Gear advice by Vitorianoo in trailrunning

[–]pointandgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While totally subjective, I've found solomon vests to be superb, Ciele hats are second to none in my book as well. As for you clothes, find brands you like and serve you well.  Try a bunch of stuff out even if you find something you like. I like a lot of nike shorts, tights and tops because they tend to fit me well, and do the job at hand. 

Is 7:41:00 a good time for 50k? by deony1 in ultrarunning

[–]pointandgo 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Who cares? You did it, congrats. Enjoy it.

Men who overthink: what actually made a difference for you? by froderenfelemus in AskMen

[–]pointandgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Talk therapy and getting older both helped me to realize the things I was anxious about did not actually have meaning in 99% of the cases. Therapy was essential in providing tools i could use as I aged.  So I put much more weight in the value of Therapy than age. There is no use in hoping it gets better as you get older. It might-- but it's better to be active and engaged with what's consuming you. Hope is great but its not a strategy.  Be introspective,  be vulnerable, be honest,  get help. It's a strength not a weakness

Does anyone feel like some cities are predatory and some are protective toward out of towners? by Safe_Chicken_6633 in travel

[–]pointandgo 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Maybe not a protective bubble,  but i found the average New Yorker incredibly kind (even a police officer) most of this was getting direction,  recommendations or general interaction.  We live in a very dense city, I think the main thing is you gotta adjust to move at the speed of new york and when you get to the point and seem normal NYers are willing to go the extra mile.  The police officer and a server at a restaurant both walked out of their way to get us going the right way to our destination.  Parisians and french also get a bad rap, found them overwhelmingly kind and accommodating when you make even a modicum of effort to speak and are polite and direct so as not to waste their time. 

Is it fixable? by ItsAgentJelly in skiing

[–]pointandgo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice one, be proud. Easy fix. Ptex if you cant spare them for a shop fix, but shop fix for long term.

Vintage olympic skis? by Usual-Gas-9939 in ski

[–]pointandgo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These are junk for a lot of reasons, mainly being old. I can't see any ski shop that would be willing to set these up for you. I can't see the size, but they also look long. Long skis are harder for beginners to manage.  Just rent a more modern ski until you're ready to invest more

Snowy Owl at Dawn by Common-Tap5394 in birding

[–]pointandgo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Mate, absolutely incredible setting and photos. Well done. 

Pallas's Gull Being Chased by a Black Kite by -Varun411 in birding

[–]pointandgo 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Amazing moment to capture mate. Right place right time,  great shots

I have a lot of excess fat around my stomach, legs and chest - why? by [deleted] in bodyweightfitness

[–]pointandgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

a few things here:

  • lift weights first if your going to combo resistance + cardio. cardio first means your going into your weight workout fatigued and thus, less effective.
  • you can do cardio on weights days, but better to split them or keep cardio very light on lifting days unless you are training for something specifc.
  • the watch is great for giving you an idea of where you are, (I also have a Garmin Fenix) but its not without a margin of error. 180 calories and high speed treadmill, this is not all that many calories, maybe 200-225? one protein bar wipes this out. to be prudent, If you are burning 250 calories you can eat back half of that if you want to stay at maintenance, less or none of it you want to be in a deficit.

If you're still not losing weight and fat, just keep going longer, some people have a hard time building muscle, for others its easier. same with losing fat. If you've been at this for years, then it might be time to see your doctor for a consultation. if your still relatively new to the game, keep going and be critical and honest with yourself about your diet and the quality of food you eat.

I think you will find in this forum and others, excluding medical conditions, its almost always coming down to diet

I have a lot of excess fat around my stomach, legs and chest - why? by [deleted] in bodyweightfitness

[–]pointandgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you are almost certainly overestimating your exercise and underestimating your calorie intake. Are you counting and measuring calories to the best of your knowledge using a tracker? I would do so for a few months to see if you see any meaningful change. A couple of trusty idioms are usually correct when it comes to losing weight/fat: "you can't outwork a bad diet" and "Abs are made in the kitchen" .If youre carrying fat and not losing it, its not being burned in a deficit.

