
straight to bottom if you’re a first time read!
Wednesday
11th July 2018:
Well there was NZ Masters Games indoor rowing
competition on 9th February and then it was straight into training
for running for the Motatapu “15km Miner’s Trail
Mountain Run” on 10th March.
A couple minutes to
start-time
From competition day to competition day then
taking a much needed holiday (18 months since last one!), then back to a
hectic start to the business year, followed by my mother passing (one of
those facts of life none of us will escape!) and then winter arriving with
colds and flues, it has been hard to get back here to show how things
turned out. Better late than never! ;-)
At today’s date, still struggling with tail-end
(hopefully?) of an energy stealing chest virus, I feel I’ve lost my fitness
gains of summer having done little 4 months down track. Trying to set and
focus on some new resolutions. Have already paid entry for next March’s
“Miner’s trail” getting a deal on that entry.
Okay,
results of last Summer…
First up, …
NZ
Masters Games Rowing Ergometer,
9th February 2018.
2000m race = 3rd.
Time: 7 m 14.5 s
I fractionally bettered my
(reduced) anticipated result target of 7:15 but I was a little disappointed
with the third placing. However, …
... I looked up previous year’s
results to find 2017, 2016, 2014, 2012?, my time
would have won the GOLD. All other years (2015, 2013, 2011) would have won
at least the SILVER!!! These Games there were about 9 NZ records broken
which must really be unheard of to have so many go down at the one meet. For
some reason the standard in Indoor Rowing has jumped up and it has happened
this year in Dunedin. The guy taking out Gold did a sensational time, about
40 seconds better than mine, and just 2 seconds off NZ Rowing’s official
national record! It was clear his goal for these Games was the record, not
just a medal.
There was a lot I took home from this first Erg
race in 20 years.
First was, I needed to take the length of the
build-up and the standard of the competition a lot more serious. Just 2
months concentrated specific-only rowing training didn’t cut it.
I needed to look for and enter a pre-Games event
to get some race practice behind me. I didn’t really know how hard I could
or should push myself. Could I have
gone at a faster pace earlier? The fact of finishing the last 500m hitting
paces of 1:33m/500 when the early 3/4 of the race was at 1:50/500 indicates
my average race-pace plan was under-done. Also, I was somewhat intimidated
by the atmosphere at the venue. It
was very slick and sophisticated operation compared to 20 years ago on the
latest “E” machines with a giant screen showing your position as simulated
boats! I was also under-done with warm-up. I like a minimum 20 minutes
warmup plus short race-pace intervals. People were queuing behind for too
few warm-up machines, so I only got about 8 minutes. Psychologically (and
physiologically) I wasn’t happy with that, not ready at all for a
race.
However, like a certain giant Austrian-American
says in a movie franchise he “owns”: “I’ll be back!”
___________________________
Second-up for Summer of 2018…
Motatapu: “15km - Miner’s Trail
Mountain Run” on 10th
March.
Place: 2nd (on the day!)
Webpage results a week later had me placed 3rd!
Kind of a laugh.
Time: 1:59.21
I don’t know how the placings anomaly happened
as I was given the 2nd place and prize on the day, stepping on
podium to pick up the prize. LOL.
However, can only figure since the timing system triggers when you
personally cross the start line, not as in previous years when the gun goes
and you could be 50m back of crowd forced to walk slowly to cross the start
line and only cross it several minutes later!. So, theoretically with new
personal start trigger someone could be a half hour late for the start and
be half hour behind you at the finish but still beat you by a few seconds.
That’s only way I can figure it.
ANYWAY, I was really happy with my time and
placing since I only had one month specific run
training for it, and all along I felt on the back-foot in conditioning my
legs from rowing to running condition in just 4 weeks.
In fact the suffering I
had from my muscles converting from rowing work to running was one of the
most hard-out things I’ve done in training for decades. It really hurt.
After the first few runs for the next 2 weeks I could hardly run. Most
training was just walking up Flagstaff (666m) and hurting like hell with
down-hill jogging or just walking down too when that got too much.
Note to self: NEVER AGAIN do a build-up to a
mountain run event with a rowing competition a month out and just a month
specific foot-work before event day!
