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Fat burning year |
2-Mar-2018 At 7:29:07 PM |
IdratherbeclimbingM9
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On 2-Mar-2018 mikllaw wrote:
>After Eugene posted a photo of me belaying* in January (can we upload pix
>to Chockstone still? This seems to have dissappeared), I decided that I
>was too fat to belay, and probably to fat to climb. I'd hovered at 97kg
>for a few years and nothing seemed to affect my weight.
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>One interesting thing about climbing fat isn't that things seem a bit
>more strenuous (that could just be age) but that how much of a difference
>it makes on slabs, which I'd always thought of as the last refuge of the
>pear-shaped:- some problems are impossible if your centre of gravity is
>an extra 20cm away from the rock.
>
>I already do a fair amount of exercise which doesn't seem to affect my
>mass at all (though I'd probably balloon if I stopped), so I decided to
>start by the simple method of not sitting around with Vanessa watching
>TV and drinking wine. I go for a ride some evenings rather than start another
>bottle of wine and don't finish any of the food that Lexi spurns.
>
>I've dropped 5 kg this month and climbing feels a bit more fun, like the
>difference between climbing on the sweatiest day of the year and one where
>there is a breeze thrown in.
>
>I'll keep you posted.
* This one?
Heh, heh, heh. |
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