Re: Rider conditioning - plateau

["Susan Garlinghouse" <suendavid@worldnet.att.net>]

Human physiology isn't my thing, but when I did the sports medicine option
in undergrad/grad, I was taught that to break the plateau, you have to raise
the metabolism, and that comes from more low-level, aerobic exercise, lots
and lots of it, at least thirty minutes a day and preferably more.  I'd eat
more (and exercise more) if I were you---at least for my body size, 800-1000
calories a day *is* starving, and the body goes into a metabolic emergency
mode until more calories are supplied, then makes a big rush to store more
of them as fat, so you end up further behind than where you started in the
first place, and with less lean muscle mass to boot. :-(

Anybody that's seen me in person will have noticed I can talk the talk, but
have a history of not walking the walk.  Well, trying to correct that, too.

If you don't have the time for more walking, and have a large space to
exercise in front of a video, you might give those TaeBo (cardioboxing)
tapes a try.  Those workouts work your fanny off (literally), but are alot
of fun.  I'm drenched after a thirty minute workout, even in a cold basement
with fans running.  I'm doing those three times a week, riding my bike for
an hour three times a week and am seeing some encouraging changes in fat to
lean ratios.

(Nobody ask me to condition score myself, I'd shoot myself).

Susan G
----- Original Message -----
From: Bob & Amber Roberts <mlaboure@flash.net>
To: <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Saturday, July 29, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: RC: Rider conditioning - plateau


> I'm trying to get myself in better condition.  I have a new Arab gelding
> and want to be in the best shape possible to ride him (so see - this is
> endurance related.)  Have been counting calories and walking.  Have lost
> 10 pounds, but have been stuck at the same weight for 10 days now!  So
> this must be what people mean about being stuck on a plateau.  How does
> one break a plateau?  Eat more, eat less, exercise more?  I was only
> eating 800 to 1000 calories a day and I think my body thought I was
> starving.  Any ideas here?
>
> Amber
>
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