In
summary…
What did my Masters games and Motatapu goals do for my physical condition over the
summer?
This summary table compares condition (body composition)
of race-day 4 years ago, 2014, to November 2017 when I started thinking
about training, to March race-day of 2018.
RD-953
“Supreme”
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Race day
2014
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November
2017
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Race day March 2018
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Miner’s Trail
15km MTR
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1:53:26
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1:59:21
(New course!)
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18%
Setting # 2: “Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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25.7%
“Standard” mode not “athlete”!
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21.3%
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64.4 kg
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60.2
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61.05
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No data
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45
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56
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58%
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52.3
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-
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42 years
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57
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44
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8 /60
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12.5
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10.5
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84.9 kg
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85.25
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81.7kg
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You can see that in terms of body-fat % from
November at 25.7%, I had a long way to go and did not match the good level
of 18% of 2014. However
there are complex composition interactions here. I did significantly reduce
total body-weight over 2014 race-weight and also
over the season’s start-weight in November: 84.9, 85.25, and 81.7. It is
always easier getting up mountains carrying less weight. Near 4 kg less!
You definitely feel the ease this creates.
Simple calculation converting percentage
body-fat to weight in fat I get…
Body-fat
2014: 84.9 x 18% = 15.3kg
2017: 85.25 x 25.7% = 21.9 kg
2018: 81.7 x 21.3% = 17.4 kg
In conclusion, I got within 2 kg of fat-weight
of 2014 and feel I did well to carve off from a season-start total of over
20kg! Again, as commented above, I
needed another month.
Added to this complexity,
the intrigue is that in 2014 I carried significantly more muscle than
race-day 2018. Consider this 3 kg
reduction in “muscle” (lean) weight from 2014 to 2018, which corresponds to
the reduction in total bodyweight across those years! It could be concluded
that carrying a little more in total weight is okay so long as that total
weight is more “muscle” rather than made up of body-fat?
New measure Muscle Quality (MQ):
There is no MQ measure for
2014 since it is a new measure featured in the latest “RD” TANITA models.
It sure would have been interesting to have one for 2014 since the values
for season start in November 2017 to Race-day 2018 show a dramatic
improvement, with MQ’s of 45 to 56 respectively!
The TANITA manual states…
I’m quite pleased with an MQ of 56 at my age,
but I’m keen to “play” with this value to see how far I can take it next
season. I would like to get into the
mid-60’s to 70 to be clearly “High” MQ. ;-)
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Wednesday
7th February 2018:
Two days to Race day and now 7 days into tapering
schedule the wheels had come off immediately after the 35 celsius day, 31st January when I did my last
proper training session. The temps
plummeted to 15C and lower as the high for the day and typical! …somehow
(who from?) I got a raging head-cold, streaming sneezing nose with
headache, making me feel as grumpy as a Bear with a sore head. It has lasted 7 days with it only just
significantly relenting, appearing to be leaving me today. I’ve rested up near every-day saving my
energy to try and throw it. So I have done almost
none of the planned tapering sequence that I got from Arthur Lydiard years
ago.
To be sure of getting to the finish line without
collapsing before it I’ve set my sites slightly lower again as my target
time. Originally it was 7 minutes
flat, then 7:10, now I’m picking 7:15 that I should still do okay and
hopefully medal with still a chance for the Gold going by times of previous
Games.
Next post is post-race. Wish me luck, I need it now after a bit
of a rotten week health wise, needing to get rid of lingering weakness as
the bot leaves.
Wednesday
31st January 2018:
Well in some ways we’re here, times up, training
is done. From entry, 17th
Jan, got as frequently as possible plenty of high intensity race-pace work
done without collapsing into a heap for several days.
Today was the last day of this high intensity
phase leaving 8 days to bring it down, recover from the weeks of load, and
feel fresh with the odd sharpener short time-trials interspersed with easy
recovery days.
