JH-R asks "what's a spline?" World is outwardly polite but otherwise laughing into its handbag.

[hirez]

So, um, this exercise business, right. Is it just me that gets yea-many weeks in to a reasonably exacting regimen and then has an attack of the Serious Bleak?

What I think's happening is my metabolism waking up and going "Lard-burning, is it? Right then, fuckin' 'ave it, mate." (Gloucestershire metabolism, y'see...) and because I've not changed my face-feeding habits to compensate, I have what the cyclists call a bit of a bonk. I imagine the same thing would happen if I didn't do any more work, but went on some calorie-restricted diet or other.

It's just me, isn't it?

Comments

[aeia.livejournal.com]

I seem to suffer it at the start. For some reason the day or two after exercise I can feel quite low.. I think my body just needs to adjust.

On a totally unrelated subject, you and Pat want to come round one evening?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Ah. Hm. Interesting.

A chance for a nosey round your new domicile? Ho yus indeed.

[glitchdrei.livejournal.com]

I can only manage about three days before I get bored...

[inulro.livejournal.com]

You're asking me? I'm a slug.

[reddragdiva]

Indeed. I find that I feel marvellous from exercise ... if I can be bothered to keep it up.

[hazeii.livejournal.com]

Sudden performance drop/feeling slightly ill is 'da bonk'; means you've exercised to the point where your body needs to switch metabolic strategy (this is assuming you get that feeling *during* extended exercise).

The point at which it happens is typically 90 minutes, albeit with a wide range (e.g. switch to a carrot-juice diet and you'll be permy-bonked, OTOH lots of experience with the effect plus plenty of wine/kebabs carbs in your diet will push it out. Also depends on personal wiring so YMMV.

[spride.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're exhausting your glycogen reserves, and aren't supplementing it with enough immediate glucose to get you over the hill. As you rightly surmise, eating more of the right sort of carbohydrates regularly will help.

[redcountess]

Me too, but isn't the JCC icon cool? :-)

[serpentstar.livejournal.com]

Take a week off exercise every month, but then be strict with yourself about going back onto the same exercise routine immediately the week is up.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

I'd bagged something off the Usenet purporting to be The Bauhauses performing Bela Lugosi's Shed (because my ancient 12" of same had been played to death by 1985 and it's the box under the box filled with Man or Astro-Man? and PWEI records. Oh, Man or Astro-Man and the Monomen are very good.) but it turned out to be the NiNnies and I was more than a little peeved.

Anyway. What day are you playing at Ashton Court again?

[hirez.livejournal.com]

It helps that I have a wooded and fielded campus to trundle round. Twice round that takes thirty minutes, which is Quite Enough currently.

[girfan.livejournal.com]

Yes please.
Tuesday is the only bad day.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Aha. Yes. That makes sense. Ta.

I wish I still had the document that explained all of this metabolic malarkey with nice hysteresis curves.

[jozafeen.livejournal.com]

I'd only guess splines sometimes reticulate but I blame SimCity for that. I know nothing of this 'fitness' of which you speak.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/W/Whats-a-spline.html

'Fitness' is this thing that 30-summat blokes start on (well, some of them anyway) when they realise that the 'egg on legs' look is just going to get them laughed at.

It's also something I'm cheerfully intent on reclaiming from the sporty but dim types that infested my time at big school. If only because I can't be mithered with the South Park diet.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Very fine indeed.

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

I think that the received wisdom re: The Bonk[1] is to eat before you get hungry and drink before you get thirsty. I suppose that makes sense on the macro scale too: take some time to chill out before feeling like you've just had an incident with a combine...



[1] There has to be an anglicised version of this term that's slightly less fnar-worthy...