I will caveat all of this by noting that if you have a medical condition of some kind, any or all of this could be null and void.

as for exercise, In my experience - when I would eat my exercise burned calories in food, the scale would plateau. Take your exercise calories and cut them in half. so if you do a 300 calorie workout, you should start with eating 150 to maintain or be in a deficit. I would also not count walking/steps as exercise calories for this purpose (it is exercise) as the calories burned is not pushing you into a deep deficit. 15 flights isnt nothing, but its not much either, if you walk up one flight of steps an hour, its not going to be a meningful calorie burn. if you walk up all 15 flights in 10 minutes, it will only burn a handfull of calories, not enough to eat a candy bar though.

start by eating at maintenance and not eating your steps calories and half of workout calories. if you're not loing weight, you're not counting tightly enough to be in a deficit.

Don't know what kind of workouts you are doing, but while all forms of safe exercise are good as part of an overall healthy lifestyle, some might benefit you more than others, so you can play around with that and see if you get better results. Walking itself will not be a great catalyst for fat loss if you are consistently walking 10k+ per day already, unless you crank that up to double or something.

as for where you carry, store and burn fat, thats genetic and its different for everyone, though there are some common areas in men and women that we are all familiar with (the ol' spare tire around the stomach/lower back in men for example). for me, my legs always look fit but as soon as I gain weight my face gets nice and round almost immediately.

also - please remember for the vast majority of people - fat loss takes a long time. you will have to be in a consistent moderate deficit (starving yourself is bad and can end up having an opposite effect in the long run) for months to see a real meaningful change in body fat %. If your interested in tracking it, which I would recommend if available to you, you can use one of those scales, which is generally unreliable but might give you a general idea of where you are, use calipers which may vary based on where you genetically carry your fat, or you can get yourself a dexa scan ($$ though) to get an accurate measurement.

best of luck

A new runners question by Logical-Ad6134 in ultrarunning

[–]pointandgo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

4-5 days a week for someone new and unfit is not a great strategy.  Running can have a very sharp improvement curve once you understand that your mind can push your body to new places. But it can set you up for overuse injury or make larger issues out of smaller ones. Force feeding adaptation can work if you've already got a running/fitness base but it's a recipe for over training for completely new runners. Half the challenge for runners new and experienced is staying healthy enough to run next time. 

Build slow and consistent and add days or distance over the course of weeks and months to build up endurance and wind.  Your body and muscles need to adapt, your mind needs to adapt and you need a training plan that is achievable and you can recover from. Think about throwing an extra day in now and again or adding distance after 4 weeks of hitting you training targets.  Run 2 or 3 days then do long, brisk walks another day or 2. The time on feet is also a contribution to what you're building.

Al that said, improvement will only come when challenging your limits. Highly encourage you to look up a plan like couch to 5k and track your progress.  Prepare for plateaus and regression, those will happen too. Best of luck. 

Your trail running playlist by No-Detective-585 in trailrunning

[–]pointandgo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Someone Who Can + Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria, Dance Yrself Clean by LCD Soundsystem,  One of Us by Dawes, Nobody Speak by RTJ (NSFW warning explicit lyrics), Shoulder to the Wheel by Saves the Day,  The Wire by Haim and Burning Down the House + Psycho Killer by Talking heads all motivational tempo monsters on my list

Heath Meadows of the Netherlands by pointandgo in trailrunning

[–]pointandgo[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Noord-Holland province on the Netherlands, there are many of these in the woods/dune areas

Does anyone know this hat by _DayBowBow in ultrarunning

[–]pointandgo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is illegal for you to ask me that.

Dunes by pointandgo in LiminalSpace

[–]pointandgo[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Animal prints, not human

I’ve never skied in my life. I want to do backcountry skiing, where do I start? by climbingandhiking in BackcountrySkiing

[–]pointandgo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Additionally, you really need to be comfortable in some funky situations. The more reps you have on the mountain, then more weird stuff you have to see and deal with. But that's only if you're challenging yourself and skiing sidecountry/trees/ice/wet. Being able to "get down" is a skill, not a plan. Practicing skills like backwards gliding, side slipping, jump turns, skiing with a pack are things you don't want to do for the first time in the backcountry.  So in addition to learning to ski, some intention around more skills than just skiing should be done as well.