Did my last set of 4 x 500 m intervals to see
where I’m at HR wise. This is copy and paste direct from my
log-book on Concept2 website:
Intervals
Time
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Meters
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Pace
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Watts
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Cal/Hr
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S/M HR
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7:00.7
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2,000m
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1:45.1
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301
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1334
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29
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1:49.0
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500m
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1:49.0
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270
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1229
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28
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148
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1:47.0
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500m
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1:47.0
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286
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1282
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28
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152
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1:43.9
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500m
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1:43.9
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312
|
1372
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29
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157
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1:40.8
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500m
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1:40.8
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342
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1474
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32
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164
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r122m
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Monday
29th January 2018:
Got a good confidence boost from today’s
intervals. Decided to lactate test
to know where my 4 mmol Threshold is (anaerobic threshold) to come up with
this result…
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2000m
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Test Target @
min/500 pace
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ACTUAL
@ min/500 pace
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HR
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Mmol
lactic acid
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1
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2:00 / 500
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1:59.7
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HR monitor
problem!
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3.4
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2
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1:55 / 500
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1:54.9
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145
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4.1
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3
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1:53 / 500
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1:52.9
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HR monitor
problem!
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6.3
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Knowing that my long distance
threshold pace is around 1:55/500 means that I can take it down 5 sec’s per
500 to 1:50/500 for 2,000m racing.
Back in the day, the youthful differential from Threshold to 2000m
racing may have been about 10 secs.
That is, if I had a Threshold then of 1:55 I may have been able to
sustain 1:45/500 on race day. We did
massive volume in training in those days to sustain such high pace above
Threshold for a whole 2,000m! However, 20 years out of rowing, lacking race
conditioning, and only 2 months concentrating on depth of condition in
building serious volume specific to the Rowing Ergometer, I am erring to
what I hope is a realistic target of 1:50/500 on race day at the Masters
Games, 9th February. This
would give a 7 minute 20 second race result. Yes, a considerable drop in
the original goal of 7 minutes flat, but I don’t want to do anything stupid
to myself; I’m not 30 years old!
Hopefully if I can sustain 1:50 for most of the race, in the last
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Wednesday
17th January 2018:
You can see the “telling off” got my volume up
dramatically.
I found it hard getting to 6 hours or more
Rowing per week, psychologically and physically. I’m fairly sure when I was
running and rowing May through November I was able
to easily turn out a 6 hours per week exercise week most weeks through
running, but, I was not logging it so not absolutely sure. My sense is
running is easier than rowing (have I said this already?). I think this is in major part enjoyment
factor: I like the bush and open mountain top trails greatly compared to
sitting stationary on a machine!
However! I
did crank it up to 349km for the month of December being 87km average for 4
weeks.
One has to bear in mind
that the Concept2 algorithm is akin to Coxless Four or Quad boat speed performance,
not that of an on-water Single Sculler.
I made calculations years ago, to analogise such a 349km outcome
would be about 80% for on-water Single Scull distance or speed. e.g. If I was on-water rather than on Erg I
would probably have rowed around 349 x 80% = 279km or 70km per week. I think
that is still not too bad since it is 20 years since I’ve done that kind of
effort. It has left me bu***d some days that’s
for sure.
The build-up I’m doing is classic Arthur Lydiard
compressed into 2 months.
January is not finished yet! You can see the volume is already knocked
back in January somewhat since I’ve already switched to increased high
intensity intervals. Even so, half
way through this month I’m at 158km!
If I can hold onto this and still do my desired power/speed work
increases, am still looking at around 320km. Then it is 9 days tapering off, another
crucial phase, with method taken straight from the “horse’s mouth”, Arthur
himself, around 30 years ago. One
season way back then a good friend and stela light-weight rower Mark
Conway, who was Arthur’s neighbour, we rolled up to the guru himself! We were perplexed how to taper off properly so we asked him how to do it, being the method
I’ve stuck with for myself and training others to this day!
My
TANITA:
You can see in the table above that most stats
are in the right direction.
Ironically I’m most pleased about dropping 2kg of Body
Weight, the simplest measure of all.
