Too bad your computer can't do calories burned...though you might be able to calculate that yourself if you could get the relevent info. But you also need to realize that your leg muscles are going to be getting larger for doing this. This will in the short term, make your weight mysteriously stay the same. Or it does for me at least. Then, after they have hit the new balance point of how strong they need to be for your averaged output per day, suddenly your weight zips suddenly down as your fat gets burned but your muscles don't get bigger.
This is a primarily generalized statement based on my own observed weight change as opposed to very high levels of exercise. If I remember right, when I began working at the airport I weighed about 200. my weight went up to 220 over the next month or two, then started falling pretty rapidly. I wound up at about 165 about a year and a bit later.
You might want to, if you are doing a fairly large amount of exercise a day, switch to a protein heavy diet to let your body build muscles more readily.
If you just need a quick way to burn off a fair amount of calories, I'd suggest swimming! Mostly because I love it and know it can turn you into an inhuman eating machine incapable of gaining any fat despite being hungry all the time to the point of extreme ramen munching at all ours of the night. To the point that I became nearly negatively bouyant. This will, however, not do much to loose you weight in the global sense, as you will get a lot of fairly efficient lean muscle mass everywhere.
....Um. Mew. I ramble. Anyhow, um. In any case, did you know your cadence (spin of pedals) should be around 90 or higher?
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Date: 2010-05-14 04:13 am (UTC)This is a primarily generalized statement based on my own observed weight change as opposed to very high levels of exercise. If I remember right, when I began working at the airport I weighed about 200. my weight went up to 220 over the next month or two, then started falling pretty rapidly. I wound up at about 165 about a year and a bit later.
You might want to, if you are doing a fairly large amount of exercise a day, switch to a protein heavy diet to let your body build muscles more readily.
If you just need a quick way to burn off a fair amount of calories, I'd suggest swimming! Mostly because I love it and know it can turn you into an inhuman eating machine incapable of gaining any fat despite being hungry all the time to the point of extreme ramen munching at all ours of the night. To the point that I became nearly negatively bouyant. This will, however, not do much to loose you weight in the global sense, as you will get a lot of fairly efficient lean muscle mass everywhere.
....Um. Mew. I ramble. Anyhow, um. In any case, did you know your cadence (spin of pedals) should be around 90 or higher?