There is no increase in Muscle Mass (lean
weight). This is to be expected
since endurance training does not build muscle mass! Body water has not changed. One could have expected this to increase
with improved condition. However we’re having unprecedented hot weather, 30C +
some days, with no choice but to get the training done in it: The effect could be constant state of
dehydration. You’re not meant to
measure after a hard or a lot of training, however, this cannot be avoided
either, one cannot stop training for a day in order to get more certainty
with Body Composition measures. Anyway, showing state of hydration is one
of the most important TANITA measures since performance is seriously
detrimentally affected when dehydrated.
It is important to realise that Muscle Mass is
better thought of as “lean mass” since your muscles are mostly water! Your
lean mass is composed of everything that is not fat! This includes the water content of your
muscles. Dependent on your hydration
and state of fitness your muscles are 50 to 70% of water. Therefore if you
are dehydrated your Muscle Mass (lean weight) may also correspondingly show
a reduction! Since we are dealing
with percentages (portions), if you change one portion (percent) it will
likely have an effect on other portions:
This is why with dehydration you may see an increase in the portion
for that day that is your Body Fat.
Your TANITA’s CPU (computer chip) does a lot of intricate
calculations. Results may seem
perplexing and reversals some days are frustrating, but there is a lot
going on in the scan calculations: They do add-up: The machine has no
choice but to measure you exactly as you present that moment that day, and
our bodies are not machines like a car and its engine. A biological “engine” changes every
second of every day of every year, therefore so too will all off its
“measurements”. Not much is constant in measurement of a biological
organism!
Simple
maths to explain things:
For example, see my Bodyfat % has roughly not
changed since early December being around 23%. That is around 6 weeks
apparent plateau! However
is it a plateau? What has changed is
my Total Body Weight has gone from 85kg to around 83kg, a 2kg weight loss.
23% is a proportion
of my Total Weight!
85kg x 23% Body Fat = 19.55 kg Bodyfat WEIGHT.
83kg x 23% Bodyfat = 19.09 kg Bodyfat WEIGHT
19.55kg – 19.09kg = 0.46 kg Fat Loss WEIGHT.
In 6 weeks I lost 460 grams of fat (lard around my
belly!). Or, 76 grams per week!
If I kept that up for a year, …
52 weeks x 76 grams = 3,952g : Or, 4
kilograms Body Fat can be lost in one year at this rate!
Four kilograms off 19 would give 15 kg body fat
WEIGHT.
If I maintained the same weight of 83kg this
would give 18% Bodyfat (down from 23%!) at year end.
All simple maths: But easier, Your TANITA does it all for
you! :-)
Think I’ll go for that long
term goal.
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Wednesday
13th December 2017:
The serious talking to “self” worked! Had me decide
to do a full week training EVERY day, with the goal 10K per day. Did it! There were definite peaks and
troughs. Each day was completely unpredictable as to how “the bod” and
energy would respond.
This week I am doing same, although putting a
little of each of the high intensity training types on top of the basic
distance work (LSD = long slow distance!).
However I am down one day already: I had
Monday off as was just smashed and groggy by end of day. In that state did not think anything,
even a slow recovery workout, would do any good. So, have decided to throw some one hour sessions in to bring up 60k for the week. If I
can do 60K, including various high intensity additions to basic mileage,
with one day off, I’ll be happy with that for “Week 2” gone of 8.
Today I got my on-line order for a Garmin
Premium HR Monitor, ANT+, which
is just a transmitter. It puts my
“revs” up on the Concept2 PM5 Monitor.
My old Polar went kaput a month ago which I used to have strapped
around the handle of the Erg. It was a surprise when I got the new Concept2
PM5 to find there was no compatibility with Polar. Old Concept2 models
Polar used to connect! Concept2 have gone with the ANT+ transmission
protocol.
I’ve been training “blind” to the “engine’s”
effort for too long. It is good to know the intensity by HR again.
First day back to HR monitoring I did 7 x 1min @
around 1:45/500 pace. I don’t recall
my HR going over 140 bpm and ratings were mostly around 26 – 28. It pleasingly surprised me: Showed I was
not overly stretched. Time to increase one of the variables … duration, or
pace, or the number of intervals.
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Friday
1st December 2017:
Well what a difference a month makes.
Have had to give myself a good talking to! ;-)
Did a good month of training but combined with
seeing just over 60 days to start of the Games I realised I am nowhere near
capacities I need to be on the Erg.
Not even sure I am where I need to be to match my previous self on
the Mountain Run. Running still feels like I’m jogging with only occasional
glimpses of the feel of actual running.
I made a weight-loss graph back in August and wanted to be around
82kg by now, but I’m still around 85.
Have decided to be realistic that, since I’m not
28, have to admit I can no longer recruit the depth and recovery from
training that I would need to do both of these events
justice.
They are at different ends of specific fitness
requirements: One is around an hour,
mostly aerobic, the other all over in 7 minutes, about 30% anaerobic-power
requirement (beyond one’s aerobic or oxygen use capacity!). Therefore there
are quite different physiological requirements, and consequently training
intensities to be considered.
It’s the fundamental training principle of specificity: Just like, you don’t go swimming to
improve your Mountain Biking!
Admitting I’m not quite up to this these days, especially
when there is still the 9 to 5 business to stay on, to be sure that one is
in at least some good semi-un-exhausted civil state for the Monday to
Friday treadmill!
So! I have let the Mountain Run go. I have rationalised this since exactly
one month after the Masters Games Indoor Rowing competition there is the Motatapu Miner’s Trail Mountain Run in Arrowtown on the
very auspicious date of 9th of March, which I have done several
times over the past decade.
https://motatapu.com/event-summary/miners-trail
Therefore I’m still doing a Masters category Mountain Run
and Rowing Ergometer competition; they are just a month apart!
Making this decision has made me feel a whole
lot better including sensing a much better chance of hitting my 2000m
Rowing Ergometer target in the now short, close, 60 days duration to
tapering. I can do the high
intensity work now without having to do Mountain run training which had
been exhausting my energies leaving little left for high intensity Rowing
sessions.
Ducklings! My
workout fan club.
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First Diary entry…
Tuesday
7th November 2017:
Decided to put this Page including Diary up so “newcomers” to TANITA BIA
scanning scales can see how My TANITA can work for you … hinting
at how it can be applied to any kind of weight-loss, health, fitness, or
serious sport goal.
On Thursday 2nd November just gone I
had an even 90 days to tapering for the Masters Games!
Lately I have been struggling to get any quality
training done. Got some kind of gastro-bug 2 weeks
ago that just won’t go away. Thought I would try to cook it out with a run
on Thursday to the first summit on a hot day. Well I did that, just! , but with it biting me back to make me feel much
worse for the next 5 days. So I’m down to just
doing the odd workout that is strictly light aerobic, not pushing into any
high intensity.
For these Masters Games I have decided to use
one of our latest and greatest, just launched 2016, an RD-953 wireless “Supreme”.
I do have a preference for the Segmentals with their separate upper body measures,
however the “953” has amongst many new features one that stands-out for me
being “MQ” (muscle quality)
measurement. With my goals for this
Masters Games needing to maintain or optimise muscle, I am very curious to
see how this new measure tracks over 3 months as I cut some lard from my
body.
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Tuesday 7th November 2017: This is original page header post:
Four years on from
my last Mountain run at the NZ Masters Games My TANITA again will mirror and
motivate my conditioning progress, hinting at potential race results toward
February 2018…
The
Big questions: Can I match
performance of 4 years ago (2014) and how will I go adding a second
smashing event, the 2000 meter Rowing Ergometer
race, something I have not done for 20 years?
Putting
it out there: Setting Goals: NZ
Masters Games:
1. Masters
Games Flagstaff Mountain Run: 57 minutes (was time 2014!)
Subsequently now dropped in
favour of just Indoor Rowing as of 1/12/2017!
2.
Masters Games 2000m Rowing Ergometer: 7:00 minutes.
How
to achieve these? Especially for the Hill Run, each excess kilogram in body-fat that comes off
equates to minutes toward a better time!
But! For the rowing competition, being a shorter POWER event, I
cannot afford to lose muscle! My
TANITA will ensure it is body-fat only that I lose with no muscle loss, or
even a little gain in this would be good for the Quad’s burn-blasting Erg
race!
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